Schedule
(Subject to change)
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LESSON |
READING/ASSIGNMENT |
CONFERENCES |
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Wed 1/29 |
[Introduction] |
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Fri 1/31 |
Our New York |
Didion and Orwell, “Why I Write”; Welty, “The Making of a Writer” |
Kevin & Elaine |
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Wed 2/5 |
Gopnik, “The People on the Bus”; Lethem, “Speak, Hoyt-Schemerhorn”; Begin Transit Journal |
Erica & Kristine | |
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Fri 2/7 |
[Paper 1 Draft Workshop] |
Bring 10 copies of your Paper 1 Draft |
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Wed 2/12 |
NO CLASS |
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Fri 2/14 |
NO CLASS |
PAPER 1 DUE
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Wed 2/19 |
80’s |
McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (p. 1-54) |
Nikol & Pheobe |
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Fri 2/21 |
McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (p. 5-99) |
Zlatina & Alex | |
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Wed 2/26 |
McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (p. 100-145); Transit Journals collected |
William & Kevin | |
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Fri 2/28 |
McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (p. 146-end) |
Elaine & Erica | |
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Wed 3/5 |
[Paper 2 Draft Workshop] |
Circulate drafts by Monday; Prepare for workshop |
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Fri 3/7 |
Delaney, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (excerpts) |
Kristine & Nikol | |
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Wed 3/12 |
70’s [Screening: Annie Hall] |
PAPER 2 DUE |
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Fri 3/14 |
[Discuss Annie Hall] |
Weide, “The Woody Allen Allegations”; Farrow, “An Open Letter”; Transit Journals collected |
Pheobe & Zlatina |
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Wed 3/19 |
60’s |
New York Times coverage of the Stonewall Riots |
Alex & William |
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Fri 3/21 |
Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (excerpts) |
Kevin & Elaine | |
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Wed 3/26 |
50’s |
O’Hara, poems; Ellison, Invisible Man (prologue) |
Erica & Kristine |
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Fri 3/38 |
40’s |
Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (excerpts) |
Zlatina & Alex |
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Wed 4/2 |
30’s and 20’s |
Ellison, “New York, 1936”; Hughes, poems; Ellington, jazz; Transit Journals collected |
William & Kevin |
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Fri 4/4 |
[Paper 3 Draft Workshop] |
Circulate drafts by Wednesday; Prepare for workshop |
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Wed 4/9 |
10’s |
Wharton, “The Other Two” |
Elaine & Erica |
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Fri 4/11 |
9/11/2001 (poems: Szymborska, Lerner and Heaney) |
PAPER 3 DUE
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Wed 4/16 |
NO CLASS |
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Fri 4/18 |
NO CLASS |
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Wed 4/23 |
Proposal Due |
Kristine & Nikol | |
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Fri 4/25 |
9/11/2001 |
New York Times coverage of 9/11 |
Phoebe & Zlatina |
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Wed 4/30 |
9/24/2001 Talk of the Town, The New Yorker; Transit Journals Collected |
Alex & William |
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Fri 5/2 |
[Library Day] |
Meet in the library building, room 130 |
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Wed 5/7 |
Amis, “Fear and Loathing” |
Kevin, Elaine & Erica | |
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Fri 5/9 |
[Paper 4 Draft Workshop] |
Circulate drafts by Wednesday; Prepare for workshop (William, Erica, Kristine, Zlatina) |
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Wed 5/14 |
[Paper 4 Draft Workshop] |
Circulate drafts by Monday; Prepare for workshop (Alex, Elaine, Phoebe, Kevin, Nikol) |
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Fri 5/16 |
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Didion, “Goodbye to All That” |
OPEN |
PAPER 4 DUE 5/23 by midnight via turnitin.com