Class Schedule

English 145, Section 5

Spring 2006

 

NOTE TO STUDENTS: This is a PROVISIONAL schedule for the semester.  Please check for frequent changes and updates.  The most detailed and recent information about assignments—what’s due, when it’s due, and how to do it—can always be found in the Daily Notes.  Thanks!  J

 

Date

Prepare for Class

In Class Work/Activities

Week Two

1/23

Letters to Instructor and Classmates

Topic ideas for Humanities Paper

Introductions (New Instructor)

 

1/25

Read Mieland, “Humanities”

Read, “Revised Syllabus”

 

Review: Audience

Review: The Humanities

Focusing topics

1/27

Write, “Paper 1, Discovery Drafts 1 & 2”

Small Groups: Narrowing Topics

Week Three

1/30

Read, “Strangers from a Distant Shore” (historical perspective)

Read, “Saving the Life that is Your Own” (literary perspective)

Read, “I Listen to My Parents . . .” (philosophical perspective)

Write, Paper 1, Draft 1

Peer Response, Paper 1, Draft 1

Shaping Research Questions

2/1

Begin revising Paper 1, Draft 1 based on your own and your classmates’ responses to it.

Prepare a “research agenda” for class on Wednesday

Research Day: Library Consultations w/Instructor (Floor 6) 

2/3

Write, Paper 1, Draft 2

Review: Documentation Styles

Week Four

2/6

Prepare Paper 1,Draft 2 for Instructor Response

Read Mieland, “Social Sciences”

Identifying Topics in the Social Sciences

2/8

Write “Paper 2, Discovery Drafts 1 and 2”

Review: Purpose

Focusing Topics

2/10

Read “Children of Gay Fathers” (psychology)

Read “Toward Revels or a Requiem for Family Diversity” (sociology)

Read “Kyllo v. United States . . .” (law/criminal justice)

Review & Practice: Integrating Outside Sources

Week Five

2/13

Write Paper 2, Draft 1

Peer Response: Paper 2, Draft 1 Shaping Research Questions

2/15

Read more about your topic, trying to find answers to research questions

Research Day: Library Consultations w/Instructor (Floor   )

2/17

Write Paper 2, Draft 2

Peer Response, Paper 2, Draft 2

Week Six

2/20

Prepare Paper 2, Draft 2 for Instructor Response

Read Mieland, “Arts”

Visit the University Gallery

 

2/22

Write Paper 3, Discovery Drafts 1 & 2

Review: Forum

Focusing Topics

2/24

Read “What’s American about American Poetry” (poetry)

Read “Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle” (photography)

Read “ “

Writing Day

Week Seven

2/27

Write Paper 3, Draft 1

Peer Response: Paper 3, Draft 1

Shaping Research Questions

3/1

Read more about your topic, trying to find answers to research questions

Research Day: Library Consultations w/Instructor (Floor  6)

3/3

Write Paper 3, Draft 2

Peer Response, Paper 3, Draft 2

Week Eight

3/6

Prepare Paper 3, Draft 2 for Instructor Response

Read Mieland, “Natural Science”

Identifying Topics in the Natural Sciences

3/8

Write Paper 4, Discovery Drafts 1&2

Review: Genre and Format

Focusing topics

3/10

Read “

 

 

 

Writing Day

SPRING BREAK

Week Nine

3/20

Write Paper 4, Draft 1

Peer Response: Paper 4, Draft 1

Shaping Research Questions

3/22

Read more about your topic, trying to find answers to research questions

Research Day: Library Consultations w/Instructor (Floor  )

3/24

Write Paper 4, Draft 2

Peer Response, Paper 4, Draft 2

Week Ten

3/27

Prepare Paper 4, Draft 2 for Instructor Response

Identifying Topics in Our Majors

3/29

Write Paper 5, Discovery Drafts 1&2

Focusing topics

Writing

3/30

Find and article in your major

Article Sharing/Convention Discovery

Week Eleven

4/3

Write Paper 5, Draft 1

Peer Response, Paper 5, Draft 1

Shaping Research Questions

4/5

Read more about your topic, trying to find answers to research questions

Research Day: Library Consultations with Instructor (Floor 2)

4/7

Write Paper 5, Draft 2

Peer Response, Paper 5, Draft 2

Week Twelve

4/10

Prepare Paper 5, Draft 2 for Instructor Response

Introduction to Workshop Days

4/12

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

4/14

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

Week Thirteen

4/17

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

4/19

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

4/21

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

Week Fourteen

4/24

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

4/26

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

4/28

Write, Revise, Edit

Workshop Day

Week Fifteen

5/1

Re-Read Journal Entries from Semester

Begin Final Analytical Essay

5/3

Work on Final Analytical Essay

Workshop Day

5/5

Work on Final Analytical Essay

Workshop Day

FINAL EXAM WEEK:

PORTFOLIO DUE

No Later Than Final Exam Day/Time