A-Day Syllabus

Week 1

8/27 Meet and Greet

8/29 Diagnostic literary essay and planning.
Montaigne "That One Man's Profit . . ."  643

8/31 Introduction to English, critical thinking, literature, and critique.

Week 2

9/5 CPAVE practice: letters and timeline. Context, essay planning and organization, theses, and themes.

9/7 Stegner "The Town Dump" 18 
      Eighner "Dumpster Diving" 22

Week 3

9/11 Lee "Coming Home Again" 1 
        Didion "On Going Home" 9
        Paper One Assigned

9/13 Hurston "How It Feels to be Colored Me" 41 
         Bettelheim "A Victim" 56

Week 4

9/17 Morrison "Strangers" 132 
        Mernissi "The Harem Within" 162

9/19 Unit Review
         A-M Paper One Draft Workshop

9/21 Quiz One
         N-Z Paper One Draft Workshop

Week 5

9/25 Theroux "Being a Man" 232
        McMurtry "Kill 'em! Crush 'em! Eat 'em Raw!" 309

9/27 Quindlen "Between the Sexes, A Great Divide" 254
        Cunningham "Why Women Smile" 261
        Paper Two Assigned

Week 6

10/1 Rollin "Motherhood: Who Needs It?" 341
         Staples "Black Men and Public Space" 369

10/3 Gates "In the Kitchen" 299
        Shah "Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris" 304

10/5 Unit review 
        N-Z Paper Two Draft Workshop

Week 7

10/9 Quiz Two
         A-M Paper Two Draft Workshop

10/11 Douglass "Learning to Read" 408 
          Malcolm X "Coming to an Awareness of Language" Syll.

Week 8

10/15 Rodriguez "Aria" 492 
          Anzaldua "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" 510

10/17 Kingston "Tongue Tied" 487
          Thiong'o "Decolonizing the Mind" 1054

10/19 Unit/Midterm Review

Week 9

10/23 Midterm Exam

10/25 Kubler-Ross"On the Fear of Death" 274
          Mitford "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" 314
          Paper Three Assigned

Week 10

10/29 Petrunkevitch "The Spider and the Wasp" 595
          Woolf "The Death of the Moth" 1178

10/31 Gould "Our Allotted Lifetimes" 280
          Cartmill "Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?" 963

11/02 Unit review
          A-M Paper Three Draft Workshop

Week 11

11/06 Quiz Three 
          N-Z Paper Three Draft Workshop

11/08 FitzGerald "Rewriting American History" 828 
           Kincaid "Sowers and Reapers" 156

Week 12

11/12 Sagan "The Abstraction of Beasts" 604 
          Seattle "Letter to President Pierce, 1855" 611

11/14 Arendt "Denmark and the Jews" 807
          Gourevitch "After the Genocide" 812

11/16 Lincoln "Second Inaugural Address" 880
          Ghosh "The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi" 818

Week 13

11/20(ED) Film TBA

Week 14

11/27 Unit Review
          N-Z Paper Four Draft Workshop

11/29 Quiz Four
           A-M Paper Four Draft Workshop

Week 15

12/3 Machiavelli "The Morals of the Prince" 864 
        Jefferson "Original Draft of The Declaration . . . " 871 
        Jefferson+ "The Declaration of Independence" 874 
        Stanton "Declaration of Sentiments . . . " 878 
        Final Paper Assigned

12/5 Becker "Democracy" 882
        White "Democracy" 884 
        Guinier "Tyranny of the Majority" 885

12/7 Burgess "Is America Falling Apart?" 286
         Goodheart "9.11.01:The Skyscraper and the Airplane" 292

Week 16

12/11 Unit Review 
          Final Paper Draft Workshop

12/13 Quiz Five 
          Final Paper Draft Workshop

Week 17

12/17-20 Final Paper/Portfolio Due 
               Final Exams

Grading Weights:
Class Work: 10%
Quizzes: 25%
Papers: 50%
Exams/Portfolio: 15%