Serf Exported Syllabus Title: Eng 111-04 F99 Columns: 11 EventID: 1779 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 1 Type: 7 Heading: Basic Information Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1780 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 2 Type: 6 Heading: READ THIS FIRST Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: READ THIS DOCUMENT ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~BEFORE PROCEEDING. EventID: 1781 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 3 Type: 4 Heading: Course Information Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1783 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 4 Type: 3 Heading: Course Outline Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: This is the link to your Course ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~ Outline. Read it carefully. EventID: 1784 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 5 Type: 3 Heading: Course Documents Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: This is a page that has links to all of the course ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~ documents. EventID: 1785 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 6 Type: 2 Heading: Class One Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1786 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 7 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 8-23 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: George Orwell, "A Hanging" page 3~~CRLF~~Langston Hughes, "Salvation" page 8 ~~CRLF~~Maya Angelou, "Grandmother's Victory" page 12 EventID: 2288 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 8 Type: 1 Heading: Journals and Discussion Forums Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Go to the discussion forums by clicking on "Discussion Forums" on your control panel in order to see the questions on the reading assignments. After you have read an essay and written your journal, you should paste it into the appropriate discussion topic. Read these directions. EventID: 2289 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 9 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up Assignments Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Each day of class you miss will increase by one the total number of journals you must write. Your journal grade will be calculated by dividing the number of journals that you are required to write into the number that you have written. After you have written each make up journal, submit it to the appropriate discussion forum. EventID: 2229 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 10 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 1 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Stephen Jay Gould, "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs" page 448

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~In paragraph 1, Gould claims that science is a "fruitful mode of inquiry," not a set of "conclusions." What does he mean, and how does this assertion help explain his argument? Where is this assertion illustrated in his essay?~~CRLF~~ EventID: 1787 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 11 Type: 1 Heading: Autobiographical Sketch Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: Go to the Index of Course Documents and find the directions ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~for writing your intoductory autobiographical sketch. Read the ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~directions for participating in the discussion forums to learn how to ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~post your sketch. EventID: 1788 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 12 Type: 1 Heading: E-mail Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: Send me an e-mail message as soon as possible so that I can ~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~conntact you personally when the need arises. EventID: 1789 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 13 Type: 2 Heading: Class Two Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2230 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 14 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 2 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Dr. Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" page 443

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Do you have a "dream" that in the future some social or political injustice will be eliminated, that a cure will be found for a disease, that war and famine will cease? Describe your "dream" and propose ways in which to make it a reality.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 1791 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 15 Type: 1 Heading: Narrative Essay Assignment Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Begin work on your narrative essay by reading the assigment. Begin your prewriting. A rough draft will be due on Friday September 3. EventID: 1793 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 16 Type: 2 Heading: Class Three Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2231 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 17 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 3 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Nat Hentoff, "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?" page 435

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Analyze the structure of the essay. Make a brief outline that includes its key points and reveals its organization. EventID: 1797 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 18 Type: 2 Heading: Class Four Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1798 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 19 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 8-30 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman" page 18 ~~CRLF~~Annie Dillard, "The Stunt Pilot" page 29~~CRLF~~Virginia Bell Dabney, "The Day The Fire Came" page 40 EventID: 2232 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 20 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 4 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Barbara Lawrence, "Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You" page 431

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~What is the central point of Lawrence's argument? What is the main reason, in her opinion, that tabooed words are hurtful? Whom do tabooed words hurt most? EventID: 1801 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 21 Type: 2 Heading: Class Five Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2233 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 22 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 5 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Nicols Fox, "Gawk Shows" page 412

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~According to Fox, in what ways are carnival sideshows and television talk shows similar? EventID: 1806 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 23 Type: 2 Heading: Class Six Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2290 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 24 Type: 1 Heading: Rough Draft of Narrative Essay Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A rough draft of your narrative essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it ready on time. A revision is due on Friday September 10. EventID: 2234 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 25 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 6 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?" page 407

