Week 11: Bakersfield

The Padre Hotel

 

I spent sometime in San Francisco
I spent a night there in the can
They threw this drunk man in my jail cell
I took fifteen dollars from that man

Left him my watch and my old house key
Don't want folks thinkin' that I'd steal
Then I thanked him as I was leaving
And I headed out for Bakersfield

—Dwight Yoakam, "Streets of Bakersfield"

 
Week 11: Bakersfield
Mo 4.4 / Tu 4.5
Read: ACC—p. 85 - 190
In-Class: Reading discussion; Presentations, Lecture—“Avoiding a Writing Instructor’s Biggest Pet Peeves”

We 4.6 / Th 4.7
Read: ACC—p. 191 - 230
In-class: Watch—The Social Network (2010) 

Upcoming:

Week 12: Santa Cruz
Mo 4.11 / Tu 4.12
Read: ACC—p. 231 – 255; eR—“Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg” by Lev Grossman (Time), “Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook, Part 1” (60 Minutes), “Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook, Part 2” (60 Minutes), “The Face of Facebook” by Jose Antonio Vargas (The New Yorker)
In-Class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Preview—Editorial essay


We4.13 / Th 4.14
Read: MYCAL—“Transients in Paradise” by Aimee Lu, “The Last Little Beach Town” by Edward Humes, “Bienvenidos a Newport Beach” by Firoozeh Dumas, “Berkeley” by Michael Chabon
In-class: Reading discussion; Presentations
Due: Reflection 6
Returned: Cause and effect essay