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English 1102.34 schedule, spring 2023

Updated 3/13/2023

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Thursday, January 12  

Course syllabus
1102 syllabus supplement
1102 grades and grading

Introduction to course

Monday, January 16 Martin Luther King Day

Tuesday, January 17
    

Student info form (online)

Syllabus quiz (in D2L) 

Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-5
Persuasive format
Online: "A&P"

 
Wednesday, January 18  Drop/add ends
Thursday, January 19 Writing exercise 1

Golden rules 6-10
Format sample essay
Norton
: Trifles 1253-63 (eBook in D2L)

 
Tuesday, January 24   Nuggets 1-5
Norton: A Raisin in the Sun Act I
      
Thursday, January 26  

Nuggets 6-10
Norton:
A Raisin in the Sun Act II

 
Tuesday, January 31  

Norton: A Raisin in the Sun Act III

Paper 1 assigned     
Thursday, February 2   Quotations 1-3
Format sample 2

On plagiarism
Writing exercise 2

Writing exercise 3
Friday, February 3, by 5:00 p.m. Paper 1 proposal (in D2L)
Tuesday, February 7 Paper 1 complete draft

Quotations 4-5

Peer response 1
Thursday, February 9   Word problems
Elements of fiction

Norton: "The Story of an Hour" 583-84
 
Friday, February 9 Paper 1 final draft in D2L by midnight
Tuesday, February 14   Norton: "Cathedral" 682-92
   "Shiloh" 712-22
No class meeting
Thursday, February 16   Norton: "The Things They Carried" 624-37  
Tuesday, February 21     In-class essay
Thursday, February 23   "The Art of (Reading) Poetry" 785-91
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" 1199-1200
 
Tuesday, February 28  

"Divorce" 767
"Hard Rock Returns . . ." 793
"Googling Ourselves" 799
"Daystar" 821
"Humanity 101" 822-23

Elements of poetry
Thursday, March 2   "Exploring Gender: An Album" 804-18  
Tuesday, March 7   "Homelands: An Album" 844-54  
Thursday, March 9   "Family: An Album" 870-79
"To a Daughter Leaving Home" 1205
"The Victims" 961
Paper 2 assigned 
Friday, March 10
Literary terminology test (D2L quiz) by midnight, covering the Elements of fiction and the Elements of poetry
Tuesday, March 14

Paper 2 proposal (by midnight)

"Still I Rise" 867
"The Vacuum" 921
"We Wear the Mask" 1193
 
Wednesday, March 15 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
Thursday, March 16 Paper 2 complete draft    

Wednesday, March 22


Optional Peer response 2

Monday-Friday,
March 20-24
Spring Break
Tuesday, March 28 Paper 1 corrections
Paper 2 final draft in D2L
A Streetcar Named Desire 1925-51  
Thursday, March 30 Writing Matters test (D2L quiz) A Streetcar Named Desire 1951-68 Writing exercise 4
Tuesday, April 4 Paper 2 corrections A Streetcar Named Desire 1968-91 Library orientation
Thursday, April 6 In-class essay corrections "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 498-508  
Tuesday, April 11 Writing exercise 5 "Good Country People" 509-22 Paper 3 assigned 
Thursday, April 13 Paper 3 proposal "Everything That Rises Must Converge" 523-33  
Tuesday, April 18 Paper 3 draft   Peer response 3 
Thursday, April 20 Paper 3 final draft     The Death of Ivan Ilych  
Tuesday, April 25   The Death of Ivan Ilych  
Thursday, April 27   The Death of Ivan Ilych Paper 4 assigned
Tuesday, May 2 Paper 4 proposal
Paper 4 draft
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
     
Peer response 4
Discuss exam
Final exam
Tuesday, May 9,
10:30-12:30
Paper 3 corrections
Paper 4 final draft 
   

Note: This schedule is tentative.