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   Fall 2015
        contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog           •@davidglensmith 
   
       office hours by appointment between 09.30 am - 10.30 am
     
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (11456) room 277 T Th 08.00 am - 09.15 am          • syllabus
     
     
     Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 

   
Week 1          
 
09.01 Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality
              • demo-Guidelines for Reading
              • demo-Intertextuality
    Quiz 1: Syllabus
   
 
09.03 Thursday:  
Conflict Types
              • demo-Conflict
    Library Orientation: Literary Databases 
              • General Information: SIRS
              • General Information: Academic Search Complete
              • Newspapers & Current Topics: CQ Researcher
              • Humanities & Literature: JSTOR
    Exercise 1: Diagnostic Essay
     
     
  Week 2  
 
09.08 Tuesday: 
Argumentative Papers • Literary Reviews / Social Commentary
         Bedford: pp. 156-160 (sections 6d, 6e, 6f); 663-666 (section 58)
    Rhetoric: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
              • demo
    Aristotelian Model for Argument
              • demo
              • example essay
   
 
09.10 Thursday: 
Quick Review of Conflict Types
    Literary Terms > Protagonist/Antagonist
              • demo-Terminology
              • demo-Aesop Fable: "The Fox and the Goat"
    Academic Paragraphs • Signal Phrases • Academic Summaries
         Bedford: pp. 674-678 (section 60b)
              • demo
    Quiz 2: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
     
     
  Week 3  
 
09.15 Tuesday: 
Quiz 3: Conflict Types
    APA versus MLA, in-text notations
              • demo
         Bedford: pp. 680-683 (sections 61, 61a, Ex. 1-4)
    Declaring a Thesis
             • demo
    Declaring an Abstract
              • demo-template
   
 
09.17 Thursday: 
Quiz 4: Academic Summary
    MLA versus APA, continued
    Assignment 1: Introduction to APA Research Paper: Overview
     
     
  Week 4  
 
09.22 Tuesday:  
Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
    Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
              • demo-Freytag's Pyramid
   
 
09.24 Thursday:  
Elements of Fairy Tales
    Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “Godfather Death”
     
     
  Week 5  
 
09.29 Tuesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”p. 619 (8th ed.) / p. 622 (9th ed.)
    Narration • Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
   
 
10.01 Thursday: 
Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
    Group Response Examples
    Assignment 1-part 1: APA Abstract due
     
     
  Week 6  
 
10.06 Tuesday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions
    Traits of a Modern Anti-Hero
              • demo
   
 
10.08 Thursday:  
James Joyce, “Eveline”p. 597 (8th ed.) / —supplemental  (9th ed.)
    Setting • Dark Epiphany
     
     
  Week 7       
  10.13 Tuesday:  Quiz 5: Reading Comprehension / Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
         p. 376 (8th ed.) / p. 379 (9th ed.)
              • demo
   
  10.15 Thursday:  Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”p. 376 (8th ed.) / p. 379 (9th ed.)
    Assignment 1-part 2: full APA paper due
     
   Week 8  
 
10.20 Tuesday: 
Quiz 6: Reading Comprehension / Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
              • demo
         p. 129  (8th ed.) / p. 119 (9th ed.)
   
 
10.22 Thursday: 
Quiz 7: Reading Comprehension / William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
    p. 220 (8th ed.) / p. 224 (9th ed.)
    Narration • Setting • Irony
     
     
  Week 9  
 
10.27 Tuesday:  
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”p. 220 (8th ed.) / p. 224 (9th ed.)
   
  10.29 Thursday:   Review of MLA expectations
              • demo
    Paper Construction
              • demo
    Developing a Thesis
              • demo
    Integrating Sources, Bedford pp. 690-695.
     
     
  Week 10  
  11.03 Tuesday:   Group Discussions 3: Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
         p. 590 (8th ed.) / p. 585 (9th ed.)
   
  11.05 Thursday:   Presentations of Group Discussions 3
    Assignment 2: MLA paper: Overview
     
     
  Week 11  
 
11.10 Tuesday:  
Proposal due for Assignment 2: MLA paper: Declaration of Topic
    How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
    Poetical Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
              • demo
    Quiz 8: Poetic Meter
   
  11.12 Thursday:   Variations of Modernism
     
     
  Week 12  
 
11.17 Tuesday:  
Preview of T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”p.989-992 (8th ed.) / p.981-985 (9th ed.)
     
    Modernism versus Victorianism
   
 
11.19 Thursday:  
Class cancelled.
   
  11.20 Friday:   Last Day to Drop Class with a Grade of ‘W’
     
     
  Week 13  
  11.24 Tuesday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”p.989-992 (8th ed.) / p.981-985 (9th ed.)
    Quiz 9: Reading Comprehension / T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
   
  11.26 Thursday:   Thanksgiving Holiday
     
     
  Week 14  
 
12.01 Tuesday: 
Group Discussions 5: Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" p. 776-778 (8th ed.)/ p. 772 (9th ed.)
              • demo
   
 
12.03 Thursday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions
    Assignment 2: MLA paper due
     
     
  Week 15  
 
12.08 Tuesday:  
Exit Ticket: PostModernist Poetry
    Post-Modernism versus Modernism
    Contemporary Poetry
   
 
12.10 Thursday:  
Contemporary Poetry
              Lynda Hull “Ornithology”     supplemental
              Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”     supplemental
              • demo
    Study Guide for Final
     
     
  Week 16: Exam Week      Final Exams
  12.15 Tuesday:   11456          08:00 am to 10:00 am
   
    11957          10:15 am to 12:15 pm
   
  12.17 Thursday:   11956          12:30 pm to 02:30 pm