Daily Calendar For
Composition 103
Monday
3/26
Read the Syllabus
Wednesday
3/28
Read Trifles—Introduction to Formal Elements
Friday
3/30
Read—“Barn Burning”—Formal Elements Continued
Monday
4/2
Read—“Barn Burning”—Formal Elements Continued
Wednesday
4/4
Poetry Reading on this Day, 11:45
Journal #1 Due
Write a Paragraph in the Style of William Faulkner
In class—Writing Prompt for Essay #1
Friday
4/6
No
Class on This Day
Monday
4/9
Read—Oates, “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been”
Journal #2 Due :
Name Seven Sales Techniques Used By Friend
Wednesday
4/11
Essay 1 Rough Draft Deadline—Critical Analysis
First Journal Check!
Friday
4/13
Essay 1 Deadline—Critical Analysis
Monday
4/16
Read—
Journal Due :
Name Seven Sales Techniques Used By Friend
Wednesday
4/18
Television
Commercials
Read Handout on Advertisements
Friday
4/20
Read—O’Connor, “Good Country People”
Journal Due: Freewrite on a
Commercial that you
find particularly manipulative. Tell us why.
Monday
4/23
Everyday Use Discussion
Discussion of Paper 2, Options 1 and 2
Wednesday
4/25
Reality Television Day—
Cultural Analysis Paper
Friday
4/27
Read—Welty, “The Worn Path”
Journal Due: How does this story reflect the
archetypal journey.
Monday
4/30
Read—Handout “Essay On
Man”
Wednesday
5/2
Friday
5/4
Read—Poems By
Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth
Monday
5/7
Romantics
Continued
Wednesday
5/9
Read—Poems By Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot in Textbook
Journal Due: Write a Poem in the Style of Frost or
Eliot
Friday
5/11
Modernism
Continued
Monday
5/14
Read—Komunyakaa Handout
Journal Due: Write a Poem in the Style of Komunyakaa
Wednesday
5/16
Read—Seamus Heaney Handout
Friday
5/18
Open
Day
Monday
5/21
Rough Drafts for Essay #3 Due
Short Film
Journal Check
Wednesday
5/23
Discussion of Multi-genre Approach For Essay #3
Friday
5/25
Read—Carver “Cathedral”
Journal Due: Write a Short-Short Work of Fiction in
the Style of Raymond Carver
Monday
5/28
TBA
Wednesday
5/30
TBA
Friday
6/1
TBA
Exam:
Mon, June 4, 9-9:30 am
Turn in Revised essay and final Copy of Essay #3
