Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

• 01/25/08
  
  • Topic: Overview
    
  • Topic: Introduction
    
• 01/28/08
  
  • Topic: The Writing Process
    
  • Due: Ex 1-1A: English and I
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Lemire (1-11)
    
• 01/30/08
  
  • Due: WB1-1: Revision Exercises
    
  • Due: Ex 1-1B: Peer Review
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Key, "The Defence of Fort McHenry"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
    
• 02/01/08
  
  • Topic: Weblog Workshop
    
  • Due: WB1-2: Close Reading
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Shackner
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Foster (Intro, 1)
    
• 02/04/08
  
  • Due: Ex 1-1C: Revision
    
  • Due: WB1-3: Showing/Telling
    
  • Due: Ex 1-1D: Writing Reflection
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
    
  • Topic: Summary vs. Analysis
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Foster (2, 3, 5)
    
• 02/06/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Foster (19.20)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Glaspell, "Trifles"
    
  • Due: WB1-4: Dialog
    
• 02/08/08
  
  • Topic: Audience: Putting Your Reader First
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (1-31)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Short Story Tips
    
• 02/11/08
  
  • Topic: Peer Review Workshop
    
  • Due: Ex 1-2: Short Story
    
  • Topic: Planning Your Short Story (with the Reader in Mind)
    
• 02/13/08
  
  • Due: WB1-5: Job Ad Analysis
    
  • Text (and RRRR): O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Foster (6,9, 11-14)
    
  • Due: Short Story Peer Review
    
• 02/15/08
  
  • Due: WB1-6: Prosody
    
  • Due: Ex 1-2 Revision & Reflection
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Foster (Ch. 12 & Interlude, p. 183)
    
• 02/18/08
  
  • Due: WB1-7: Meter
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Dickinson
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Monteiro
    
• 02/20/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Shakespeare, MWW (Act 1)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Sonnet -- Shakespeare
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Sonnet -- Donne
    
• 02/22/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Shakespeare, MWW (Acts 2 & 3)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Close Reading
    
• 02/25/08
  
  • Due: Portfolio 1
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Shakespeare, MWW (Acts 4 & 5)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Explicator
    
• 02/27/08
  
  • Due: WB1-8: Interview 1
    
  • Text (and RRRR): O'Connor, "The River"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (32-65)
    
• 02/29/08
  
  • Topic: Peer Review Workshop
    
  • Due: Ex 1-3: Close Reading
    
  • Text (and RRRR): O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (68-97)
    
  • Topic: Guest Speaker -- Michael Sims
    
• 03/03/08
  
  • Due: WB1-9: Interview 2
    
  • Due: Ex 3 Peer Review
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Lemire (2-7)
    
• 03/05/08
  
  • Due: Ex 1-3 Revision & Reflection
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (98-111)
    
• 03/07/08
  
  • Topic: Professionalism Workshop
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Lemire (Finish)
    
• 03/10/08
  
  • Topic: Peer Review Workshop
    
  • Due: Ex 1-4: Entrepreneurial Portfolio 1
    
• 03/12/08
  
  • Due: Ex 1-4: Revision and Reflection
    
  • Text (and RRRR): O'Connor, "A Stroke of Good Fortune"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Desmond, "Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil"
    
• 03/14/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): O'Connor, "Good Country People"
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (112-149)
    
• 03/26/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): O'Connor, "The Displaced Person"
    
• 03/28/08
  
  • Topic: Grammar Review
    
  • Topic: Peer Review Workshop
    
  • Due: WB 2-1: Original Poem (& Analysis)
    
  • Due: Ex 2-1: Professional Portfolio (job ad; revised resume; cover letter; writing sample)
    
• 03/31/08
  
  • Due: WB 2-2: Sonnet Worksheet
    
  • Topic: Peer Review Workshop
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Truss 1
    
• 04/02/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Truss 2
    
• 04/04/08
  
  • Due: Portfolio 2
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Truss 3
    
• 04/07/08
  
  • Topic: Poetry Workshop
    
  • Due: WB 2-3: Sonnet Parody
    
• 04/09/08
  
  • Topic: Poetry Workshop
    
  • Due: WB 2-4: Original Sonnet
    
  • Due: A clever blank-verse entry on your blog.
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (150-188)
    
• 04/11/08
  
  • Topic: Word Games
    
  • Due: WB 2-5: OED and Urban Dictionary
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (189-215)
    
• 04/14/08
  
  • Topic: Poetry Slam
    
  • Due: Ex 2-2: Poetry Portfolio
    
• 04/16/08
  
  • Topic: English: A Living Language
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Short Research Papers
    
• 04/18/08
  
  • Due: WB 2-6: Project Proposal
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Card, Ender's Game
    
  • Due: WB 2-5 Part II: Vocabulary
    
• 04/21/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Card, Ender's Game
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (216-235)
    
• 04/23/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Card, Ender's Game
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Hamilton (236-246)
    
• 04/25/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Edson, Wit
    
• 04/28/08
  
  • Topic: Peer Review Workshop
    
  • Due: WB2-7: Presubmission Report
    
• 04/30/08
  
  • Topic: Presentations 1
    
• 05/02/08
  
  • Topic: Presentations 2
    
• 05/05/08
  
  • Topic: Presentations 3
    
  • Due: Portfolio 3
    
  • Due: Ex 2-3: Researched Essay
    
• 05/06/08
  
  • Due: Research Paper Final Submission
    
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