Instructor: Kristin Scott
Office Hours: By Appointment
E-Mail:
Class Blog: http://eng201fall08.wordpress.com/
See Course Description
Course Schedule
Week One:
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Monday |
8/25: Introduction to course
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Wednesday |
8/27: Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1-42)
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Friday |
8/29: Read Beloved (43-85)
* See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Two:
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Monday |
9/1: Labor Day – No Class!
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Wednesday |
9/3: Read Beloved (86-165) / close-reading workshop
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Friday |
9/5: Read Beloved (169-213) / Response Assignment # 1 DUE online at class blog (no later than 7 a.m.) / Essay # 1 Assigned
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Three:
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Monday |
9/8: Read Beloved (214-END) / Film excerpts from Beloved.
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Wednesday |
9/10: Read poems:
- Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”
- Judith Cofer – “Beans: An Apologia For Not Loving To Cook” & “The Story of My Body” (handouts)
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Friday |
9/12: Read poems (below) / Response Assignment # 2 DUE online at class blog./ Close-reading workshop
- Mora, Pat. “Legal Alien” & “La Migra”
- Morales, Aurora Levins. “Child of the Americas” (handout)
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Four:
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Monday |
9/15: Read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (Chapts 1-5)
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Wednesday |
9/17: Read Things Fall Apart (Chapts 6-10) - MEET ME OUTSIDE AT FENWICK LIBRARY
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Friday |
9/19: Read Things Fall Apart (Chapts 11-15) / Response Assignment # 3 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Five:
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Monday |
9/22: Read Things Fall Apart (Chapts 16-25) / Chinua Achebe – visiting GMU for Fall for the Book Festival this week; Click here to see event dates/times you can attend (and blog about) for extra credit.
* Essay # 1 drafts due to peer reviewers in class (bring four copies of your essay)
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Wednesday |
9/24: Essay # 1 – Peer Review Workshop (bring comments for colleague’s drafts to class for peer review workshop)
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Friday |
9/26: Read Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl (Section I: “The Shawl” pp 1-10) / Response Assignment # 4 DUE online at class blog.
*See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Six:
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Monday |
9/29: Final Essay #1 DUE / Discussion of The Shawl
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Wednesday |
10/1: Read The Shawl (Section II: “Rosa” pp 11-33) / Essay # 2 (Interpretive/critical paper) assigned
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Friday |
10/3: Read The Shawl (Section II: “Rosa” pp 33-69/END)/ Response Assignment # 5 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Seven:
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Monday |
10/6: Read Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body (pgs 9-55).
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Wednesday |
10/8: Read Written on the Body (pgs 56-79)
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Friday |
10/10: Read Written on the Body (pgs 80-111) / Response Assignment # 6 DUE online at class blog (no later than 7 a.m.)
*See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Eight:
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Monday |
10/13: Read Written on the Body (pgs 115-190 / END)
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Wednesday |
10/15: Finish discussion of Written on the Body
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Friday |
10/17: Read Mary WollstonecraftShelley’s Frankenstein,or, the Modern Prometheus (Chapts 1-2) / Response Assignment # 7 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Nine:
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Monday |
10/20: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 3-4)
* Essay # 2 drafts DUE to peer reviewers in class (bring four copies of your essay)
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Wednesday |
10/22: Essay # 2 – Peer Review Workshop (bring comments for colleague’s drafts to class for peer review workshop)
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Friday |
10/24: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 5-7) / Response Assignment # 8 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Ten:
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Monday |
10/27: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 8-16) /Film excerpts from Frankenstein
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Wednesday |
10/29: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 17-21)
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Friday |
10/31: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 22-END) / Response Assignment # 9 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Eleven:
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Monday |
11/3: Final Essay #2 DUE / Finish discussion of Frankenstein
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Wednesday |
11/5: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 1-3)
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Friday |
11/7: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 4-5) / Response Assignment # 10 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Twelve:
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Monday |
11/10: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 6-8)
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Wednesday |
11/12: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 9-11) / Essay # 3 (Comparison/contrast paper) assigned
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Friday |
11/14: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 12-14) / Response Assignment # 11 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Thirteen:
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Monday |
11/17: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 15- 18 / END) / Essay # 3 paper proposal due (1-2 paragraphs that outline your intended thesis)
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Wednesday |
11/19: Finish discussion of Brave New World / Workshop & Discussion of Cyberliterature
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Friday |
11/21: Read: Chapter 1: “Lord Burleigh’s Kiss” (p. 13-26) & Chapter 3: “From Additive to Expressive Form” (p. 65-94) from Murray, Janet H. (1997) Hamlet and the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. / Response Assignment # 12 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Fourteen:
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Monday |
11/24: Read Julian Dibbel’s “A Rape in Cyberspace”
* Essay # 3 drafts DUE to peer reviewers in class (bring four copies of your essay)
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Wednesday |
11/26: THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
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Friday |
11/28: THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Fifteen:
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Monday |
12/1: Essay # 3 – Peer Review Workshop (bring comments for colleague’s drafts to class for peer review workshop)
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Wednesday |
12/3: Read Shelley Jackson’s The Body & Stuart Moulthrop’s “Pax”
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Friday |
12/5: Last Day of Class – Final Paper discussion / Response Assignment # 13 DUE online at class blog.
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Weeks Sixteen & Seventeen:
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M/W/F |
12/8 – 12/12: Reading Period
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Monday |
12/15: Final Exam period / continue working on your final essay
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Wednesday |
12/17: Final Essay # 3 DUE
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