B-Day Syllabus

Week 1

8/27 Meet and Greet

8/28 Diagnostic literary essay and planning
        Montaigne "That One Man's Profit . . ." 643

8/30 Introduction to English, critical thinking, literature, and critique

Week2

9/4 CPAVE practice: letters and timeline. Context, essay planning and organization, theses, and themes.

9/6 Stegner "The Town Dump" 18 
      Eighner "Dumpster Diving" 22

Week 3

9/10 Lee "Coming Home Again" 1
        Didion "On Going Home" 9
        Paper One Assigned

9/12 Hurston "How It Feels to be Colored Me" 41 
        Bettelheim "A Victim" 56

9/14 Morrison "Strangers" 132
        Mernissi "The Harem Within" 162

Week 4

9/18 Unit Review 
        A-M Paper One Draft Workshop

9/20 Quiz One
         N-Z Paper One Draft Workshop

Week 5

9/24 Theroux "Being a Man" 232 
        McMurtry "Kill 'em! Crush 'em! Eat 'em Raw!" 309

9/26 Quindlen "Between the Sexes, A Great Divide" 254 
        Cunningham "Why Women Smile" 261
        Paper Two Assigned

9/28 Rollin "Motherhood: Who Needs It?" 341
        Staples "Black Men and Public Space"369

Week 6

10/2 Gates "In the Kitchen" 299 
        Shah "Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris" 304

10/4 Unit review 
        N-Z Paper Two Draft Workshop

Week 7

10/8 Quiz Two
         A-M Paper Two Draft Workshop

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

10/12(ED) Rodriguez "Aria" 492
                 Anzaldua "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" 510

Week 8

10/16 Kingston "Tongue Tied" 487
          Thiong'o "Decolonizing the Mind" 1054

10/18 Unit/Midterm Review

Week 9

10/22 Midterm Exam

10/24 Kubler-Ross "On the Fear of Death" 274 
          Mitford "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" 314
          Paper Three Assigned

10/26 Petrunkevitch "The Spider and the Wasp" 595
          Woolf "The Death of the Moth" 1178

Week 10

10/30 Gould "Our Allotted Lifetimes" 280 
          Cartmill "Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?" 963

11/01 Unit review 
          A-M Paper Three Draft Workshop

Week 11

11/05 Quiz Three
           N-Z Paper Three Draft Workshop

11/07 FitzGerald "Rewriting American History" 828 
          Kincaid "Sowers and Reapers" 156

11/09 Sagan "The Abstraction of Beasts" 604 
          Seattle "Letter to President Pierce, 1855" 611

Week 12

11/13 Arendt "Denmark and the Jews" 807
          Gourevitch "After the Genocide" 812

11/15 Lincoln "Second Inaugural Address" 880
          Ghosh "The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi" 818

Week 13

11/19 Film TBA

Week 14

11/26 Unit Review 
          N-Z Paper Four Draft Workshop

11/28 Quiz Four
           A-M Paper Four Draft Workshop

11/30 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

Week 15

12/4 Becker "Democracy" 882
        White "Democracy" 884 
        Guinier "Tyranny of the Majority" 885

12/6 Burgess "Is America Falling Apart?" 286 
        Goodheart "9.11.01:The Skyscraper and the Airplane" 292

Week 16

12/10 Unit Review
Final Paper Draft Workshop

12/12 Quiz Five
Final Paper Draft Workshop

12/14 Review Day

Week 17

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

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