College
Composition II
ENG
102
Essex
County College
Prof. Sean O’Connell 9:00-1:00
Email:soconnel@essex.edu
Phone:
973-877-1926
Office: 1137
Office
Hours: Room: 2110
Text: To be handed out on
first today
CLASS BLOG: eng102winter17.blogspot.com
*In class assignments will be
handwritten; all homework assignments should be typed and double spaced using
12-point Times New Roman font.
America
and Assimilation
12/21 R Introduction to class, discussion of
syllabus, plagiarism and What it means to be American? Read Brave
We Are and Two Kinds
12/22 F T Brave We Are and Two Kinds, The
Namesake (Film),
Identity
and Learning From the Past
12/26 T “Live For Today”, “Mrs. Turner’s Lawn Jockeys”, W Film: Lion, ASSIGN FIRST ESSAY,
Characters
Going Through Change
12/27 W Nawabdin the Electrician, “The Eve of the Spirit Fest”, Film: Castaway
The
Magical Stranger and Appearance
12/28 R “The Temp”, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, Film: Edward Scissorhands
Tradition, Persecution and “Groupthink”
12/29 F “The Sisterhood of Night” “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, Film: The
Village
Reality
and Experience
1/2 T The Allegory of the Cave”The Truman
Show, “ ASSIGN SECOND ESSAY
1/3 W Meet in my office for help with Final Paper
1/4 R Meet in my office for help with Final Paper
1/5 F THIRD ESSAY DUE
