Directories

Spring 2023 English 1A with Coreq--Regular Zoom Meetings Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 - 11:20 am with a formal break from 10:15 - 10:30

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Winter 2023 English 1B--Online asynchronous with occasional optional zoom meetings
Winter 2023 English 1B Honors--Online asynchronous with occasional optional zoom meetings



Most weeks there will be due dates, but assignments will be accepted without penalty, until Monday. This does not apply to essay submissions, however, which I accept late, but with a daily grade penalty. A+ to A for the first day late, etc.

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Spring 2023 English 1A with Coreq
Texts:
Boylan, Jennifer Finney. She's Not There: My Life in Two Genders Crown, 2013. ISBN: 978-0385346979

Barnet, Sylvan and Hugo Bedau. From Critical Thinking to Argument. 6th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's; (September 27, 2013) ISBN-13: 978-1319194437

If available, E-book versions are acceptable.

Course Description:

Theme: Who Are You? Who, Who...Who, Who


Our full-length work focuses on transgender experience as described in Jennifer Finney Boylan's wonderful memoir, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, so we will examine gender and other issues surrounding gender and transgender experiences from as many angles as we can. We will also consider the extent to which writing, literature, film, and other art forms create or can dismantle stereotypes—and what Afrofuturists strive to accomplish; the nature, causes and possible solutions to fake news on the Internet; and when (if ever) it is advisable to “code-switch”.

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Winter 2023 English 1B--Online asynchronous with occasional optional zoom meetings


Texts:

Shapard, Robert, James Thomas and Ray Gonzalez. Sudden Fiction Latino. 1st ed. Norton, 2010. ISBN: 978-0393336450

Abcarian, Richard. Literature: The Human Experience ISBN: 978-1319105068


Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love ISBN:9780393328622


Course Description:

Theme: Elephant in the Dark: Exploring the Mystery of Human Experience

By studying literature, we can study life, to some extent. Love, for example, is a trip. For a tour of love and other experiences, we will cover the map, skip through time, and dip into history. Love appears in both bizarre and more ordinary ways in the collection of short short fiction, Sudden Fiction Latino, which will act as a kind of guidebook for the rest of our tour. For a snapshot of centuries-old romantic and sexual norms, we will visit the Enlightenment era short story “Fantomina: Or Love in a Maze,” written by Eliza Haywood in 1725. For a more contemporary, global and cosmopolitan view of love we will read at least one of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s stories. And love will be one of many topics explored in Nicole Krauss's The History of Love

We will also read, discuss and interpret poetry and fiction from Literature: The Human Experience, which provides diverse literary perspectives of love and other human experiences, sample student essays, and instructions for understanding, unpacking and writing about literature. All regular English 1B courses require that you write a total of at least 6,000 words: a minimum of three untimed, formal essays (in-class or online) and two timed, informal essay exams (in-class or online). At least one of your formal essays will require guided independent research.

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Winter 2023 English 1B Honors

Note: I have added bold at the paragraphs describing the course below for differences in the writing requirements of this honors class, versus the regular English 1B course described above. The content will be similar to the regular 1B outlined above, but more writing, researching and reading are required for the honors section.

Texts:

Shapard, Robert, James Thomas and Ray Gonzalez. Sudden Fiction Latino. 1st ed. Norton, 2010. ISBN: 978-0393336450

Abcarian, Richard. Literature: The Human Experience ISBN: 978-1319105068


Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love ISBN:9780393328622



Course Description:

Theme: Elephant in the Dark: Exploring the Mystery of Human Experience


By studying literature, we can study life, to some extent. Love, for example, is a trip. For a tour of love and other experiences, we will cover the map, skip through time, and dip into history. Love appears in both bizarre and more ordinary ways in the collection of short short fiction, Sudden Fiction Latino, which will act as a kind of guidebook for the rest of our tour. For a snapshot of centuries-old romantic and sexual norms, we will visit the Enlightenment era short story “Fantomina: Or Love in a Maze,” written by Eliza Haywood in 1725. For a more contemporary, global and cosmopolitan view of love we will read at least one of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s stories. And love will be one of many topics explored in Nicole Krauss's The History of Love

We will also read, discuss and interpret poetry, fiction and drama from Literature: The Human Experience, which provides diverse literary perspectives of love and other human experiences, sample student essays, and instructions for understanding, unpacking and writing about literature.You will write at least 5 formal essays totaling 8,000 words or more and each of these will be text-based compositions of 1,000 words or more, requiring analysis of complex issues/situations, textual ambiguity, and multiple perspectives. At least one of your formal essays will require guided independent research.

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