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

M, July 1 – Course introduction and syllabus review

T, July 2 – Syllabus quiz (read all of the subtopics at http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/web/authoring/)

W, July 3 – Narration, Description, more web work, and sign up for grammar panels

 Richard Wright from corbis.com   Richard Wright
(from www.corbis.com) 

R, July 4 – No Class

F, July 5 – Richard Wright's "The Library Card"

 

 

Week 2

 Malcolm X (image from corbis.com) Malcolm X 
(from www.corbis.com)

Maya Angelou (image from corbis.com) Maya Angelou

(from www.corbis.com)

Gloria Anzaldϊa Gloria Anzaldϊa

(from www.corbis.com)

M, July 8 – Malcolm X's "A Homemade Education" and Maya Angelou's "Finishing School"

T, July 9 – Gloria Anzaldϊa "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" and Richard Rodriguez's "Public and Private Language"

W, July 10 – Grammar Panels

R, July 11 – Grammar Panels

F, July 12 – Draft of Essay 1, peer review

 

 

Week 3

M, July 15 – Essay 1 Due, "Example," "Definition," and Margaret Atwood's "Pornography"

  

Gloria Steinem (from corbis.com) Gloria Steinem

(from www.corbis.com)

T, July 16 – "Comparison and Contrast," Gloria Steinem's "Erotica and Pornography," Lisa Duggan's "Censorship in the Name of Feminism" (cp), and Grammar Quiz 

W, July 17 – "Classification and Division," Margaret Atwood's "The Female Body," Lisa Duggan et. al's "False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation" (cp), MLA works cited pages, and pornographic images web assignment

 Margaret Atwood (from corbis.com)
(from www.corbis.com)

R, July 18 – Web design workshop (basic HTML, images, links, and tables) – Please read up through the subtopic "Citations" at http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/web/authoring/tutorial/

F, July 19 – Draft of Essay 2, peer review

 

 

Week 4

Animated GIF of a computer surfing (from gifworks.com)

Where do you like to surf the web?

(from www.gifworks.com) 

M, July 22 – Essay 2 Due and MOO Introduction (read all sections of the NWE MOO Introduction --- http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/moo/intro/)

T, July 23 – "Process Analysis," "Cause and Effect," Langdon Winner's "Mythinformation," and revisions of Essay 1 due

W, July 24 – Amy Bruckman's "Finding One's own Space in Cyberspace" and M Kadi's "Welcome to Cyberia"

Animated GIF of a cow mooing

The cow says moooooo!

(from www.gifworks.com)

 

R, July 25 – Pavel Curtis's "Not Just a Game: How LambdaMOO Came to Exist and What it Did to Get Back at Me" (CP)

F, 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)

 

 

Week 5

 cover of Walt Disney's Cinderella
(from www.amazon.com) 

M, July 29 – Draft of Essay 3, peer review

T, July 30 – Essay 3 Due via email(lhager@english.ufl.edu), "Persuasion," and Basile's "The Cat Cinderella" (CP)

W, July 31 – Grimm Brothers' "Cinderella" (CP), Disney's "Cinderella" (CP), and Cinderella Fairytales Web Assignment

R, Aug. 1 – All extra credit responses due and Library Workshop (in class)

F, Aug. 2 – Web design workshop

 

 

Week 6
(from www.amazon.com)

M, Aug. 5 and T, Aug. 6 – Ever After (movie)

W, Aug. 7 – Research Day

R, Aug. 8 – Draft of Essay 4, peer review and revisions of Essay 3 due

F Aug. 9 – Essay 4 Due via email to me (lhager@english.ufl.edu) by 3 p.m.

 

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