ENGLISH 101.03C SCHEDULE—Spring 2015
Subject to change: Changes and additions will be announced in class and posted on our course website. You are responsible for making sure you have up-to-date schedule information.
This schedule is incomplete: It includes most major due dates, but not all the daily activities. Each essay assignment sheet will contain more details, and in-class daily work may come up unnanounced.
Week 1 Mon 4/6: Introduction to the class and each other.
Tue 4/7: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 1, “Thinking Well,” and Chapter 8, “Superstitions.”
Wed 4/8: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 14, “Quoting.” Lecture on how to integrate
quotations into your writing. Begin Essay #1
(Personal Narrative)
Thu 4/9: Write the “Generating Material for Essay #1” assignment. I am out of town for a
conference today, so there is no class meeting.
Fri 4/10: Due: Seminar paper on “The Fourth of July,” by Audre Lorde, pages 254-
258, and “Feet in Smoke,” by John Jeremiah Sullivan, pages 399-406 in 50
Essays. Kennan Knudsen will be your instructor today while I am at the
conference.
Week 2 Mon 4/13: Due in class: “Generating Material for Essay #1.” We will work with it in class.
Tue 4/14: Due: Read Trimble Chapters 2 and 3, “Getting Launched” and “Openers.”
In-class exercises based on these chapters.
Wed 4/15: More about the thesis and organization of Essay #1
Thu 4/16: Thesis and organization, continued.
Fri 4/17: Due: Seminar paper on “Joyas Voladores,” pages 125-128, and “Once More to
the Lake,” by E.B. White, pages 431-437 in 50 Essays.
Week 3 Mon 4/20: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 4, “Middles.” In-class exercises.
Tue 4/21: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 5, “Closers.” In-class exercises.
Wed 4/22: Grammar lesson and practice: Comma splices and semi-colons.
Thu 4/23: Due: Essay #1 (Narrative) in Workshop groups. Bring 3 copies.
Fri 4/24: Quiz on comma splices and semi-colons. Bring Trimble for more work with
punctuation.
Week 4 Mon 4/27: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 13, “Punctuation.” Exercises with the
material from this chapter.
Tue 4/28: Due: Essay #1 (Narrative). Begin Essay #2 (Review).
Wed 4/29: Practice sample worksheets.
Thu 4/30: Due: Worksheet for Essay #2.
Fri 5/1: Introduction to ethos, pathos, and logos. Bring 50 Essays.
Week 5 Mon 5/4: Due: Seminar paper due on “Our Vanishing Night,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg, pp
240-243, and “The Ugly Tourist,” by Jamaica Kincaid, pp 199-202.
Tue 5/5: Practice with ethos, pathos, and logos. Introduction to PIE paragraph structure.
Wed 5/6: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 6, “Diction.” In-class activities with this chapter. Thu 5/7: More diction practice.
Fri 5/8: Due: Essay #2 in Workshop groups. Bring 3 copies.
(over)
Week 6 Mon 5/11: Quiz on diction
Tue 5/12: Due: Essay #2 (Review). Begin Essay #3 (Problem/Solution).
Wed 5/13: In-class work on developing ideas for Essay #3.
Thu 5/14: Due: Seminar paper due on “A Modest Proposal,” by Jonathan Swift,
pages 408-416, in 50 Essays.
Fri 5/15: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 7, “Readability.” In-class work with the
material in this chapter.
Week 7 Mon 5/18: Due: seminar paper due on “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King
Jr., pages 203-220, in 50 Essays.
Tue 5/19: Due: Worksheet for Essay #3
Wed 5/20: Due: Read Trimble, Chapter 10, “Dramatizing your ideas.” In-class work
with the material in this chapter.
Thu 5/21: In-class grammar and sentence practice.
Fri 5/22: Due: Essay #3 due Workshop groups. Bring 3 copies.
Week 8 Mon 5/25: Memorial Day Holiday: No class
Tue 5/26: Due: Essay #3 (Problem/Solution). Begin Essay #4 (Analysis).
Wed 5/27: Grammar lesson.
Thu 5/28: Due: Seminar Paper on “Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell, pages
295-302, in 50 Essays.
Fri 5/29: Quiz on the grammar topic of last Wednesday. Last day to withdraw.
Week 9 Mon 6/1: Due: Seminar paper on “The Death of the Moth,” by Virginia Woolf, available
online, links to be provided.
Tue 6/2: In-class sentence analysis and imitation practice.
Wed 6/3: Due: Imitation worksheet.
Thu 6/4: TBA
Fri 6/5: Due: Essay #4 (Analysis) in Workshop groups. Bring three copies. This does not
include the Introduction, just the Imitation.
Week 10 Mon 6/8: In-class writing on the Introduction to Essay #4. Bring your essay as it is so far
and the text of the essay you are imitating, and be prepared to write.
Tue 6/9: Due: Essay #4. Introduction to “Allegory of the Cave.”
Wed 6/10: In-class work with Allegory.
Thu 6/11: Seminar paper due on “Allegory of the Cave,” by Plato, pages 303-311, in
50 Essays. In-class writing and discussion.
Fri 6/12: Optional revision due today. If you are revising, you will have
discussed your revision plan with me long before this date.
Week 11 Mon 6/18: Review for final
Tue 6/19: In-class final