CSUN: English 305cmp Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Presence of Others AKA POO
- Rules of Thumb AKA ROT
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and responses
(online journal) of POO readings are due within one week of our class discussion. Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work.
Last revised Apr 09
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 20 - 22
- T: Syllabus/ phone/email info
- TH: in - class timed writing / interviews
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Jan 27 - 29
- T: Intros /
- TH: skim preface materials in POO (xxv-43).
- TH: FAQs
- Week 3: (Education)
Feb 3 - 5
- T: Discuss Newman (POO)
- TH: Discuss Spayde (POO)
- Week 4 (Education)
Feb 10 - 12
- T: Discuss student article choice
- TH: paper assignment heuristics
- Week 5 (revision)
Feb 17 - 19
- T: Development /organization workshop paper #1
- T: Rubric / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- TH: Workshop education paper
- TH: Nominate and choose articles (4) from Cultural Myth section
- Week 6 (revision)
Feb 24 - 26
- T: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- TH: Paper #1 Due in a pocket folder with all drafts and self
evaluation sheet
- T: Annotated bibliography assignment #1 -- Branham
- Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 3 - 5
- T: POO reading - Jefferson
- T: Copy of anno bib rough for workshop
- TH: POO reading - Douglass
- TH: "This I Believe..."
- Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 10 - 12
- T: POO reading - Coontz
- T: Short write
- TH: POO reading - Lemann
- TH: Research paper assignment
- TH: In-class short write
- TH: anno bib I due - may be turned in today or Tuesday Mar 17.
- Week 9
Mar 17 - 19
- TH: TIB / workshop timed writing
- TH: workshop section I paper #2 - topics /
- TH: discuss LeGuin HO - science fiction genre
- Week 10
Mar 24 - 26
- T: The Matrix
- TH: The Matrix
- Week 11
Mar 31 - Apr 2
- T: Holiday Ceasar Chavez day
- TH: workshop anno bib / assign section II
- Spring Break
Apr 7 - 9
- Week 12
Apr 14 - 16
- T: Workshop abib
- T: Discuss Mayr handout / novel groups
- TH: workshop section II
- TH: Discuss Bishop. "Enemies of Promise." / novel groups
- Week 13 (Writing about Science or Literature)
Apr 21 - 23
- T: Workshop section III
- T: Discuss Easterbrook "The New Fundamentalism."
- TH: Discuss Grady. "Struggling Back from War's Once-Deadly Wounds."
- TH: Workshop - final edit complete draft
- Week 14
Apr 28 - 30
- T: Research paper and 2nd anno bib due - all drafts and worksheets
- T: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- TH: Paper assignment science / literature
- TH: Workshop topics
- Week 15
May 5 - 7
- Final Exam: May 14, 9-10 am
- Final paper due
- Final in-class essay
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