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ENG 102 : Isolation and Community, Fall 2020
 Goal : To produce a collaborative Wikibook on the theme of Isolation and Community

Tentative Schedule
Week 1 (Sept 14)

Hour 1: Zoom meeting: Reading and explaining the syllabus; writing poetry as an act of revision (collective poem): take out a pen and write a quick, fifteen-line-maximum poem that captures what this time of pandemic feels like for you. This draft will not be shared with anyone until you have had a chance to polish it a little. Write it for yourself.

At this point, you can use the rest of the class time to complete this week’s tasks or you can leave and complete them later. All tasks  are due Sunday night so I get time to check them during Monday before class.

Hours 2 and 3 and homework:


 * Read "Poetic Language" and "10 Steps I follow when analyzing a poem.” See this theory in action in my analysis of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover”: annotation and prewriting notes.  Submit one question or comment about any of the information on these pages to this form.
 * Read: Langston Hughes, “Song for a Dark Girl” and fill out this form.
 * Poetry as an act of revision: revise the quick poem you wrote in class and type it in this form
 * Read poems 1-7 by Emily Dickinson on our list. If you have trouble with some of her wording, consult the Emily Dickinson Lexicon. Now write Journal 1 (in Blackboard).
 * Complete: Questions and comments  about the syllabus and ideas for extra credit.

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Week 2 (Sept 21)

Hours 1 and 2: Zoom meeting: Discussing "Poetic Language" and analyzing Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry”; analyzing Langston Hughes’ “Song for a Dark Girl”; learning how to work in OneNote so you can do the homework.

If we have time leftover,  you can use it  to complete this week’s tasks or you can leave and complete them later. All tasks  are due Sunday night so I get time to check them during Monday before class.

Hour 3 and homework:


 * Read the presentation for literary terms for poetry and fill out this form.
 * Read poems 8-13 by Emily Dickinson on our list. If you have trouble with some of her wording,  consult the Emily Dickinson Lexicon. Now write Journal 2 (in Blackboard).
 * Poetry as an act of revision: check your classmates’ revised poems in OneNote and write a specific constructive comment for each of them, focusing on a verse or a phrase that works for you and explaining why that is so

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Week 3 (Oct 5)

Hour 1: Zoom meeting: Rereading Dickinson’s poetry and discussing the idea of isolation; reading and making initial comments about Langston Hughes’ "Let America Be America Again"

At this point, you can use the rest of the class time to complete this week’s tasks or you can leave and complete them later. All tasks  are due Sunday night so I get time to check them during Monday before class.

Hours 2 and 3 and homework:


 * Poetry as an act of revision: After re-reading your revised poem and the comments for it from your classmates on OneNote, I have chosen some highlights to put into a collective poem about the pandemic. Submit your feedback for these highlights to this form
 * Re-read Hughes’ “Let America…” and read “My People.” Now write Journal 3 (in Blackboard).
 * Start thinking about a short narrative to share with the class for the Narrative Unit. This narrative can be in print, in a podcast, or in a video. The original can be in another language as long as you provide a pretty good English translation with it. Requirements: The short narrative must be
 * a narrative (as opposed to a news story or an argument),
 * freely available on the Web (you will provide at least a link so everyone can read, listen, or watch it),
 * of a reasonable length (not whole books or two-hour movies, sorry), and
 * on the topics of the class: isolation and/or community.
 * be accompanied by a “pitch”--that is, a brief text that highlights what is cool about your text to persuade the rest of the class to read it

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Week 4 (class meets on Wednesday Oct 14)

Hour 1:  Zoom meeting: Rereading Hughes poetry and discussing the idea of American community/ies; considering Brian Bilston’s "Refugees"

At this point, you can use the rest of the class time to complete this week’s tasks or you can leave and complete them later. All tasks  are due Sunday night so I get time to check them during Monday before class.

Hours 2 and 3 and homework:


 * Read Ross Gay’s “Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude” and only after you have read it, watch him performing the poem for a live audience: https://youtu.be/uURnrX_-v6o . Now write Journal 4 (in Blackboard).
 * Submit to this form a short narrative to share with the class for the Narrative Unit. This narrative can be in print, in a podcast, or in a video. The original can be in another language as long as you provide a pretty good English translation with it. Requirements: The short narrative must be
 * a narrative (as opposed to a news story or an argument),
 * freely available on the Web (you will provide at least a link so everyone can read, listen, or watch it),
 * of a reasonable length (not whole books or two-hour movies, sorry), and
 * on the topics of the class: isolation and/or community
 * be accompanied by a “pitch”--that is, a brief text that highlights what is cool about your text to persuade the rest of the class to read it

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Week 5 (Oct 19)

Hour 1: Zoom meeting: When you can’t build a community garden...write a collective poem or create a Wikibook together--reading of our collective poem!!; checking submitted narratives and “pitches” as well as optional narratives (from Dr. X and her mom) to decide what to read

At this point, you can use the rest of the class time to complete this week’s tasks or you can leave and complete them later.

Hours 2 and 3 and homework: Start reading, listening to, watching narratives! Your aim should be to do 4-5 narratives (depending on length), of which you will choose 3 to write about in Journals 5, 6, and 7, and from which you will choose the one you want to write about for the Wikibook.

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Week 6 (Oct 26)

Hour 1: Zoom meeting to check in on progress with reading and writing about narratives.

At this point, you can use the rest of the class time to complete this week’s tasks or you can leave and complete them later. All tasks  are due Sunday night so I get time to check them during Monday before class.

Hours 2 and 3 and homework:


 * Finish Journals 5-7 (on Blackboard)
 * Submit your proposal for a chapter in our Wikibook

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Week 7 (Nov 2)

Hours 1-2: Zoom workshop: checking Wikibook proposals; learning about Wikibooks; starting work on Wikibook

Hour 3 and homework: Working on Wikibook chapter.

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Week 8 (Nov 9)

By appointment, individual meetings to check on progress of Wikibook (we can use class hours, but the meetings will depend on how far you are in your work)

Homework: Working on Wikibook chapter

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Week 9 (Nov 16)

Hours 1-2: Zoom workshop: working on Wikibook and submitting it to Blackboard (Yes, it is due today!);  creating a username and a userpage in Wikibooks

Hour 3 and homework: Giving feedback to peers on their chapter

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Week 10 (Nov 23)

Hours 1-2: Zoom workshop: Revising your chapter; formatting it for Wikibooks in your sandbox

Hour 3 and homework: Watch Much Ado about Nothing

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Week 11 (Nov 30)

Hours 1-3: Reading Much Ado about Nothing and preparing for final exam by writing Journal 8

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Week 12 (Dec 7)

Hours 1-2: Final Exam on Much Ado about Nothing. Submit Final exam to Blackboard.

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