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Week 6
Continued discussion of
White Noise; revising Essay #1.
2/25 (M)
Present group work on White Noise movie. Revising
workshop--may be postponed to Weds.
Assignment for 2/27: Continue reading White Noise (to
finish by Monday, 3/3). Possible writing assignment: Imitation of
White Noise passage.
2/27
(W)
Postponed from Monday: Revising Workshop. See Purdue
University OWL handout on
Organizing Your
Argument.
Discussion of White Noise.
Assignment for 2/29:
Work on revising Essay #1 and continue reading White Noise.
2/29
(F)
Postponed to Monday for Section 05
and to Wednesday for Section 08: Revision of Essay #1 due. Discussion of
White Noise, with focus on selecting a writing topic.
Assignment for 3/3: Work on
revision of Essay #1 and finish reading White Noise. Think
about an essay topic.
Week 7
Reading literary criticism; analyzing
postmodernism; focus on Essay #2.
3/3 (M)
Midterm Portfolio requirements.
Thinking about White Noise: generating writing topics.
Postponed to Weds.: Workshop on essay: drafting (the
quick draft approach).
Assignment for 3/5: If you haven't
finished reading White Noise, please do so. If you have, review
the text for quotations and evidence for an essay.
3/5 (W)
Quick drafting.
Class Notes generated in 11:00 class. Also, see Thinking about
White Noise link above (from 10:00 class).
Assignment for 3/7: 10:00
Class: Add to draft
of Essay #2 for peer response on Friday. 11:00 Class: Catch up
on reading as much as possible. Choose topic for quick draft on Friday.
3/7 (F)
11:00 Class: Quick drafting.
10:00 Class: Workshop on essay. Editing concerns.
Argumentative writing: clarity of argument, adequacy of evidence (examining
some examples).
Assignment for 3/10: Revise essays
as needed. Complete cover essay. Read
"The Questions of
Postmodernism" by David Lehman and "Small
Rooms and the Ecosystem: Environmentalism and DeLillo's
White Noise" by
Richard Kerridge (in Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and
Literature, edited by Richard Kerridge and Neil Sammells. Available in Literature Resource Center.)
Week 8
Introducing Kafka
3/10 (M)
Postmodernism and Modernism. (Tentative: Constructing a class Webpage) See "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
by T. S. Eliot.
Assignment for 3/12:
Read "The Judgment" and write a reading response.
3/12 (W)
Midterm Portfolio due.
Discussion of "The Judgment."
Assignment for 3/14: Read "In the
Circle of 'The Judgment'" by Stanley Corngold.
3/14 (F)
Discuss critical essay.
Assignment for 3/26: Read The
Metamorphoses.
Week
9Understanding Kafka and
reading literary criticism. Make an appointment for discussion of
midterm portfolio.
3/26 (W)
Discussion of reading.
Assignment for 3/28: Write about The Metamorphosis in your log.
Start revising, after midterm portfolio conference.
3/28 (F)
Further discussion of The Metamorphosis. Looking at
critical materials.
Assignment for 3/31:
Read more of the critical materials on Kafka (to be determined during class
on 3/28) and handout on modernism and postmodernism.
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