English M01C Tentative Schedule

CSUN: English M01C Late Start Tentative Schedule

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Presence of Others AKA POO
Rules of Thumb AKA ROT

Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and responses of POO readings are due online within one week of our class discussion for full credit. Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work.

Last revised 12 Apr '16

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Feb 1 -3
- Mon: Syllabus/ SWP
- Mon: set up interview partners
- Wed: in-class, timed writing
- Web: set up mahara accounts, profile and journals
Week 2: (Education)
Feb 8 - 10
- Mon: "On Reading and Thinking Critically" POO (1-15).
- Mon: read for discussion intro to Education section POO (47-50)
- Wed: Introductions
- Web: Progress report due on mahara
Week 3 (Education)
Feb 15 - 17
- Mon: Presidents' Day Holiday
- Wed: Discuss Rose and Newman (POO)
- Web: S&Rs due
Week 4 (Education)
Feb 22 - 24
- Mon: Discuss student article choice (POO)
- Mon: Rubric / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Wed: Finish discussing student article choice (POO)
- Wed: paper assignment heuristics
- Web: Create a page for timed writing
- Web: Progress report and S&R due on mahara
Week 5 (revision)
Feb 29 - Mar 2
- Mon: topic/development workshop education paper (P1)
- Mon: Nominate and choose articles (4) from Cultural Myth section
- Wed: Development /organization workshop P1
- Wed: Discuss Pinzon photo essay
- Web: Pinzon page (Q #8) due / S&R in journal
- Web Create pages for Education Collection and publish rough draft of P1
Week 6 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 7 - 9
- Mon: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- Mon: Discuss myth article: Jefferson "Declaration of Independance"
- Wed: Discuss myth article: Atwood "Letter to America"
- Wed: Discuss myth article: Udovitch "A Secret Society of Starving."
- Wed: Education Collection due on mahara
- Web: S&Rs due, PR due
Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 14 - 16
- Mon: Discuss Lemann "In the Ruins"
- Mon:
- Wed: In-class timed writing / proposal
- Assign Annotated Bibliography
- Web:
Spring Break
Mar 21 - 23
Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 28 - 30
- Mon: review topics for research / assignment
- Mon: short write - proposal
- Wed: Annotated bibliography assignment -- Branham
- Web: progress report
Week 9 (Cultural Myths)
Apr 4 - 6
- Mon: workshop research proposal
- Wed: Workshop proposal and anno bib as needed
- Web: Set up Myth Collection
Week 10 (Cultural Myths)
Apr 11 - 13
- Mon: assign This I Believe the original TIB invitation hosted by NPR.
  This I Believe: a Public Dialogue About Belief - One Essay at a Time for more examples.
- Mon: workshop proposal
- Wed: Discuss Mayr (HO)
- Web: TIB page due, PR due
Week 11 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Apr 18 - 20
- Mon: Copy of working anno bib to me.
- Mon: Discuss Bishop. "Enemies of Promise."
- Mon: Workshop myth collection as needed
- Wed: For the last science article choose Why Science Matters" or one of the other articles from the Science blog contributors on NPR. Summarize and respond.
- Wed: Workshop myth paper
- Web: Watch movie: The Matrix, District 9, or Avatar for
Week 12
Apr 25 - 27
- Mon: Novel groups - discuss LeGuin (HO), the novel and movie
- Wed: In class essay on novel and movie
- Wed: Paper assignment science / literature
- Web: Research project due on mahara collection discussion
Week 13
May 2 - 4
- Mon: workshop topics and development
- Wed: workshop org and dev
- Web: set up Science collection
Week 14
May 9 - 11
- Mon: workshop editing
- Wed: final in-class essay
- Web: final collection due on mahara. No late papers can be accepted.