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Mr. Smith reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice. |
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First Semester |
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Week 1, 09.07 |
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Monday: |
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school closed /no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Basic Introduction: Syllabus
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Setting Up Schoology |
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Academic Paragraph |
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• Paragraph Rubric |
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Foundations for Critical Thinking / Taking notes |
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Follow |
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@PrufrocksBlues /Twitter |
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mr_smith_eng2332 /Instagram |
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fragmentedportrait.blogspot.com/ |
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Wednesday: |
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Introduction Continued: Reading Guidelines |
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• Focused Reading |
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• demo-Habitual Reading |
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Overview of Class Projects |
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• Course Rubric |
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• What is an 'A' Paper? |
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• What is Synthesis? • example paper |
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• Synthesis Sentence Stems |
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Notions of the Self |
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• demo |
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Thursday: |
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Review of Literary Criticism Types part 1 |
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• Biogrphical, Formalist, Gender & Feminist / PDF |
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• Mythic, Historicism /PDF |
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• Psychoanalytical / PDF |
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• Sociological, Marxist, Queer Theory /PDF |
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Friday: |
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Review of Literary Criticism Types— part 2 |
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Week 2, 09.14 |
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Monday: |
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Warm-up Exercise |
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• Beck, Saw Lightning / What lens would you use? Why? |
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René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason |
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and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences, 1637 |
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• Work Citation |
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• part 1 & 4 |
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Tuesday: |
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Pargraph Comparisons with Lens |
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• WaltWhitman 1860/ American Strikers 1930 |
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• Sylvia Plath 1961/ Friday Kahlo 1939 |
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• Emily Dickinson 1861/ Van Morrison 1971 |
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Wednesday: |
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Senior Meeting with Ms. Nichols |
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Thursday: |
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René Descartes, Discourse on the Method |
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• demo-overview |
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• Discussion Board |
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Friday: |
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Free Will / Determinism / Fatalism |
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Week 3, 09.21 |
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Monday: |
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Codes of Morality • Absolutism • Theocracy |
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• demo-Absolutism |
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• demo-Colonial Views of Democracy |
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Hammurabi's Code of Law |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
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Parable, defined |
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• demo-Parable |
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Plato: The Search for Truth and Justice |
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• "The Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic, trans. Thomas Sheehan |
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• Animation |
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Wednesday: |
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Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic |
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Discussion Board |
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Thursday: |
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Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic |
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Discussion Board |
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Friday: |
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Summer Reading Project, (Critical Analysis) due by end of class <first major HS grade> |
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Week 4, 09.28 |
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Monday: |
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Overview of Classical Myths, Literary Criticism |
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• demo: Literary Analysis, definition of Parable, Folktales, Fables |
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• Example Analysis: Alabama-Coushatta Folk Myth |
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Tuesday: |
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Creation Myth |
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• demo: Literary Analysis, definition of Myths |
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• Various Creation Myths from Diverse Cultures |
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Wednesday: |
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Creation Myth |
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• Gods and Monsters |
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• Various Creation Myths from Diverse Cultures |
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Thursday: |
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Creation Myth |
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• Various Creation Myths from Diverse Cultures |
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Friday: |
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Creation Myth |
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• Various Creation Myths from Diverse Cultures |
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Week 5, 10.05 |
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Monday: |
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Creation Myth Essay due |
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Tuesday: |
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Monotheism vs. Polytheism |
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• lecture keypoints |
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Devotional Writing: Comparative Analysis |
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• Psalm: Hymn, Lament, Thanksgiving, Prayer, Ode |
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Wednesday: |
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Devotional Writing: Comparative Analysis |
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Thursday: |
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Devotional Writing: Comparative Analysis |
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Friday: |
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Devotional Writing: Comparative Analysis |
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• Analysis with Critical Lens / Essay due 10.12 || <first major LS grade> <major grade HS> |
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Week 6, 10.12 |
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Monday: |
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Devotional Writing: Comparative Analysis |
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• Video Presentation due (opinion), due 10.13, Tuesday at midnight |
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Aristotle, The Search for Virtue |
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• Aristotle's Golden Mean |
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Tuesday: |
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Aristotle, The Search for Virtue |
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• demo |
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• Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (sec. 1, 3, and 5) |
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Cornell Notes Template |
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Wednesday: |
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Aristotle, The Search for Virtue |
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• Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (sec. 1, 3, and 5) |
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Thursday: |
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Aristotle, The Search for Virtue |
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• Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (sec. 1, 3, and 5) |
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Aristotle, Poetics |
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• Definition of an Epic, —see pages 31-33 (Homer), 41-43 (Epic Poetry) |
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Friday: |
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• Modern definition of Epic / demo |
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• Exit Exercise |
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Week 7, 10.19 |
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Monday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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• lecture keypoints: timeline and glossary of names |
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• Presentation / Characterization of the Hero |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation, trans. Andrew George |
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• "He Who Saw the Deep"(direct translation/verse) |
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• The Standard Version of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: |
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Tablet I. "The Coming of Enkidu" / prologue and paean |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. N. K. Sandars |
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• Gilgamesh: "I will proclaim to the world—" (free translation/prose) |
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• Gilgamesh verse translation from Cuneiform / Penguin verse translation |
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• Gilgamesh in Original Transposed Text |
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Gilgamesh, A New English Version, Stephen Mitchell |
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Tuesday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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• lecture keypoints: Trinity of Goddesses |
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Human versus Society |
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• lecture keypoints: Conflict and Solution: The Creation of Enkidu |
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Wednesday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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Thursday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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Friday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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Week 8, 10.26 |
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Monday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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Tuesday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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Wednesday: |
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Gilgamesh |
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Thursday: |
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Gilgamesh Exercise |
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Friday: |
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Gilgamesh Test |
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Week 9, 11.02 |
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Monday: |
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Finalize Gilgamesh Exercise |
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Tuesday: |
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Staff Development Day / Students off |
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Wednesday: |
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Anglo-Saxon Period |
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Blog— Interesting Literature |
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• Preview Information for Beowulf |
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• Ten Works of Anglo-Saxon Literature |
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• Beowulf Original MS |
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Comparative Analysis: Beowulf Introduction, trans. J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Thursday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Friday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Week 10, 11.09 |
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Monday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Tuesday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Wednesday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Thursday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Friday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Week 11, 11.16 |
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Monday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (instructor's absence) |
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Tuesday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (instructor's absence) |
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Wednesday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (instructor's absence) |
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Thursday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Friday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney |
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Week 12, 11.23 |
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Thanksgiving Break |
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Week 13, 11.30 |
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Monday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (part 3: Beowulf versus the Dragon) |
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Tuesday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (part 3: Beowulf versus the Dragon) |
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Wednesday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney : Project |
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Thursday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney : Project |
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Friday: |
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Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney : Project |
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Week 14, 12.07 |
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Monday: |
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Final Project |
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Tuesday: |
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Final Project |
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Wednesday: |
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Final Project |
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Thursday: |
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Final Project |
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Friday: |
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Final Project |
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Week 15, 12.14 |
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Finals Week |
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12.21 |
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Winter Break Begins |
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