Schedule for Presentations:

Note: the page numbers shown below are the STARTING page of the essay; of course, you are responsible for the ENTIRE piece!


September 15: No F2F Class, meet virtually

September 17: Diane K. Moltaji: Nora Ephron's "Revision and Life: Take It from the Top
-- Again," pg. 351

September 22: Jeremy Hirsch: Kurt Vonnegut's "How to Write with Style," pg. 356

September 24: Visit by Gail Lukasik, director of Internship for the Department of English

September 29: Sheila Johnson: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," pg. 296

October 1: Brian Dale Schwandt: Adam Smith's "The City as the OK Corral,"
pg. 184

October 6: Bob Gerlach: Bob Greene's "Bob, A Name Spurned by History," pg. 321

October 8: Lisa Shames: Mark Twain's "Advice to Youth," pg. 325

October 13: No F2F Class, Meet Virtually

October 15: No F2F Class, Meet Virtually

October 20: Roben Reiniche: Sharon Hayden's "Revenge on the Street," pg. 110

October 22: Sarah Unterman, Stephen Crane's "War Dispatch," pg. 83

October 27: Rebecca DeMarco, Alicia Ostriker's "American Poetry, Now Shaped by Women," pg. 248

October 29: Jennifer Cassell: James Baldwin's "Autobiographical Notes," pg. 47

November 3: David Gutierrez: Brian Finnegan's "On Death and Nature," pg. 154

November 5: Fil Bonifacio: Henry David Thoreau's "Life Without Principle," pg. 58

November 10: Dragana Dronjak: Adam Liptak's "Playing Air Guitar," pg. 38

November 12: Zb Stryjecki: Roger Simon's "No Compassion for Drunk Drivers," pg. 286

November 17: Akash Pathak: Richard Rodriguez' "Aria: A Memoir for Bilingual Childhood," pg. 193

November 19: Sofia Sarabia: Margaret Mead's "A Day in Samoa," pg. 92

November 24: Nedra Wilson: editorial, "A Heartland Tragedy," pg. 282

November 26: NO CLASS Thanksgiving Holiday!

December 1: Reading Scheduled from 2-5, no class during regular time (9:30-10:45 am)

December 3: Joseph Weiss, TBD and Final Goodbyes!


READING (You must attend!):

2-5 PM, Location TBD, on December 1, 1998. Clear your schedules now, please. 


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