Delgado Community College
                                                     English 102: English Composition II

Instructor: Ms Melissa F. Diaz
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website:
www.geocities.com/msdiazonline
Office: Bldg 1, Room 111W #9
Office Phone: 483-4072
Office Hours:  MW 3:00-4:00
TR 12:00-4:00

Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry and Drama 6th edition. Editors: Sylvan Barnet, M. Berman, W. Burto, W. Cain, and M. Stubbs
Step By Step: Writing About Literature by Pat McKeague

                                                     
Week by Week Course Outline

Week l: 1/17-1/21 Introduction to course/review of policy and syllabus. Discuss literary analysis
                             and interpretation. �
The Road Not Taken� and "Patterns"
  
Week 2:1/24-1/28
Step: Read �The Elements of Literature� Pp 1-7, Complete Pp 9-14
                             
Lit: Read �The Story of An Hour� p 12
                             
Step: Read �Theme Analysis� Pp 93-111
                             
Lit: Read �To His Coy Mistress� p 672, �Porphyria�s Lover� (Handout) �A&P� p 853,
Week 3: 1/31-2/4
Step: Read �Writing About Literature� Pp 15-33 and "Using Quotaions" pp 37-44
                           
Lit: Read �Cat in the Rain� p 610, �The Lottery� p 1268
                           
Essay 1 due Friday by 3:00pm

Week 4: 2/7-2/11
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday - Mardi Gras Holidays
                           
Step: Read �Character Analysis� Pp 49-69
                           
Lit: Read �Sweat� p 632

Week 5: 2/14-2/18
Lit: Read �The Love Song of J. Alfred   Prufrock� p 552,
                                              �
A Good Man Is Hard to Find� p 297�
                             
Step: Read �Setting Analysis� Pp 71-91
                             
Lit: Read �The Storm� p 32, �Fall of the House of Usher� p 89
                             
Essay 2 due Friday by 3:00pm

Week 6: 2/21-2/25
Step: Read �Point of View Analysis� Pp 113-133
                              
Lit: Read �Richard Cory� p 1048, �A Rose for Emily� p 621, �Two Kinds� p 1020
  
Week 7: 2/28-3/4  
Step: Read �Symbolism Analysis� Pp 135-153
                              
Lit: Read �This Is Just To Say� p 137, �Young Goodman Brown� p 231,                                                  �Revelation� p 308

Week 8: 3/7-3/11  
Step: Read �Writing Literary Research Papers� Pp 261-303
                              
Essay 3 due Friday by 3:00pm
                               Choose and commit to a Research Paper topic

Week 9: 3/14-3/18 
A Streetcar Named Desire
                               Work on Research Paper

Week 10: 3/21-3/25
Thursday and Friday - Spring holidays
                               
A Streetcar Named Desire
                                Work on Research Paper

Week 11: 3/28-4/1  Review MLA Format
                               Begin Research Paper Conferencing

Week 12: 4/4-4/8    Research Paper Conferencing
                               
Last day to drop a class with a W - 4/8/05

Week 13: 4/11-4/15 Research Paper Conferencing
  
Week 14: 4/18-4/22
Research Paper Due
          

Week 15: 4/25-4/29  A Streetcar Named Desire

Week 16: 5/6           
Final Exam
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