1301-update copy - Dr. Mark Womack

Revised Instructional Outline
Week Date Activities/Lecture Readings Due Assignments Due
Mon 8-25
Review instructions,
policies, & syllabus
1
Wed 8-27
Writing Classic Prose
• “Clear & Simple” (on-line)
• “Writing With Style” SF Writer (SFW)
chp. 11
“Who is . . . ?” Essay
Fri 8-29 Creative Imitation In-Class Writing
Mon 9-1
LABOR DAY
2
Wed 9-3
Analysis & Discussion
“Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The
Mall of America”
The Norton Reader (NR) 210-21
Analysis 1
Fri 9-5 Analysis & Discussion “Marshland Elegy” NR 643-47 “River Music”
Mon 9-8 Analysis & Discussion “The Dump Ground” NR 29-33 Analysis 2
3
Wed 9-10
Analysis & Discussion
“More Room” NR 179-82
“Waste Land: An Elegy” NR 648-50
“Beer Can”
Fri 9-12
4
Mon 9-15
Wed 9-17
Fri 9-19
Hurricane IKE!
5
6
Mon 9-22
Actions
“Writing Effective Sentences”
SFW chp. 10
Wed 9-24 Peer Critique Workshop Draft of Essay 1
Fri 9-26
Analysis & Discussion
“Politics and the English Language”
NR 581-90
“Progress & Change”
Mon 9-29 Assignment for Essay 2 Essay 1
Wed 10-1 Analysis & Discussion “Shooting an Elephant” NR 852-57 Analysis 3
Fri 10-3 Analysis & Discussion “University Days” NR 976-80 A Farewell to Arms
Mon 10-6 Analysis & Discussion “Once More to the Lake” NR 93-98 Analysis 4
7
Wed 10-8 Analysis & Discussion “Salvation” NR 1139-40
“Knowledge &
Virtue”
Fri 10-10 Peer Critique Workshop Draft of Essay 2
Mon 10-13 Characters “Coming Home Again” NR 1-9 Return Peer Critiques
8
Wed 10-15
Unity & Flow
“Shaping Effective Paragraphs”
SFW chp. 12
Fri 10-17 MLA Format “MLA Documentation” SFW chp. 27
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A Vindication of the
Rights of Women

Week Date Activities/Lecture Readings Due Assignments Due
Mon 10-20 Assignment for Essay 3 Essay 2
9
Wed 10-22 Analysis & Discussion from An American Childhood NR 132-37 Analysis 5
Fri 10-24 Analysis & Discussion “My Father: Leslie Stephen” NR 137-41
Classic Prose
Imitation*
Mon 10-27 Analysis & Discussion “Yeager” NR 148-57 Analysis 6
10
Wed 10-29 Analysis & Discussion “George Washington” NR 142-44
Poor Richard’s
Almanack*
Fri 10-31 Peer Critique Workshop Draft of Essay 3
Mon 11-3 Concision “Why We Crave Horror Movies” (on-line) Analysis 7
11
Wed 11-5
Shape
• “The Shape of Sentences”
• “Sentence Fragments & Run-ons” SFW
chps. 9 & 31
“The Pyramids”
Fri 11-7 Analysis & Discussion “Abraham Lincoln” NR 145-48 Return Peer Critiques
12
13
14
Mon 11-10 Assignment for Essay 4 Essay 3
Wed 11-12 Analysis & Discussion “Consider the Lobster” NR 75-87 Analysis 8
Fri 11-14 Analysis & Discussion “The Beatles Now” NR 1115-20 Analysis 9
Mon 11-17 Analysis & Discussion “The Sound of Music” NR 1108-14 “To Write Well”
Wed 11-19 Analysis & Discussion “Java Man” NR 329-34 Analysis 10
Fri 11-21 Peer Critique Workshop Draft of Essay 4
Mon 11-24
Analysis & Discussion
“‘This Is the End of the World’: The Black
Death” NR 779-91
“Of Youth and Age”
Wed 11-26 Elegance “I Have a Dream” NR 907-10 Analysis 11
Fri 11-28
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
15
Mon 12-1
Wed 12-3
Quotations
Revision Workshop
• “Using Quotations Effectively”
• “Quotation Marks and Ellipses” SFW
chps. 25 & 40
Creative Imitations
Portfolio
Rhetorical Analyses
Portfolio
Fri 12-5 Essay 4
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