Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised Nov '12

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Aug 20 - 22
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ web pages / interviews
  • Wed interviews / In-class, timed writing

• Week 2 (Introductions)
  Aug 27 - 29
  
  • Mon Haiku (LIT) / Intros are due with a haiku written to represent each person you are introducing.
    Read the section in your text on haiku or go to the webpage Creative Writing Now for assistance.

  • Wed LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.

• Week 3: (Conflict - Viet Nam)
  Sept 3 - 5
  
  • Mon: Labor day holiday
  • Wed LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.

• Week 4: (Conflict - Viet Nam and Iraq
  Sept 10 - 12
  
  • Mon "How to Tell a True War Story." O'Brien (HO)
  • Wed: "Here, Bullet" Turner (HO)
  • Wed Choose novel

• Week 5: Conflict - WWI and WWII
  Sept 17 - 19
  
  • Mon: Wilfred Owen (LIT) and
  • Wed: Sassoon (Printable PDF file) Available 9/15 and Reed: "Naming of Parts" (LIT)

• Week 6 (Writing about War)
  Sept 24 - 26
  
  • Mon: in-class essay (open book - war material)
  • Wed: Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet) /Paper #1 assignment

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation: Critical Approaches)
  Oct 1 - 3
  

  • Mon: Workshop development paper #1
  • Mon: case study overview
  • Wed: LIT pp 1444 - 1468. (critical frameworks) for further discussion of case study preparation
  • Wed: Sign up for case study groups
  • Wed: Workshop paper #1

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / genre
  Oct 8 - 10
  
  • Mon: editing workshop Paper #1
  • Mon: LeGuin HO and novel groups
  • Wed: Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.
  • Wed: Case Study prep groups

• Week 9 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Oct 15 - 17
  
  • 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 22 - 24
  
  • Mon Case study group planning session
  • Mon: assign annotated bibliography
  • Mon Novel groups

  • Wed Biloxi Blues at the PAC

• Week 11
  Oct 29 - 31
  
  • Mon: The Matrix
    
  • Wed: The Matrix

• Week 12
  Nov 5 - 7
  
  • Mon: In-class essay using novel and movie - open book, open notes
  • Mon: paper assignment

  • Wed: Workshop paper #2
  • Wed: case study planning

• Week 13 (revision and group work)
  Nov 12 - 14
  
  • Mon Veterans' Day - holiday

  • Wed: editing workshop, paper #2
  • Wed: Case study planning (as time allows)
  • Nov 16: last day to drop.

• Week 14 (Prose)
  Nov 19 - 21
  
  • Mon: Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, in-class essay, self evaluation in a pocket folder. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.

  • Mon: Case Study: O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard To Find"
  • Mon: Take-home short write on case study (proposal), focusing on the case study material and the critical framework.

  • Wed: Case Study: Walker "Everyday Use"
  • Wed: workshop proposal or a-bib

• Week 15 (Prose)
  Nov 26 - 28
  
  • Mon: Case Study: TS Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
  • Mon: workshop proposal or a-bib
  • Wed: Case Study: Genre: satire "A Modest Proposal"
  • Wed:: last paper assignment

• Week 16 (Poetry)
  Dec 3 - 5
  

  • Mon: Case Study: Hughes - check reading list for poems
  • Mon: workshop paper
  • Wed: Case Study: Shakespeare - check reading list (HO)
  • Wed: workshop paper

• Week 17 (Poetry and Drama)
  Dec 10 - 12
  

  • Mon Case Study: Oedipus
  • Mon workshop - final edit whole paper

• Final exam period: Dec 17, 10:30 am
  • Paper #3 with proposal, 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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