CSUN: English 305cmp Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Presence of Others AKA POO
- Rules of Thumb AKA ROT
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and
responses (journal) of POO readings are due within one week of our class discussion.
Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work. Additionl readings and/or
substitutions announced in class.
Last revised Nov 08
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 26 - 28
- T: Syllabus/ phone/email info
- TH: interviews / in-class essay
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Sept 2 - 4
- T: Intros
- TH: skim preface materials in POO (xxv-43).
- TH: Rubric / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Week 3: (Education)
Sept 9 - 11
- T: Discuss Rose (POO)
- T: self eval of in-class essay #1 due
- TH: Discuss Spayde (POO)
- Week 4 (Education)
Sept 16 - 18
- Discuss student article choice (from popular media)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics / assign paper #1
- Week 5 (revision)
Sept 23 - 25
- T: Development /organization workshop paper #1
- TH: Workshop paper
- TH: Nominate and choose articles (4) from Cultural Myth section
- Week 6 (revision)
Sept 30 - Oct 2
- T: Editing workshop / review MLA format (ROT)
- T: Annotated bibliography assignment -- Branham
- TH: Paper #1 Due in a pocket folder with all drafts and self
evaluation sheet
- TH: POO reading - Pinzon
- Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 7 - 9
- T: POO reading - Jefferson
- TH: POO reading - Douglas
- Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 14 - 16
- T: CLASS CANCELLED - today only
- TH: Copy of annobib rough for workshop
- Week 9
Oct 21 - 23
- T: POO reading - Atwood
- T: POO reading - Udovitch
- T: workshop annobib I
- TH: "This I Believe..."
- TH: anno bib I due
- Week 10
Oct Oct 28 - 30
- T: short write
- T: "This I Believe"
- TH: workshop section i (short write, typed, developed)
- TH: assign Research paper and 2nd anno bib
- Week 11
Nov 4 - 6
- T: Discuss Mayr handout
- Discuss LeGuin handout
- TH: draft of 2nd annobib due
- Week 12
Nov 11 - 13
- T: Veterans' day - holiday
- TH: Discuss Bishop. "Enemies of Promise." / novel groups
- TH:Workshop
- Week 13 (Writing about Science or Literature)
Nov 18 - 20
T: The Matrix
TH: The Matrix
- Week 14
Nov 25 - 27
- T: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- T: Paper assignment science / literature
- TH: Thanksgiving holiday
- Week 15
Dec 2 - 4
- Paper #2 due / Workshop science paper
- Workshop
- Final week
Dec 9
- Final exam period:
Dec 11 8-10
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paper #3 due - last in-class essay
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