Overview of Assignments:

These assignments are due in class on the dates indicated. There will be NO LATE assignments accepted. Also, there will be additional assignments and materials not indicated on this sheet (I will announce them in class), and both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change. All readings are in the Mercury Reader unless otherwise noted (CP = course packet).

 

Week 1  

 

Richard Wright  

Richard Wright

M, July 2 – Course introduction and syllabus review

T, July 3 – Syllabus quiz

W, July 4 – No Class

R, July 5 – Narration, Description and sign up for grammar panels

F, July 6 – Richard Wright's "The Library Card"

 


 

Week 2

Malcolm X Malcolm X 

 Maya Angelou Maya Angelou

M, July 9 – Malcolm X's "A Homemade Education" and Maya Angelou's "Finishing School"

T, July 10 – Gloria Anzaldϊa's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" and Richard Rodriguez's "Public and Private Language"

W, July 11 – Grammar Panels

Gloria Anzaldϊa Gloria Anzaldϊa

R, July 12 – Grammar Panels

F, July 13 – Draft of Essay 1, peer review  

 


 

Week 3

Margaret Atwood

Gloria Steinem             Gloria Steinem

Miss America               Miss America

M, July 16 – Essay 1 Due, "Example," "Definition," and Margaret Atwood's "Pornography"

T, July 17 – "Comparison and Contrast," Gloria Steinem's "Erotica and Pornography," and MLA works cited pages

W, July 18 – Margaret Atwood's "The Female Body," Studs Terkel "Miss U.S.A.," and "Classification and Division"

R, July 19 – Web design workshop (basic HTML, images, links, and tables) – NWE HTML tutorial before class: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/web/authoring/tutorial/

For tables specifically: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/web/authoring/html/tables.html

F, July 20 – NO CLASS

 


 

Week 4

Animated GIF of a computer surfing

Where do you like to surf the web?

 

 

M, July 23 – Draft of Essay 2, peer review

T, July 24 – Essay 2 Due and MOO Introduction (read all sections of the NWE MOO Introduction (http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/moo/intro/

W, July 25 – "Process Analysis," "Cause and Effect,"  M Kadi's "Welcome to Cyberia, "Amy Bruckman's "Finding One's own Space in Cyberspace," and Pavel Curtis's "Not Just a Game: How LambdaMOO Came to Exist and What it Did to Get Back at Me" (CP)

Animated GIF of a cow mooing

The cow says mooooooooooooo!

 

R, July 26 – Julian Dribbell's "Rape in Cyberspace or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society" (http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle.html) (class held on the MOO)

F, July 27 – NO CLASS (maybe office hours)

 


 

Week 5

M, July 30 – Draft of Essay 3, peer review; Revisions of Essay 1 due

T, July 31 – Essay 3 Due and web design workshop on how to make content count (read http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/web/authoring/),"Persuasion," and Basile's "The Cat Cinderella" (CP)

cover of Walt Disney's Cinderella

W, Aug. 1 – Grimm Brothers' "Cinderella" (CP) and Disney's "Cinderella" (CP); Revisions of Essay 2 due

R, Aug. 2 – Ever After (movie)

F, Aug. 3 – Library Workshop (meet in room 148 of Library West)

 


 

Week 6

cover of Ever After: A Cinderella Story

M, Aug. 6  – Ever After (movie)

T, Aug. 7 – Research Day (no class)

W, Aug. 8 – Research Day (no class)

R, Aug. 9 – Draft of Essay 4, peer review  

F, Aug. 10 – Essay 4  and revisions of Essay 3 due to my mailbox by 4 p.m.

 


 

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