Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from all three texts:
- Literature: aka LIT
- Rules of Thumb aka ROT
- Responding to Literature aka RL
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. Assignments from Responding to Literature (RL) may be given in class.
Last revised 18 Oct 02
- Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
- Mon 8/19 Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
- Wed 8/21 HO: Burke / Haiku (LIT 840-842) / interviews /
- Fri 8/23 In class timed writing
- Week 2: (Introductions)
- Mon 8/26 RL: chap 1 +2 /
- Wed 8/28 LIT: preface materials and text overview / Intros
- Fri 8/30 Lab: CD ROM / RL chap 3 (add deadline)
- Week 3: (Dulce Et Decorum Est)
- Mon 9/2 Labor day
- Wed 9/4 Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (LIT)
- Fri 9/6 Lab -- class email list
- Week 4 (Responding to Conflict)
- Mon 9/9 Owen and Reed (LIT) Sassoon (HO)
- Wed 9/11 "Occurance at Owl Creek." Bierce (LIT + CD)
- Fri 9/13 LAB Writing summaries and responses to lit
- Week 5 (Parable and Myth)
- Mon 9/16 Aesop / Chuang Tzu / Prodigal Son (LIT)
- Wed 9/18 "Prodigal Son." Keeler (LIT)
- Fri 9/20: Lab -- setting up personal spaces / practice discussion (Last day to drop w/out a W)
- Week 6 (Evaluating Lit)
- Mon 9/23 In-Class, Timed Writing
- Wed 9/25 paper 1 assignment / RL pp LIT pp
- Fri 9/27 Lab -- brainstorming
- Week 7 (general overview of critical approaches)
- Mon 9/30 LIT pp 2168-2189
- Wed 10/2 LIT pp 2189-2216 / rough draft paper #1 for workshop
- Fri 10/4 Lab:
- Week 8 (Myth and Culture)
- Mon 10/7 The Matrix
- Wed: 10/9 The Matrix
- Fri: 10/11 The Matrix -- NO LAB -- paper 1 due
- Week 9 (Novels - Genre)
- Mon 10/14: Matrix debriefing
- Wed 10/16: Le Guin HO and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas." /genre stuff / novels
- Fri 10/18: Lab: Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron." / Case Studies
- Week 10 (WHAT is the matrix?) <--- BIGGEST hint you will get out of this class
- Mon 10/21 Novels Groups / Case studies -- time allowing
- Wed 10/23 In-Class, Timed Writing (full 50 minutes)
- Fri 10/25 Lab: Paper 2 assignment / Case study planning session
- Week 11 (Play's the Thing -- Antigone)
- Mon 10/28 Case Study: Sophocles -- Antigone
- Wed 10/30 Antigone debriefing / rough draft (3 pages) paper #2
- Fri 11/1 Lab -- Web Project: Branham "Student's Guide to the Internet." Annotated Bibliographies
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- Week 12 (Emily Dickenson )
- Mon 11/4 Case Study: Dickenson
- Wed 11/6 Word play -- Lewis Carrol / complete rough draft paper #2
- Fri 11/8 Lab: Game play -- Deus Ex
- Week 13 (Flannery O'Connor)
- Mon 11/11 HOLIDAY
- Wed 11/13 Case Study: Flannery O'Connor
- Fri 11/15 Lab -- annotated bib rooms and Web Project Design. Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder
- Week 14 (Raymond Carver)
- Mon 11/18 Case Study: Raymond Carver
- Wed 11/20 debriefing on fiction writers / assign research paper
- Fri 11/22 Lab: Web project
- Week 15 (Langston Hughes)
- Mon 11/25 Case Study: Langston Hughes
- Wed 11/27 debriefing on poets / Section one: case study research paper
- Fri 11/29 Thanksgiving holiday
- Week 16 (Hamlet)
- Mon 12/2 Case Study: Shakespeare -- Hamlet
- Wed: 12/4 Hamlet debriefing / workshop research paper -- section two
- Fri: 12/6 Lab: web projects
- Week 17 (Final paper and web project)
- Mon 12/9 Workshop research paper -- section three
- Wed: 12/11 Lab: Web Projects -- Final paper due
- Finals
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