Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

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

Last revised Apr '11

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Jan 10 - 12
  
  • Mon Syllabus/ web pages / interviews
  • Wed interviews / In-class, timed writing

• Week 2 (Introductions)
  Jan 17 - 19
  
  • Mon MLK holiday
  • Wed Haiku (LIT) / Intros

• Week 3: (Conflict - Viet Nam)
  Jan 24 - 26
  
  • Mon LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.
  • Wed LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.

• Week 4: (Conflict - Viet Nam and Iraq
  Jan 31 - Feb 2
  
  • Mon "How to Tell a True War Story." O'Brien (HO)
  • Wed Wilfred Owen (LIT) and Sassoon (HO)
  • Wed Choose novel

• Week 5: Conflict - WWI and WWII
  Feb 7 - 9
  
  • Mon: "Here, Bullet" Turner (HO)
  • Wed: Reed

• Week 6 (Critical Approaches)
  Feb 14 - 16
  
  • Mon: in-class essay
  • Wed: Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet) /Paper #1 assignment

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation)
  Feb 21 - 23
  

  • Mon holiday
  • Wed: LIT pp 1467 - 1500. (critical frameworks)
  • Wed:: Workshop development paper #1 / groups
  • Wed: Sign up for case study groups

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / short story
  Feb 28 - Mar 2
  
  • Mon: dev / org Workshop paper #1
  • Mon: review performance critique assignment -- handouts for evaluation to follow
  • Wed: editing workshop Paper #1
  • Wed: LeGuin HO and novel groups

• Week 9 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Mar 7 - 9
  
  • Mon: CLASS CANCELLED- TODAY ONLY. Turn in paper Wed.

    Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.

  • Mon Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas."
  • Mon Novel groups

  • Wed Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron."
  • Wed Novel groups

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• Spring Break Mar 14- 16
  

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• Week 10 (Science Fiction / film)
  Mar 21 - 23
  
  • Mon: The Matrix
  • Wed The Matrix

• Week 11 (analysis paper)
  Mar 28 - 30
  
  • Mon: case study prep groups
  • Mon: Novel groups - discussion for wed. essay
  • Wed: In-class essay

• Week 12 (Revision and group work)
  Apr 4 - 6
  
  • Mon Case study group planning session
  • Mon paper assignment

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

• Week 13 (revision and group work)
  Apr 11 - 13
  
  • Mon: assign annotated bibliography
  • Mon: Case study planning session
  • Mon: Workshop paper #2
  • Wed: editing workshop, paper #2
  • Wed: Case Study planning session

• Week 14 (Prose)
  Apr 18 - 20
  
  • 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: in-class short write on case study (proposal), focusing on the case study material and the critical framework.
  • Mon: Case study planning (as time allows)

  • Wed: workshop section one - proposal
  • Wed: Case Study : O'Connor. "Revelation"

• Week 15 (Prose)
  Apr 25 - 27
  
  • Mon: Case Study Walker. "Everyday Use"
  • Mon workshop a-bib

  • Wed: Case Study: Genre: satire "A Modest Proposal"
  • Wed: Copy of working anno-bib to me.
  • Wed: assign section II

• Week 16 (Poetry)
  May 2 - 4
  
  • Mon: Case Study: TS Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
  • Mon workshop section II

  • Wed: Case Study: Hughes - check reading list for poems
  • Wed: assign section III

• Week 17 (Poetry and Drama)
  May 9 - 11
  
  • Mon: Case Study: Shakespeare
  • Mon: workshop section III

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

• Final exam period , 10:00 am
  • Paper #3 with 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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