Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised 23 April 04

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Jan 12 - 16
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
  • Wed HO: Burke / Haiku (LIT 542-544) / interviews /
  • Fri In class timed writing

• Week 2: (Introductions)
  Jan 19 - 23
  
  • Mon MLKL Holiday
  • Wed Intros
  • Fri Intros - Return essays / rubric (HO) -- (add deadline)

• Week 3: (Dulce Et Decorum Est)
  Jan 26 - 30
  
  • Mon RL: chap 1 +2 / LIT: preface materials and text overview /
  • Wed Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (LIT)
  • Fri Lab -- class email list

• Week 4 (Responding to Conflict)
  Feb 2 - 6
  
  • Mon Owen
  • Wed CLASS CANCELLED
  • Fri NO LAB: MEET IN CLASS Discuss Reed (LIT) Sassoon (HO) (Last day to drop w/out a W)

• Week 5 (Parable and Myth)
  Feb 9 - 13
  
  • Mon "Occurance at Owl Creek." Bierce (LIT + CD)
  • Wed Aesop / Chuang Tzu (LIT)
  • Fri No Class - Holiday

• Week 6 (Evaluating Lit)
  Feb 16 - 20
  • Mon Holiday No Class
  • Wed In-Class, Timed Writing
  • Fri Lab -- setting up personal spaces / practice discussion / paper 1 assignment

• Week 7 (general overview of critical approaches)
  Feb 23 - 27
  
  • Mon LIT pp 2168-2189
  • Wed LIT pp 2189-2216 / rough draft paper #1 for workshop
  • Fri Lab: TBA

• Week 8 (Myth and Culture)
  Feb Mar 1 - 5
  
  • Mon The Matrix
  • Wed: The Matrix
  • Fri: The Matrix -- NO LAB -- paper 1 due

• Week 9 (Novels - Genre)
  Mar 8 - 12
  
  • Mon Matrix debriefing (Anime / Manga)???
  • Wed Le Guin HO and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas." /genre stuff / novels
  • Fri Lab: Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron." / Case Studies

• Week 10 (WHAT is the matrix?) <--- BIGGEST hint you will get out of this class
  Mar 15 - 19
  
  • Mon Novels Groups / Case studies -- time allowing
  • Wed Class Cancelled
  • Fri Lab: Case study planning session

• Week 11
  Mar 22 - 26
  
  • Mon: Case study groups
  • Wed: In-Class, Timed Writing (full 50 minutes)
  • Fri Lab -- Web Project: Branham / Paper 2 assignment

• Week 12 (Emily Dickenson)
  Mar 29 - APR 2
  
  • Mon Case Study: Dickenson
  • Wed Dickenson debriefing / workshop paper #2
  • Fri Lab: Flex Day -- No Class

  SPRING BREAK

• Week 13 (Flannery O'Connor)
  APR 12 - 16
  
  • Mon Case Study: Flannery O'Connor
  • Wed O'Connor debriefing / workshop paper #2
  • Fri Lab -- annotated bib rooms and Web Project Design. Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder

• Week 14 (Sophocles: Oedipus
  APR 19 - 23
  
  • Mon Case Study:
  • Wed Oedipus debriefing
  • Fri Lab -- web project

• Week 15 (Raymond Carver)
  Apr 26 - 30
  
  • Mon Case Study: Raymond Carver
  • Wed debriefing on fiction writers / assign research paper
  • Fri Lab: Web project / workshop section I

• Week 16 (Langston Hughes)
  May 3 -7
  
  • Mon Case Study: Langston Hughes
  • Wed Section II: case study research paper
  • Fri Lab: Group Project/ workshop section III

• Week 17 (Othello)
  May 10-12
  
  • Mon: Case Study: Shakespeare -- Othello
  • Wed: workshop

• Finals
  • 1B-8: Mon. May 17, 8:00 - 10:00
  • 1B-9: Wed. May 19, 8:00 - 10:00

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