August 13, 2013
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More Lists. Of Lists.
Today’s List:
—Email TYCA reps with TYCA to You topic. Deadline for them Sept 1; deadline for me Oct. 1.—Create a list of things to revise or update or whatever for tomorrow on campus.— Read the items I scanned in yesterday & figure out where they should go on the teacher-version of the schedule.Brainstorming: “Children’s Insults,” by Peter Farb (1 page) & “Freewriting,” by Peter Elbow (2 pages) should/could all be assigned in the first weeks of the semester (because it takes the students awhile – for some reason – to get Carlin’s book).“The Self,” by Jose Ortega y Gasset (2 pages) & “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster,” by Lars Eighner (4 pages) could follow those readings, too, if necessary.Later on in the semester, I could use: “Notes on Punctuation,” by Lewis Thomas (2 pages) & “How Dictionaries are Made,” by S.I. Hayakawa (2 pages) & “On Going Home,” by Joan Didion (2 pages) & “Declaration of Independence,” (3 pages) & “Campus Racism,” by Nikki Giovanni (3 pages) & “On Being From Fargo,” by Tim Lingren (3 pages) & “Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” by Thoreau (7 pages) & “August 2002: Night Meeting,” by Ray Bradbury (4 pages).Tomorrow’s List (and Thursday’s List and possibly Friday’s List):— Revise Project 1.5, Project 2, Project 6, and Project 7 in English 110.— Update student-version of Eng110 syllabus; it really just needs the basics (deadlines mostly & when to have what books?) on the schedule.— Revise GBP in English 120 to encompass more CCSS. What else needs revision in that course for those standards?*Page count based on how many copied pages it was coming out of the copier, not pages in the book it came from.
