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   Course Outline 2021
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      English 1302: Composition and Rhetoric     Room 1217          • Syllabus
 
 

 
 
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 Mr. Smith reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 
  Second Semester  
  Week 1 || 01.06  
     
  Monday:   
    Teachers' In-Service Day
   
  Tuesday:    
    Teachers' In-Service Day
   
  Wednesday:   
    Basic Introduction: Syllabus Semester 2
    ENG 1302-Google Classroom
    Follow @PrufrocksBlues in Twitter
    Daily Writing Prompts
   
  Thursday:   
    Daily Writing Exercise / 15 minutes
    Guidelines for Reading/Academic Expectations
              • demo
    Deductive Versus Inductive Versus Abductive Review
              • Deductive Arguments/ Inductive Arguments / Abductive Arguments
              • Three Methods of Argument
    Deductive Argument Example
              • "Is Screen Time Bad for Kids?" Kim Tingley, New York Times, p. MM20, 12.22.19 /PDF
    Inductive Article Example
              • "Going to Prison Was the Best Thing To Ever Happened—" Brandon Rhoads,BarkPost.com
    Abductive Argument Example
              • "Diagnosis" Dr. Lisa Sanders, M.D., New York Times, pp. 16-17, 07.07.19 / PDF
    The Three Models of Reasoning
              • Review
   
  Friday:   
    Review Value Claims
              • demo
    In-Class Exercise
     
   
  Week 2 || 01.11  
     
  Monday:   
    Traditional Argument—Aristotelian Model < Quick Review
              • demo
    Overview: Three Argument Styles
              • demo
   
  Tuesday:   
    Toulmin Argument
              • demo
    In-Class Exercise: Building a Toulmin Argument
   
  Wednesday:   
    In-Class Exercise: Building a Toulmin Argument
   
  Thursday:   
    Rogerian Discussion
              • demo
    In-Class Exercise: Building a Rogerian Discussion
   
  Friday:   
    In-Class Exercise: Building a Rogerian Discussion
     
     
  Week 3 || 01.18  
     
  Monday:   
     school holiday/no classes
   
  Tuesday:   
    First Day of Lone Star
    Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”supplemental
   
  Wednesday:   
    Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”—supplemental
   
  Thursday:   
    In-Class Exercise: Respond to Hardin's observations
   
  Friday:   
    Apacolyptic Writing
              • demo
     
     
  Week 4 || 01.25  
     
  Monday:   
    Satirical Writing
              • Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
              • Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal and other works
              • cover design
              • in reference to paragraph 18
   
  Tuesday:   
    Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
   
  Wednesday:   
    Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
   
  Thursday:   
    Satire for Social Change, major grade
   
  Friday:    
    Satire for Social Change, major grade
     
     
  Week 5 || 02.01
     
  Monday:    
    Poetry as Protest
    W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
    video clip: Auden reading "The Unknown Citizen"
              • demo
   
  Tuesday:    
    W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
    W. H. Auden's “Funeral Blues” —supplemental
              (see: https://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/poetry/aude.html)
              • vid clip: Four Weddings and a Funeral
   
  Wednesday:    
    Poetry as Protest
    William Blake, "London" || "The Chimney Sweeper" || "The Sick Rose"
              • demo
   
  Thursday:   
    Poetry as Protest Presentations
   
  Friday:    
    Blackout Poetry Exercise
              • demo (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt5nguT3hEM)
     
  Week 6 || 02.08
     
  Monday:    
    Blackout Poetry Paragraph due
    Review Academic Paragraph Formula
              • demo
    Literary Terms
              • Terminology
              • Aesop, "The Fox and the Goat"
 

  Tuesday:    
    Conflict Types
              • demo
    Elements of European Fairy Tales
              • demo
   
  Wednesday:  
    Jacob and Wiljelm Grimm, "The Goose Girl"
              • demo: Freytag's Pyramid
   
  Thursday:   
    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "Godfather Death"
   
  Friday:   
     school holiday/no classes
     
     
  Week 7 || 02.15  
     
  Monday:    
     school holiday/no classes
   
  Tuesday:   
    Narration Types
              • demo
    Modernism Expectations
              • demo
              • NYT 2015 article
   
  Wednesday:   
    Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
   
  Thursday:   
    Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
   
  Friday:   
    Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
     
     
  Week 8 || 02.22  
     
  Monday:    
    Solving the Metaphor of the Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
    In-Class Exercise
   
  Tuesday:    
    Comparison Analysis: Magic Realism and Fairy Tales
   
  Wednesday:   
    Comparison Analysis: Magic Realism and Fairy Tales
   
  Thursday:   
    Comparison Analysis: Magic Realism and Fairy Tales
   
  Friday:   
    Comparison Analysis: Magic Realism and Fairy Tales
     
     
  Week 9 || 03.02
     
  Monday:   
    Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
              • demo: Modern Anti-hero Traits
   
  Tuesday:    
    Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
   
 
Wednesday:  
 
    Various Critical Analysis of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"
    • Gita Rajan: A Feminist Rereading of Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
    • Robert M. Kachur: “Buried in the Bedroom: Bearing Witness to Incest in Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'”
    • Hollie Pritchard: Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
   
 
Thursday:   
 
    Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
   
  Friday:   
    Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
     
     
  Week 10 || 03.08
     
    Modernism & T. S. Eliot
     
     
  Week 11 || 03.15  
     
     Spring Break
     
     
  Week 12 || 03.22  
     
  Monday:   
    Modernism & T. S. Eliot
   
  Tuesday:    
    Literary Modes
              • demo
    Literary Modernism Intentions
              • demo: Evolution of Modernism
              • demo: Quick Review of Modernism Intentions
              • Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
              • H. D., "All Mountains"
   
  Wednesday:    
    Modernism & T. S. Eliot
              • demo
              • demo: poem in full, with annotations
              • demo: poem fragmented in stanzas for class lectures
   
  Thursday:     
    Modernism & T. S. Eliot
              • "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
   
  Friday:   
    Modernism & T. S. Eliot
              •"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
     
     
  Week 13 || 03.29  
    DQ: "Is Prufrock a victim of society's sins? —or is he a victim of his own sins?"
    Class Assignment: 700-Word Comparison Essay
     
     
  Week 14 || 04.05  
    Comparisons of Hamlet Soliloquies
    Watch full movie of Hamlet
    Available Study Modes for Hamlet
              • print PDF
              • video stage production
              • audio version production
    Print Scene from Hamlet comapred with Film Scene: Paragraph Response
     
     
  Week 15 || 04.12  
    Flip Grid Response: Movie Review
    Hamlet
     
     
  Week 16 || 04.19  
    Hamlet
    Flip Grid: Review of TED Talk: Existentialism
     
     
  Week 17 || 04.26  
    Hamlet
     
     
  Week 18 || 05.03  
    Hamlet
     
     
  Week 19 || 05.10  
    Discussion Board:
    Mark Edmundson's Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals
              • "Shakespeare and the Modern Self"
    Final Research Paper
     
    05.16:  Last Day for Lone Star
     
  Week 20 || 05.17  
    Metamodernism
     
     
  Week 21 || 05.24  
    Metamodernism