Spring, 2019
ENGL 0312 Coursemap: Spring Semester, 2019.
Week 6: Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2019
| Finish Chaper 14 in Escholz and Rosa, carefully look over chapters 4 and 16.
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Wednesday: Tentative Video if not seen already: The Fall of Berlin (~10 min). Trigger warning: Extreme combat violence and destruction. May be upsetting to some viewers. Russian audio with English subtitles. Tentative: The One Hour Rule–how to retain new learning. Discussion: Finding implications and inferences: Finding what is not said in the text: .Resource: Taking one for the team. (May work only on campus computers). Tentative Audio Resource (Thurs./Fri.): Presentation on VE Day, by Norman Corwin. Full presentation is ~60 min. [Trigger warning: May be upsetting to some readers. No subtitles or script available.] |
Week 7: Mar. 4-8, 2019
| Read Chapter 5 in Escholz and Rosa.
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Tentative comparison/contrast exercise:
Instructions: Compare and contrast the contents of these two brief videos, the second from World War II, the first from our own time. [Trigger warning: Extremely realistic cinematic violence in these videos may upset some viewers. No usable subtitles on either video.] |
Optional Resource (Poem): The American Child, by Paul Enge.
ALL SIX READING JOURNALS DUE by Wed., Mar. 6/Thurs. Mar. 7 AT BEGINNING OF CLASS, FOR MIDTERM GRADING. Staple all journals together. |
Tentative: Summarize "UTEP Study finds Links between Childhood Adversity, Burnout and Depression."
1/22/1944. From Newspapers.com. Reproduced for classroom use only. Week 8: Mar. 11-15, 2019
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Exercise: argue in ISARC format whether or not finishing this semester without quitting this class or dropping out, and ultimately the whole task of getting your college degree is "worth the hassle" at this point for you, personally. Be careful to use "I, me, my, we, and us" in your answer. Please be honest! Optional resource (2017), Study Identifies Factors that Lead to Greater College Success. |
Tentative resource for summary practice: Indifference to a Hellish World (2018). Outline main points for a summary.
Reader response: The dark side--how to attack a text or standpoint [Refutation}. Distribute handout: "The Dark Side."
Optional Resource for understanding refutation: Anticipating others' false beliefs ("Theory of Mind") and apes.
Tentative Resource: Read brief text selection from the story "Moon of Ice," by Brad Linaweaver (1982). [Trigger warning! Content is entirely fictional, and may be seriously offensive to some readers!] Compose a brief, five-sentence ISARC argument with your opinion on the following question: If history had gone differently, could such a world as described in this story have ever existed? Why or why not?
March 18-22 SPRING BREAK, No classes. |
Week 9: Mar. 25-28, 2019(Friday, Mar. 29, Cesar Chavez Day, no classes.)
| Start reading Chapter 8 of Escholz and Rosa.
Photo: Sophie Scholl, executed at age 21 for leading student resistance to Hitler.
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| Tentative analytical response: Argue in ISARC format: Do wars "just happen" at certain times, sort of like hurricanes or earthquakes? Or can and should we as citizens do anything to prevent or resist them? |
Resource for comparing people: Comparison (Synkrisis).
Tentative resource: Behavior in High School Predicts Income and Occupational Success Later in Life.
Tentative resource: College may have become more valuable.
Optional audio resource: "Hitler Lives." (~3 min. Warning: No subtitles available.)
Tentative resource: NY Times article on college and the need to get sufficient sleep (2018).
Tentative summary practice resource: Sleep Disturbances More Common for Immigrants than Non-immigrants. (2018).
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Tentative summary practice resource: Don't try it even once: "Research Shows a Single Dose of Cocaine Irreversibly Alters Brain." (2018).
Tuesday/Wednesday/ Check of class notes. Review your notes on the two kinds of comparison, and Three Big Rules.
Wed./Thurs.: Learning by reading out loud.Resource: Repeating aloud to another person boosts recall (Article) Resource (to be read out loud): Litany for Dictatorships, by Steven Vincent Benét (Molendyk & Edwards, 1942, pps. 7-10). Additional Resource (Tentative: To be read out loud in class): "Can we Avoid History's Blood-Dimmed Tide?" by John Case (2011). Tentative background resource: Beyond Superstition (2018). Tentative: Summary practice. Tentative resource: German Teens who Rebelled against Hitler. Tentative background resource: Sophie Scholl: A Lesson in Courageous Resistance. Tentative: Response. |
Friday, Mar. 29, Cesar Chavez Day, no classes.
Week 10: Apr. 1-5, 2019
| Finish reading Chapter 8 in Escholz and Rosa; carefully look over Chapters 9 and 16.
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Response practice resources: |
Tentative Resource: "Aftermath" (poem), by Siegfried Sassoon. Note: The above poem is from World War I, but Molendyk and Edwards include it in their 1947 anthology (pps. 78-79) in reference to World War II. Wednesday, ISARC practice |
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- Tentative Resource: (Audio/video) When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World, by Vera Lynn. (~3 1/2 min.)Discuss personal reaction to song.
- Resource: (Audio/Video): There'll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover.
- Optional Resource (Audio): Smoke on the Water, by Wesley Tuttle. [Warning: No subtitles. Lyrics may be offensive to some.]
Tentative:
Distribute:
The Four Rules of Self-Editing
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