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   Spring 2015
        contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog           •@davidglensmith
        office hours by appointment: 12.30 pm - 01.30 pm
 
        English 1302 - Comp. 2 (20249) room 277 T Th 08.00 am - 09.15 am          • syllabus
     
        English 1302 - Comp. 2 (22187) room 277 T Th 09.25 am - 10.40 am          • syllabus
     
     
     
     Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 

   
Week 1          
 
01.20 Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality
              • demo-Guidelines for Reading
              • demo-Intertextuality
     
   
 
01.22 Thursday:  
Quiz 1: Syllabus
    Types of Conflict
              • demo
    Library Orientation: Databases
              • General Information: SIRS
              • General Information: Academic Search Complete
              • Newspapers & Current Topics: CQ Researcher
              • Humanities & Literature: JSTOR
    Exercise 1: Diagnostic Essay
     
     
  Week 2  
 
01.27 Tuesday: 
          cancelled due to instructor's illness
   
 
01.29 Thursday: 
          cancelled due to instructor's illness
     
     
  Week 3  
 
02.03 Tuesday: 
Quiz 2: Conflict Types
    Deductive and Inductive Arguments
              • demo
    Rhetoric: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
              • demo
    Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, deductive
    Francis Bacon, "Of Truth," inductive
   
 
02.05 Thursday: 
Quiz 3: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
    Academic Paragraphs
    Signal Phrases
              RfW: pp. 546-549 (section 63b)
              Bedford: pp. 674-678 (section 60b)
              • demo
    Literary Terms > Protagonist /Antagonist
              • demo-Terminology
              • demo-Aesop Fable: "The Fox and the Goat"
    Assignment 1: Introduction to APA Research Paper: Overview
     
     
  Week 4  
  02.10 Tuesday:   Argumentative Papers • Literary Reviews / Social Commentary
    Rules for Writers: pp. 84-87 (sections 6a, 6b, 6c); 536-539 (section 61)
    Bedford: pp. 156-160 (sections 6d, 6e, 6f); 663-666 (section 58)
 
APA versus MLA, in-text notations
              • demo
    Academic APA Paragraphs
              • demo
    Declaring a Thesis
              • demo
    Declaring an Abstract
              • demo-template
   
 
02.12 Thursday:  
before class: Elements of Fairy Tale Preview
              • demo
    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose-Girl” - supplemental
              • demo
    Quiz 4: Summary APA Paragraph: due 02.16 at 11:30 PM
     
     
  Week 5  
  02.17 Tuesday:   Narration • Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol
             • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
    Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” p. 619
   
 
02.19 Thursday: 
Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
    Assignment 1-part 1: APA Abstract due
     
     
  Week 6  
 
02.24 Tuesday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions
    Traits of a Modern Anti-Hero
              • demo
   
  02.26 Thursday:   Eveline, the character, as an Antihero
     
     
  Week 7       
  03. 03 Tuesday:  Group discussion of James Joyce, “Eveline”
   
  03.05 Thursday:  James Joyce, “Eveline” p. 597
    Setting • Dark Epiphany
     
     
  Week 8 Spring Break      03.09 - 03.15
     
     
   Week 9  
 
03.17 Tuesday: 
Assignment 1-part 2: full APA paper due
    Quiz 5: Reading Comprehension
    Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p. 376
              • demo
   
 
03.19 Thursday: 
Quiz 6: Reading Comprehension
    Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p. 129
     
     
  Week 10  
  03.24 Tuesday:   Quiz 7: Reading Comprehension
 
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p. 220
   
 
03.26 Thursday:  
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p. 220
    Review of MLA expectations:
              Supporting a Thesis
              Signal Phrases
              Academic Paragraphs
     
     
  Week 11  
  03.31 Tuesday:   Group Discussions 3: Gabriel García Márquez, (Group Academic Paragraph)
    “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” p. 590
   
  04.02 Thursday:   School Holiday—no classes
     
     
  Week 12  
 
04.07 Tuesday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions 3, (Group Academic Paragraph)
    Assignment 2: MLA paper: Overview
   
  04.09 Thursday:   How to Read Poetry
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
    Poetic Devices and Terminologies —part 1
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
              • demo
     
     
  Week 13  
  04.14 Tuesday:   Poetic Devices and Terminologies—part 2
    Quiz 8: Poetic Meter
    Introduction Paragraph due for Assignment 2: MLA paper: Declaration of Topic and Thesis
   
 
04.16 Thursday:  
Preview of T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.989-992
              • demo—Victorian versus Modernism
     
     
  Week 14  
  04.21 Tuesday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.989-992
   
  04.23 Thursday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.989-992
     
     
  week 15  
 
04.28 Tuesday: 
Assignment 2: MLA paper due
    Quiz 9: Eliot, “Prufrock”
   
 
04.30 Thursday:  
Modernism versus Post-Modernism
    Sylvia Plath, “Cut” - supplemental
    Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p. 891
     
     
  week 16  
 
05.05 Tuesday:  
Post-Modernism versus MetaModernism
    Contemporary Poetry Exercise
              • Study Guide for final
     
     
  Final Exams 05.7-05.14      < Click for full exam schedule
     
   

1302-20249 (08:00am-09:15am): May 12     08:00am-10:00am

     
    1302-22187 (09:25am-10:40am): May 14     08:00am-10:00am