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~What is this essay mainly about? Slavery? Animal rights? Vegetarianism? Another subject? Decide what the main subject of the essay is and write a brief explanation of your choice. Cite examples from the text to illustrate your explanation.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 1810 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 26 Type: 2 Heading: Class Seven Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2222 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 27 Type: 1 Heading: Labor Day Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Labor Day Holiday. No class today. EventID: 2236 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 28 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 7 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: This is a place holder. There is no make up assignment for the holiday. EventID: 1811 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 29 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 9-6 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Barry Lopez "Landscape and Narrative" page 46~~CRLF~~ Margaret Laurence, " Where the World Began" page 55 ~~CRLF~~Joan Didion, "The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador" Page 61 EventID: 1814 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 30 Type: 2 Heading: Class Eight Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2235 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 31 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 8 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Alan M. Dershowitz, "Shouting ?Fire!'" page 401

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Explain the connection between shouting "fire!" and censorship. EventID: 1818 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 32 Type: 2 Heading: Class Nine Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2291 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 33 Type: 1 Heading: Revision of Narrative Essay Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A revision of your narrative essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it ready on time. The final copy of your essay will be due on Friday September 17. Make sure you follow the directions in your course outline for submitting your work. EventID: 2238 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 34 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 9 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Loren Eiseley, "The Cosmic Prison" page 397

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~How would you explain the analogy between humans and the white blood cell that forms the basis of this essay? What makes the analogy logical and consistent? EventID: 1820 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 35 Type: 2 Heading: Class Ten Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1822 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 36 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 9-13 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: William Golding, "Thinking As A Hobby" page 183~~CRLF~~ David M. Ludlum, "The Climythology of America" page 191~~CRLF~~Gail Sheehy, "Predictable Crises of Adulthood" page 207 EventID: 2239 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 37 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 10 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Horace Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" page 391

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Look up the words "parody" and "satire" in a dictionary of literary terms. These can be found in the library reference section. In what ways is this essay a parody? a satire? Do you think it is an effective parody? an effective satire?~~CRLF~~ EventID: 1825 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 38 Type: 2 Heading: Class Eleven Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2240 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 39 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 11 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: James C. Rettie, "?But a Watch in the Night': A Scientific Fable" page 385

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Does using an analogy aid Rettie in structuring his essay? Explain how Rettie has organized this piece, and describe his use of transitions. EventID: 1829 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 40 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twelve Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2225 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 41 Type: 1 Heading: Narrative Essay Due Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Your narrative essay is due today. Make sure you either give it to me in class or place it in the appropriate box in my office (46-B)by the end of the day. Read the directions in your course outline for turning in your work. EventID: 2241 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 42 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 12 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Alice Bloom, "On a Greek Holiday" page 317

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Although this selection is taken from the middle of a longer essay, the introductory paragraph of this excerpt marks a new direction in the whole essay. As an introduction, what expectations does it set up? In other words, what does it tell you about what follows?~~CRLF~~ EventID: 1833 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 43 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1835 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 44 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 9-20 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Meg Greenfield, "Why Nothing Is ?Wrong' Anymore" page 207~~CRLF~~Kasaya E. Noda, "Growing Up Asian in America" page 215 ~~CRLF~~Judith Viorst, "The Truth About Lying" page 223 EventID: 2242 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 45 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 13 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Jonathan Kozol, "Distancing the Homeless" page 305

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Why did Kozol write this essay? What is his thesis? EventID: 2292 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 46 Type: 1 Heading: Division Essay Assignment Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: You should begin work on your division essay by first reading thedirections and then doing your prewriting. A rough draft of the essay will be due on Friday September 24. EventID: 1837 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 47 Type: 2 Heading: Class Fourteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 1838 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 48 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 9-27 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Plato, "The Myth of the Cave" page 375 ~~CRLF~~Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" page 419~~CRLF~~Bruce Catton, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" page 231 EventID: 2243 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 49 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up Fourteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Edward T. Hall, "The Anthropology of Manners" page 297

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~What are some of the differences between U. S. and Arab cultures, and between U. S. and Latin American cultures? EventID: 1839 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 50 Type: 2 Heading: Class Fifteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2294 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 51 Type: 1 Heading: Rough Draft of Division Essay Due. Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A revision of your division essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it done on time. A revision will be due on Firday October 1. EventID: 2244 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 52 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 15 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Peter Farb and George Armelagos, "The Patterns of Eating" ~~CRLF~~page 291

