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scholars,
attorneys,
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we really need to talk. The 1st draft is the heaviest part
of your grade to date.
Syllabus*:
*Please note that this is
not set in stone. If you are absent it is YOUR
responsibility to verify missed work.
It may differ from the assignment here. There may be
additional materials you will need, or extra assignments.
There will be concepts we will discuss and implement in class
that the course materials will not contain.
The best thing to do is the simplest thing for everyone: COME TO
CLASS! Stay for the whole class!
Note: Assignments that are
listed in black are due for class.
Assignments that appear in purple
are activities scheduled to take place during class.
The assignments listed below each class date are DUE on
that class date
Section One: The Contemplation of Destiny
The Illuminated Abyss of
Analysis
Tuesday, 2/ 21
Mosaics: pp 403- 406. Complete Practice 10-15
Continuation of Ubiquitous Fate discussion
Thursday, 2/23
The Alchemist: pp 10-40. Reading test.
Internal documentation lecture.
Factors impinging on Personal Legends.
Tuesday, 2/28
Dr. Horace Mitchell speaks in CA-4 at 10:00am--15 E.C.
points.
(Attend and respond in a journal entry for extra credit)
Mosaics: Read pp 206-212
“Race Pride.” W. E. B. DuBOIS. p 42
“The White House” & "Lynching". Claude McKay. pp 354 &
355
Thursday, 3/2
Mosaics: Complete evidence/Argument exercises from
210-212
Journal entry comparing/contrasting
DuBOIS’s & McKay’s attitudes.
Examine & Discuss model essays.
“A Boy named Sue.” Shel Silverstien (sung by Johnny
Cash). Listen & discuss.
Tuesday, 3/7
“A Brain in a Vat”. John Pollock. pp 152-153.
Reading Test!
Brain In A Vat PDF DOWNLOAD.
Journal entry on “A Boy named Sue.”
Thursday, 3/9
Alchemist: pp 40-92
Tuesday, 3/14
Mosaics: pp 408-413;
Complete Practice sections 1-9
Thursday, 3/16
Journal: Who,
in your opinion, won the in-class debate? Why?
Mosaics: pp 412-414; Complete practice problems
Alchemist: pp 92-123
Mid-term overview!
Discursive terminology of Existentialism
Tuesday, 3/21
“Free Will, Self Construction, and Anguish” (excerpt).
Jean Paul Sartre. p 458
Journal due on Alchemist reading (does it change
your essay idea?)
Thursday, 3/23
Mosaics: pp 245-250 (read)
Sartre argument due (one paragraph)
“John Brown”. Bob Dylan. “Mama
Tried”. Merle Haggard.
Family & Civic duties pertaining to personal Destiny
Tuesday, 3/28
Alchemist: complete.
Mosaics: pp
245-248, complete using YOUR destiny essay (do NOT do
"ORGANIZATION, number2. on p 248.
Your thesis does NOT need to be at the end of your first
Paragraph ( Thesis Statement, number 2, Basic
Elements, number 2, pp246); you don't need to change your essay
with the new example you find for
Development, number 5, on 247. Think of that exxample;
write it in the assignment, and consider using
it for your final draft).
Alchemist
Reading test.
Mid-Term review
Thursday, 3/30
Topic Orientation for China
Research Assignment (topic due on 4/18)
Revising Destiny Essay workshop
Tuesday, 4/4
MID-TERM: Part I
Thursday, 4/6
MID-TERM: Part II
Revised, Final Draft of Destiny Essay
due!!!!
Spring Break!
Section
II: Moral Obligations
Research: That Evolved
Mighty Creature
Tuesday, 4/18
China Topics due
Mosaics: pp 384-390; Complete all
Practice questions through Practice 6 (originally due march
30th)
China research
assignment overview
Destiny essay debrief
Thursday, 4/20
Research Orientation with reference
Librarian Lori Barker
Tuesday, 4/25
Mosaics:
pp 431-438 Practice Problems 1-10B
“The Game of Life” & “Chatty
Cathy Villanelle”. David Trinidad, pp 33 & 45.
Journal: What are some recurring themes
and objects in the poems “The Game of Life”
& “Chatty Cathy Villanelle” by David Trinidad?
Bibliography overview.
Thursday, 4/27
Mosaics: pp 438-445 Practice Problems 11-21
“The Red
Wheelbarrow”, William Carlos Williams, p 72.
“in –Just”, e.e. Cummings, p 129.
Three research sources due.
Tuesday, 5/2
Overview of Short Literary Analysis/Close reading Essay.
Comma rules
Discussion: What is the problem you are researching
in China? What are some
of its causes? What are the effects?
Thursday, 5/6
Mosaics:
539-545 Practices 1-10
First Paragraph of China Paper due.
Tuesday, 5/9
Mosaics:
546-551 Practices 10-18
Analysis paragraphs of China Paper due
Thursday, 5/11
Prepositions
Reader: And You Shall Know our
Velocity. pp 30-35.
Journal entry: what tragedy occurred in the reading?
How is the protagonist
dealing/not dealing with it?
China Paper Due!
Tuesday, 5/16
Prepositions/reflexive pronous
Reader: “Sonnet 64” & “Sonnet 81”,
Shakespeare. “XIII” & “A Certain Slant of
Sunlight”, Ted Berrigan.
Journal entry: Who is your favorite poet thus far?
Why?
Tuesday, 5/18
Journal--write a paragraph about a single poem from class that
you like or pretend to like
Reflexive pronouns
Rough draft of Literary
Analysis/Close reading Essay due.
Final exam review!
Final draft
of Literary Analysis/Close Reading Essay due on the day of your
final!