English 3123 schedule, spring 2005
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.
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Tuesday, January 11 |
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Introduction to course Grades and grading Persuasive format |
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Thursday, January 13 | Student info form (online) |
Simple
Stuff |
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Tuesday, January 18 | Golden rules exam (online) Simple stuff exercise |
Nuggets
1-10 Format sample 2 Ancient Rhetorics 36-51 Handout: "Work" |
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Thursday, January 20 |
Nuggets
quiz |
Ancient Rhetorics 53-71 Handouts: "Work, Labor, and Play" "The Importance of Work" |
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Friday, January 21 | Drop/add ends | ||
Sunday, January 23 | Nuggets exam (online) | ||
Tuesday, January 25 | Quotes
and documentation 1-5 Word problems Ancient Rhetorics 71-92 Handouts: "War Games" "The End of Play" |
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Thursday, January 27 | QD
quiz QD quiz answers |
Ancient Rhetorics 95-118 Handouts: "Winning Isn't Everything" "Time to Hang Up the Sports Clichés" |
Essay 1 assigned |
Sunday, January 30 | QD exam (online) | ||
Tuesday, February 1 | Word problems quiz Essay 1 draft |
Ancient Rhetorics 118-30 |
Peer response 1 |
Thursday, February 3 | On
plagiarism Ancient Rhetorics 133-48 Online: "Barbie Doll" Handout: "The Centerfold Syndrome" |
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Tuesday, February 8 | Essay 1 final draft |
Ancient Rhetorics 148-61 |
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Thursday, February 10 | Ancient Rhetorics 163-81 Handouts: "The 'Act Like a Man' Box" "Needs" "Hard Rock Returns. . . ." "We Real Cool" "Disabled" "What the Motorcycle Said" "The Flea" |
Essay 2 assigned | |
Tuesday, February 15 | Syllabus input | Ancient Rhetorics 181-202 |
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Thursday, February 17 | Essay 2 draft | Ancient Rhetorics 205-18 |
Peer response 2 |
Tuesday, February 22 | Ancient Rhetorics 220-37 Handouts: "The Family" "The Dying Family" |
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Thursday, February 24 | Essay 2 final draft | Ancient Rhetorics 239-55 Handout: "Political Economy and Family Policy" |
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Tuesday, March 1 | Ancient Rhetorics 257-76 Handouts: "Here Comes the Groom" "Marriage as a Restricted Club" |
Essay 3 assigned | |
Thursday, March 3 | Ancient Rhetorics 278-98 Handout: "My Husband's Nine Wives" |
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Tuesday, March 8 | Essay 3 draft | Ancient Rhetorics 298-313 | Peer response 3 |
Thursday, March 10 | Essay 2 corrections | Ancient Rhetorics 316-29 | |
Friday, March 11 | Essay 3 final draft (turn in at Chip's office) | ||
Monday,
March 14- Friday, March 18 |
Spring break | Spring break | Spring break |
Tuesday, March 22 | Ancient Rhetorics 330-50 Handouts: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" Two views on "Three Strikes" |
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Thursday, March 24 | Ancient Rhetorics 353-72 Handouts: "The Case for Torture" "ALA Resolution against Torture" |
Essay 4 assigned | |
Tuesday, March 29 | Essay 3 corrections |
Ancient Rhetorics 372-83 |
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Thursday, March 31 | Essay 4 draft | Ancient Rhetorics 384-89 | Peer response 4 |
Tuesday, April 5 | Essay 4 final draft | Ancient Rhetorics 389-92 Handouts: "Proposal to Abolish Grading" "In Defense of Testing" |
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Thursday, April 7 | Ancient Rhetorics 392-95 Handouts: "Honey, I Warped the Kids" "In Praise of Gore" "Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence" |
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Tuesday, April 12 | Ancient Rhetorics 395-99 Handouts: "The Hard Sell" "Advertising as Capitalist Realism" "The Language of Advertising Claims" |
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Thursday, April 14 | Ancient Rhetorics 399-407 | ||
Friday, April 15 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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Tuesday, April 19 | Handouts: "Myths
about Advertising" "The Dour Critics of Advertising" "Sex Is Still Doing the Selling" |
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Thursday, April 21 | Handouts: "Women
Fight Back" "Censorship or Education?" |
Essay 5 assigned | |
Tuesday, April 26 | Essay 4 corrections | Handouts: "Dirt
and Democracy" "Why American Kids Learn So Little" |
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Thursday, April 28 | Essay 5 draft | Peer response 5 | |
Final exam Thursday, May 5 9:30 a.m. |
Essay 5 final draft |