Lesson Plan for Week 1: General Thoughts and Notes

Patrick Mooney, TA
Eng 10, Prof. Waid
3 April 2013

Major topics:

1. Today's fun facts:
   1. From fiscal year 2001-2 to fiscal year 2008-9, UC per-student funding dropped 50%. (source: http://is.gd/kimilo)
   2. Q: What would it cost the median taxpayer to restore fiscal year 2001-2002-level funding? A: less than $32 per return per year. (source: http://is.gd/vahami).
2. Administrative Issues:
   1. Section issues? Crashing?
   2. Go over section guidelines handout.
   3. Other registration/administrative issues?
3. Introductions!
4. Discussion of Kenneth Koch's Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams (handout)

   Write on board: WC Williams's This is Just to Say:

   I have eaten
   the plums
   that were in
   the icebox

   and which
   you were probably
   saving
   for breakfast

   Forgive me
   they were delicious
   so sweet
   and so cold