English 1101.22 schedule, fall 2011

Updated 11/27/11

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Monday, August 15  

Course description
1101 grades and grading

Introduction to course
Persuasive format
Wednesday, August 17 Student info (online)

Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-5
Persuasive format
Little, Brown Reader (LBR):
  "Letting Go" 164-66

Criterion registration
Thursday, August 18

Drop/add ends

 

 
Monday, August 22

Writing exercise 2 

Golden rules 6-10 
Format sample essay
Writing exercise 1
In-class essay 1
  (Criterion essay)
 
Wednesday, August 24

Golden rules quiz
Golden rule quiz answers

LBR:  "The Family" 143-44
  "Big Mother Is Watching" 428-31

Writing exercise 3
Monday, August 29

Golden rules exam (online)

Nuggets 1-5
Format sample 2
LBR: "Eminem Is Right" 171-84
 
Wednesday, August 31

Nuggets quiz
Nuggets quiz answers

Nuggets 6-10
LBR: "Hollow Claims about Fantasy . . ." 109-11

In-class essay 2
Monday, Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday Labor Day holiday 
Labor Day holiday
Wednesday, Sept. 7

Nuggets exam (online) 

Quotes and documentation 1-3
Format sample 3
LBR
: "We Have No 'Right to Happiness'" 26-30
  "What If Marriage Is Bad for Us?" 160-63
Paper 1 assigned
Monday, Sept. 12

 

On plagiarism
Quotes and documentation 4-5
Handout: "My Husband's Nine Wives"
  
Wednesday, Sept. 14

Quotes/documentation quiz
QD quiz answers

Paper proposal 1
Submitted as email, due by 5:00 p.m.

Class canceled Class canceled
Saturday, Sept. 17 QD exam (online)  
 
Monday, Sept. 19

Paper 1 draft

Word problems Peer response 1 
Wednesday, Sept. 21

In-class essay 2 corrections
Word problems quiz

Introductions
Conclusions
Writing exercise 4
Writing exercise 5
Monday, Sept. 26 Paper 1 final draft LBR: "Keep Online Poker Out . . ." 269-71
  "Laptops in the Classroom?" 271-74
 
Wednesday, Sept. 28

  

 LBR: "Class Dismissed" 294-96
Handout: "Why Do American Kids Learn So Little?"
 
Monday, October 3   Handouts: "Japanese Education"
  "Order in the Classroom"
Paper 2 assigned
Wednesday, October 5

 

LBR: "Proposal to Abolish Grading" 312-14
  "In Defense of Testing" 315-16
  "Two Cheers for Examinations" 317-20
   
Friday, October 7 Paper proposal 2 Submitted as email, due by 5:00 p.m.  
Monday, October 10 Paper 2 draft   Peer response 2
Wednesday, Oct. 12 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
 
Paper conferences Conferences
Monday, October 17 Paper 1 corrections
Paper 2 final draft
 
LBR: "Work" 331-36
Handout: "What You Do Is What You Are"
 
Wednesday, Oct. 19   LBR: "Brains as Well as Brawn" 337-38
  "Case for Working with Your Hands" 338-47
 
Monday, October 24   LBR: "Eat Food: Food Defined" 492-500
  "Against Meat" 510-17
  "The Carnivore's Dilemma" 553-56
 
Wednesday, Oct. 26   Handouts: "Obsessed with Sport"
  "It Isn't Just a Game"

Paper 3 assigned   

Monday, October 31  

LBR: "Salvation" 236-37
Handout: "The Insufficiency of Honesty"

   
Wednesday, November 2 Paper proposal 3 Handouts: "America, Look at Your Shame "
  "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"
 
Monday, November 7 Paper 3 draft   Writing exercise 6
Peer response 3
Wednesday, November 9   LBR: "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" 232-35 In-class essay 3
  (Criterion essay)
 
Monday, November 14

 

Online: "Barbie Doll"
LBR: "I Want a Wife" 150-51
 
Wednesday, November 16 Paper 3 final draft     LBR: "Women's Brains" 223-28
  "You Are What You Say" 368-73

  "The Second Shift" 144-49
 
Monday-Saturday,
November 21-26
Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday

Monday, November 28

  LBR: "The Male Myth" 229-31
Handout: "The 'Act Like a Man' Box"
Paper 4 assigned
Wednesday, November 30   Handouts: "Men as Success Objects"
    "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"

Online: "Hard Rock"
 

Monday, December 5

Paper proposal 4 Handout: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" Discuss exam 
  Paper 4 draft    Peer response 4 
Final exam
Wednesday, December 7
1:00-3:00
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.