Weekly Schedule

ENG 1121, Fall 2024

Professor Sean Scanlan

WEEKLY SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

 

Dates: Objectives: Assignments:
Week 1:  8/28

 

 

Introductory discussion, terminology, and course plan. •Discussion of course, Policies, and texts; Orientation–OpenLab

• In-Class Reading:  discussion

•Sign up for OpenLab

Week 2:  9/2 NO CLASS

 

 

Week 2: 9/4

 

Photo Essay

 

 

 

•Discuss photography timeline; Homework: Formal Email assignment

 

Week 3: 9/9

 

Week 3:  9/11

Photo Essay •Discuss photographs and how to read them; Diagnostic Writing

Homework for Wednesday:  Coffeehouse #1:  Read Teju Cole and write 200 words

 

•Discuss Cole; Sentence Practice; Homework: Read Berger and Calle

Week 4: 9/16

 

Week 4: 9.18

 

 

Photo Essay

 

 

•Discuss Berger; Essay 1 discussion; Homework: Read Sontag

 

 

•Quiz 1 Due; Reading TBA; Homework: Read Bohbot and draft essay

Week 5:  9/23

 

 

Week 5: 9/25

 

Photo Essay

•Discuss readings; Peer Review

 

 

 Photo Essay due; Homework: Read MLA statement on AI

Week 6:  9/30

 

 

Week 6: No Class on 10/2

Introduction to writing with AI •Discuss AI and reading; Homework: read Crawford and Halpren

 

Week 7: 10/7

 

 

Week 7: 10/9

Writing with AI • Due: Quiz 2; Discuss PSA and Essay 2 instructions; Homework: read Lapore

 

 

•Discuss readings; in-class work on PSA; Homework: read Biever

Week 8: 10/14 No Class

Week 8: 10/15 Tuesday: We have class

 

 

Week 8: 10/16

Writing with AI  

• Quiz 3

 

 

 

•Part 1 of PSA due

Week 9: 10/21

 

 

Week 9: 10/23

Writing with AI •Part 2 of PSA due

 

 

•Homework TBA

Week 10: 10/28

 

 

Week 10: 10/30

Writing with AI •Due Part 3 of PSA

 

 

• PSA presentations

 

Week 11: 11/4

 

 

Week 11: 11/6

Introducing the short story •Defining the short story: Homework: read Shirley Jackson

 

 

•Discussing 5 types of ethics; read Gabriel García Márquez and Langston Hughes

Week 12: 11/11

 

 

 

Week 12: 11/13

The Short Story/Ethics •Readings Homework: Nell Freudenberger

 

 

 

•Readings Homework: Jhumpa Lahiri

Week 13: 11/18

 

 

 

Week 13: 11/20

The Short Story/Ethics •Readings Homework: John Cheever

 

 

•Wednesday Due: Sympathy and Empathy handout

Week 14: 11/25

 

 

Week 14: 11/27 NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING BREAK)

The Short Story/Ethics •Readings Homework: E.L. Doctorow and interview TBA
Week 15: 12/2

 

 

Week 15: 12/4

The Short Story/Ethics •class discussion and writing; finding sources

 

 

•QUIZ 4; first peer review Essay 3;

Week 16: 12/9

 

Week 16: 12/11

The Short Story/Ethics •Essay 3 peer review;  how to find an author interview

 

 

•RESEARCH DAY (meet in class)

Week 17: 12/16

 

Week 17: 12/18

The Short Story/Ethics

 

•Due: Essay 3

 

• Last day of class; extra credit assignment

                              
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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