Reading Schedule: English 1102
Readings due on day written. Assignments Due. Events and Holidays.
Exams and quizzes and journal assignments.
Class Lecture.
Reminder: this schedule is subject to updates. Check often for changes.
Week One:
Wednesday,
Jan. 06
Syllabus and Class introduction
Begin reading Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard
Week Two:
Monday,
Jan. 11
Wednesday,
Jan. 13
How to Read a Poem: a guide by Professor John Lye
Continue reading Trethewey's Native Guard
Drop/Add ends Jan. 12
Continue reading Trethewey's Native Guard
Journal entry due
Week Three:
Monday,
Jan. 18
Wednesday,
Jan. 20
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday: no class
Continue Native Guard
Using MLA for assignments: A Writer's Resource Tab 6/MLA (especially
section 29) and page 96 (The Basics in the box)
Journal entry due
Week Four:
Monday,
Jan. 25
Wednesday,
Jan. 27
Native Guard
Composition: writing about poetry AWR Section 61a page 526
Composition: How to generate a thesis; Thesis and paragraph development
Essay One Workshop
AWR Section 7 Revising and Editing, pages 73-93
Journal entry due
Week Five:
Monday,
Feb. 1
Wednesday,
Feb. 3
Essay One Workshop (substantial rough draft due--see the syllabus for the
consequences of not having a full rough draft)
Essay One due by class time
Journal entry due
Begin Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Week Six:
Monday,
Feb. 8
Wednesday,
Feb. 10
Continue reading Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
Continue reading Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
Journal entry due
Week Seven:
Monday,
Feb. 15
Wednesday,
Feb. 17
Continue reading Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
Finish reading Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
Journal entry due
Plumfield, Iraq. By Barbara Lebow. Dir. Pauline Gagnon. Townsend Center's Richard Dangle
Theater, Carrollton (UWG). 16-25 Feb. 2010. Performance.
Preview on 16th Feb. at 7:30pm
17th-20th Feb. and 23-25th Feb. at 7:30pm
Matinee 21st Feb. at 2:30pm
Week Eight:
Monday,
Feb. 22
Wednesday,
Feb. 24
Attend or read the play Plumfield, Iraq
Writing about a performance
Elements of Drama
Discuss Plumfield, Iraq
Journal entry due
Monday, March 1: Last Day to Withdraw with the grade of W.
Week Nine:
Monday,
March 1
Wednesday,
March 3
Week Ten:
Midterm
Introduction to Using and Citing Quotations in Your Essays
Integrating Quotations
Floating Quotes ; More of Gardner on Using quotes.
Journal entry due
Monday,
March 8
Wednesday,
March 10
Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Composition exercises
Bring to class: Book, thumb drive (TLC classes only), 3 highlighters or
colored pens
Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Journal entry due
Thursday, 11 March, Natasha Trethewey visits campus
Week Eleven:
Monday,
March 15
Wednesday,
March 17
Essay Two Workshop
Peer Review Tips
Essay Two Due
Journal entry due
Begin reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Short Story Worksheet
Spring Break: March 22-26.
Week Twelve:
Monday,
March 29
Wednesday,
March 31
Begin Discussing Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Journal entry due (Because class will not meet on Wed, you may submit a
journal entry today)
Honors Day Convocation—no classes meet between 1pm and 4pm
Week Thirteen:
Monday,
April 5
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Wednesday,
April 7
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Week Fourteen:
Monday,
April 12
Wednesday,
April 14
Literary and film terms test
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Week Fifteen:
Monday,
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
April 19
Wednesday,
April 21
Essay Three Workshop
Reading your own words
Week Sixteen:
Monday,
April 26
Essay Three Due
Wednesday,
April 28
Course evaluation
Final Exams
1102-16
Wednesday, May 5, 2 p.m. TLC room 1111
1102-21
Friday, April 30, 2 p.m. TLC room 1111