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English 1102.08 schedule, fall 2024

Updated 10/22/2024

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Thursday, August 15  

 

Course syllabus
1102 syllabus supplement
1102 grades and grading

Tuesday, August 20

Student info form (online)
Syllabus quiz (in D2L) 

Drop/add ends

Simple Stuff
Online: "A&P"

  
Thursday, August 22  

Golden rules 1-5
Norton: Trifles 1253-63 (eBook in D2L)

Writing exercise 1
Tuesday, August 27 Writing exercise 2 Golden rules 6-10
Norton: "The Lesson" 160-66
   "Hills Like White Elephants" 700-704
 
Thursday, August 29  

Elements of fiction
Norton
: "The Story of an Hour" 583-84

   "Shiloh" 712-22

Writing exercise 3
Tuesday, September 3     In-class essay
Thursday, September 5   Nuggets 1-5
"The Black Cat" 181-88
"A Rose for Emily" 693-99
 
Tuesday, September 10   Nuggets 6-10
"The Veldt" 323-34
"Cathedral" 682-92
 
Thursday, September 12   Quotations 1-3
"Where Are You Going . . . ?" 95-107
 
Tuesday, September 17   Quotations 4-5
"The Things They Carried" 624-37
 
Thursday, September 19   Word problems
"
Good Country People" 509-22
Paper 1 assigned
Friday, September 20 Paper 1 proposal
Tuesday, September 24 In-class essay corrections
Paper 1 complete draft
On plagiarism Peer response 1
Thursday, September 26  

Elements of poetry
"Poetry" 788-89
"Because You Asked about the Line . . ." 785
"Ars Poetica #100: I Believe" 787-88

"Shall I Compare Thee . . . ?"
Sunday, September 29 Paper 1 final draft in D2L by midnight
Tuesday, October 1  

"[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]" 992
"[Let me not to the marriage of true minds]" 993
"Head, Heart" 756

"Divorce" 767
"Sex without Love" 886

 
Thursday, October 3   "This Be the Verse" 876
"Hard Rock Returns . . ." 793
"Disabled" 808-9
"Mr. T" 816-17
 
Friday, October 4 Writing Matters test
Tuesday, October 8 Literary terminology test (D2L quiz)

"Daystar" 821  
"Barbie Doll"
1206
"We Wear the Mask" 1193

 
Thursday, October 10   "Africa" 846-47
"Still I Rise" 867
"Those Winter Sundays" 873
"To a daughter leaving home" 1205-6
 
Tuesday, October 15   "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica" 850-51
"The Vacuum" 921
"The Victims" 961
Paper 2 assigned
Wednesday, October 16 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
Thursday, October 17 Paper 2 proposal

Introductions
Sample introductions
Conclusions

Writing exercise 4 (D2L quiz)
Workshop paper proposals
Sunday, October 20 Paper 2 complete draft
Tuesday, October 22 Writing exercise 5 A Raisin in the Sun Act I  

 

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Thursday, October 24   A Raisin in the Sun Act II  
Saturday, October 26 Paper 1 corrections
Peer response 2
Tuesday, October 29 Paper 2 final draft in D2L by midnight A Raisin in the Sun Act III  
Thursday, October 31   A Streetcar Named Desire 1925-51  
Tuesday, November 5   A Streetcar Named Desire 1951-68 Paper 3 assigned
Thursday, November 7 Paper 3 proposal A Streetcar Named Desire 1968-91 Library Orientation:
Saturday, November 9 Paper 3 complete draft
Tuesday, November 12 Peer response 3 A Christmas Carol, Stave 1  
Thursday, November 14   A Christmas Carol, Staves 2-3  
Tuesday, November 19 Paper 2 corrections
Paper 3 final draft
A Christmas Carol, Staves 4-5 Paper 4 assigned
Thursday, November 21 Paper 4 proposal    
Monday-Friday,
November 25-29
Thanksgiving holiday
Tuesday, December 3 Paper 4 complete draft "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Discuss exam
Wednesday, December 4 Peer response 4
Final exam
Tuesday, December 10
10:30-12:30

Paper 3 corrections
Paper 4 final draft

Optional Rewrites of papers 1-3

  Final exam essay