Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised 11 Aug 05

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Aug 15 - 19
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
  • Wed HO: Burke / Haiku (LIT 519-) / interviews /
  • Fri In class timed writing

• Week 2: (Introductions)
  Aug 22 - 26
  
  • Mon Intros
  • Wed Intros / return essays / rubric (HO)
  • Fri Lab: Class email list (add deadline)

• Week 3: (Viet Nam)
  Aug 29 - Sept 2
  
  • Mon LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (410)
  • Wed LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa (681)
  • Fri Lab -- class discussion

• Week 4 (WWI)
  Sept 5 - 9
  
  • Mon Labor Day - no class
  • Wed Owen (470-471, 828)(LIT) Sassoon (HO)
  • Fri Lab -- setting up personal spaces (Last day to drop w/out a W)

• Week 5 (WWII)
  Sept 12 - 16
  
  • Mon Reed (835) + Eberhart (491)(LIT)
  • Wed In - class timed writing
  • Fri Lab -- Paper 1 assignment

• Week 6 (Evaluating Lit)
  Sept 19 - 23
  • Mon Workshop rough draft paper #1 / Case Study groups
  • Wed Workshop development p #1 / Case study planning session
  • Fri Lab: Group project - central project room

• Week 7 (general overview of critical approaches)
  Sept 26 - 30
  
  • Mon LIT pp 2189-2216 / edit paper #1
  • Wed LIT pp 2216 - / Paper #1 Due all drafts, worksheets and self-evaluation in pocket folder
  • Fri Lab Group Project: annotated bibliography rooms /

• Week 8 (O'Connor)
  Oct 3 - 7
  
  • Mon planning
  • Wed Hair
  • Fri Lab anno bib rooms and web project design

• Week 9 (Hughes)
  Oct 10 - 14
  
  • Mon CLASS CANCELLED
  • Wed Hair
  • Fri case study planning

• Week 10 (Poe)
  Oct 17 - 21
  
  • Mon O'Connor
  • Wed Hughes
  • Fri Lab web project

• Week 11
  Oct 24 - 28
  
  • Mon Poe
  • Wed No Class: Dark Lady sonnets or Hamlet write-ups due
  • Fri Lab -- web project

• Week 12 (Sophocles: Oedipus
  Oct 31 - Nov 4
  
  • Mon workshop papers / novel groups
  • Wed Case Study: Oedipus
  • Fri Lab -- novel groups

• Week 13 (Myth and Culture)
  Nov 7 - 11
  
  • Mon The Matrix
  • Wed: The Matrix
  • Fri: The Matrix -- NO LAB

• Week 14 (WHAT is the matrix?)
  Nov 14 - 18
  
  • Mon paper #2 workshop / The Matrix and novels
  • Wed Le Guin HO and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas." / workshop
  • Fri Lab: Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder

• Week 15 Nov 21 - 25
  
  • Mon discussion Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron."
    
  • Wed in-class essay on The Matrix and novels
  • Fri Thanksgiving break - no class

• Week 16 Nov 28 - Dec 2
  
  • Mon Workshop paper #3
  • Wed Workshop paper #3/ webfolio
  • Fri Lab Webfolio

  • Week 17
    Dec 5 - 7
    
    • Mon: Editing Workshop
    • Wed: edit Webfolio / Paper #3 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder

  • Final: Dec

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