Moorpark English 1B: Tentative Schedule

• Literature: aka LIT
• and various handouts aka HO

Last revised Apr 2014

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Jan 6 - 8
  
  • Mon: Syllabus/ web pages
  • Wed: 50 minute, in-class, timed writing

• Week 2 (Imagery and haiku)
  Jan 13 - 15
  
  • Mon: Haiku and Image (LIT)
  • Mon: interviews

  • Wed: Intro haikus

• Week 3: (Conflict - Viet Nam)
  Jan 20 - 22
  
• Mon: MLK holiday
• Wed: LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.

• Week 4: (Conflict - Viet Nam and Iraq
  Jan 27 - 29
  
  • Mon: LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien.
  • Wed: "Here, Bullet" Turner (HO)
  • Wed: Choose novel to be read by March 17.

• Week 5: Conflict - WWI and WWII
  Feb 3 - 5
  
  • Mon: Wilfred Owen (LIT) and Sassoon (HO)
  • Wed: Reed "Naming of Parts" bring paraphrase to class

• Week 6 (Critical Approaches)
  Feb 10 - 12
  
  • Mon: in-class essay: open book
  • Wed: Paper Assignment
  • Wed: Reduced Shakespeare - Hamlet (video)

• Week 7 (No classes)
  Feb 17 - 19
  
  • Mon: presidents' day holiday
  • Wed: Faculty Flex day - no class

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / short story
  Feb 24 - 26
  
  • Mon: Workshop org /development paper #1
  • Mon: Read LIT pp 1444 - 1468. ("Critical Approaches to Literature")
  • Mon: Sign up for case study groups

  • Wed: editing workshop Paper #1
  • Wed: review performance critique assignment -- handouts for evaluation to follow

• Week 9 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Mar 3 - 5
  
  • Mon: Paper Due in a pocket folder w/ all drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.
  • Mon: Discuss LeGuin "Science Fiction and the Future and novel groups
  • Mon Discuss: Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas."

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

• Week 10 (Science Fiction / film)
  Mar 10 - 12
  
  • Mon: The Matrix
  • Wed The Matrix

• Week 11 (analysis paper)
  Mar 17 - 19
  
  • Mon: Novel groups - discussion for next paper topics
  • Mon: Case study planning session

  • Pirates of Penzance at PAC.
  • Wed: Take home short write - due Mon 3/24, typed

• Week 12 (Revision and group work)
  Mar 24 - 26
  
  • Mon: Workshop paper #2
  • Mon: Assign annotated bibliography for case study (first workshop April 9)
  • Mon Case study group planning session

  • Wed: workshop paper #2

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• Spring Break Mar 31 - April 6
  

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• Week 13 (revision and group work)
  Apr 7 - 9
  
  • Mon: Workshop - editing
  • Wed: in-class essay - case study (proposal), focusing on the case study material and the critical framework.

  • Wed: 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
  • Wed: Case Study prep

• Week 14 (Prose)
  Apr 14 - 16
  
  • Mon: Case study prep - review presentation requirements
  • Mon: workshop - proposal

  • Wed: Case Study: O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
  • Wed: workshop a-bib

• Week 15 (Prose)
  Apr 21 - 23
  

  • Mon: Case Study: TS Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
  • Mon: workshop

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

  • Wed: workshop

• Week 16 (Poetry and Drama)
  Apr 28 - 30
  
  • Mon: Case Study Walker "Everyday Use"
  • Mon: workshop

  • Wed: Case Study: Hughes - check reading list for poems
  • Wed: workshop

• Week 17 ()
  May 5 - 7
  
  • Mon: Case Study: Shakespeare
  • Mon: workshop

  • Wed: Case Study: Oedipus
  • Wed: workshop

• Week 18
  May 12
  
• Wed: workshop - final edit

• Final Exam week
  May 19 10:30 - 11:30.
  • Paper #3 with proposal, annotated bibliography due with all drafts, worksheets, self evaluation in a pocket folder. Late papers cannot be accepted.
  • Final timed writing

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