English 101 schedule, fall 2003
Sections 101.04 and 101.07

Updated 12/4/03
Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Wednesday, August 27     Introduction to course
Persuasive format
Friday, August 29 Personal info (online) Persuasive format
Simple Stuff

Golden rules 1-5
Format sample essay
 
Monday, September 1   Golden rules 6-10
Little, Brown Reader (LBR):
 "Short Views" 249-50
 "The Family" 251-52
In-class exercise 1
Tuesday, September 2 Drop/add ends    
Wednesday, Sept. 3 Golden rules quiz
GR quiz w/ answers
Format sample 2
LBR: "Rituals of Passage" 252-56
 
Friday, September 5 Golden rules exam (online) Nuggets 1-5
LBR: "Intermarriage" 256-61
On plagiarism
Monday, September 8   Nuggets 6-10
LBR: "The Second Shift" 283-88
 
Wednesday, Sept. 10 Nuggets quiz
Nuggets quiz w/ answers
LBR: "The Dying Family" 6-10  
Friday, September 12 Nuggets exam (online) Quotes and documentation 1-3
LBR: "Political Economy. . . ." 266-76
 
Monday, September 15   Quotes and documentation 4-5
Format sample 3
LBR: "Here Comes the Groom" 278-82
On Reserve: "Marriage as a Restricted Club"
Essay 1 assigned
Wednesday, Sept. 17 Quotes/documentation quiz
QD quiz w/ answers
LBR: "Erstwhile Child" 261-65  
Friday, September 19 Quotes/documentation exam (online) On Reserve: "My Husband's Nine Wives"  
Monday, September 22   LBR: "Girl" 305-6
 "Those Winter Sundays" 307
In-class exercise 2
Wednesday, Sept. 24 Essay 1 draft   Peer response 1
Friday, September 26 Essay 1 final draft Word problems
LBR: "Short Views" 418-22
 "Zen and the Art of Burglary" 505
 
Monday, September 29   LBR: "Why Do American Kids. . . ?" 435-38 Word problems quiz
Wednesday, October 1    LBR: "Japanese Education" 446-59  
Friday, October 3   LBR: "Order in the Classroom" 440-45  
Monday, October 6   LBR: "Public and Private Language" 430-34
 "Classroom . . . Wider Culture" 468-77
Essay 2 assigned
Wednesday, October 8  

LBR: "Proposal to Abolish Grading" 478-80
  "In Defense of Testing" 481-82

 
Friday, October 10   LBR: "Feng Shui of Schools" 485-89
 "Unplugged" 490-92
 
Monday, October 13 Essay 2 draft   Peer response 2
Wednesday, October 15   LBR: "The Lesson" 498-504 In-class exercise 3 
Thursday, October 16 Mid-term grades turned in    
Friday, October 17 Essay 1 corrections LBR: "Short Views" 523-25  
Monday, October 20 Essay 2 final draft LBR: "Work" 526-31
 "Work, Labor, and Play" 532-33
 
Wednesday, October 22 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
LBR: "The Shoeshine Boy" 534-36
 "The Importance of Work" 539-43
 
Friday, October 24   LBR: "Delusions of Grandeur" 558-60
 "Playing to Win" 561-63
 
Monday, October 27   On Reserve: "Winning Isn't Everything"
Essay 3 assigned
Wednesday, October 29   On Reserve: "Obsessed with Sport"
LBR: "It Isn't Just a Game" 585-89
 
Friday, October 31   LBR: "War Games" 140-41
 "The End of Play" 571-77
 "The Play's the Thing" 582-84
 
Monday, November 3 Topic sentence outline &
Essay 3 draft
  Peer response 3 
Wednesday, Nov. 5   LBR: "Short Views" 326-28
 "Women's Brains" 329-34
 "A Woman's Land" 193-96
 
Friday, November 7 Essay 2 corrections LBR: "Casebook on Barbie" 308-19  
Monday, November 10 Essay 3 final draft  LBR: "Why Boys . . . Dolls" 335-37
 "You Are What You Say" 633-38
Essay 4 assigned
Wednesday, Nov. 12   LBR: "The Male Myth" 353-56
  "The Men We Carry. . . ." 350-52
 
Friday, November 14   On Reserve: "Why Are Gay Men. . . ?" In-class exercise 4
Monday, November 17 Topic sentence outline &
Essay 4 draft
  Peer response 4
Wednesday, Nov. 19   On reserve: "The Prisoner's Dilemma"  
Friday, November 21      Worship of Maddux
Monday-Friday,
November 24-28
Thanksgiving Leave Thanksgiving Leave Thanksgiving Leave
Monday, December 1

Essay 3 corrections
Essay 4 final draft

LBR: "The Case for Torture" 776-78   
Wednesday, Dec. 3   On plagiarism Essay 5 assigned 
Friday, December 5

Avoiding plagiarism exercise part I

   
Monday, December 8 Avoiding plagiarism exercise part II
  Discuss exam
      [Peer response 5]
Final exams
101.07 (MWF 10:00):
Thursday, Dec. 11, 8:00-11:00

101.04
(MWF 9:00):
Saturday, Dec. 13,
1:00-4:00
Essay 4 corrections
Essay 5 final draft
   

Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.  I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.