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•• Last Updated: April 12, 2005 ••
January
| 11 |
First Night of Class
Discuss Syllabus
Activity: Picture Books
MRC Chs. 1 & 2 (pp. 1 - 36)
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Homework for Next Class:
Read MRC Ch. 4 (pp. 57 - 74) and do Part II of the Picture Books activity.
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| 18 |
Discuss "Freedom," Modernist "Facts," and The Common Topics
Activity 1: Topoi and "Why Johnny Can't, Like, Write"
Activity 2: Aristotle's Common Topics and "Childhood Is the Kingdom"
Due: Part II of Picture Book Shorty |
Homework for Next Class:
"Childhood is . . ." Activity
Read MRC Chs. 5 (pp. 75 - 100) & 9 (pp. 177 - 210) |
| 25 |
Discuss "Commercial Closet" & Culture
Activity: Achieving Stasis
Due: "Childhood is . . ." Shorty |
Homework for Next Class:
Read MRC Ch. 7 (pp. 125 - 150) &
Read Rilke's "Childhood," Collins's "On Turning Ten," Dahl's "Television," Bishop's "In the Waiting Room" and "Manners," Jarrell's "A Sick Child," Larkin's "This Be the Verse," O'Hara's "Biographia Literaria," Ransom's "Janet Waking," and Hughes's "Children's Rhymes."
Work on Annotated Bib #1 (sample) |
February
| 1 |
No Class - Professor Sick
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| 8 |
Discuss "Childhood in Adult Poetry"
Activity: Mini-Presentations on Annotated Bibs
Activity: Rhetorical Strategies for Constructing Childhood in Poetry
Due: Annotated Bib #1 |
Homework for Next Class:
Power and Subversion
Read Peter Pan Ch. 1 - 11 (pp. 1 - 111) & MRC Ch. 10 (pp. 211 - 232). |
| 15 |
Watch Peter Pan: The Musical (w/ Cathy Rigby)
Discuss Peter Pan
Activity:
Due: Power and Subversion Shorty |
Homework for Next Class:
Finish reading Peter Pan.
Finish Annotated Bib #2
Last Day to Drop: February 16 |
| 22 |
Discuss Peter Pan & Peter Pan: The Musical
Activity:
Due: Annotated Bib #2 |
Homework for Next Class:
Gender and Subversion
Read MRC Ch. 13 (pp. 283 - 308) and Pace's "Robert Bly Does Peter Pan" (click "My Copy" to read the article) |
March
| 1 |
Discuss Peter Pan & Peter Pan: The Musical
Activity: Feminism & Peter Pan
Due: Gender and Subversion Shorty |
Homework for Next Class:
Banning and Censorship, Part I
Read MRC Ch. 3 (pp. 37 - 56)
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| 8 |
Discuss Books, Literacy, and Exclusion
Due: "Banning and Censorship" Part I |
Homework for Next Class:
Finish Annotated Bib #3 (be sure to bring your articles to class) |
| 15 |
!!!Spring Break!!! |
| 22 |
Discuss Rhetorical Devices
Due: Annotated Bib #3 |
Homework for Next Class:
Read Boy Meets Boy
Excess and Culture |
| 29 |
Discuss Boy Meets Boy
Activty: Discuss "Excess & Culture" Shorty
Activity: Discuss Topics for Major Project
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Homework for Next Class:
Banning the Boys
Prepare a Topic Proposal for your Major Project. Email Dr. Banks with your initial ideas by Friday @ noon. |
April
| 5 |
Discuss Boy Meets Boy
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Homework for Next Class:
Bring in two copies of a draft of your Major Project. Email Dr. Banks with a draft before class starts. |
| 12 |
Major Project Due for Peer/Instructor Review
Peer Response: Using the review instrument, read two (2) peers' papers and type extensive responses to the writer. Print 3 copies of each response: one for the writer, one for you to keep for your portfolio, and one to turn into me at the end of the night. |
Homework for Next Class:
Continue to work on your Major Project. Next week's draft should be "finished," meaning that all your major points should be included, you should have used secondary and primary source materials, and you should have a Works Cited page. We will do a Stasis Review of your essay and talk about quotation/citation issues. |
| 19 |
Major Project Due for Peer Review
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Last Day of Class |
| 26 |
University Reading Day |
| 28 |
!!!Will's Birthday!!! |
May
| 3 |
Final Exam: Portfolios Due/Presentations |
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