Moorpark English 1B late start: Tentative Schedule

• Literature: aka LIT
• and various handouts aka HO

Last revised Feb 2014

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Feb 4 - 6
  
  • T: Syllabus/ web pages
  • T: 50 minute, in-class, timed writing

  • TH: Haiku and Image (LIT) How to Write a haiku
  • TH: interviews

• Week 2
  Feb 11 - 13
  
  • T: Intro haikus
  • T: LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.

  • TH: LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.
  • TH: "Here, Bullet" Turner (LIT) and (HO)

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• Presidents' day holiday and flex week
  Feb 18 -20
  
  • Pres day holiday
  • Faculty Flex day

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• Week 3
  Feb 25 - 27
  
  • T: Owen (LIT) and Sassoon (HO)

  • TH: in-class essay: open book
  • TH: Reduced Shakespeare (video)
  • TH: Read LIT pp 1444 - 1449. (critical frameworks: formalist, biographical and historical)
  • Paper #1 assignment
  • novel choices

• Week 4:
  Mar 4 - 6
  
  • TH: Read LIT pp 1450 - 1449- 1468. (the rest of the critical frameworks)
  • T: Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet video)
  • T: Sign up for case study groups
  • T: Workshop org /development paper #1

  • TH: editing workshop Paper #1
  • TH: Le Guin (HO) "Science Fiction and the Future"
  • Novel groups

• Week 5 (Critical Approaches)
  Mar 11 - 13
  

  • T: Discuss Le Guin "Omelas" (LIT)
  • T: Paper Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.

  • TH: Discuss Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron"

• Week 6 (Case Study Preparation)
  Mar 18 - 20
  
  • T: The Matrix
  • T: novel groups

  • TH: The Matrix
  • TH: in-class essay

• Week 7 (Science Fiction / short story
  Mar 25 - 27
  
  • T: paper assignment
  • T: case study planning - assign a-bib

  • TH: workshop paper
  • TH: case study planning

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  Spring Break March 31 - April 6

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• Week 8 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Apr 8 - 10
  
  • T: workshop paper
  • T: case study short write proposal

  • TH: workshop paper
  • TH: workshop a-bib

• Week 9 (Science Fiction / film)
  Apr 15 - 17
  
  • T: Paper Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.
  • T: wprkshop

  • T: O'Connor
  • TH: workshop

• Week 10 (analysis paper)
  Apr 22 - 24
  
  • T: satire
  • T: workshop

  • TH: Hughes
    • Theme for English B 792
    • Harlem 793
    • S+R on both poems
  • TH: workshop

• Week 11 (Revision and group work)
  Apr 29 - May 1
  
  • T: Eliot
  • T: workshop

  • TH: Shakespeare
  • TH: workshop

• Week 12 (revision and group work)
  May 6 - 8
  
  • T: Oedipus
  • T: workshop

  • 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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