Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

• Literature: aka LIT
• and various handouts aka HO

Last revised Apr 2013

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Jan 14 - 16
  
  • Mon: Syllabus/ web pages / interviews
  • Wed: Interviews / 50 minute, in-class, timed writing

• Week 2 (Imagery and haiku)
  Jan 21 - 23
  
  • Mon: MLK holiday
  • Wed: Haiku and Image (LIT)
  • Jan 25: last day to drop for full refund or credit

• Week 3: (Intros / Conflict - Viet Nam)
  Jan 28 - 30
  
  • Mon: Intros/ haiku
  • Wed: LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.

• Week 4: (Conflict - Viet Nam and Iraq
  Feb 4 - 6
  
  • Mon: LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.
  • Wed: "Here, Bullet" Turner (HO)
  • Wed: Choose novel to be read by March 20.

• Week 5: Conflict - WWI and WWII
  Feb 11 - 13
  
  • Class cancelled
  • Wed: Wilfred Owen (LIT) and Sassoon (HO)
  • Wed: Reed (LIT) if time allows

• Week 6 (Critical Approaches)
  Feb 18 - 20
  
  • Mon: presidents' day holiday
  • Wed: in-class essay: open book

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation)
  Feb 25 - 27
  

  • Mon: Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet) /Paper #1 assignment
  • Wed: LIT pp 1467 - 1500. (critical frameworks)
  • Wed:: Workshop org /development paper #1 / groups
  • Wed: Sign up for case study groups

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / short story
  Mar 4 - 6
  
  • Mon: editing workshop Paper #1
  • Mon: review performance critique assignment -- handouts for evaluation to follow
  • Wed: Paper Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.

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• Spring Break Mar 11 - 17
  

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• Week 9 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Mar 18 - 20
  
  • Mon: LeGuin HO PDF and novel groups
  • Mon Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas."

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

• Week 10 (Science Fiction / film)
  Mar 25 - 27
  
• Mon: Novel groups - discussion for in-class essay
• Wed: Case study planning session
• Wed: Assign annotated bibliography

• Week 11 (analysis paper)
  Apr 1 - 3
  
  • Mon: The Matrix
  • Wed The Matrix

• Week 12 (Revision and group work)
  Apr 8 - 10
  
  • Mon: Alternative assignment: multicultural day on Tuesday Apr 9
  • Wed: In-class essay
  • Wed: paper assignment

• Week 13 (revision and group work)
  Apr 15 - 17
  
  • Mon Case study group planning session
  • Mon: Workshop paper #2

  • Wed: editing workshop, paper #2
  • Wed: Take-home short write on case study (proposal), focusing on the case study material and the critical framework: due Mon for workshop.

• Week 14 (Prose)
  Apr 22 - 24
  
  • 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. Self-Evaluation sheet PDF

  • Mon: Case Study: O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
  • Mon: workshop - proposal

  • Wed: Case Study: Genre: satire "A Modest Proposal"

  • Wed: workshop a-bib

• Week 15 (Prose)
  Apr 29 - May 1
  

  • Mon: Case Study: TS Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
  • Mon: assign paper #3

  • Wed: Case Study: Hughes - check reading list for poems
  • Wed: workshop a-bib or proposal
  • The free matinee for the Original One Acts will be held in the Moorpark College Studio Theatre (PA100)
    Wednesday, May 1, 1:30.

• Week 16 (Poetry and Drama)
  May 6 - 8
  
  • Mon: Case Study: Shakespeare
  • Mon: workshop as needed
  • Wed Case Study: Oedipus
  • Wed: workshop - final edit whole paper

• Week 17 ()
  May 13
  
  • Paper #3 with proposal, 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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