“Prizes, Ten Best Lists and Cultural Value"
English 101 Composition I (10458)
Autumn 2009
California University of Pennsylvania
3 credits
TTh 2.00-3.15 PM
Keystone 400A
M. G. Aune
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Part 1 Nobel Prizes,
Cultural Capital, Symbolic Value
Topics: symbolic
value, capital, exchange value, use value, prestige, annotation
Week 1
1 September
Introductions and interviews, the Nobel Prize in Literature
3 September Read: “Yondaland”*
Form Groups, how to annotate, elements and structure of short story, J.M.G.
Le Clézio
Week 2
8 September
Literature Resource Center, Read and annotate: “The Runner”* and “O Thief,
What is the Life You Lead?”*
10 September Read and
Discuss: “The Round”* and “The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea”*
Week 3
15 September Read and
Discuss: “Through the Tunnel”* and “The Old Chief Mshlanga”*
17 September Group 1 Presentation, Read and Discuss: “No Witchcraft for Sale”* and “The Nuisance”*
Week 4
22 September Due:
Final draft of Paper 1. Bring a
paper copy, a copy on disk, and the outline.
24 September Nobel
Prize in Literature, Predictions and Display Project
Week 5
29 September Return
Paper 1, Editing Journal, Conferences Read:
1 October Group 2
Presentation, Read and Discuss: Snow
pp. 3-79
Week 6
6 October Read and
Discuss: Snow pp. 80-145
8 October Group 3
Presentation, Read and Discuss: Snow
pp. 146-225
Week 7
13 October Read and
Discuss: Snow pp. 226-304
15 October Study Day
Week 8
20 October Read and
Discuss: Snow pp. 305-74
22 October Read and
Discuss: Snow pp. 375-426
Week 9
27 October Due:
Paper 2
29 October
Betrayal pp. 11-71
Week 10
3 November Return Paper 2, Editing Journal, Conferences
5 November Group 4
Presentation, Read and Discuss:
Betrayal pp. 75-138
Week 11
10 November Read &
Discuss: Life and Times pp. 3-45
12 November Group 5
Presentation, Read & Discuss: Life and
Times pp. 46-92
Week 12
17 November
Read & Discuss: Life and Times pp. 93-142
19 November Read &
Discuss: Life and Times pp. 143-84
Week 13
24 November Read &
Discuss: Top Ten Lists
26 November No Class,
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14
1 December Due: Final
version of Paper 3, including the outline, the side shadowed version and the
peer review sheet.
3 December Extra Day
Week 15
8 December Editing
Journal and Conferences
10 December Final
class Due: Portfolio
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