Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised Dec 08

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Aug 18 - 20
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ Student Writing Profiles / interviews
  • Wed In-class, timed writing

• Week 2 (Introductions)
  Aug 25 - 27
  
  • Mon Haiku (LIT) / intros
  • Wed Intros

• Week 3: (Conflict - Viet Nam)
  Sept 1 - 3
  
  • Mon Labor Day -- no class
  • Wed LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.

• Week 4: (Conflict - Viet Nam
  Sept 8 - 10
  
  • Mon LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.
  • Wed "How to Tell a True War Story." O'Brien (HO)
  • Wed Choose novel

• Week 5: Conflict - WWI and WWII
  Sept 15 - 17
  
  • Mon Wilfred Owen (LIT) Sassoon (HO)
  • Wed Reed (LIT)

• Week 6 (Critical Approaches)
  Sept 22 - 24
  
  • Mon In - class timed writing
  • Mon Reduced Shakespeare
  • Wed Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet) /Paper #1 assignment
  • Wed LIT pp 2189-2216 (critical frameworks)

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation)
  Sept 29 - Oct 1
  
  • Mon Workshop rough draft paper #1
  • Wed Sign up for case study groups
  • Wed Workshop development paper #1 / groups
  • Wed LeGuin HO

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / short story
  Oct 6 - 8
  
  • Mon: editing workshop
  • Mon Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas."
  • Mon Novel groups /
  • Wed Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron."
  • Wed Novel groups /

• Week 9 (Genre - Science Fiction / cinema)
  Oct 13 - 15
  
  • Mon The Matrix
  • Wed The Matrix

• Week 10 (Analysis paper)
  Oct 20 - 22
  
  • Mon In-class essay
  • Wed Case Study groups
  • Wed Paper assignment

• Week 11 (Revision and preparation)
  Oct 27 - 29
  
  • Mon Workshop paper #2
  • Mon Case study group
  • Wed Workshop paper #2
  • Wed Case Study group

• Week 12 (Revision and group work)
  Nov 3 - 5
  
  • Mon workshop - final edit
  • Mon section I paper 3: in-class short write
  • Mon assign annotated bibliography
  • Wed Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder
  • Wed Case Study groups / workshop

• Week 13 (revision and group work)
  Nov 10 - 12
  
  • Mon Veteran's day - holiday
  • Wed workshop a-bib and section I / case study group

• Week 14 (Prose)
  Nov 17 - 19
  
  • Mon: workshop / in -class writing section i
  • Wed: Case Study O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

• Week 15 (Prose and Poetry)
  Nov 24 - 26
  
  • Mon Case Study Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart."
  • Wed: Dickinson - check reading list

• Week 16 (Poetry)
  Dec 1 - 3
  
  • Mon Case Study: Langston Hughes - check reading list
  • Wed Case Study: Shakespeare - check reading list

• Drama
  Dec 8 - 10
  
  • Mon Case Study: Oedipus
  • Wed: workshop
• Final exam Dec 15, 10:00 am
  • Paper #3 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder
  • final, in-class essay

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