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LIT 165 Syllabus
LIT 165 Announcements and Assignments
WRT 120 Syllabus
WRT 120 Announcements and Assignments
A Reading of THE TEMPEST
Goals of the Course
Fundamental Questions about Literature
Valuing Literature
Critical Thinking and Reading Literature
Critical Approaches to Literature
Literature as ART
Ambiguity
Approaching the Art of Fiction
Defining the Short Story
Evaluating Short Fiction
Craft of Fiction: PLOT
Craft of Fiction: CHARACTER
Small Group Exercise
ARABY by James Joyce
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? by Joyce Carol Oates
Our RITES OF PASSAGE Theme
A note about GIRL
POE and the art of STORY OF A HOUR
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
YOUNG MAN ON SIXTH AVENUE
Notes on Innovative Fiction
Assignment Sheet for Paper #1
Fiction and Ambiguity - Your Questions
Writing Workshop - Short Fiction
Poetry Journal Project Assignment Sheet
LITERARY SYNTHESIS PROJECT
Defining Poetry
Reading Poetry
The Craft of Poetry
Drama and Tragedy
Study Questions: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Paper #4 Assignment Sheet
Critical Thinking and Commentary
Casebook: Evaluating Sources Worksheet
Selecting Information
Evaluating Arguments
CASEBOOK PROJECT Assignment Sheet
Approaching Persuasive Writing
Topic Development - Profile Essay
Generating Ideas for the Profile Essay
Paper #2 Assignment Sheet
Profile Exercise
Analyzing THE FIVE BEDROOM, SIX FIGURE ROOTLESS LIFE
Objective Writing: Selected Readings
Writing Workshop: Paper #1
Expressive Writing in the NYTimes
Writing Effective Introductions and Conclusions
Paper #1: IDENTITY
Expressive Writing
Open Letter Exercise and Examples
EMERSON on Individuality vs. Conformity
Literature related to IDENTITY
Understanding the 'Rhetorical Situation'
Weblog for WRT 120
Writing Assistance on the Web
Blackboard at WCU
WCU Homepage
WCU's Francis Harvey Green Library
One Last Look at Imaginary Worlds
Franz Kafka's BEFORE THE LAW
Analyzing WAITING FOR GODOT
Approaching WAITING FOR GODOT
Paper #3: Assignment Sheet
Paper #4: Independent Project
The Problem of Stability in BRAVE NEW WORLD
UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA Links
Analyzing Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD
Defining Utopia
Embarking on Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD
A Reading of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST
From today's news (11/3/05)
Assignment Sheet for Paper #2
Goodbye to Dante's Imaginary World
Stepping Through Dante's Inferno: Cantos 10-34
Stepping Through Dante's Inferno: Cantos 1-10
INFERNO: Questions/Analysis: Cantos 32-34
INFERNO: Questions/Analysis: Cantos 18-31
INFERNO: Questions for Analysis: Cantos 12-17
INFERNO: Structure
INFERNO: Questions for Analysis: Cantos 1-5
INFERNO: Analyzing Canto 1
Relating to Dante's Inferno
Approaching Dante's DIVINE COMEDY
A Little Help with Dante's INFERNO
Assignment Sheet for Paper #1
Notes on LEAF BY NIGGLE
Responses to LEAF BY NIGGLE
ON FAIRY STORIES: An Essay by Tolkien
Notes on Axolotl
Reading Ovid's Tales
From Myth to Literature: Approaching Ovid's Tales
Notes on THE EYE OF THE GIANT
Functions of the Genesis Tales
Analyzing Mythic Tales
Defining Mythology
Filtering the Introduction to FANTASTIC WORLDS
Commentary on LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI by Keats
Commentary on DARKNESS by Byron
Handout: Imagination Poems Set
What is Imagination?
