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Calendar/ Syllabus

Professor Dana Milstein: English 2850 (VC-6175)

email: danamilstein@nyc.rr.com

phone: (917) 488-9838

Office Hours: On AIM Mondays 9-10 p.m. and by appointment. Screen name: drdanamilstein

Required Materials for Purchase IMMExaDIATELY on www.Amazon.com or a store of your choosing (used is fine):

Jon Scieszka: The true story of the three little pigs

Herman Hesse Siddhartha

Required Provided Materials: Blog: http://gworks-milstein.blogspot.com/

(IMPORTANT: You will need to set up a free gmail email address at www.gmail.com in order to post responses on the various blogs. Each online lesson is created on its own blog and requires separate registration; therefore, you will receive multiple invitations and must accept ALL of them in order to post throughout the semester.)

R 8/26: school starts: Moliere The Miser Part I

T 8/31 Moliere The Miser Part II

R 9/2 Library Day, prepare comedy scripts

T 9/7 Presentation of Scripts

R 9/ 9: no classes

T 9/ 14: no classes

R 9/16 group library day 1

T 9/21 Swift A Modest Proposal

R 9/23 online: Original Little Pigs versus Scieszka’s text: Write your own news clip

T 9/28 Koizumi Yakumo Kwaidan excerpts

R 9/30 watch Barking Dogs Don’t Bite on Netflix, post your response online

T 10/5 Dracula and Frankenstein excerpts, Set up Twitter Account and start tweeting twice daily!

R 10/7 Take-home Essay 1

T 10/12 Peer Review (submit final draft of Essay 1 by Sunday via email)

R 10/14 Group Library day 2

T 10/19 Borges “Garden of Forking Paths”

R 10/21 Online: Twitter and Borges Response to Philosophies of Time

T 10/26 Siddhartha Part I

R 10/28 group library day 3

T 11/2 Siddhartha Part II

R 11/4 Scholarly Articles on Siddhartha: Groups Prepare for Article Delivery in Library

T 11/9 Group-led class discussions on Siddhartha

R 11/11 online: Netflix yoga, meditation, or Tai-Chi class and blog write-up

T 11/16 Tagore Vision and Surrealist writing exercise

R 11/18 Online: Surrealism/Dada continued, create your own Dada poem and interpret it

T 11/23-R 11/25 no classes, thanksgiving

T 11/30 Utopias: Voltaire “El Dorado” versus Gilman “Girls of Herland”

R 12/2 final group library day

T 12/7 Presentations

R 12/9 Presentations

Rubric and Policy: This class is experimental – as a blended class, part of it will be conducted online; therefore, you have the leisure to complete online materials at times outside our regular course meetings. In-class meetings will NOT be lecture based—you must come to class prepared to boisterously discuss the readings! Your take-home assignments will not be standard, and will usually require a creative component and a fieldtrip to a museum or cultural event. Please take full advantage of the time and resources provided to complete your exams successfully—I assure you that these assignments are multi-faceted and cannot be completed the night before they are due!

1. Participation: We will use a traditional blog for online meetings. For each online meeting, you must A) respond to the provided questions in a post of 150-200 words and B) respond to two of your peers using the COMMENTS feature in their Posts (of 50-100 words each). Your participation grade will be computed using three factors: A) Responses must be posted/ commented for all class sessions within 72 hours of the reading date on your syllabus, B) Your responses must be quality, not quantity based and must demonstrate an effort to use spell/grammar check in Word. I expect short paragraphs that further the discussion and offer feedback/ suggestions to your peers and demonstrate that you have read the assigned text, C) Flaming and spam will not be tolerated.

2. All work in the form of activities and exams MUST be submitted electronically within 24 hours of the due date. Ten points will be deducted each day the assignment is late. These points cannot be added with extra credit or revisions.

3. All students must attend class in person on the designated Class Meetings.

4. All students will participate in a group presentation, which can be prepared during normal class hours, or during hours of your choosing. You will conduct this preparation in a professional manner; we will cover details at a later date.

Grade Distribution:

Participation/ Online Responses: 25% of your grade

Group Presentation: 15% of your grade

Exams: 30% each, totaling 60% of your grade

Note: Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you encounter a brick wall in your writing, or are having personal problems, email me immediately to set up a private appointment, and we will find a resolution that works for you.

GWorks

Welcome Message

Video Tutorial: How to Sign In/ Use the Blogs

Little Pigs Part 2: The News Article [Registration Required]

Barking Dogs Movie Review

Yoga, Meditation, Tai-Chi

Dada and Surrealism Poetry

Friday, August 24, 2007

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