Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised 30 Nov 09

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Aug 17 - 18
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ web pages / interviews
  • Wed interviews / In-class, timed writing

• Week 2 (Introductions)
  Aug 24 - 26
  
  • Mon Haiku (LIT) / intros
  • Wed Intros

• Week 3: (Conflict - Viet Nam)
  Aug 31 - Sept 2
  
  • Mon LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.
  • Wed LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.

• Week 4: (Conflict - Viet Nam
  Sept 7 - 9
  
  • Mon Labor Day -- no class
  • Wed "How to Tell a True War Story." O'Brien (HO)
  • Wed Choose novel

• Week 5: Conflict - WWI and WWII
  Sept 14 - 16
  
  • Mon Wilfred Owen (LIT) Sassoon (HO)
  • Wed Reed (LIT)

• Week 6 (Critical Approaches)
  Sept 21 - 23
  
  • Mon In - class timed writing
  • Mon Reduced Shakespeare

  • Fire Day - no class - please complete the reading
  • Wed LIT pp 2189-2216 (critical frameworks)

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation)
  Sept 28 - 30
  
  • Mon: Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet) /Paper #1 assignment

  • Wed: Workshop development paper #1 / groups
  • Wed: Sign up for case study groups

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / short story
  Oct 5 - 7
  
  • Mon: dev / org Workshop paper #1
  • Mon: reviewed performance critique assignment -- handouts for evaluation to follow
  • Mon: Sign up for case study groups

  • Wed: editing workshop Paper #1
  • Wed: LeGuin HO and novel groups

• Week 9 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Oct 12 - 14
  
  • Mon: Paper #1 Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.
  • Mon Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas."
  • Mon Novel groups

  • Wed Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron."
  • Wed Novel groups /

• Week 10 (Science Fiction / film)
  Oct 19 - 21
  
  • Mon: Class cancelled - today only
  • Wed The Matrix

• Week 11 (analysis paper)
  Oct 26 - 28
  
  • Mon The Matrix second half
  • Wed In-class essay
  • Wed Paper assignment

• Week 12 (Revision and group work)
  Nov 2 - 4
  
  • Mon Case study group planning session

  • Wed: Workshop paper #2
  • Wed: assign annotated bibliography

• Week 13 (revision and group work)
  Nov 9 - 11
  
  • Mon: Veteran's day
  • Wed: Workshop paper #2

• Week 14 (Prose)
  Nov 16 - 18
  
  • Mon: workshop a-bib and case study planning
  • Mon: in-class short write on case study (proposal)

  • Wed: Case Study O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
  • Wed: Turn in take-home short write (paper proposal)

• Week 15 (Poetry)
  Nov 23 - 25
  
  • Wed: Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.
  • Mon: Case Study Poe: "Tell Tale Heart"
  • Mon workshop a-bib and section I

  • Wed: no class - happy Thanksgiving

• Week 16 (Poetry)
  Nov 30 - Dec 2
  
  • Mon: Case Study: Whitman - check reading list
  • Mon workshop

  • Wed Case Study: Hughes - check reading list
  • Wed workshop section II

• Week 17 (Drama)
  Dec 7 - 9
  
  • Mon Case Study: Shakespeare - check reading list
  • Mon: workshop section I

  • Wed Case Study: Oedipus
  • Wed: workshop section III

• Final exam Dec 14, 10:00 am
  • Paper #3 with annotated bibliography due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder. Late papers cannot be accepted.
  • final, in-class essay

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