END-OF-SEMESTER SCHEDULE 11/14 - 12/21

FRIDAY 11/18

* Peer review of analysis essay: Pink Flamingo
* Great Books discussion: Obervation & Experiment (Bernard)

TUESDAY 11/22

* Peer review of analysis essay: Pink Flamingo
* Great Books reading: An Essay in Aesthetics (Fry)

TUESDAY 11/29

* next analysis essay: Okefenokee Swamp
* Great Books discussion: An Essay in Aesthetics (Fry)

THURSDAY 12/1

* Peer review of analysis essay: Okefenokee Swamp
* Great Books reading: On Studying (Ortega y Gasset

MONDAY 12/5

* next analysis essay: Owls
* Great Books reading: Of Commonwealth (Hobbes)

WEDNESDAY 12/7

* Peer review of analysis essay: Owls
* Great Books discussion: Of Commonwealth (Hobbes)


FRIDAY 12/9

* next analysis essay: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
* Great Books reading: Of Civil Government

TUESDAY 12/13

* Peer review of analysis essay: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
* Great Books discussion: Of Civil Government

THURSDAY 12/15

rhetorical terms review

WEEK OF 11/7 - 11/10

MONDAY

Today we will read your Synthesis Essay on Orwell/Gandhi. Then we will read & discuss the next Great Books Reading: Observation & Experiment by Claude Bernard.

WEDNESDAY

We will continue reading your Synthesis Essay, as well as the sample student essays and the grading system. I will assign the next synthesis essay. Then we will discuss your answer to a question on the Bernard reading, and then move to the next Great Books Reading.