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English 1102.35 schedule, spring 2026

Updated 1/21/2026

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

 

Course syllabus
1102 syllabus supplement
1102 grades and grading
Wednesday, January 14 Syllabus quiz (in D2L, okay up till midnight Thursday) 

Simple Stuff
Online: "A&P"

 
Friday, January 16 Drop/add ends
Monday, January 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: no class meeting
Wednesday, January 21

Golden rules 1-5
Norton: Trifles 1283-93

Writing exercise 1
Friday, January 23 Writing exercise 2
Monday, January 26  

Golden rules 6-10
Norton: "The Lesson" 160-66
Norton
: "Hills Like White Elephants" 700-704

Sample introductions
Wednesday, January 28 Writing Matters practice quiz: the Golden rules
  (in D2L, due by midnight)

Nuggets 1-5
Norton
: "The Story of an Hour" 583-84

   "Shiloh" 712-22

Writing exercise 3
Monday, February 2   Nuggets 6-10 In-class essay
Wednesday, Feb. 4 Writing Matters practice: Nuggets quiz (D2L) Quotations 1-4
Elements of fiction
"A Rose for Emily" 693-99

 

Monday, February 9   "The Veldt" 323-34
"Cathedral" 682-92
 
Wednesday, Feb. 11

 

Quotations 5
"Cathedral" 682-92
"The Things They Carried" 624-37
Paper 1 assigned
Friday, Feb 13 Paper 1 proposal due by 1:00 p.m.
Monday, February 16

Paper 1 complete draft

Word problems
On plagiarism
Peer response 1
Wednesday, Feb. 18 Writing Matters practice: Quotations quiz (D2L)
Elements of poetry
"Poetry" 788-89
"Because You Asked about the Line . . ." 785
"Ars Poetica #100: I Believe" 787-88
 
"Shall I Compare Thee . . . ?"
Monday, February 23 Paper 1 final draft (D2L, due before class starts)
Writing Matters test (D2L, due by midnight)
"Head, Heart" 756
"Divorce" 767
"This Be the Verse" 876
"Sex without Love" 886
 

Wednesday, Feb. 25

  "Hard Rock Returns . . ." 793
"Disabled" 808-9
"Daystar" 821
 
Monday, March 2 Literary terminology test

"Barbie Doll" 1206
"The Vacuum" 921
"The Victims" 961

"We Wear the Mask" 1193

 
Wednesday, March 4   "Africa" 846-47
"Still I Rise" 867
"Those Winter Sundays" 873
"To a daughter leaving home" 1205-6
Paper 2 assigned
Friday, March 6 Paper 2 proposal due by 1:00 p.m.
Monday, March 9 Paper 2 complete draft    
Wednesday, March 11      
Friday, March 13 Peer response 2
Monday, March 16 Paper 1 corrections
Paper 2 final draft due by midnight.
A Raisin in the Sun Act I  
Wednesday, March 18 Paper 1 corrections
Paper 2 final draft due by midnight.
A Raisin in the Sun Act I  
Monday, March 23-
Friday, March 27

Spring Break

Monday, March 30 Writing exercise 4 A Raisin in the Sun Act II  
Wednesday, April 1   A Raisin in the Sun Act III  
Monday, April 6      
Wednesday, April 8 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
  Paper 3 assigned
Persuasive format
Friday, April 10 Paper 3 proposal
Monday, April 13 Paper 3 complete draft

Writing Tips sections:
    - Introductions
     -Conclusions

Library Orientation:
Intro and conclusion Writing exercise 5
Peer response arranged
Wednesday, April 15

Peer response 3 (email classmate and cc Dr. Chip)
  Due by midnight

  Bonus Writing exercise
  (with Jonathan)
Monday, April 20 Paper 3 final draft due by midnight Joseph Conrad overview
Handouts:
  Introduction to Heart of Darkness
  Heart of Darkness
, chapter 1
 
Wednesday, April 22


Heart of Darkness, chapter 2  
Monday, April 27

Paper 2 corrections

Heart of Darkness, chapter 3 Paper 4 assigned
Wednesday, April 29 Paper 4 proposal due by midnight
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
     - PDF version with some footnotes
     - PDF of Cleaner copy
Discuss exam
Monday, May 4      
 
Final exam
Friday, May 8,
10:30-12:30