CSUN: English 305OL Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Reading the World: Ideas That Matter AKA IDEAS
- Norton Field Guide AKA NFG
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and
responses (journal) of IDEAS readings are due on canvas as indicated.
Readings from NFG may be given as background for that week's work.
Additional readings and/or
substitutions announced on class webpage and on canvas.
This schedule is tentative and will be updated in canvas. This is a
general outline of what work to expect over the course of the semester.
Online class weeks are scheduled from Monday to Sunday. Assignments occur
throughout the week, so check here and on canvas often.
Last revised Jan 2019.
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 22 - 27
- Syllabus/ various introductory assignments in canvas
- Timed writing
- skim preface materials in IDEAS (xv-xxviii) and the introduction to
Education section (3-4).
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Jan 28 - Feb 3
- Discuss "Learning to Read." Douglass, Frederick (IDEAS)
- Completed Intros / Set up Mahara account
- Week 3: (Education)
Feb 4 - 10
- Discuss "O Americano Otra Vez." Fehnman, Richard (IDEAS)
- Discuss "Education for Profit, Education for Democracy." Nussbaum,
Martha. (IDEAS)
- Set up Progress Report journal on mahara
- Week 4 (Education)
Feb 11 - 17
- Discuss student article choice (IDEAS)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics / assign paper #1
- Week 5 (revision)
Feb 18 - 24
- Development /organization workshop paper #1
- Nominate and choose articles (4) from one section chosen by class
- Q&A chat session for paper assignment
- Week 6 (revision)
Feb 25 - March 3
- Editing workshop / review MLA format (ROT)
- Pinzon photo essay discussion list
- review Annotated bibliography assignment - actual assignment follows next week
- Read and discuss Pinzon photo essay (URL)
- Education paper collection due on mahara March 1.
partners.
- Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
March 4 - 10
- Discuss article "TBD" (IDEAS)
- Discuss article. "TBD." (IDEAS)
- Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
March 11 - 17
- Discuss article "TBD"
- Discuss article. "TBD."
- individual choice article (optional)
- Choose novel - indicate choice on novel forum. Finish reading novel
by April 15. The list is linked from the class webpages - the reading
list.
Spring Break March 18 - 24
- Week 9
March 25 - 31
- myth timed - writing
- Workshop proposal (timed writing, revised, developed)
- assign Research paper and anno bib
- Week 10
April 2 - 7
- Workshop annotated bibliography
- "This I Believe." shortwrite assignment
- Week 11
April 8 - 14
- Workshop research as needed
- Discuss Mayr handout
- Discuss LeGuin handout
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- Week 12
April 15 - 21
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- Discuss article TBD
- novel groups
- Workshop myth paper
- Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
April 22 - 28
- Myth collection due
- Watch The Matrix 0r District 9 or Avatar
- Form groups for last paper (science)
- Week 14
April 29 - May 5
- Timed essay on novel / one of the movies
- Paper assignment science / literature
- Week 15
May 6 - 10
- Final Day is Dec 10
- paper #3 due - last timed writing essay