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   Spring 2016
        contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog           •@davidglensmith
        office hours by appointment: 12.30 pm - 01.30 pm
 
        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          
 
01.19 Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality
              • demo-Guidelines for Reading
              • demo-Intertextuality
     
   
 
01.21 Thursday:  
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: "Diversity"
     
     
  Week 2  
 
01.26 Tuesday: 
Argumentative Papers • Aristotelian Model overview
              • demo
    Rhetoric: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
              Bedford: pp. 44-45
              • demo
    Literary Reviews / Social Commentary • Persuasion versus Literature Review
              Bedford: Chapter 11: "Evaluating and Reviewing," pp. 204-205, 213-214
    Deductive and Inductive Arguments Overview
              • demo
    Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, deductive
   
 
01.28 Thursday: 
Academic Paragraphs
    Signal Phrases
              • demo
    Literary Terms > Protagonist /Antagonist
              • demo-Terminology
              • demo-Aesop Fable: "The Fox and the Goat"
     
     
  Week 3  
 
02.02 Tuesday: 
APA versus MLA, in-text notations
              • demo
    Declaring a Thesis
              • demo
    Declaring an Abstract
              • demo-template
   
 
02.04 Thursday: 
MLA versus APA styles, continued
  •   Assignment 1: Introduction to APA Research Paper: Overview
    Elements of Fairy Tales Preview
              • demo
     
     
  Week 4  
  02.09 Tuesday:   Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose-Girl” - supplemental
              • demo
   
 
02.11 Thursday:  
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Godfather Death” - supplemental
    Narration • Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol
             • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
     
     
  Week 5  
 
02.16 Tuesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” Compact Literature (CL) pp. 622-625
   
 
02.18 Thursday: 
Group Discussions 1: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
    Assignment 1-part 1: APA Introduction/Thesis due
     
     
  Week 6  
 
02.23 Tuesday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions 1
    Traits of a Modern Anti-Hero
              • demo
   
  02.25 Thursday:   James Joyce, “Eveline” p. 597
    Setting • Dark Epiphany
    Exit Ticket
     
     
  Week 7       
  03. 01 Tuesday:  William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” CL: pp. 224-231
    Narration • Setting • Irony
    Exit Ticket
   
  03.03 Thursday:  William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” CL: pp. 224-231
    Assignment 1-part 2: full APA paper due
     
     
   Week 8  
 
03.08 Tuesday: 
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” CL: pp. 119-123
    Setting • Characters
    Exit Ticket
   
 
03.10 Thursday: 
Assignment 2: MLA Paper: Overview
     
     
    Spring Break      03.15 - 03.17—no classes
     
     
  Week 9  
 
03.22 Tuesday:  
Review of MLA Expectations
         Supporting a Thesis (Observation on Primary Resource)
              • demo
         Integrating Sources (Secondary Criticism)
         Signal Phrases
    Bedford: Chapter 13: "Responding to Literature," CL: pp. 258-259, 272-273, 276-277
              • demo: Critical Analysis
              • demo: Critical Analysis and the Reading Process
   
 
03.24 Thursday:  
School Holiday—no classes
     
     
  Week 10  
  03.29 Tuesday:   Group Discussions 2: Gabriel García Márquez, (Group Academic Paragraph)
    “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” CL: pp. 585-590
   
  03.31 Thursday:   Presentations of Group Discussions 3, (Group Academic Paragraph)
    Exit Ticket
     
  Week 11  
 
04.05 Tuesday:  
Assignment 2-part 1: MLA Paper Introduction/Thesis due
    How to Read Poetry-part 1
              • demo
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
   
  04.07 Thursday:   How to Read Poetry-part 2
    Poetic Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
    Bedford: “Discovery Checklist: Analyzing a Poem,” pp. 274-275
    Example Annotated Bibliography
     
     
  Week 12  
  04.12 Tuesday:   Modernism versus Victorianism
    Preview of T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” CL: pp. 981-985
              • demo
    Assignment 2-part 2: MLA Annotated Bibliography due
   
 
04.14 Thursday:  
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” CL: pp. 981-985
   
  04.15 Friday:   Last day to drop class with a grade of "W."
     
     
  Week 13  
  04.19 Tuesday:   Class cancelled due to weather.
   
  04.21 Thursday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” CL: pp. 981-985
     
     
  week 14  
 
04.26 Tuesday: 
Citing an Anthology
    T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” CL: pp. 981-985
    In-Class Exit Ticket
   
 
04.28 Thursday:  
Works Citation Issues
    Modernism versus Post-Modernism
    Class Discussion: Sylvia Plath
    Exit Ticket
   
  04.29 Friday:   Assignment 2-full paper due in Turnitin.com
     
     
  week 15  
 
05.03 Tuesday:  
Post-Modernism versus MetaModernism
    Seamus Heaney, “Digging” CL: pp. 886-887
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”     supplemental
    Exit Ticket
     
     
  Final Exams 05.7-05.14
     
    1302-22187 (09:25am-10:40am): May 12     08:00am-10:00am