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Week 1 |
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08.24 Monday: |
Basic introduction • Guidelines for Reading |
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• demo |
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08.26 Wednesday: |
Quiz 1: Syllabus |
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Analytical Thinking Process: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Review |
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• demo Students should be sure to review this file more in depth. |
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Deductive versus Inductive, pp. 85-86; 90-91 |
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• demo |
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• David Foster Wallace “Consider the Lobster” |
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• Francis Bacon, “On Truth” |
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08.28 Friday: |
Syllogisms (logic within your introduction paragraphs) |
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• demo |
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Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence”p. 678 |
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Quiz 2: Rhetoric, Deductive and Inductive Arguments |
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• Diagnostic Exercise: “Social Protest” |
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APA Paper topic list provided |
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Week 2 |
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08.31 Monday: |
Library Orientation: LRNC 105
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09.02 Wednesday: |
APA Paper Overview (Paper 1) |
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Basic Construction of an APA Paper |
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A Writer’s Reference, pp.496-500 (APA-1 and APA-2a); p. 519 (APA-4b) |
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• MLA versus APA |
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09.04 Friday: |
Review of English 1301: plagiarism, signal phrases |
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• demo-APA Paragraphs |
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APA Thesis Statements |
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• demo-Guide to APA Thesis |
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Establishing an Abstract |
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• demo-Abstract sample |
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Week 3 |
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09.07 Monday: |
Labor Day (no class) |
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09.09 Wednesday: |
Traditional Argument—Aristotelian Model |
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• demo |
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“The Toulmin Model” p. 337-343 |
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• demo |
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09.11 Friday: |
“Rogerian Argument” p. 392-400 |
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• demo |
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Week 4 |
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09.14 Monday: |
APA Introduction and Thesis due |
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In class exercise: Building a Rogerian Discussion |
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09.16 Wednesday: |
Bring research articles to class. |
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In class exercise: building ethos. |
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09.18 Friday: |
Before class read Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” p. 220-226
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and Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”—supplemental |
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Group discussion 1: |
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Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” p. 220 |
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Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”—supplemental |
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Week 5 |
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09.21 Monday: |
Group presentations |
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09.23 Wednesday: |
Before class read W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” p. 691-692 |
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Reading Comprehension Quiz 3: Auden |
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Social Commentary • Poems of Witness / Protest |
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W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” p. 691 |
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• demo |
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09.25 Friday: |
Before class read Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” p. 438-440 |
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Reading Comprehension Quiz 4: Chopin |
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Group discussion 2: Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” p. 438 |
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Group presentations |
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Week 6 |
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09.28 Monday: |
Visual Communication Analysis |
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• demo |
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• Frida Kahlo, Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns) |
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09.30 Wednesday: |
Group discussion 3: Visual Communication Analysis |
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10.02 Friday: |
CMS (Chicago) Guidelines Overview |
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• MLA versus CMS versus APA |
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Chicago: A Writer’s Reference, pp. 550-553 (CMS-1); pp. 570-575 (CMS-4c) |
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Chicago History Paper expectations (Paper 2) |
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Week 7 |
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10.05 Monday: |
APA Paper due |
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Group discussion 3 |
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10.07 Wednesday: |
Group presentations |
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10.09 Friday: |
CMS (Chicago) Paper due |
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MLA Paper Overview (Capstone Project) |
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Literary Analysis Paper expectations (Capstone Project, Paper 3) |
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A Writer’s Reference, pp. 424-428 (MLA-1); pp. 454-455(MAL-4b) |
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Annotated Bib • Proposal |
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Week 8 |
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10.12 Monday: |
Before class read Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 695-700 |
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Reading Comprehension Quiz 5: Le Guin |
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Group discussion 4: |
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Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 695 |
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10.14 Wednesday: |
Group presentations |
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10.16 Friday: |
Diverse Opinions in Literary Analysis, “Arguing about Literature” p. 420-425 |
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Class Discussion of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”—supplemental |
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Group discussion 5: Supplied essays |
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Week 9 |
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10.19 Monday: |
Various Criticism: Group discussion |
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MLA Paper Topic and Thesis due; Proposal |
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10.21 Wednesday: |
Group presentations |
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10.23 Friday: |
Overview of Thomas More's Utopia |
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Before next class read Thomas More, Utopia p. 656-661(par. 19); 662(par.24)-665 |
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Week 10 |
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10.26 Monday: |
Group discussion 6: Thomas More, from Utopia |
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10.28 Wednesday: |
Group follow-up & Group presentations |
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10.30 Friday: |
Reading Comprehension Take-home Quiz 6: More |
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Literary Modes |
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• demo |
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Week 11 |
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11.02 Monday: |
Victorian versus Modernism; Preview of T. S. Eliot “Prufrock” |
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• demo |
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• 1900s' View of 2000s |
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Annotated Bib due |
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11.04 Wednesday: |
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 756-760 |
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11.06 Friday: |
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 756-760 |
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Week 12 |
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11.09 Monday: |
Last day to drop and receive a “W” |
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T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 756-760 |
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11.11 Wednesday:
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Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” |
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• demo |
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11.13 Friday: |
Modernism > Post-Modernism |
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Seamus Heaney, “Digging” —supplemental |
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Reading Comprehension Take-home Quiz 7: Eliot due |
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Week 13 |
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11.16 Monday: |
Group discussion 7: Modernism in Poetry |
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11.18 Wednesday: |
Group presentations |
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11.20 Friday: |
Overview of Final Exam (Paper 4) |
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MLA paper due |
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Week 14 |
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11.23 Monday: |
Begin additional work towards Paper 4 |
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Students must bring to class 1 or more articles on their chosen topic. |
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11.25 Wednesday: |
Thanksgiving Holidays |
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11.27 Friday: |
Thanksgiving Holidays |
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Week 15 |
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11.30 Monday: |
Post-Modern Poetry |
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Lynda Hull, “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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12.02 Wednesday: |
Post-Modern Poetry Continued |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”—supplemental |
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Billy Collins, “Aristotle” —supplemental |
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12.04 Friday: |
Meta-Modern Poetry • Class activity |
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Modernism in Poetry to PostModernism to Post-PostModernism (MetaModern) |
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• playful GIF |
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Laurie Anderson “O Superman” |
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Rob Cantor “Shia LaBeouf is a Cannibal” |
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Finals Week |
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tbd: |
Final Exam |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
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