“Prizes, Ten Best Lists and Cultural Value"
Honors 150: Honors Composition I
Autumn 2010
California University of Pennsylvania
| Honors 150/H2 10659 |
Honors 150/H3 10660 |
| TTh 12.30 - 1.45 |
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Week 1
31 August
Introductions, Top Ten Children’s Books
2 September Read &
Discuss: “Oppressive Tango”* Annotating, elements and structure of
short story, Herta Müller, Nobel Prizes, establish groups
Week 2
7 September
Literature Resource Center, Thesis Statements, Read & annotate: “My Family”*
and “The Intervillage Bus”*
9 September Read &
Discuss: “Yondaland”* and “The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea”* J.M.G.
LeClézio
Week 3
14 September
Introductions and conclusions, Read & Discuss: “Through the Tunnel”* Doris
Lessing
16 September Group 1
Presentation, Read & Discuss: “The Nuisance”*
Week 4
21 September Due:
Paper 1. Bring a paper copy, a
copy on disk, and the outline.
23 September Due:
Group Project, Nobel Prize Predictions and Display Project.
Meet in lobby of the library, in front of the elevators.
Week 5
28 September Return
Paper 1, Editing Journal, Conferences
30 September Group 2
Presentation, Read & Discuss: Betrayal
pp. 11-71
Week 6
5 October Meet in
Library, on-line research ex
7 October Read &
Discuss: Betrayal pp. 75-138,
Group 3 Presentation
Week 7
12 October Meet in
Library, on-line research ex
14 October Read &
Discuss: Harold Pinter Poems*, Christopher Hitchens, “Sinister Mediocrity”*
Week 8
19 October Due: Paper
2
21 October Study Day,
No Class
Week 9
26 October Return
Paper 2, Editing Journal, Conferences
28 October Read &
Discuss: Beloved pp. 3-59, Group 4
Presentation
Week 10
2 November Read & Discuss: Beloved
pp. 60-99
4 November Read &
Discuss: Beloved pp. 100-56, Group
5 Presentation
Week 11
9 November Read &
Discuss: Beloved pp. 157-95
11 November Read &
Discuss: Beloved pp. 199-256
Week 12
16 November
Read & Discuss: Beloved pp. 257-324
18 November Read &
Discuss: Iannone “Toni Morrison’s Career,”* Iannone “Literature by Quota,”*
Bayles “Special Effects”* and Cohen “Ideology Said to Split”*
Week 13
23 November Read &
Discuss: “Black Writers in Praise,”* Atwood “Jaunted by Their Nightmares,”*
and Kakutani “Books of the Times: Review of
Beloved”*
25 November No Class,
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14
30 November Paper 3
due
2 December Extra Day
Week 15
7 December Return
Paper 3, Editing Journal, Conferences
9 December Final
class Due: Portfolio
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