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Write about what you thought of eating etiquette before you read this essay. In what ways did the essay corroborate or challenge your thinking? Did it change your mind about what is proper etiquette?~~CRLF~~ EventID: 1841 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 53 Type: 2 Heading: Class Sixteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2279 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 54 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 9-27 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Virginia Woolf, "The Death of the Moth" page 69~~CRLF~~N. Scott Momaday, " The Way to Rainy Mountain" page 73~~CRLF~~Susan Sontag, "Beauty" page 147 EventID: 2245 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 55 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 16 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Robertson Davies, "A Few Kind Words for Superstition" page 287

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~According to Davies, what is the relationship between superstition and religion? Between superstition and science? Between superstition and history? EventID: 2190 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 56 Type: 2 Heading: Class Seventeen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2246 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 57 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 17 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Richard Rodriguez, "Does America Still Exist?" page 282

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Make a list of things that, for Rodriguez, represent American culture, and discuss how they represent it. EventID: 2191 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 58 Type: 2 Heading: Class Eighteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2295 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 59 Type: 1 Heading: Revision of Division Essay Due Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A revision of your division essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it done on time. The final of the essay is due on Friday October 8. EventID: 2247 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 60 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 18 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Willliam F. Buckley, "Why Don't We Complain?" page 275

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Relatively speaking, riding in an overheated railroad car and watching a film that is out of focus are minor "vexations." However, what disturbing tendency in the American people does our willingness to endure such discomfort illustrate? Whey does Buckley describe that tendency as "something to keep one's eyes on" (paragraph 8)?~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2192 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 61 Type: 2 Heading: Class Ninteen Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2280 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 62 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 10-4 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Plato, "The Myth of the Cave" page 375 ~~CRLF~~Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" page 419~~CRLF~~Bruce Catton, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" page 231 EventID: 2248 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 63 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 19 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Lydia Minatoya, "Discordant Fruit" page 267

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Describe your relationship with your possessions. Do you feel responsible toward them? What do your possessions say about you? EventID: 2193 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 64 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2249 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 65 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 20 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Mark Mathabane, "At the Mercy of the Cure" page 262

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~What is the author's purpose, and how do the comparisons he makes in this essay help him achieve that purpose? EventID: 2194 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 66 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-One Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2226 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 67 Type: 1 Heading: Division Essay Due Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Your division essay is due today. Make sure you read the directions in the course outline for handing in your essay. Give it to me or place it in the appropriate box in my office (46-B) before the day is over. EventID: 2250 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 68 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 21 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: John Leo, "Stop Murdering the Language" page 177

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Do you agree with Leo that "family" has been stretched to include groups that are not really families? Or do you believe that group renters, single people, and groups of recovering alcoholics, for example, might also be considered families? Freewrite for about 15 minutes to gather details about your personal definition of the term.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2195 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 69 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Two Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2296 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 70 Type: 1 Heading: Comparison and Contrast Essay Assignment Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: The first step in beginning work on your comparison and contrast essay is to read the directions. Then begin your prewiriting. A rough draft of the essay is due on Friday October 15. EventID: 2281 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 71 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 10-11 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Richard Selzer "My Brother Shaman" Page 236~~CRLF~~Deborah Tannen, "Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers" page 241~~CRLF~~Mark Twain, "Two views of the Mississippi" page 252 EventID: 2251 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 72 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 22 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Claudia Glenn Dowling, "Fire in the Sky" page 174

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Analyze Dowling's introduction. What about that first paragraph makes the reader want to continue? Consider the essay you are currently working on and try writing an introduction for it that will make the reader want to continue.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2196 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 73 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Three Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2252 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 74 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 23 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Dorthy Parker, "Good Souls" page 168

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Find examples of irony in this essay. EventID: 2197 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 75 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Four Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2297 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 76 Type: 1 Heading: Rough Draft of Comparison Essay Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A rough draft of your comparison essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it done on time. A revision of the essay will be due on Firday October 22. EventID: 2253 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 77 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 24 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Gloria Steinem, "Erotica and Pornography" page 162

