Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

• Literature: aka LIT
• Rules of Thumb aka ROT
• Responding to Literature aka RL and various handouts aka HO

Last revised 3 Oct 04

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Sept 8
  
  • Wed Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
  • Wed HO: Burke / Haiku (LIT 542-544) / interviews /

• Week 2: (Introductions)
  Sept 13 - 15
  
  • Mon In class timed writing
  • Mon Intros

  • Wed Intros - Return essays / rubric (HO) -- (add deadline)
  • Wed LIT: preface materials and text overview /

• Week 3: (Dulce Et Decorum Est)
  Sept 20 - 22
  
  • Mon Lab -- class email list
  • Mon Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (LIT)
  • Wed Owen (LIT) / Sassoon (HO)

• Week 4 (Responding to Conflict)
  Sept 27 - 29
  
  • Mon Lab -- setting up personal spaces / practice discussion /
  • Wed: War poetry: Reed, Jarrell, Komunyakaa (LIT).

• Week 5 (Evaluating Lit)
  Oct 4 - 6
  
  • Mon: In-Class, Timed Writing
  • Mon Critical Approaches to Lit (first half) LIT / case study groups

  • Wed Critical Approaches to Lit (second half) LIT / case study groups
  • Wed paper 1 assignment

• Week 6 (Case Study Preparation)
  Oct 11 - 13
  • Mon Lab Research -- Annotated Bibliographies
  • Mon Lab rough draft paper #1 for workshop (topic and dev)

  • Wed Case study planning session
  • Wed workshop paper #1 (dev)

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation)
  Oct 18 - 20
  
  • Mon Lab Web Project: Branham / Case Study annotated bibliography
  • Mon Lab workshop paper 1 (editing)

  • Wed Paper #1 DUE w/all drafts, worksheets, and self evaluation in a pocket folder
  • Wed Assign case study research paper
  • Wed Short write (section one of research paper)
  • Wed Novel Choice - novel groups

• Week 8 (Case Studies: Poetry)
  Oct 25 - 27
  
  • Mon Lab Web Project Design.
  • Mon Lab Research groupwork for case study presentations
  • Mon Lab workshop section one research paper

  • Wed Case Study: Dickenson
  • Wed Case Study: Latin American Poets

• Week 9 (Case Studies: Prose)
  Nov 1 - 3
  
  • Mon Lab Web project
  • Mon Lab Research and Writing Workshop

  • Wed Case Study: Poe
  • Wed Case Study: Flannery O'Connor

• Week 10 (Case Study: Play)
  Nov 8 - 10
  
  • Mon Lab: Web Project /
  • Mon Lab Research and writing workshop

  • Wed Case Study: Sophocles Oedipus
  • Wed Novel Groups -- novels completed (SW?)

• Week 11(Case Study: Shakepeare's Sonnets)
  Nov 15 - 17
  
  • Mon Lab: Group Project
  • Mon Lab: workshop drafts

  • Wed Case Study: Sonnets
  • Wed Novel Groups / LeGuin (HO)

• Week 12 (Science Fiction)
  Nov 22 - 24
  
  • Mon Le Guin HO and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas." / novel groups
  • Mon The Matrix /

  • Wed: The Matrix /
  • Wed Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron." / novel groups / paper 2 due

• Week 13
  Nov 29 - Dec 1
  
  • Mon Lab Web Projects
  • Mon Lab In-class timed writing
  • Mon Lab Final paper assignment

  • Wed Workshop paper #3 (topic and dev)
  • Wed

• Week 14
  Dec 6 - 8
  
  • Mon Lab Present Web projects
  • Mon Lab workshop paper #3 (dev)

  • Wed Lab Present Web Projects
  • Wed Workshop paper #3 (edit)

• Final Exam Dec

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