Our Course Theme: Imaginary Worlds
LIT 165 Assignments: Fall 2005
LIT 165 Announcements: Fall 2005
Imaginary Worlds: Course Syllabus
Paper #4: Independent Thinking/Reading/Writing
Casebook Preparation Checklist
Casebook Assignment Schedule
Evaluating Sources for the Casebook
Casebook Project Assignment Sheet
Notes on Rational Argument
Argument
Assignment Sheet: Objective Writing
Reviewing Elements of the Profile Essay
Writing the Profile Essay
Readings: Objective Writing
Assignment Sheet: Expressive Writing
Rubric for Evaluation of Writing
About SKIN DEEP
Emerson on Individuality vs. Conformity
Mind-map: Identity
Understanding the 'Rhetorical Situation'
Assignments Page
Announcements Page
WRT 120 Course Syllabus for Fall 2005
Weblog for WRT 120
Writing Assistance on the Web
Blackboard at WCU
WCU Homepage
WCU's Francis Harvey Green Library
~~ Assignments ~~
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DATE DUE
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ASSIGNMENT
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| FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE |
Class will meet during the final
exam period. You will complete an in-class reflection exercise
and turn in
your final portfolio. The final exam
schedule is available here. MWF 10:00 am meets on Friday Dec. 16 at 10:30 am in TYSON 120A. MWF 1:00pm meets on Friday Dec. 16 at 1:00 pm in MAIN 316. |
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11/28 -12/2
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Monday, 11/28: We'll review our understanding of
the "rhetorical situation" and discuss you choices for Paper #4. Individual conferences are
scheduled in lieu of the next three class periods. If you've
forgotten the time, you can look it up here. Have a draft of your
paper in class on Wed. 12/7. |
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11/21 - 11/25
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Monday 11/21: Casebooks
are due. NO class
Wed. and Fri. Happy Thanksgiving!! The assignment
sheet for Paper #4 will be distibuted in class and is available for
download here. |
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11/14 - 11/18
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Monday 11/14: Edit Introduction, Headnotes,
Endnotes; compose argumentative conclusion outline. Wednesday, 11/16:
Review/edit argumentative conclusion. Friday, 11/18: Assemble Casebook;
finishing touches. See Casebook
Assignment Schedule. |
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11/7 - 11/11
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Monday 11/7: Class time will be spent in the
library gathering sources and completing source evaluation
worksheets. Wednesday, 11/9: Bring all sources to class to finish
filling out "Evaluation of Sources" worksheets. Friday, 11/11: Complete
evaluation worksheets; compose or review headnotes and endnotes for
each of your four featured articles; draft your casebook
"Introduction." See Casebook
Assignment Schedule. |
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10/31 - 11/4
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Class is meeting in the library on Wed. 11/2 and
Fri. 11/4. Wednesday's canceled orientation is rescheduled for
Friday. Meet in FHG LIBRARY's computer classroom--3rd floor (309). |
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10/24 - 10/28
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For Monday, 10/24: Bring an editorial from a
major newspaper to to class. For Wednesday, 10/26: Brainstorm
topic ideas--debatable, arguable issues; 10am section--bring your
editorial from a major newspaper to class. |
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10/17 - 10/21
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For Monday, 10/17: Writing Workshop (revision and
editing). Bring three copies of your draft to class to work with in
small groups. For
Wed. 10/19: Final draft of Paper #2 is due. For Friday
10/21: Read chapter 3 in The Call to
Write. Bring your textbook to class. |
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10/10 - 10/14
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No class Monday 10/10 (Fall Break). For
Wed. 10/12: Settle on your topic for Paper #2 (see the assignment sheet); we'll work on
generating and organizing ideas for your rough draft. |
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10/3 - 10/7
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For Monday 10/3: Repeat the exercise you worked
on in class today with the essay from Harpers, "Soldiers of Christ
I." If you need to print the article, you can do that from here. If you need to look at the
exercise again, here's an assignment
sheet for Monday. Remember to bring in at least one picture
of a person, group of people, or place. The picture can be from
your personal collection, a magazine, or the Internet. |
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9/26 - 9/30
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The final draft of Paper #1 is due on Monday,
9/26. Read Chapters 7 and 8 for Wednesday, 9/28. Read the
articles in the handouts for Friday, 9/30 ("The Soldiers of Christ I"
and "The Five Bedroom, Six Figure Rootless Life"). Online
versions of these readings are in the WRT 120 Notebook section of this
site. Special note to MWF 10:00am class: Sorry about the messed up handout! You can print readable versions by going here. |
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9/19 - 9/23
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Conferences continue on 9/19; writing workshop on
9/21--bring 3 copies of your draft to class; editing workshop on
9/23--bring your draft to class in "isolated sentences" format. |
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9/12 - 9/16
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Read chapters 1,2,4,5 in The Call to Write for
Monday. There will be a brief quiz this week on that
material. For Wed. 9/14, bring brainstorm three or four topic
ideas for each genre we've discussed (letter, memoir, response to
literature). Bring your list to class. We'll discuss them
as we go over the formal assignment sheet for the first formal paper. |
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9/7 - 9/9
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Read all the poems and stories in the handout distributed in
class last week. We'll continue to explore materials that help us
think about the topic of "identity." Read "You Are Exhausted By
Risk" for Friday (10:00 am Tyson Hall class--I'm aware of the missing
back page on your handout! One of these days, your copies will
come out right...) |
| 8/29 - 9/2 | Read the syllabus carefully, as well as
the assigned readings from the handout "Poems and Stories about
Identity." This week you'll need to write a brief paper in
class (about your thoughts on writing) and a brief "mini-paper" for
homework on the topic of "identity." The writing homework is due in
class on Friday, Sept. 2. Specific directions for this assignment
will be announced in class and then posted here. |