English 1101.03A schedule, spring 2021
Updated 1/20/21
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative and subject to change as need arises.
English 1101.03A schedule, spring 2021
Updated 1/20/21
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative and subject to change as need arises.
| Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
| Wednesday, January 13 | Course syllabus |
Introduction to course | |
| Monday, January 18 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | No class meeting | No class meeting |
| Tuesday, January 19 | Drop/add ends | ||
| Wednesday, January 20 | Student
info (online) |
Simple Stuff Golden rules 1-5 |
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| Monday, January 25 | Writing exercise 2 | Golden
rules 6-10 Little, Brown Reader (LBR): "Hollow Claims about Fantasy . . ." 109-11 |
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| Wednesday, January 27 | LBR: "Letting Go" 164-66 | ||
| Monday, February 1 | Golden rules exam (D2L quiz) | LBR: "Big Mother Is Watching" 428-31 | Writing exercise 3 |
| Wednesday, February 3 | Nuggets 1-3 Handout: "Obsessed with Sport" "It Isn't Just a Game" |
Writing exercise 4 | |
| Monday, February 8 | Nuggets 4-7 Handout: "It Isn't Just a Game" |
Paper 1 assigned | |
| Wednesday, February 10 | Paper 1 proposal | Nuggets
8-10 On plagiarism |
Persuasive format |
| Monday, February 15 | Nuggets exam (D2L quiz) Paper 1 draft |
Persuasive format | Peer response 1 |
| Wednesday, February 17 | Quotations 1-2 LBR: "Class Dismissed" 294-96 |
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| Monday, February 22 | Paper 1 final draft | Quotations 3-4 Persuasive format sample 1 Handout: "Why Do American Kids Learn So Little?" |
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| Wednesday, February 24 | Quotations 5 Persuasive format sample 2 Online: TBA |
Writing exercise 5 | |
| Monday, March 1 | Quotations exam (D2L quiz) | LBR: "Proposal to Abolish
Grading" 312-14 "In Defense of Testing" 315-16 "Two Cheers for Examinations" 317-20 |
Paper 2 assigned |
| Wednesday, March 3 | Paper 2 proposal | Word problems | In-class essay |
| Monday, March 8 | Word problems exam (D2L quiz) Paper 2 draft |
Peer response 2 | |
| Wednesday, March 10 | Paper 1 corrections Last day to withdraw with "W" grade |
LBR: "Work" 331-36 | |
| Monday, March 15 | Paper 2 final draft | Handout: "What You Do Is What You Are" | |
| Wednesday, March 17 | LBR: "Brains as Well as Brawn" 337-38 "Case for Working with Your Hands" 338-47 |
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| Monday, March 22 | In-class essay corrections | Handouts: "Work, Labor and Play" "The Importance of Work" |
Paper 3 assigned |
| Wednesday, March 24 | Paper 3 proposal | Online: TBA | |
| Monday, March 29 | Paper 3 draft | Peer response 3 | |
| Wednesday, March 31 | Paper 2 corrections | LBR: "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" 232-35 | |
| Monday, April 5 | Paper 3 final draft | Online: "Barbie
Doll" LBR: "I Want a Wife" 150-51 |
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| Wednesday, April 7 | LBR: "Women's Brains" 223-28 "You Are What You Say" 368-73 "The Second Shift" 144-49 |
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| Monday, April 12 | Online: "Hard
Rock" LBR: "The Male Myth" 229-31 Handout: "The 'Act Like a Man' Box" |
Paper 4 assigned | |
| Wednesday, April 14 | Handouts: "Men as Success Objects" "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" |
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| Friday, April 16 | Paper 4 proposal due by 5:00 p.m. | ||
| Monday, April 19 | Paper 4 draft | Peer response 4 | |
| Wednesday, April 21 | Writing Matters Test | Handout: "The Case for Torture" | |
| Monday, April 26 | Paper 3 corrections | Handout: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" | |
| Wednesday, April 28 | Paper conferences | ||
| Final exam Thursday, April 29 10:30-12:30. |
Paper 4 final draft |