Spring 2016 Prof L Overman's English 355
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WEEKLY SCHEDULE 1-5
Cla
ss
Day
What We Will Do in Class Today
Homework:Readings done prior to
Class
Writing Projects
Due outside of class:
Literary elements of analysis
What are they? What layers do
they add to the story? How to
annotate a text?
Signups for Presentations!
Reading done in Class:
Wk
Introductions, Syllabus, Semester
1:
Plan, Annotating texts, Freewrites
1/2
8 Signups for Presentations!
"Pilón" (128), "Love and other
Castastrophes: A Mix Tape"
(127) "Encounters with
Unexpected Animals" (132)
"Using Highlighting Symbols"
(17-18)
Prior to class, review & bring
Handout from Projects link
above:
1. Annotating a Text
2. Presentation Prompt
Unless otherwise
instructed,
Forums/Shortwrites/
Essays due Tues
11:55 p.m. prior to
the subsequent
week's Thursday
class.
1. Quizcomplete in
Moodle by 2/2
Tues 11:55
p.m. prior to
subsequent
class.
2. Please upload
a
photograph/sy
mbol of
yourself when
updating
profile in
Moodle!
Due in class:
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Freewrite with
pen and paper
(not
electronically):
Homework:Readings done prior
Due outside of class
to Class
by 2/9 1155pm Tues:
1. "Reading Fiction" (179) &
"Previewing" & "Writing
About Fiction"(185)
2. "Interpreting & Evaluating
Literature"(8)
3. "Reading & Writing About
Literature"(16)
4. "Responding to a Short
Story" (37)
5. "The Secret Lion" (180)
highlight/annotate as
discussed
1. Bring Literature: Reading
Writing 9th ed. Textbook!
2. Sign Up for Presentations!
Wk
Print out Schedule & Syllabus bring
2:
to class
2/4
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in text
Rios
6. "Plot" (197) Checklist (200)
7. "A Rose for Emily"(224)
Analyzing Short Stories
Formalism
Structuralism
How to Write an Essay about
Short Stories
Faulkner
8. "Character"(236) & Checklist
(237)
9. "A & P" (238)
Updike
10. Formalism (1661) AND
download & bring this
handout in Moodle!
11. Structuralism (1671) And
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Shortwrite 1-Post in
Moodle
above: format"Responding
to a Short
Story" (37-38)
review this as
a model for
shortwrites.
Note checklist
on pg 36-37.
Make sure
before
uploading
your
shortwrite
that you have
considered the
5 bullet points
listed in the
Checklist:
Writing a
Response
Paper on pg
36 in the
crafting of
your
shortwrite.
Upload as a
Word file in
MLA format
1-2 pages
typed (500
words)
Always bring
printed copies
of ALL posted
responses to
download/review this
handout in moodle and
bring to class.
Prior to class review & bring
Handouts from Projects link
above:
1. Presentation Prompt &
Presentation Response
Guidelines
2. Short Story Worksheet #2
3. How to Write a Short Story
Analysis #3
4. How to Read Literature #1
5. Plot #15
class
With the
exception of
"The Secret
Lion" pick
from ONE of
the other (5)
short stories
listed in the
schedule so
far and
respond to the
following in
narrative
form:
Discuss SOME
of the
following
elements as
relevant to the
story you have
chosen:
What is the
central theme
of the story?
How is it
expressed in
this work?
What
elements of
the story
develop the
central
theme? How
do character
plot setting
point of view
and symbols
reinforce the
central
theme? How
does the title
of the story
contribute to
your
understanding
of the central
theme
1. Feminism (1665) And
download/review this
handout from Moodle and
bring to class.
2. "Setting"(269) & Checklist
(272)
3. Group Arslanian, Scalzo,
Hudock Presentation: "This Due outside of class
by 2/16 11:55 p.m
is What it Means to say
Tues:
Phoenix, Arizona" (278)
Sherman
 Shortwrite 2-Log on to
Moodle
Feminism, Deconstruction
Wk
Analyzing Plot,Setting, Style, Tone
3:
and Language - What do they tell us
2/1
about the story? What layers do they
1 add to the story?
Alexie
4. "Style, Tone, Language"
(355) Checklist (360)
5. Group Sanchez, Keramat,
Morales
Presentation:"Araby" (361)
James Joyce
6. "Theme" (459) & Checklist
Upload as a
Word file in
MLA format
1-2 pages
typed
Always bring
printed copies
of ALL posted
responses to
class
(463)
7. "The RockingHorseWinner"
(484)
Lawrence
8. Deconstruction(1673) And
download/review this
handout from Moodle and
bring to class.
Prior to class, print, read, bring
handouts from Projects link
above:
1. Essay 1
1. "Symbol, Allegory, Myth"
(407) & Checklist (412)
Due in class:

Reader Response Criticism
Wk
Symbol, Allegory, Myth, POV,
4:
Theme-What layers do they bring to
2/1 the story and our analysis of it?
8
Writer’s Workshop:Creating an
Outline
2.
Group Manriquez, Dumars,
Alford
Presentation:"Cathedral"
(435) Carver
3. Reader-Response Crit (1663)
AND download/review this
handout in moodle and
bring to class.
4. "Point of View" (309) &
Checklist
5. Group Ashley Kim,
Starkman, Vartanian
Essay 1 TYPED
Scratch
Outline/Thesis
due: follow
examples
modeled for
you
on 188-189
Presentation: "New York
Day Women " (348) Danticat
(317)
6. Read ALL Selections from
Essay 1 List
7. "Writing about Literature"
(20)
Prior to class, print, read, bring
handouts from Projects link
above:
1. Symbols Used Marking
Papers.
2. Essays Expectations
3. Essay Grade Rubric
Due outside of class
by Tues 2/23
1155PM :
Grappling with the graphic novel vs
memoir
Wk “Achtung,” a German officer
shouted. “Attention.” Fifteen-year5:
old Henry Oster, then called Heinz,
2/2 lined up with his mother in a Lodz
5 ghetto courtyard on a mid-August
day in 1944. . . "
VS
1. Group Gabaldon,
1. Essay 1 Due
Ceja,Monique Garcia,
Franco Presentation:Maus II
Upload final
2. Group Jimenez, Williams,
draft in
Lutes Presentation: The
turnitin.com
Kindness of the Hangman
via Moodle
3. "Graphic" Fiction" (143)
4. Review Scott McCloud on
Due PRIOR to class
Comics
5. Bang & Nodleman: Prior to by 2/25:
class download/review
 Click on Forum
these handouts from
due for this
moodle and bring to class
week read
6. Prior to class review Citation
prompt &
Style for Graphic Narrative
reply.
7. BRING course anthology
 Must also post
textbook !
a minimum of
8. Maus II by Art Spiegelman
ONE reply to a
classmate.
9. The Kindness of the
Hangman: Henry Oster &
Dexter Ford
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Updated on 2/4/16