Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised 16 March 05

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Jan 10 - 14
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
  • Wed HO: Burke / Haiku (LIT 519-) / interviews /
  • Fri In class timed writing

• Week 2: (Introductions)
  Jan 17 - 21
  
  • Mon MLK Holiday
  • Wed Intros
  • Fri Return essays / rubric (HO) -- (add deadline)

• Week 3: (Viet Nam)
  Jan 24 - 28
  
  • Mon LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (410)
  • Wed LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa (681)
  • Fri Lab -- class email list

• Week 4 (WWI)
  Jan 31 - Feb 4
  
  • Mon Owen (470-471, 828)(LIT)
  • Wed Sassoon (HO)
  • Fri Lab -- setting up personal spaces (Last day to drop w/out a W)

• Week 5 (WWII)
  Feb 7 - 11
  
  • Mon Reed (835) + Eberhart (491)(LIT)
  • Wed In - class timed writing
  • Fri Lab -- Paper 1 assignment

• Week 6 (Evaluating Lit)
  Feb 14 - 18
  • Mon Workshop rough draft paper #1 / Case Study groups
  • Wed Workshop development p#1 / Case study planning session
  • Fri Holiday

• Week 7 (general overview of critical approaches)
  Feb 21 - 25
  
  • Mon Holiday
  • Wed: LIT pp 2189-2216 / edit paper #1
  • Fri Lab: Group Project/ anno bib / Paper #1 Due all drafts, worksheets and self-evaluation in pocket folder

• Week 8 (O'Connor and Hughes)
  Feb 28 - Mar 4
  
  • Mon planning
  • Wed Case Study: Flannery O'Connor
  • Fri Case Study: Langston Hughes

• Week 9 (Poe)
  Mar 7 - 11
  
  • Mon NO CLASS
  • Wed In class Short Write
  • Fri Lab: Lab: annotated bib rooms and Web Project Design.

• Week 10 (Poe and Dickinson)
  Mar 14 - 18
  
  • Mon Case Study: Poe
  • Wed Case Study: Dickinson
  • Fri Holiday (flex day)

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• Spring Break
  Mar 21-25

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• Week 11 (Shakespeare)
  Mar 28 - Apr 1
  
  • Mon Novel groups / paper assignment
  • Wed Case Study Dark Lady sonnets
  • Fri Lab -- web project

• Week 12 (Sophocles: Oedipus
  Apr 4 - 8
  
  • Mon workshop papers / novels
  • Wed Case Study: Oedipus
  • Fri Lab -- web project

• Week 13 (Myth and Culture)
  Apr 11 - 15
  
  • Mon The Matrix
  • Wed: The Matrix
  • Fri: The Matrix -- NO LAB

• Week 14 Apr 18 - 22
  
  • Mon paper workshop / The Matrix and novels
  • Wed Le Guin HO and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas." / workshop
  • Fri Lab: Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron." / Case Studies
    Paper #2 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder

• Week 15 Apr 25 - 29
  

• Week 16 (WHAT is the matrix?) <--- BIGGEST hint you will get
  May 2 - 6
  
  • Mon In Class essay
  • Wed Workshop paper / webfolio
  • Fri Workshop paper / webfolio

  • Week 17
    May 9 - 11
    
    • Mon: Workshop webfolio
    • Wed: webfolio / Paper #3 due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder

  • Final: May

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