CSUN Spring 2002: English 098 Tentative Schedule

Please check back often for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and response (online journal) of LIA readings are due online before the day we are to discuss the reading in class. Readings from ROT and NV are given as background for that week's work. The following schedule will change with class needs. If you miss a class, check to see what was done, what will be due, and what was handed out.

Last revised 4 April 02

• Week 1
  Jan 29-31
  
  • T: Syllabus / Student Writing Profile / Tech survey
    
  • TH: Faqs /CSUN acct info / Timed in class writing (50 min)

• Week 2
  Feb 5-7
  
  • T: Interviews/ NV overview/ ES overview
    
  • TH: Introductions/ Review Rubric / self evaluation T1 / NV: letters

• Week 3 (Personal Narrative -- telling stories that matter)
  Feb 12-14
  
  • T: Writing summaries
    • NV: narratives 1-3
    • ES: chap 1
  • TH: Freewriting
    • LIA: Least Heat Moon (using place and scene)
    • ES: chap 2

• Week 4 (Personal Narrative)
  Feb 19-22
  
  • T:
    • ES: chaps 3
    • NV: narratives: Blackmon, Su
    • LIA: Least Heat Moon (using place and scene)

  • TH:
    • NV: narrative Frame
    • ES: chap 4
    • LIA: Moon
    • LIA: Reed (using metaphor)

• Week 5 (Personal Narrative)
  Feb 26-28
  
  • T:
    • ES chaps 5
      
    • NV narratives: Hopkins, Nguyen, Lackman
  • TH:
    • ES chap 6
    • LIA Wright (using experience to make a point)

• Week 6
  (Personal Narrative)
  Mar 5-7
  
  • T:
    • LIA Suval (reporting from the "outside') S&R to the class list
      
    • Paper topics / brainstorming strategies
      
    • ES chaps 7-8
  • TH:
    • First Draft - workshop adding details (ROT 61-71)
      
    • ES chaps 9-10

• Week 7 (revision)
  Mar 12-14
  
  • T:
    • Second Draft - workshop organization and development (ROT 72-79)
    • ES chaps 11-12
  • TH:
    • Third Draft - workshop editing/ MLA (ROT 80-81)
      
    • ES chaps 13-14

• Week 8 ()
  Mar 19-21
  
  • T:
    • PAPER ONE DUE
      
    • LIA:
      • 098a: Jay McInerey. "Is SEINFELD the Best Comedy Ever?"
      • 098-b: Toshio Mori. "My Mother Stands on her Head."
    • ES: chaps 15
  • TH:
    • LIA:
      • 098-a: Emily Prager. "Our Barbies, Ourselves."
      • 098-b: Bill McKibben. "TV, Freedom, and the Loss of Community."
    • ES: chaps 16

• March 26-28 Spring Break

  Week 9 (Concept)
  Apr 2-4

  • T:
    • LIA:
      
      • 0989-a: Robin Abcarian. "Pink Does Not the Girl (or Boy) Make."
      • 098-a: Cynthia Paco. "Superman and the Duke: Duel Between American Male Icons."
      • 098-b: William Clinton. "A New Sense of Responsibility."
    • ES chaps 17
  • TH:
    • LIA:
      
      • 098-a: Bethany Dever. "Gender Roles."
      • 098-b: Robert Palmer. "What Pop Lyrics Say to Us Today."

  • Week 10 (Concept)
    Apr 9-11
    
    • T:
      • ES 18
      • In class essay (ROT)
        
    • TH:
      • Paper assignment
        
      • ES: 19-20

  • Week 11
    Apr 16-18
    
    • T:
      • Workshop paper #2
      • ES: 21-22
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    • TH:
      • Workshop paper #2
      • ES: 23-24

    • Week 12
      Apr 23-25
      
      • T:
        • Final editing paper #2
        • In class essay
      • Th:
        • workshop draft 2 of paper #3

    • Week 13
      Apr 30 - May 1
      
      • T:
        • editing workshop
          
      • TH:
        • Paper #3 due

    • Week 14 (Revision / Portfolio)
      May 7-9
      
      • T: Workshop portfolio
        
      • Th: Editing Workshop: Portfolio and Cover Letter
        

    • Week 15
      May 14
      

    • Portfolios Due -- No late portfolios accepted FINALS
      

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