Date

Reading

Assignments

1/7

Introduction

1/9

1

BNCH (1-14)

Diagnostic Exercise

1/10

LeGuin – “Omelas”

Critical Analysis

1/14

Vonnegut – “Harrison Berg.”

Critical Analysis

1/16

2

BNCH (14-27)

1/17

DeLillo (11-32)

Response Paper 1 DUE – Summary Assgn.

1/21

No Class

1/23

3

DeLillo (33-60)

Propaganda – Photoshop/Fireworks

1/24

1/28

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

1/30

4

BNCH (52-70)

1/31

Response Paper 2 DUE – Propaganda Assgn.

2/4

Doctorow (1-30)

Writing Introductions

2/6

5

BNCH (70-93)

Topic Formation

2/7

Doctorow (31-60)

Thesis Construction

2/11

Doctorow (60-100)

Peer Editing – Draft DUE

2/13

6

2/14

Doctorow (100-140)

Paper 1 DUE
Revising Papers – Recommended: BNCH (34-51)

2/18

Doctorow (140-180)

2/20

7

2/21

Doctorow (180-220)

Writing Conclusions
Response Paper 3 DUE – Film Portrait

2/25

Doctorow (220-260)

2/27

8

Tutorial – Moviemaker/PowerPoint

2/28

Doctorow (260-310)

3/3

Thirteen Days (2000)

3/5

9

Music

3/6

Visual Rhetoric Project DUE
Presentations

3/10

Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break

3/12

10

3/13

3/17

Rear Window (1954)

3/19

11

BNCH (99-114)

Working with Sources – CORE

3/20

Thesis Workshop

3/24

The Truman Show (1998)

Peer Editing – Draft DUE

3/26

12

BNCH (143-165)

3/27

Paper 2 DUE
Research/Plagiarism Discussion

3/31

The Terminator

Writing Abstracts and Annotations

4/2

13

BNCH (115-128)

Working with Sources/Quotations – CORE

4/3

4/7

Children of Men (2006)

4/9

14

4/10

Abstract DUE
Annotated Bibliography DUE

4/14

The Godfather

Peer Editing – Draft DUE

4/16

15

BNCH (343-351)

Oral Presentations

4/17

Final Research Paper Due

4/21

The Departed

4/23

16

Presentations

4/24

Presentations