English 1101.09 schedule, spring 2010

Updated 4/18/10

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Wednesday, January 6  

Course description
1101 grades and grading

Introduction to course
Persuasive format
Monday, January 11 Student info (online)
Drop/add ends

Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-5
Persuasive format
Little, Brown Reader (LBR):
  "Letting Go" 151-53

Criterion registration
Wednesday, January 13

Writing exercise 2

Golden rules 6-10

In-class essay 1
  (Criterion essay)
Monday, January 18

MLK Holiday

MLK Holiday MLK Holiday
Wednesday, January 20

Golden rules quiz
GR quiz answers

Format sample essay
Writing exercise 1
LBR:
  "The Family" 147-48
  "The Dying Family" 6-10

 
Monday, January 25

Golden rules exam (online)

Nuggets 1-5
Format sample 2
LBR: "The Heterosexual Revolution" 154-56
  "Here Comes the Groom" 172-75
Writing exercise 3
Wednesday, January 27

Nuggets quiz
Nuggets quiz answers

Nuggets 6-10 Paper 1 assigned
In-class essay 2
Monday, February 1

Nuggets exam (online)

Quotes and documentation 1-3
Format sample 3
LBR: "Gay Marriage: Not a Very . . ." 176-78
Handout:

  "Marriage as a Restricted Club"
 
Wednesday, Feb. 3

Quotes/documentation quiz
Paper proposal 1

Quotes and documentation 4-5
Handout: "My Husband's Nine Wives"
 
Monday, February 8 QD exam (online)
Paper 1 draft
Word problems
On plagiarism
Peer response 1
Wednesday, Feb. 10 Word problems quiz Introductions
Conclusions
LBR
: "Hollow Claims about Fantasy . . ." 105-7

Writing exercise 4
Writing exercise 5
Monday, February 15 Paper 1 final draft LBR: "Keep Online Poker Out . . ." 111-13
  "Laptops in the Classroom?" 113-16
  "The Lessons I Didn't Learn . . ." 364-65
  
Wednesday, Feb. 17    LBR: "Should Undergrads Specialize?" 358-61
  "Letters Responding to . . ." 361-63
 
Monday, February 22 In-class essay 2 corrections LBR: "Order in the Classroom" 316-22
Handouts: "Japanese Education"
  "Why Do American Kids Learn So Little?"
Paper 2 assigned
Wednesday, Feb. 24   LBR: "Proposal to Abolish Grading" 368-71
  "In Defense of Testing" 371-72
  "Two Cheers for Examinations" 373-76
 
 
Friday, Feb. 26

Paper proposal 2  

   
Monday, March 1 Paper 2 draft
  Peer response 2
Wednesday, March 3 Paper 1 corrections
Paper 2 final draft
Last day to withdraw 

with "W" grade
   
Monday, March 8-
Saturday, March 13
Spring break Spring break Spring break
Monday, March 15   LBR: "Work" 382-87
  "The Importance of Work" 389-93
Handout:
"What You Do Is What You Are"
 
Wednesday, March 17   LBR: "The End of Play" 408-14 Writing exercise 6
Monday, March 22   LBR: "The Worker Next Door" 267-69
  "What If We Deport Them All?" 270-72
  "Socrates on Illegal Immigration" 272-74
 
Wednesday, March 24   Handouts: "Obsessed with Sport"
  "It Isn't Just a Game"
Paper 3 assigned
Monday, March 29  

LBR: "Shooting an Elephant" 540-46
Handout: "The Insufficiency of Honesty"

   

Wednesday, March 31 Paper proposal 3 Handouts: "America, Look at Your Shame "
  "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"
  
Monday, April 5 Paper 3 draft
Paper 2 corrections
  Peer response 3
Wednesday, April 7 Paper 3 final draft LBR: "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" 215-17 In-class essay 3
  (Criterion essay)
 
Monday, April 12

  

Online: "Barbie Doll"
LBR: "I Want a Wife" 179-81
 
Wednesday, April 14 Congratulations Blue Devils!

Class canceled: routine doctor visit

Go Duke!
Monday, April 19    LBR: "Women's Brains" 209-14
  "You Are What You Say" 443-48

  "The Second Shift" 166-71
Paper 4 assigned
Wednesday, April 21   LBR: "The Male Myth" 218-20
Handout: "The 'Act Like a Man' Box"

 

Monday, April 26 Paper proposal 4 Handouts: "Men as Success Objects"
    "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"

Online: "Hard Rock"
 
Wednesday, April 28   Handout: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" Discuss exam 
  Paper 4 draft    Peer response 4 
Final exam
Friday, April 30
10:30-12:30
Paper 3 corrections
Paper 4 final draft 
   

Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.  I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.