English 101F | Seminar in Rhetoric and Culture
Jennifer Strange
Spring 2011 | MWF 11-11:50 am, Jackson Hall 113
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Course Schedule
Week 1 | January 10-14
Week 2 | January 17-21
- M: MLK Service Day (no class)
- T: Diversity Week convocation featuring Victor Labat (11:10 am, Whited Room, required)
- W: Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (Essays 138-143), Hughes' "Theme for English B" (Poems 175)
- R: Diversity Week convocation featuring Pastor Brady Blade (11:10 am, Kilpatrick Auditorium, required)
- F: Rodriguez's "'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans" (Essays 269-276)
Week 3 | January 24-28
- M: Handbook 6.a-j (81-109), Review 1 workshop, Essay 1 assigned with overview of MLA style (see Handbook 300f)
- T: Review 1 due via email by midnight
- W: Kingston's "No Name Woman" (Essays 173-185)
- F: Woolf's "In Search of a Room of One's Own" (Essays 380-395)
Week 4 | January 31-February 4
- M: "Logical Arguments" (Essays 7-14), Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (Essays 297-307)
- W: Kozol's "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" (Essays 186-195)
- R: Founders' Day (11:10 am convocation, Brown Chapel, required)
- F: "Ethical Arguments" (Ethos 14-16), Staples' "Black Men and Public Space" (Ethos 294-297)
Week 5 | February 7-11
- M: Handbook 7.a-f (110-137), Essay 1 workshop (bring full draft)
- T: Essay 1 due via email by midnight
- W: Handbook 9.1-g (146-167), "Pathetic Arguments" (Essays 16-18), revisit previous essays like MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Essays 153-172)
- F: Lynch's "Bodies in Motion and at Rest" (Essays 219-224), Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Poems 109)
Week 6 | February 14-18
- M: Handbook 11.a-k (177-210), Review 2 workshop
- T: Review 2 due via email by midnight, Dr. Jessica Piekielek on environmental campaigns and politics (6 pm, Whited Room)
- W: "What is Poetry?" (Poems xxiii-li), Collins' "Introduction to Poetry" (Poems 73-74)
- F: All in Poems by Campion (58), Donne (93-101), Herbert (157-158), Herrick (158-160), Jonson (177-178), and Milton (225-226)
- Sa: Centennial exhibit opens at the Meadows Museum of Art
Week 7 | February 21-25
- M: Poems continued from Friday, Invisible Children screening (8 pm, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
- T: Essay 1 revision (if applicable) due via email by midnight
- W: Shakespeare's Macbeth (xii-xli of introduction with Act 1-2)
- F: Shakespeare's Macbeth (Acts 3-5)
Week 8 | February 28-March 4
- M: Snyder's "Macbeth: A Modern Perspective" (Macbeth 197-207), American Shakespeare Center presents As You Like It (7 pm, MLP)
- T: American Shakespeare Center presents Macbeth (7 pm, MLP)
- W: Stage combat workshop in MLP, American Shakespeare Center presents Measure for Measure (7 pm, MLP)
- R: American Shakespeare Center presents As You Like It (7 pm, MLP)
- F: Frost's "'Out, Out--'" (Poems 126), Lott's "Atonement" (Essays 217-219), Zinsser's "College Pressures" (Essays 396-404)
Week 9 | March 7-11
- Mardi Gras break (no class)
Week 10 | March 14-18
- M: Handbook 33.a-j and 34.a-l (613-636), Review 3 workshop, Essay 2 assigned
- T: Review 3 due via email by midnight
- W: O'Brien's The Things They Carried
- F: O'Brien's The Things They Carried with Greenya's Washington Times review
Week 11 | March 21-25
- M: O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Centenary's Forum (Dr. Insoo Hyun, 7 pm, Whited Room)
- T: Tim O'Brien receives the Corrington Award (7 pm, Whited Room, required)
- W: O'Brien's The Things They Carried
- F: Komunyakaa's "Facing It" and "We Never Know" (Poems193-194), Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" (Poems 176), Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" (Poems 234)
Week 12 | March 28-April 1
- M: Handbook 37.a through 41.e (651-680), Essay 2 workshop (bring full draft), Centenary's Forum (students and citizens, 7 pm, Whited Room)
- T: Essay 2 due via email by midnight
- W: Dillard's "The Stunt Pilot" (Essays 83-95) with all in Poems by Wordsworth (339-358), Essay 3 assigned
- F: All in Poems by Robert Browning (48-53) and Tennyson (304-309)
Week 13 | April 4-8
- M: Handbook Part 8 (682-708), Review 4 workshop
- T: Review 4 due via email by midnight
- W: All in Poems by Yeats (362-372)
- F: All in Poems by Larkin (199-204) and Thomas (310-313)
Week 14 | April 11-15
- M: Handbook Part 9 (710-756), Essay 3 workshop
- T: Essay 3 due via email by midnight
- W: Welty's "Listening" (Essays 361-368) with all in Poems by Bishop (29-34) and Pound (250-251)
- R: Honors Convocation (5 pm, Brown Chapel)
- F: All in Poems by Frost (119-132), Student Research Forum
Week 15 | April 18-22
- M: All in Poems by Stevens (294-303) and Williams (337-339)
- T: Review 5 (bonus) due via email by midnight
- W: Carson's "A Fable for Tomorrow" (Essays 67-68), Momaday's "An American Land Ethic" (Essays 234-242), Earth Day
- F: Easter break (no class)
Week 16 | April 25-29
- M: Easter break (no class)
- W: Tan's "Mother Tongue" (Essays 308-314) with all in Poems by Heaney (148-155)
- F: All in Poems by Collins (73-77) and Wilbur (334-337)
Final exam: TBA
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