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Summarize Steinem's distinction between "erotica" and "pornography." EventID: 2198 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 78 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Five Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2282 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 79 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 10-18 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: May Sarton, "The Rewards of Living A Solitary Life" page 255~~CRLF~~Suzanne Britt, "Neat People V/S Sloppy People" page 258~~CRLF~~Marya Mannes, "How Do You Know It's Good?" page 326 EventID: 2254 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 80 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 25 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Sam Pickering, "Faith of the Father" page 156

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~We each worship in a different way. If you believe in a supreme being or in some spiritual power that controls the universe, write a paragraph that explains how you worship, recognize, or communicate with that being or power.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2199 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 81 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Six Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2255 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 82 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 26 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Jo Goodwin Parker, "What is Poverty?" page 151

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Write a dictionary definition of "poverty" without using a dictionary. Then look the word up and compare your definition with the dictionary's. How specific were you or the dictionary able to get?~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2200 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 83 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Seven Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2298 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 84 Type: 1 Heading: Revision of Comparison Essay Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A revision of your comparison essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it done on time. The final copy of this essay is due on Friday October 29. EventID: 2256 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 85 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 27 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Adam Goodheart, "How to Paint a Fresco" page 141

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Explain the organizational logic behind this essay. EventID: 2201 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 86 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Eight Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2283 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 87 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 10-25 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Norman Cousins, "Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy" page 333~~CRLF~~E. M. Forster, "My Wood" page 338~~CRLF~~Ellen Goodman, "Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies" page 342 EventID: 2257 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 88 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 28 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Sue Hubbell, "Honey Harvest" page 136

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Describe a "rite of initiation" (paragraph 11) of your own. EventID: 2202 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 89 Type: 2 Heading: Class Twenty-Nine Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2258 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 90 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 29 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Gretel Ehrlich, "The Rules of the Game: Rodeo" page 128,p.~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Process writers often rely on analogies. Where in this essay do analogies appear, and in what way do they help Ehrlich achieve her purpose? EventID: 2203 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 91 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2299 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 92 Type: 1 Heading: Comparison Essay Due Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: The final copy of your comparison essay is due today. Please make sure to give it to me or place it in the appropriate box in my office (46-B) before the day is over. Read the directions for turning in your essays in the course outline. EventID: 2259 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 93 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 30 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Richard Marius "Writing Drafts" page 123

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~How does Marius's suggested process compare with the way you usually write a paper? Which of his suggestions have you tried with success? EventID: 2204 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 94 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-One Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2300 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 95 Type: 1 Heading: Cause and Effect Essay Assignment Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Today you need to begin work on your cause and effect essay assignment. The first step is to read the directions. Then begin work on your prewriting. A rough draft of the essay is due on Fiday November 5. EventID: 2284 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 96 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 11 - 1 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Shelby Steele, "White Guilt" page 345~~CRLF~~Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, "Where Have All The Parents Gone" page 353~~CRLF~~Philip Meyer, "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute A Stranger, Would You? Probably" page 361 EventID: 2260 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 97 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 31 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Jessica Mitford, "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" page 114~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Have some fun and write a recipe for an inedible, or seemingly inedible product. Include directions on how to capture or collect it, how to prepare it, and how to serve it. EventID: 2206 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 100 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-Three Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2301 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 101 Type: 1 Heading: Rough Draft of Cause and Effect Essay Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: A rough dradt of your cause and effect essay is due today. Make sure you show it to me so that I can give you credit for having it done on time. A revison will be due on Friday November 12. EventID: 2262 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 102 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 33 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Alexander Petrunkevitch, "The Spider and the Wasp" page 103

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Outline Petrunkevitch's major points in an attempt to trace the organization of the essay. EventID: 2207 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 103 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-Four Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2287 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 104 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 11-8 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Kathy A. Svitil, "Nubian Diet Revealed At Last" page 369~~CRLF~~Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus" page 380~~CRLF~~Barbara Ehrenreich, "A Step Back to the Workhouse?" page 457 EventID: 2263 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 105 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 34 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Mary Taylor Simeti, "Easter in Sicily" page 93

