Moorpark English 1B late start: Tentative Schedule

• Literature: aka LIT
• and various handouts aka HO

Last revised Apr 2015

• Week 1: (Course syllabus, forms and contract)
  Feb 2 - 4
  
  • T: Syllabus/ web pages / SWP
  • T: 50 minute, in-class, timed writing

  • TH: Haiku and Image (LIT) How to Write a haiku
  • TH: interviews / setting up e-portfolio on mahara.

• Week 2
  Feb 9 - 11
  
  • Mon: Intro haikus
  • Mon: LIT: Discuss "Facing It." Komunyakaa.

  • Wed: LIT: Discuss "The Things They Carried" O'Brien (Lit) and "How to tell a True War Story" (HO).
  • Wed: "Here, Bullet" Turner (LIT) and (HO).

• Week 3
  Feb 16 - 18
  
  • Pres day holiday

  • Wed: Owen (LIT) and Sassoon (HO)

• Week 4
  Feb 23 - 25
  
  • Mon: in-class essay: open book: Paper #1 assignment
  • Mon: Reduced Shakespeare (video)
  • Mon: Read LIT pp 1444 - 1449. (critical frameworks: formalist, biographical and historical)

  • Wed: Read LIT pp 1450 - 1449- 1468. (the rest of the critical frameworks)
  • Wed: Reduced Shakespeare (Hamlet video)
  • Wed: Workshop topic/development paper #1
  • novel choices

• Week 5:
  Mar 2 - 4
  

  • Mon: CLASS cancelled - today only
  • Wed: Workshop organization / development paper #1
  • Wed: Le Guin (HO) "Science Fiction and the Future"

  • Novel groups

• Week 6 (Critical Approaches)
  Mar 9 - 11
  

  • Mon: editing workshop Paper #1
  • Mon: Discuss Le Guin "Omelas" (LIT)

  • Wed: Paper due on mahara; self evaluation due in-class. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.

  • Wed: Discuss Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron"

• Week 7 (Case Study Preparation)
  Mar 16 - 18
  
  • Mon: The Matrix
  • Mon: novel groups

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

• Week 8 (Science Fiction / short story
  Mar 23 - 25
  
  • Mon: paper assignment
  • Mon: case study planning - assign a-bib

  • Wed: workshop paper
  • Wed: case study planning

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  Week 9
  Spring Break March 29 - April 5

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• Week 10 (Genre - Science Fiction / short story)
  Apr 6 - 8
  
  • M: workshop paper
  • M: case study short write proposal

  • W: workshop paper

• Week 11 (Science Fiction / film)
  Apr 13 - 15
  
  • M: go over case study assignment / signal phrases
  • M: workshop proposal
  • M: editing workshop sci-fi paper

  • W: case study group planning
  • W: set up collection for case study
  • W: Paper Due in mahara collection w/ drafts and self evaluation. Late papers are reduced a full letter grade.

• Week 12 (analysis paper)
  Apr 20 - 22
  
  • M: TS Eliot. "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" (LIT)
  • M: workshop or planning as needed

  • W: Langston Hughes (LIT)
    • The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    • I, Too
    • The Weary Blues
  • W: workshop a-bib

• Week 13
  Apr 27 - 29
  
  • Mon: workshop
  • Mon: previews

  • Wed: Flannery O'Connor. "Good Country People." (HO)
  • Wed: workshop

• Week 14
  May 4 - 6
  

  • Mon: Satire> "Modest Proposal" (HO)
  • Mon: workshop

  • Wed: Shakespeare DLS 130, 144 (HO)
  • Wed: workshop

• Week 15 (final week) May 11 - 13
  • Mon: Oedipus (LIT)
  • Mon: workshop

  • Paper #3 with proposal, annotated bibliography and paper due with drafts, self evaluation in portfolio collection. Late papers cannot be accepted.
  • final, in-class essay

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