Course Outline English 1102 Spring 2006

TR 9:30 am (J) and TR 2 pm (S)

Dr. McGlaun Home

English 1102 Syllabus

English 1102 Course Outline MW 2 pm

English 1102 Course Outline   TR 9:30 am and    TR 2 pm HERE

English 1102 Writing Assignment Prompts

 


 

This course outline is subject to change as necessary over the course of the semester; you are responsible for making note of any changes and responding accordingly.  CP=Course Packet; RL= Responding to Literature; WHH=Writer’s Harbrace Handbook; Vreeland= Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Note: your group novel project due dates are indicated on a separate handout; you are responsible for taking note of your group’s deadline!

                               In-class                                       Reading due                            Writing due

R Jan 5

Discuss Syllabus; Intros

 

 

T Jan 10

 

Class discussion contract

Why read literature as writers? as humans?

CP: Essays by Lipman, Ehrlich, Cofer

 

R Jan 12

 

Why read literature? and how do we read it?

RL: Chapter 1; CP: Nabokov;

WHH: p. 2-15

 

T Jan 17

How do we write in response to what we read?

CP: “Reading as a Writer”; "Exploring with Journals”

 

R Jan 19

Literary and rhetorical strategies, I

RL Chapter 2 all;

RL Chapter 3 pp. 57-60

Format Study

T Jan 24

Literary and rhetorical strategies, II

CP: “Philosophy of Composition”; 

Vreeland, pp. 1-59

 

R Jan 26

Discuss reading

Vreeland pp. 60-154

Vreeland strategies analysis

T Jan 30

Discuss reading

Novel Project Kickoff

Vreeland pp. 155-242

 

R Feb 2

Genre Focus I: Poetry

RL: pp. 65-70

CP:  “Questions for Poetry Readers” and Poetry by Collins, Stafford, Citino, and Duncan

 

T Feb 7

Thematic Focus I: Nature

RL: Sokan and Meisetsu 859; Wordsworth 861;  Hopkins 865; Stafford 872

 

R Feb 8

 More on Nature

RL: Bishop 869-871; H.D. 867-868; Dillard 890-894

 

T Feb 14

Peer Response and Workshop: Explication

WHH: pp. 407-422

Draft of Paper 1: Explication

R Feb 16

No class--attend Vreeland’s reading tomorrow

Fri Feb 17

Visiting Writer Susan Vreeland reads in HNS Auditorium, time TBA

T Feb 21

Blog Reading/Discussion

Grammar Crammer, as needed

 

Paper 1: Explication due

R Feb 23

Genre Focus 2: Fiction

RL pp. 60-65;  CP:  “Realism,” “The Kugelmass Episode,” Madame Bovary summary

 

T Feb 28

 

Thematic Focus 2: Technology and Ethics

RL:  Hawthorne 1034-1046; Traven 1053-1062, Piercy 1081-1082

 

R Mar 2

More on Technology and Ethics

RL: Delillo1063-1067; Saunders 1067-1072; Atwood 1078-1079

 

T Mar 7

Peer Response and Workshop: Argument and Evidence

WHH: pp. 270-281;

CP: Quotation, Paraphrase, Sum.

Draft of Paper 2: Position Paper

R Mar 9

Blog Reading/ Discussion

Grammar Crammer, as needed

 

Paper 2: Position Paper due

T Mar 21

 

Genre Focus 3: Creative Non-fiction/The Essay

RL: pp. 78-82

CP:  "An Essay on Essaying" Questions and “Excavations”

 

R Mar 23

Thematic Focus 3: War and Power

RL:  Kingsolver 1014-1017; Nye 1018-1019; Images 1022-1025

 

T Mar 28

More on War and Power

RL: Hardy 964; Levertov 968

CP: Arrabal

 

R Mar 30

 

Research Workshop I

 

WHH: Chap 9 253-263; Chap 11 review pp. 282-309, 323

 

 

T Apr 4

Blog Reading/Discussion

Grammar Crammer, as needed

 

Abstract and Annotated Bibliography-five sources

R Apr 6

More on War and Power

 

RL: O’Connor 912-921;  O’Brien 934-948; Owen 966

 

T Apr 11

Honors Day—No class.  Attend one Honors Day presentation.                 

R Apr 13

Research Workshop II and Peer Response

 

Draft of Paper 3: Researched Essay

T Apr 18

 

Blog Reading and Discussion

Grammar Crammer, as needed

 

Paper 3: Researched Essay due

R Apr 20

Genres 4: Drama

RL: pp. 70-77

CP: “Questions for Discussion” and Six Characters in Search…

 

T Apr 25

Thematic Focus 4: Love,  Hate, and Gender

RL: Glaspell, Trifles 666-677;  Batey 601-602; CP: Poof

 

R Apr 27

More on Love, Hate, and Gender; Final Exam Prep

RL:  Dove 585-590; Marvell 595-596; Lewis 678-682 WHH: 118; 121-127

 

Final Exam: Paper 4: In-class Essay on Love, Hate, and Gender

 

MW 2 pm Sec P:

Exam 1-3 pm

Friday, May 5th

 

TR 9:30 am Sec J:

Exam 10:30 am -12:30 pm

Tuesday, May 2nd

 

TR 2 pm Sec S:

Exam 1-3 pm

Thursday, May 4th