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   Minimester 2016
        contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog           •@davidglensmith
        office hours by appointment: 12.30 pm - 01.30 pm
 
        English 1302 - Compo. 2 (50006) room 279 M T W Th F 08.00 am - 12.30 pm          • syllabus
     
     
     
     Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 

   
Week 1          
 
05.16 Moday:  
Basic introduction
    Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality
              • demo-Guidelines for Reading
              • demo-Intertextuality
    Library Orientation: Databases
              • General Information: SIRS
              • General Information: Academic Search Complete
              • Newspapers & Current Topics: CQ Researcher
              • Humanities & Literature: JSTOR
    PDF versus HTML
    Argumentative Papers • Aristotelian Model overview
              • demo
    Logos, Pathos, Ethos– B: pp. 44-45
              • demo
    Assignment 1: Treatments for PTSD in United States Veterans
    Literary Reviews • Persuasion papers versus Literature Review paper
    B: Chapter 11: “Evaluating and Reviewing,” pp. 204-205, 213-214
    Exercise 1: Diagnostic Essay: “Diversity”
   
  05.17 Tuesday:   Deductive and Inductive Arguments Overview
              • demo
    Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, deductive
    John Updike, “Beercan,” inductive
    Academic Paragraphs & Signal Phrases for Building Ethos
              • demo
    Exercise 2: Identifying Parts of Academic Paragraph
    APA versus MLA, in-text notations
              • demo
    Declaring a Thesis
              • demo
    Declaring an Abstract
              • demo-template
    Exercise 3: Building Tentative Introduction Paragraph and Thesis
    HW: Conduct research for credible resources from authorities on subject.
    One essay will be provided in class to begin research.
   
  05.18 Wednesday:   References (Work Cited) Page Expectations
    In-Text Citations / PDFs review
    Exercise 4: Confirming Ethos in Essay
    Syllogisms • Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
              • demo
    Toulmin Method for Argument
              • demo
    Review of Plagiarism
              • example 1
              • example 2
    Writing Workshop
   
  05.19 Thursday:   Social Commentary in Literature • Writer as Witness
    Group Discussion 1: Jonathoan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”—supplemental
    Group 1 Presentations
    Writing Workshop: Constructing Assignment 1 in class
              Preliminary Outline based on Research / Finalized Thesis Declaration
   
  05.20 Friday:   Tentative Outline / Thesis Declaration due before class, printed
    Group 2 Discussion: Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” CL: pp. 201-203
    Group 2 Presentations / Group Exit Ticket
    Group 3 Discussion: Ernest Hemingway, “Hils Like White Elephants” CL: pp. 119-123
    Group 3 Presentations / Group Exit Ticket
    Writing Workshop on APA paper
              Constructing Assignment 1 in Class: Conversations with Instructor
     
     
  Week 2  
  05.23 Monday:   Assignment 1 due before 2:00 pm in Turnitin.com, plus printed copy.
    Literary Terms > Protagonist /Antagonist
              • demo-Terminology
              • demo-Aesop Fable: “The Fox and the Goat”
    Conflict Types
              • demo
    Narration Types
             • demo
    Fairy Tales and Conflict: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose-Girl” —supplemental
              • demo-Common Elements of European Fairy Tales
              • demo-Freytag's Pyramid
    Individual Exit Ticket 1
   
  05.24 Tuesday: Literary Analysis • Responding to Literature
    Bedford: Chapter 13: "Responding to Literature," B: pp. 258-259, 272-273, 276-277
              • demo: Critical Analysis
              • demo: Critical Analysis and the Reading Process
    Traits of a Modern Anti-Hero
              • demo
    Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” CL pp. 622-625
    Essays distributed for Group Discussion 4. Preliminary reading in class.
   
  05.25 Wednesday:   Group 4 Discussions: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
    Group 4 Presentations / Group Exit Ticket / Group Response Example
    Three Essays for Use in Assignment 2: MLA (Citation Instruction)
              • Gita Rajan: A Feminist Rereading of Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
              • Robert M. Kachur: “Buried in the Bedroom: Bearing Witness to Incest in Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'”
              • Hollie Pritchard: Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
    Citing an Anthology • In-Text Citations • Works Cited Expectations
              • demo-Anthologies
              • demo-Works Cited Issues
    Review of MLA Expectations
         Supporting a Thesis (Observation on Primary Resource)
              • demo
         Integrating Sources (Secondary Criticism)
         Signal Phrases
    Assignment 2: Comparison/Contrast of Personae in E.A. Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart” and
         T.S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
   
  05.26 Thursday:   How to Read Poetry
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
    Poetic Elements
              • demo-Introduction
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
    Bedford: “Discovery Checklist: Analyzing a Poem,” pp. 274-275
    Individual Exit Ticket 2: Poetic Meter Exercise
    Modernism versus Victorianism
    Preview of T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” CL: pp. 981-985
              • demo
    Individual Exit Ticket 3
    HW: Find three or four essays on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
    Last day to drop class with a grade of "W."
   
  05.27 Friday:  Writing Workshop • Constructing Assignment 2 in class: Conversations with Instructor
    Introduction for Assignment 2: MLA paper due end of class.
     
     
  Week 3  
  05.30 Monday:  Memorial Day—No Class
   
  05.31 Tuesday:  Assignment 2 due before 2:00 pm in Turnitin.com, plus printed copy.
    Modernism versus Postmodernism • Modernism and Confessionalism
    Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” CL: pp. 772-774
              “Lady Lazarus” - supplemental
    Individual Exit Ticket 4
    Post-Modernism versus MetaModernism
    Seamus Heaney, “Digging” CL: pp. 886-887
    Lynda Hull “Ornithology”     –supplemental
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”    – supplemental
    Individual Exit Ticket 5
   
  06.01 Wednesday:  Postmodern versus Metamodern
    William Blake, “London,” CL: p. 960
              “The Sick Rose,” CL: p. 852
    Laurie Anderson, “O' Superman,”  – supplemental
    Rob Cantor,  “Shia LaBeouf is a Cannibal,”  – supplemental
    Metaphor versus Simile
    Final Project