Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from all three texts:
- Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience AKA LIT
- Rules of Thumb AKA ROT
- Writing Online AKA WO
and various handouts AKA HO
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and response (online journal) of LIT readings are due online before the day we are to discuss the reading in class. Readings from ROT and WO are given as background for that week's work.
Last revised 1 Sept 01.
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
- Mon 8/20 Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
- Wed 8/22 FAQs / interviews /
- Fri 8/24 In class timed writing
- Week 2: (Course requirements /forms and evals)
- Mon 8/27 Rubric / self evaluations /intros
- Wed 8/29 Intros
- Fri 8/31 (add deadline) general overview of critical approaches
- Week 3: (Innocence and Experience)
- Mon 9/3 Labor day
- Wed 9/5 Discuss Hemingway
- Fri 9/7 Lab -- class email list
- Week 4 (Innocence and Experience)
- Mon 9/10: Writing summaries and responses to lit
- Wed 9/12: CLASSES CANCELLED
- Fri 9/14: MEET IN TR2 NOT LAB discuss O'Connor
- Week 5 (Innocence and Experience)
- Mon 9/17: Discuss Bambara and Cisneros
- Wed 9/19: Discuss Saroyan
- Fri 9/21: Lab -- setting up personal spaces / practice discussion (Last day to drop w/out a W)
- Week 6 (Conformity and Rebellion)
- Mon 9/24: Development Workshop / adding detail and examples
- Wed 9/26: ROT: 19-25, Editing Workshop / vague pronoun usage
- Fri 9/28: Lab -- notes
- Week 7 (Conformity and Rebellion)
- Mon 10/1: poetry selections
- Wed 10/3: poetry selections
- Fri 10/5: lab: notes (narrative)
- Week 8 (Conformity and Rebellion)
- Mon 10/8: paper workshop
- Wed: 10/10: Class Cancelled
- Fri: 10/12: Lab -- paper workshop
- Week 9 (Culture and Identity)
- Mon 10/15: Le Guin / "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas." /genre stuff / novels
- Wed 10/17: "Bartleby"
- Fri 10/19: Lab:
- Week 10 (Culture and Identity)
- Mon 10/22: Review timed-writing strategies
- Wed 10/24: In-Class, Timed Writing
- Fri 10/26: Lab: Writing for the net: making and reading notes.
- Week 11 (Culture and Identity)
Mon 10/29: Paper Assignment. Brainstorm topic generation.
- Wed 10/31: Lab: Web project: Making Groups rooms
- Fri 11/2: Rough draft due. Development workshop
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- Week 12
- Mon 11/5: Erdrich
- Wed 11/7:
- Fri 11/9: Lab: Branham "Student's Guide to the Internet." Annotated Bibliographies
revised schedule: readings from Lit announced in class
- Week 13
- Mon 11/12: HOLIDAY
- Wed 11/14: Rough draft of paper #2 (novel)
- Fri 11/16: Lab -- annotated bib rooms and Web Project Design.
- Week 14 (Love and Hate)
- Mon 11/19: full draft of paper #2 / Research paper assignment
- Wed 11/21: Web Project -- Annotated URL Rooms
- Fri 11/23: Thanksgiving holiday
- Week 15
- Mon 11/26:Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder
- Wed 11/28: Section one:research paper
- Fri 11/30: Lab -- web project
- Week 16
- Mon 12/3: Rough draft section two
- Wed: 12/5: Web projects
- Fri: 12/7: Annotated Bibs for Research paper
- Week 17
- Mon 12/10: draft final section
- Wed: 12/12: Lab: Web Projects
- Finals
Last revised 19 Aug 01
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