English 1213.002 schedule, spring 2007
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Tuesday, January 9 | Introduction to course Golden rules 1-5 |
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Thursday, January 11 | Student info form (online) | Simple Stuff Golden rules 6-10 Handout: "The Hidden Life of SUV's" |
Assessment testing Discussion of question-driven essays |
Tuesday, January 16 | Snow day: RSU closed | Snow day: RSU closed |
Snow day |
Thursday, January 18 |
Golden
rules quiz |
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Tuesday, January 23 | Golden
rules exam (online) Writing exercise 1 |
Nuggets 1-5 The Writer's Presence (WP): "People Like Us" 344-49 "Our Celebrities, Ourselves" 426-32 |
Writing exercise 2 |
Wednesday, January 24 | Drop/add ends | ||
Thursday, January 25 |
Nuggets quiz |
Nuggets
6-10 WP: "Stories Hollywood Never Tells" 872-81 |
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Tuesday, January 30 |
Nuggets exam (online) |
Quotes
and documentation 1-3 WP: "Salvation" 162-65 "Shooting an Elephant" 221-27 "The Insufficiency of Honesty" 349-54 |
Paper 1 assigned |
Thursday, February 1 |
Quotes/documentation
quiz |
Quotes
and documentation 4-5 WP: "Singer Solution to World Poverty" 800-5 "America, Look at Your Shame!" 625-32 |
Introductions and conclusions |
Tuesday, February 6 | QD
exam (online) Paper 1 draft |
Word problems On plagiarism |
Peer response 1 |
Thursday, February 8 | Word problems quiz | Persuasive format WP: "A&P" 959-64 |
In-class essay 1 |
Tuesday, February 13 | Paper 1 final draft |
Format
sample essay WP: "Against Love" 755-62 "The Trouble with Self-Esteem" 806-13 |
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Thursday, February 15 | Format sample 2 WP: "Why I Am Not a Christian" 773-85 |
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Tuesday, February 20 | Format
sample 3 Online: "Barbie Doll" WP: "Why Women Smile" 355-60 Handout: "Femininity |
Paper 2 assigned | |
Thursday, February 22 | Online: "Hard
Rock" WP: "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" 786-91 Handouts: "The 'Act Like a Man' Box" "Men as Success Objects" |
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Tuesday, February 27 | Paper 2 draft | Peer response 2 | |
Thursday, March 1 | Class canceled | Class canceled | |
Tuesday, March 6 | WP: "Worried? Us?" 763-67 |
Research project assigned | |
Thursday, March 8 | Library work day |
Library work day | |
Friday, March 9 | |||
Tuesday, March 13 | Paper
1 corrections Paper 2 final draft |
WP: "Is a Holy War Inevitable??" 335-43 "Reading Lolita in Tehran" 516-25 "Through Other Eyes" 549-56 |
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Thursday, March 15 | Writing exercise 4 | In-class essay 2 | |
Monday,
March 19- Friday, March 23 |
Spring break | Spring break | Spring break |
Tuesday, March 27 | Research project due | Handout: |
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Thursday, March 29 | Handout: "The Death of Ivan Ilych" 1300-1319 |
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Tuesday, April 3 | Paper 3 draft | Handout: Tolstoy criticism (three articles) |
Peer response 3 |
Thursday, April 5 | Paper 2 corrections | Frankenstein 5-33 (through ch. 2) | |
Tuesday, April 10 | Paper 3 final draft | ||
Thursday, April 12 | Frankenstein 33-91 (Chs. 3-12) | ||
Friday, April 13 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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Tuesday, April 17 | In-class essay 2 corrections | Frankenstein 91-142 (Chs. 13-20) | Paper 4 assigned |
Thursday, April 19 | |
Frankenstein 142-95 (Chs. 21-end) | |
Tuesday, April 24 | Paper 4 draft |
Peer response 4 | |
Thursday, April 26 | WP: "A Good
Man Is Hard to Find" 942-54 "Young Goodman Brown" 901-11 |
Discuss exam | |
Final exam Tuesday, May 1 2:30-4:30 |
Paper
3 corrections Paper 4 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.