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Week 1 |
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01.20 Wednesday: |
Basic introduction |
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Guidelines to Course |
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Guidelines for Reading/Academic Expectations |
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• demo |
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Quiz: Syllabus |
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01.22 Friday: |
Analytical Thinking Process: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Review |
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• demo |
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Quiz: Rhetoric |
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Week 2 |
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01.25 Monday: |
Deductive versus Inductive, CI: 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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Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence” CI: p. 678 |
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• Diagnostic Exercise: “Social Protest” |
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01.27 Wednesday: |
Basic Construction of an APA Paper |
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AWR: pp. 496-500 (APA-1 & APA-2a); p. 519 (APA-4b) |
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• MLA versus APA |
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• APA Paper Overview (Paper 1) & Topic List |
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01.29 Friday: |
Library Database Orientation |
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Week 3 |
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02.01 Monday: |
Review of English 1301: plagiarism, signal phrases |
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Signal phrases and Academic Paragraphs |
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• demo |
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APA Thesis |
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• demo |
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Establishing an Abstract |
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• demo-Abstract sample |
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02.03 Wednesday: |
Traditional Argument—Aristotelian Model |
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• demo |
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Syllogisms |
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• demo |
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02.05 Friday: |
“The Toulmin Model” AWR: pp. 337-343 |
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• demo |
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Week 4 |
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02.08 Monday: |
“Rogerian Argument” AWR: pp. 392-400 |
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• demo |
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Exercise: Building a Rogerian Discussion |
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02.10 Wednesday: |
• APA Introduction and Thesis due |
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Bring print-outs of two APA research articles to class. |
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Exercise: Building Ethos |
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02.12 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: Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” CI: pp. 220-226 and |
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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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02.15 Monday: |
Group presentations |
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• cover design |
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• Psalmanazar—see paragraph 18 |
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02.17 Wednesday: |
Before class read W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” p. 691-692 |
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W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” pp. 691-692 |
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For comparison: Auden's “Funeral Blues” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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02.19 Friday: |
Before class read Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” p. 438-440 |
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Group discussion 2: |
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Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” CI: pp. 438-440 |
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Group Presentations |
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Week 6 |
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02.22 Monday: |
• APA Paper due |
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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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02.24 Wednesday: |
Group Discussion 3: Visual Analysis |
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02.26 Friday: |
Group Discussion 3: Presentations |
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Week 7 |
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02.29 Monday: |
Basic Construction of a CMS Paper |
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AWR: pp. 550-553 (CMS-1); pp. 570-575 (CMS-4c) |
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• MLA versus CMS versus APA |
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• CMS (Chicago) Guidelines Overview (Project 2) |
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03.02 Wednesday: |
Before class read Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 695-700 |
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Group discussion 4: |
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Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” pp. 695-700 |
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03.04 Friday: |
Group Discussion 4: Presentations |
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Week 8 |
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03.07 Monday: |
• CMS Project due |
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Class Discussion of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”—supplemental |
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Diverse Opinions in Literary Analysis, “Arguing about Literature” p. 420-425 |
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• Students will be divided into groups and provided specific essays |
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on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” |
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03.09 Wednesday: |
Group Discussion 5: Essays on Poe |
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03.11 Friday: |
Group Discussion 5: Presentations |
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Spring Break |
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03.14 Monday: |
no class |
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03.16 Wednesday: |
no class |
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03.18 Friday: |
no class |
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Week 9 |
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03.21 Monday: |
Basic Construction of a MLA Paper |
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AWR, pp. 424-8 (MLA-1); pp. 454-45 (MLA-4b) |
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• MLA Paper Overview (Capstone Project, Paper 3) |
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• MLA Annotated Bib Overview • Proposal Overview |
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03.23 Wednesday: |
Thomas More, Utopia, pp. 655-668: Overview of full text |
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03.25 Friday: |
school holiday; no class |
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Week 10 |
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03.28 Monday: |
Group Discussion 6: More, Utopia |
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03.30 Wednesday: |
Group Discussion 6: Presentations |
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04.01 Friday: |
Critical Literary Analysis Expectations |
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Literary Modes |
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• demo |
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Creating Literary Analysis n Poetry |
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Week 11 |
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04.04 Monday: |
Modernism versus Victorian |
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• demo |
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Modernism, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot |
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04.06 Wednesday: |
T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock” pp. 756-760 |
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04.08 Friday: |
T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock” pp. 756-760 |
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• MLA Paper Thesis and Annotated Bib. due |
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Week 12 |
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04.11 Monday: |
• Last day to drop and receive a “W” |
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Writing Workshop for MLA Paper • Status Update |
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Bring articles & drafts of papers for conversations with instructor |
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04.13 Wednesday: |
Writing Workshop for MLA Paper • Status Update |
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Bring articles & drafts of papers for conversations with instructor |
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04.15 Friday: |
Writing Workshop for MLA Paper • Status Update |
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Bring articles & drafts of papers for conversations with instructor |
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Week 13 |
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04.18 Monday: |
Class cancelled due to weather. |
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04.20 Wednesday: |
Class cancelled due to weather. |
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04.22 Friday:
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Group Discussion 7: Social Protest Discussion |
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Week 14 |
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04.25 Monday: |
Class Discussion: Sylvia Plath as Modernist, —as Narrow Confessionalist |
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“Daddy”—supplemental |
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In-class Exit Ticket |
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04.27 Wednesday: |
Class Discussion: Sylvia Plath as Modernist, —as Narrow Confessionalist |
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Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” —supplemental |
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In-class Exit Ticket |
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04.29 Friday: |
Modernism > Post-Modernism |
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Postmodernism in Poetry |
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Class Discussion: Seamus Heaney as Postmodernist |
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Seamus Heaney, “Digging” —supplemental |
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• MLA Paper due |
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Week 15 |
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05.02 Monday: |
Postmodernism in Poetry |
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Lynda Hull, “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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In-class Exit Ticket |
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05.04 Wednesday: |
Postmodernism in Poetry |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”—supplemental |
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05.06 Friday: |
Modernism in Poetry to Postmodernism to Post-Postmodernism to 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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In-class Exit Ticket |
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Finals Week |
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05.09 Monday: |
Noon-01.50 pm |
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Meta-Modern Poetry —part 2 |
