Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Literature: aka LIT
- Rules of Thumb aka ROT
- 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
within a week of class discussion.
Last revised Nov 07
- Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
Sept 17 -19
- Mon Syllabus/ Student Writing Profiles / interviews
- Mon In-class, timed writing
- Wed Haiku (LIT 519) / intros
- Week 2: (Conflict - Viet Nam)
Sept 24 - 26
- Mon LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa (681)
- Wed LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (410)
"How to Tell a True War Story." O'Brien (HO)
- Week 3: Conflict WWI and II
Oct 1 - 3
- Mon Owen (470-471, 828)(LIT) Sassoon (HO)
- Wed Reed (835) (LIT)
- Week 4 ()
Oct 8 - 10
- Mon In - class timed writing
- Mon Reduced Shakespeare
- Wed Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet) /Paper #1 assignment
- Wed LIT pp 2189-2216 (critical frameworks)
- Week 5
Oct 15 - 17
- Mon Workshop rough draft paper #1 / novel groups /
- Mon Sign up for case study groups
- Wed Workshop development paper #1 / novel groups
- Wed LeGuin HO
- Week 6
Oct 22 - 24
- Class Cancelled -- Moorpark closed
- Class Cancelled
- Week 7
Oct 29 - 31
- Mon Paper #1 Due all drafts, worksheets in pocket folder
- Mon The Matrix
- Wed The Matrix
- Wed Novel groups
- Week 8
Nov 5 - 7
- Mon Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas."
- Mon Case study planning session
- Wed Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron."
- Week 9
Nov 12 - 14
- Mon Holiday --
- Wed Take home essay due: check prompt.
- Wed Case Study groups
- Week 10
Nov 19 - 21
- Mon Workshop paper #2
- Mon Case Study: Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper."
- Wed Workshop paper #2
- Case study "O'Connor. "A Good Man is Hard to Find." 238
- Week 11 (Prose)
Nov 26 - 28
- Mon workshop - final edit
- Mon Case Study: Hughes
- Wed Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a
pocket folder
- Wed Case Study: Latin American Poets
- Wed workshop: section I paper 3 - in-class short write
- Week 12 (Poetry)
Dec 3 - 5
- Mon case study: Eliot "Prufrock"
- Mon workshop
- Wed case study: Shakespeare "Dark Lady" sonnets - HO
- Wed workshop
- Final week
Dec 10 - 12
- Mon Case Study: Oedipus
- Mon Workshop paper
- Wed: Paper #3 due with all drafts, worksheets, self
evaluation in a pocket folder
- Wed: final, in-class essay
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