English 1102.13 schedule, spring 2012

Updated 4/10/12

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Tuesday, January 10  

Course syllabus
1102 grades and grading

Introduction to course

Thursday, January 12 Student info (online)
Drop/add ends

Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-5
Persuasive format

 
Tuesday, January 17  

Golden rules 6-10
Format sample essay
Norton
: "Drama" 1382-85
   Trifles
1385-94

 
Thursday, January 19

 

Nuggets 1-5
Norton: A Raisin in the Sun 1906-32
   
Tuesday, January 24  

Nuggets 6-10
Norton:
A Raisin in the Sun 1932-66

      
Thursday, January 26    Quotes and documentation 1-3
Norton
: A Doll House 1447-94
Paper 1 assigned 
Tuesday, January 31 Paper proposal 1 Quotes and documentation 4-5
In-class essay 1
Thursday, February 2

 

Word problems
Format sample 2
On plagiarism
Introductions
Conclusions
Tuesday, February 7 Paper 1 draft

Elements of poetry
Norton: "Poetry" 1056-57
  "[Shall I compare thee . . . ?]" 975
  "Shall I Compare Thee . . . ?"

Peer response 1
Thursday, February 9   Norton: "The Fury of Overshoes" 829-30
  "Last Night" 849
  "Hanging Fire" 888-89
  "To a Daughter Leaving Home" 914-15
  "[in Just—]" 959-60
  "The Victims" 1033
  "[My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—"
      1165-66
 
Tuesday, February 14 Paper 1 final draft  Norton: "How Do I Love Thee?" 821-22
  "The Tally Stick" 822
  "love poem" 822-23
  "Married Love" 824-25
  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" 848
  "[Let me not . . true minds]" 848-49
  "After Making Love . . . Footsteps" 867
  "[My mistress' eyes are nothing . . .]" 1072
 
Thursday, February 16   Norton: "On My First Son" 826
  "The Vacuum" 826-27
  "Mid-Term Break" 830-31
  "[Stop all the clocks . . .]" 847  
  "The Raven" 1006-9
  "Do Not Go Gentle . . ." 1055-56
  "[We do not play on Graves—]" 1163
  "[Death, be not proud]" 1321
 
Tuesday, February 21 In-class essay 1 corrections  Norton: "Barbie Doll" 855
  "To the Ladies" 896-97  
  "Daystar" 914
  "Marks" 973
  "Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal"
      1074-75
  "Hard Rock Returns . . ." 857-58
  "We Real Cool" 890-91
  "Dickhead" 904-5
  "What the Motorcycle Said" 995
 
Thursday, February 23  

Norton: "Those Winter Sundays" 869-70
  "My Papa's Waltz" 951-52
  "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law"
      1133-37
  "Sex without Love" 953-54
  "Two Songs" 1138-39
  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 1271-72
  "We Wear the Mask" 1324

 
Tuesday, February 28  

Norton: "Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of
      1941" 987
  "Church Going" 1027-28
  "Boom!" 1219-21

  "The Road Not Taken" 1325
  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 1339-41

Paper 2 assigned 
Thursday, March 1 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
Elements of fiction
Norton
: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
      495-506
 
Friday, March 2 Paper proposal 2
  (via email, by 5:00 p.m.)
   
Tuesday, March 6 Paper 2 draft   Norton: "Good Country People" 506-19 Peer response 2
Thursday, March 8 Paper 1 corrections
Paper 2 final draft 
  In-class essay 2
Monday, March 12-
Saturday, March 17

Spring break

Spring break Spring break
Tuesday, March 20   Norton: Death of a Salesman 2128-52  
Thursday, March 22  

Norton: Death of a Salesman 2152-72

 
Tuesday, March 27   Norton: Death of a Salesman 2172-93  
Thursday, March 29   Norton: A Streetcar Named Desire 1804-33 Paper 3 assigned
Tuesday, April 3    Norton: A Streetcar Named Desire 1833-67  
Thursday, April 5 Paper proposal 3 The Moonstone 3-87  
Tuesday, April 10 Paper 3 draft  The Moonstone 87-178 Peer response 3 
Thursday, April 12 Paper 2 corrections The Moonstone 179-282  
Tuesday, April 17 Paper 3 final draft  The Moonstone 282-368 Paper 4 assigned
Thursday, April 19   The Moonstone 369-472  
Tuesday, April 24 Paper proposal 4 Norton: "The Love Song of . . . Prufrock"
      1115-19
Discuss exam
Thursday, April 26     Final exam
To be arranged Paper 4 draft   Peer response 4
Friday, May 4th,
   by 11:00 a.m.

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.