Eh 200 Sample Syllabus
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Unit One: The World of Play
Week 1: January 18 — January 21
- Day 1: Course Overview, Syllabus, Personal Introductions, Pre-Test
- Day 2: Considering “Play,” Discuss Argumentative Précis. Reading: “The Untold Lie,” Sherwood Anderson 50-56.
Week 2: January 24 — January 28
- Day 1: Considering “The Untold Lie” as it relates to “play;” Considering “income” and its relationship with “class” in “Untold. Homework: Argumentative Précis on “The Untold Lie”
- Day 2: ” Turn in Argumentative Précis. Considering “income” and “class” as they relate to “play” in “Untold.”Annotate “Untold” for details relating to income, class, and play.
Week 3: January 31 — February 4
Week 4: February 7 — February 11
- Day 1: Considering Plot and the Precis, final draft due next class.
- Day 2: Turn in Précis. More on Plot and Summary. Reading Mrs. Beazley’s Deeds
Week 5: February 14 — February 18
- Day 1: More On Mrs. Beazley’s Deeds, Precis Fallout.
- Day 2: Mrs. Beasley’s Deeds. Cultural References.
Unit Two: The World of Work
Week 6: February 21 — February 25
Week 7: February 28 — March 4
Spring Break
Week 8: March 21 – March 25
Day 1: Finishing Maggie: A Girl of The Streets: Paper Two
Week 9: March 28 — April 1
Week 10: April 4 — April 8
Unit Three: Pragmatic American Dreams
Week 11: April 11 — April 15
Week 12: April 18 — April 22
Week 13: April 25 — April 29
[Final weeks modified as needed by instructors to cover, recover needed topics and guide students to completion of final paper and presentations]
Day 1: Submit paper three before break. Begin work on story boards for presentations
Day 2:
Week 14: May 2 — May 6
Final Exam TBA
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For this assignment I am looking at the term ‘class’ as a person belonging to a certain level of society based on their economic background. Provided there is a low-class, a middle-class, and an upper-class, people should be able to be categorized in one of them. Low-class would be people without work or low paying work, that do not have the means to have all the necessities in life. Middle-class would be people that have a steady income that allows them to pay for all the necessities in life comfortably. Upper-class would be people that have enough monetary supply to also satisfy their wants on top of their needs.
There are several indications about the main character, Ray, being in the low-class. Initially, he is described to the audience as a farm hand. This is a good indicator of Ray being low-income, which would make his economic background low as well. The next indicator of Ray being low-class is the description of his home: “a tumble-down frame house beside a creek at the back end of the Wills farm where Ray was employed.” (51) This shows that even though Ray has a home, it is in very poor shape, which means that Ray has not the means to upkeep his house. The other question is whether Ray actually owns it, or if he gets to stay there because he is employed by the farm. His clothing is worn out in a similar fashion, “torn about the pockets and the collar was shiny.” (54) Just another indication of Ray not being able to afford necessities in life.
Ray has not always been low-class though. It is explained that he was the son of a self-employed man: “when he was a young fellow living with his father, then a baker in Winesburg, and how on such days he had wandered away to the woods.” (52) Growing up the son of a baker Ray had experienced middle-class life prior to becoming low-class. Another indication of that is that Ray was able to take time for himself at that point.
All these examples prove Ray to be of low-class if he is judged based on an economic level. Even though he has things such as employment, a home, and clothes, he is clearly not able to do so comfortably: his house is in bad shape, as are his clothes. With this definition of class, it is also evident that people can move from one class to another, as Ray did in the story.
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