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Using a list, an outline, or free writing, write down what you consider the most important features or aspects of a religious or civic ceremony with which you are very familiar or in which you have participated.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2208 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 106 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-Five Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2264 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 107 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 35 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Doris Lessing, "My Father" page 85~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Write about someone you know who has "chutzpah" or "focus." Try to record the kinds of details that you might later use in a clear and convincing character sketch of this individual. EventID: 2210 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 111 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-Seven Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2286 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 112 Type: 1 Heading: Reading Assignment 11-15 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Garrett Hardin, "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor" page 465 ~~CRLF~~Edward T. Hall, "The Anthropology of Manners" page 297~~CRLF~~Jonathan Swift, "A Modest proposal" page 419 EventID: 2266 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 113 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 38 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: George Orwell, "A Hanging" page 3

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Write a letter to Orwell, telling him what you do not understand about his essay. As best you can, tell him why you do not understand it. EventID: 2211 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 114 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-Eight Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2267 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 115 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 38 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Langston Hughes, "Salvation" page 8

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Write about one of your religious experiences, comparing or contrasting it to that of Hughes. EventID: 2212 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 116 Type: 2 Heading: Class Thirty-Nine Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2228 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 117 Type: 1 Heading: Cause and Effect Essay Due Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Your cause and effect essay is due today. Make sure you give it to me or put it in the appropriate box in my office (46-B) before the day is over. Read the directions for turning in your essay in the course outline. EventID: 2268 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 118 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 39 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Maya Angelou, "Grandmother's Victory" Page 12

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Write your own definition of "Victory." What does it mean to you personally? EventID: 2213 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 119 Type: 2 Heading: Class Forty Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2269 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 120 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up Forty Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman" page 18~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Dillard's use of figurative language is impressive. In paragraph 22, for example, she personifies Mount Baker and uses metaphor in her description of the Twin Sisters. Write a paragraph that uses metaphor, personification, or both to describe a natural object.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2217 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 129 Type: 2 Heading: Class Forty-Four Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2273 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 130 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 44 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Virginia Bell Dabney, "The Day the Fire Came" page 40

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Using Dabney's work as inspiration, write a narrative that recalls a terrifying incident involving the loss of property or life. Rely on personal experience or observation as your source of information.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2218 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 131 Type: 2 Heading: Class Forty-Five Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2274 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 132 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 45 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Barry Lopez, "Landscape and Narrative" page 46

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Look up three words from the essay in a good dictionary. Then speculate about what they mean in the context of Lopez's essay. Look up the same three words in a thesaurus. Tell what words you find that might be substituted and tell how the meaning would be altered.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2219 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 133 Type: 2 Heading: Class Forty-Six Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2275 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 134 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 46 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Margaret Laurence, "Where the World Began" Page 55

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Describe one of the "oddities" (paragraph 8) of your hometown. EventID: 2220 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 135 Type: 2 Heading: Class Forty-Seven Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2276 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 136 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 47 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Gretel Ehrlich, "The Rules of the Game: Rodeo" page 128

~~CRLF~~~~CRLF~~Ehrlich's love for the rodeo and its people is clear. Do about ten minutes of free writing about a sport, game, or other activity you "love," such as baseball, soccer, tennis, chess, reading, acting, going to the movies, cooking, or repairing old cars. After you complete this assignment, write a sentence that explains the one thing you love most about this activity.~~CRLF~~ EventID: 2221 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 137 Type: 2 Heading: Class Forty-Eight Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 0 Formatting: 3 Text: EventID: 2277 SyllabusID: 69 Position: 138 Type: 1 Heading: Make Up 48 Tracking: 0 Weight: 0 Deadline: 0 Columns: 1 Formatting: 3 Text: Sam Pickering, "Faith of the Father" page 156

~~CRLF~~ ~~CRLF~~Do you agree with Pickering that religion should create "soft feeling"? Free write a page on the function, or role, that religion--however you define it--plays in your life.