ENC 1102 Syllabus



*Note: anything on-line can be found on this web page under list of links.
* Note: ds means double spaced.
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Week 1 (June 25-39)


Mon: Introductions. Biography.
Print out ENC 1102 syllabus and course policy sheet. Tour the web page--the links, the rubrics (especially the detailed rubric link), and the various drafting questions.

Tues: Discussion of course policy sheet and syllabus.


Weds: 1101 review--paper introductions, grammar, thesis, primary sources, and secondary sources.
Go to this URL: http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/firstsearch.html


Thurs: I will pass a presentation sign-up sheet around before we go into the library.
It is a self-tutorial explaining how to use FSU's many databases.
Library day. We will meet on the steps of the library, or, in the event of rain, snow, or fire from the sky, we will meet just inside the first set of double doors in the area before you pass through the scanners. Even though we will not be meeting in the classroom this still counts as class, and I will take roll.

Fri: reading 1 "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" Walt Whitman
"To a Locomotive in Winter" Walt Whitman
"O Me! O Life! "Walt Whitman"

We will read and discuss a sample prospectus that I will pass out in class. Another version, minus footnoes, is available prospectus . Plagiarism exercise.

Week 2 (July 2-5)


Mon: reading 2 "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Tues: reading 3 "Hands" Sherwood Anderson

Weds: July 4th holiday; no class.

Thurs: reading 4 "Howl" Allen Ginsberg
"Shopping at a Supermarket in California" Allen Ginsberg


Fri: reading 5 "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" Emily Dickinson 249
"There's a Certain Slant of Light" Emily Dicksinson 258
"This World is not Conclusion" Emily Dickinson 501
"I Cannot Live with You" Emily Dickinson 640
"The Bible is an Antique Volume" Emily Dickinson 1545

Week 3 (July 9-12)


Mon: reading 6 "Mending Wall" Robert Frost
"The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost
"Canis Major" Robert Frost

Tues: reading 7 a "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot
"The Hollow Men" T.S. Eliot
reading 7 b "The Wasteland" with notes T.S. Eliot (no quiz questions on "The Wasteland"

Weds: reading 8 a "Theme for English B" Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Langston Hughes
"Fire" and "Late Last Night" Langston Hughes
reading 8 b "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amiri Baraka
"An Agony. As Now" Amiri Baraka

Thurs: reading 9 a "In Just" e.e. cummings
"Buffalo Bill's" e.e. cummings
"Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" e.e. cummings
9 b Modernism (no reading)

Fri: reading 10 "Ariel" Sylvia Plath
"Daddy" Sylvia Plath
"The Colossus" Sylvia Plath

Annotated bibliography due for presenters 1-10.
A first and a second example of an annotated bibliography.


Week 4 (July 16-20)


Mon: reading 11 "Dolor" Theodore Roethke
"The Geranium" Theodore Roethke
"My Papa's Waltz" Theodore Roethke

Tues: reading 12 "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" Wallace Stevens
"Anecdote of the Jar" Wallace Stevens

Weds: reading 13 "The River Merchant's Wife" Ezra Pound
"A Pact" and "In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound

Thurs: reading 14 "The Red Wheelbarrow" William Carlos Williams
"Spring and All" William Carlos Williams
"This is Just to Say" William Carlos Williams
"The Rose is Obsolete" William Carlos Williams

Fri: reading 15 a "Storm Warnings" Adrienne Rich
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," "Orion," and "Diving into the Wreck" Adrienne Rich
15 b Post-Modernism (no reading)

Annotated bibliography due for presenters 11-15.

Week 5 (July 23-27)


Mon: reading 16 "The Sick Rose" William Blake
"The Fly" William Blake
"The Tyger" William Blake
"London" William Blake

Tues: reading 17 "Eolian Harp" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Kubla Khan" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Frost at Midnight" Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Weds: reading 18 a "Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats
"To Autumn" John Keats
"Ode on Melamcholy" John Keats
18 b Romanticism (no reading)

Thurs: reading 19 "Ozymandias" Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To a Skylark" Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fri: reading 20 "The World is Too Much With Us" William Wordsworth
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" William Wordsworth
"London, 1802" William Wordsworth

Journal Due
Annotated bibliography due for presenters 16-20.

Week 6 (July 30-August 3)


Mon: conferencing

Tues: conferencing

Weds: Research paper due.

Thurs: exercise

Fri: Last day of class. exercise



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