INGL 3104 Intermediate English II, Spring 2016

Course Schedule
INGL 3104
Spring 2016
Week 1
Friday
January 15

Week 2

Topic
Introductions
Review the
Syllabus

Due today

Homework
Read Syllabus

Topic

Due today

Homework

Monday
January 18

Wednesday
January 20

Friday
January 22
(Monday Schedule)

Week 3
Monday
January 25

Wednesday
January 27

No ClassHolidayMartin Luther King Jr.

Plagiarism &
MLA Discussion
Begin My
Name essays
Introduction:
What is
Literature?
Found Poems

Topic
Share Found
Poems
Short Story
Introduction
Read How to Eat
A Guava by
Esmeralda
Santiago
Discuss The Boy
Without a Flag
Compare with
Alexander
Hamilton Lin

Share My Name
essays

Due today
Found Poem
Response to How to
Eat a Guava

Response to The Boy

Without a Flag

1-

Write My
Name essay

Create a Found
Poem.

Homework
Read The Boy
Without a Flag
by Abraham
Rodriguez

Read The
Konk by Piri
Thomas

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Friday
January 29

Week 4
Monday
February 1

Wednesday
February 3

Friday
February 5

Week 5
Monday
February 8

Wednesday
February 10

Manuel Miranda
Discuss The
Konk by Piri
Thomas
Watch Dark
Girls

Topic
Discuss How to
Date a Brown
Girl by Junot
Diaz
Discuss A
Matter of Pride
by Nicholasa
Mohr
Discuss Show
Me That Step!
by Marielena

Topic
Compare and
Contrast Essay
Introduction
Discuss On
Closer
Examination
Brainstorming
Discussion of
Outlines

Response to The
Konk

Due today
Response to How to
Date a Brown Girl

Read How to
Date a Brown
Girl by Junot
Diaz

Homework
Read A Matter
of Pride by
Nicholasa Mohr

Response to A Matter
of Pride by Nicholasa
Mohr

Read Show Me
That Step! by
Marielena

Response to Show Me
That Step! by
Marielena

Read On Closer
Examination
from The Say/ I
Say

Due today

Homework
Compare and
Contrast Outlines
due Wednesday

Compare and
Contrast Outline
Due

Work on Essay
2-

Rough Draft of

INGL 3104 Intermediate English II, Spring 2016

Friday
February 12

Week 6

Rough Drafts

Topic

Monday
February 15

Wednesday
February 17

Friday
February 19

Compare and
Contrast Essay due
Wednesday
Due today

Homework

No ClassHolidayGeorge Washington

Peer Review of
Compare and
Contrast Essay

Rough Draft of
Compare and Contrast
Essay

Introduction to the
Novel
Begin The Brief,

Compare and Contrast

Essay Due

Compare and
Contrast Essay
Due Friday

Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

Week 7
Monday
February 22

Topic
Chapter 1 of The Brief,

Week 8
Monday
February 29

Reader Response

Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao

Topic
Chapter 4 of The Brief,
Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao

Chapter 5 of The Brief,

Wednesday
March 2

Reader Response

Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao

Chapter 3 of The Brief,

Friday
February 26

Homework

Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao

Chapter 2 of The Brief,

Wednesday
February 24

Due today
Reader Response

Due today
Reader Response

Reader Response

Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
3-

Homework

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Chapter 6 of The Brief,
Friday
March 4

Week 9
Monday
March 7

Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao

Topic
Chapter 7 of The

Week 10
Monday
March 14

Wednesday
March 16

Homework

Reader Response

Brief, Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao

Chapter 9 of The
Friday
March 11

Due today
Reader Response

Brief, Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao

Chapter 8 of The
Wednesday
March 9

Reader Response

Reader Response

Brief, Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao

Topic
Due today
Watch Life in the Time of
Butterflies

Homework

Finish Life in the Time

Comparison Life in
Time of Butterflies
with The Brief,

of Butterflies

Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao

Discussion of Assignment
Friday
March 18

Week 11

Comparison Life in Time of

Butterflies with The Brief,
Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao

Topic

Due today

Homework

Monday
March 21

4-

INGL 3104 Intermediate English II, Spring 2016

Wednesday
March 23

No ClassSpring Break

Friday
March 25

Week 12

Topic
Class Cancelled

Due today

Homework

Monday
March 28

Wednesday
March 30

Introduction to Literary
Analysis

Brainstorming

Literary Analysis
Outline

Friday
April 1

Week 13

Topic
Discussion of Outlines

Due today
Literary Analysis Outline

Homework
Literary Analysis Rough
Drafts

Peer Review

Literary Analysis Rough

Drafts

Literary Analysis Essay

Poetry Introduction
Kidnap Poem by Nikki
Giovanni

Literary Analysis Essay

Reader Response

Topic
Wolves by Kanye West

Due today
Reader Response

Monday
April 4

Wednesday
April 6

Friday
April 8

Week 14
Monday

5-

Homework

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April 11

Tuesday
April 12

In Front of the Class by

Bonafide Rojas

Reader Response

To Julia De Burgos by
Julia De Burgos

Reader Response

(Friday
Schedule)

Wednesday
April 13

Friday
April 15

Week 15
Monday
April 18

Wednesday
April 20

Friday
April 22

Week 16
Monday
April 25

No Class--JUSTAS
Topic
Alright by Kendrick
Lamar

Due today
Reader Response

Ballad of the Landlord

by Langston Hughes

Reader Response

Dear Mama by 2pac

Tamaras Opus by
Joshua Bennett

Reader Response

Topic
Explication Essay
Introduction

Due today

Homework

Homework

TBA
Wednesday
April 27

Friday
April 29
6-

Explication
Outline Due

INGL 3104 Intermediate English II, Spring 2016

Week 17
Monday
May 2
Last day for
partials

Topic
Due today
Explication Essay Outline Explication Essay Outline
Discussion

Homework
Explication Rough Draft

Peer Review

Explication Essay Rough

Draft

Explication Essay

Final Exam Review

Explication Essay

Topic
Final Exam Review

Due today

Wednesday
May 4

Friday
May 6

Week 18
Monday
May 9

7-

Homework