English 1301 -Expository English Composition

Fall Semester 2016 Calendar

EPCC First day of Class 21 August 2016

EPCC Final Exam Days: 5-9 December2016

10 November 2016 - Last Day to Drop with a grade of “W”

1-5 August2016

  1. Lecture.

Class introductions, planning, and expectations for English 1301.

  1. Dual Credit/Requirements and Objectives
  2. Review EPCC Dual Credit Handbook, Student Responsibilities

Review – A Writer’s Reference, Diana Hacker

(Use this URL for 2016 Updates to MLA Handbook, 8th Edition and for MLA sample essay formats/Handouts). I recommend you print a copy of a Sample MLA Paper (Undergraduate). Discuss Plagiarism and read Pitts article and read and sign MHS/EPCC Policies.

  1. Reading Assignments: Rhetorical Situations in Norton Part 1 (1-24). Generating Ideas and Text (1-24), Drafting, Assessing Your Own Writing, Editing and Proofreading (259-286)
  • Transition, Logical sequence and development of your essay
  • “Sketch a Plan, Drafting, Hacker (Section C, 3-21)
  • Read and discuss from "The Wanderer" short epic poem (Anglo-Saxon period 108-111) – Writing Activity: When are people the most alone?
  1. Analyze essay/speech: Timed Writing Sample/Diagnostic Essay - "Rose"

8-12 August 2016

  1. Lecture–MLA Format/Rhetorical Situations
  2. Paraphrasing and Plagiarism Syllabus – Norton (475-483)
  3. Reading Assignments:
  • “Doing Research (Norton, 419-523): Evaluating Sources, Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing, Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism - Norton (419-523)
  • “Supporting A Thesis,” “Citing Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism,” and “Integrating Sources, Using Quotations Appropriately”- Hacker (369-375)
  • MLA Format and Sample Paper (Hacker: 464-470, Norton 523-532)
  • Read “The Wife’s Lament” (112-114) – Writing Activity: What are the narrator’s feelings toward her husband? How are they expressed or described? Is she utterly alone?
  • Begin reading, Grendel, John Gardner
  1. Classroom Activity-

Writing –How important is point of view to a story? In the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel is the antagonist, analyze why Gardner offers this alternate view of Grendel.

15-19 August 2016

1. Reading Assignment: Continue with Beowulf

2. Secondary Text:

Hennequin, Wendy M. “We’ve Created a Monster: The Strange Case of Grendel’s Mother.” English Studies vol. 8 no.5 (October 2008): 503-523. JSTOR. Web. 7 Jun 2009.

3. Writing Activity- Explain how Gene Rodenberry uses the story of Beowulf in a future context and contrast his use of a female warrior (Frea) to the socially accepted roles for women during Middle-Ages and Anglo-Saxon time-frames.

4. Film adaptation – Beowulf storyline: Heroes and Demons - Star Trek, Voyager.

Week 1: 22-26 August 2016

  1. Analyze the different time frames from Anglo-Saxon period to present and how a hero is portrayed. In the song: “Holding Out for a Hero” by Dean Pitchford how is the need for a modern hero depicted? Compare the poem we read to the modern ballad performed and sang on the 1984 soundtrack, FOOTLOOSE. Explain how the music and singing change the tone and mood of the ballad (Kagan: Think, Pair Share).
  2. View the film Beowulfand write a movie review.

2016 Week 2: 29-31 August 1-2 September 2016 (31 August Early Release)

  1. Reading Assignments: Documenting Sources
  • “Doing Research: Documentation, Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing– MLA Style” (Norton 419, 462-474, 480-482)
  • Documentation – List of Works Cited, Examples (Norton 494-523/*510)
  • Source Citations: for an Article/Essay published in a book and book, print media (Source Citation: Norton, (510-532); Hacker (420) (In-text Citations - Norton, (488-494); Hacker Web source (420); (MLA Handbook Section 5.56 (157).
  1. Review MLA format: (see syllabus Section III, 2 B-F – (1-3) MLA Writing Assignments.
  2. Library: 29-30 August 2016 - Introduction to MHS/EPCC Library Databases (Initial Research for Essay #4)

Week 3: 6-9 September 2016 (5 September Labor Day Holiday)

****9 September 2016 Census Date***

  1. Lecture: Literacy Narrative
  2. Reading Assignments: Literacy Narrative (27-51):
  • “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar through Language” MajorieAgosin (33-37)
  • “Mother Goose in Monterrey” Richard Bullock (37-42)
  • Documenting and in-text citations – In-text Citations – see week 2 above; (MLA Handbook Section 5.56 (157).
  1. Analyze and view film 9-11- Analyzing Texts (Media/Historical)

Recommended DVD 9/11, A Film by Jules and GedeonNaudet and James Hanlon--ISBN 0792185676- partial video clip/film: View the clip from the 9/11 link below and