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Mr. Smith reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice. |
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Second Semester |
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Week 1 || 01.06 |
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Monday: |
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Teachers' In-Service Day |
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Tuesday: |
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Teachers' In-Service Day |
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Wednesday: |
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Basic Introduction: Syllabus Semester 2
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ENG 2333-Google Classroom |
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Follow @PrufrocksBlues in Twitter |
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"The Wife's Lament" |
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Thursday: |
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"The Wife's Lament" |
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The Apocalypse |
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• image: The Red Stairway, Ben Shahn, 1944 |
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Poems detailing Apocalyptic Visions |
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• demo |
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• Dr. Catherine Redford, "The 'Last Man on Earth' in Romantic Literature"—supplemental |
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Friday: |
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Anon., "The Wanderer" |
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Week 2 || 01.11 |
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Monday: |
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Anon., "The Wanderer" |
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Tuesday: |
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Anon., "The Wanderer" |
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Overview of Greek Myth Hero Cycles |
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Edith Hamilton, "Theseus and the Minotaur" |
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Malta Classics Association, Synopsis of The Six Labours of Theseus |
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Plutarch, Parallel Lives |
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Wednesday: |
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Modern Hero Cycles |
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Stephen Dobyns, "Theseus within the Labyrinth" |
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Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion" |
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Malta Classics Association, "The Minotaur's Redemption" |
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Thursday: |
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Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion" |
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Friday: |
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Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion" |
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In-Class Exercise |
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Week 3 || 01.18 |
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Monday: |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Approaches to Poetry |
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• demo: Conventional - Experiemental |
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• demo: Meter and Poetic Devices |
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Poetry Before Chaucer: Lyrical Ballads |
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• demo: Ballads–An Overview |
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• demo: "Sumer Is Incumen In" |
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• demo: "The Unquiet Grave" |
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Wednesday: |
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Love Ballads |
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Thursday: |
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Murder Ballad |
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Friday: |
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Modern Ballad Examples |
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• demo: Modern Murder Ballad |
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Week 4 || 01.25 |
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Monday: |
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Middle English |
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• demo |
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• alphabet || Jesus = Iesu; John = Iohn, Ion, Ian |
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Poetry Before Chaucer |
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demo: Arthurian Romance / Literary Modes |
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Early Arthurian example: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae, see p. 113 |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Overview |
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• The Gawain Poet (The Pearl Poet) |
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• opening page of original text |
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• transcription of original full Middle English text |
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• Modern English text with "bob and wheel" verse |
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• presentation of the poem, 14th Century and Modern day |
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• vocabulary terms change: girdle |
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Tuesday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Overview, continued |
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Wednesday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Book 1, Stanza 1 |
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Thursday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Book 1, Stanza 2-9 |
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Friday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Chivalry and Virtues: Building a Community |
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Week 5 || 02.01 |
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Monday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Book 1, Stanza 10-17 |
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Tuesday: |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Analytical Argument Review |
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Group Paragraph Exercise |
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Wednesday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Book 2, overview |
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Celebration of Michaelmas, September 29, Fall Equinox |
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Thursday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Friday: |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Week 6 || 02.08 |
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Monday: |
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Group Work |
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Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century |
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Chapter 3: "Youth and Chivalry" |
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Tuesday: |
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Group Work |
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Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century |
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Chapter 3: "Youth and Chivalry" |
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Wednesday: |
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Group Work |
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Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century |
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Chapter 3: "Youth and Chivalry" |
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Thursday: |
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Group Work |
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Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century |
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Chapter 3: "Youth and Chivalry" |
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Friday: |
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Assessment |
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Week 7 || 02.15 |
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Monday: |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Framestory |
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• demo |
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Poetry Before Chaucer : The Venerable Bede |
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• demo |
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• demo: Hagiography see page 11 |
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• Hagiography example: Translation of a passage from the Veneral Bede, circa 730 |
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• Hagiography example: Translation of a passage from Thomas of Monmouth, 1173 |
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• John Gower, A Lover's Confession |
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Wednesday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canturbury Tales, "General Prologue" |
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• demo—overview |
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• original pronunciation |
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Influences for Canturbury Tales |
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• Francesco Petrarch, Il Canzoniere |
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• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy |
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• Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron |
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General Prologue, ll. 1-43 /447-478 / 717-860 |
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• image from a ME reproduction of a page in the "Miller's Tale" |
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Thursday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canturbury Tales, "General Prologue" |
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Friday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Analysis of Characterizations |
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• In-class Exercise |
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Week 8 || 02.22 |
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Monday: |
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Chaucer's Characters from Canterbury Tales |
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• In-class Exercise-part 2 |
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Presentation of Titles in MLA |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Wife Of Bath"—general overview |
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"Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale" |
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• demo: Representation of the Medieval Female |
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• Example: Biblical Allusions and Chaucer |
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• Example 2: Biblical Discussion and Chaucer |
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• Chaucer and Double Entendres: Naughty Language |
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Wednesday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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"Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale" |
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Thursday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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"Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale" |
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Friday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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"Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale" |
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Week 9 || 03.01 |
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Monday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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"The Tale of the Wife of Bath" |
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Tuesday: |
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Chaucer Assessment - part 1: Multiple Choice and Commentary |
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Wednesday: |
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Chaucer Assessment - part2 |
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Thursday: |
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Group Work: Deductive Analysis of Chaucer and the Pearl Poet |
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Friday: |
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Group Work: Deductive Analysis of Chaucer and the Pearl Poet |
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Week 10 || 03.08 |
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Italian, English, Modern Sonnets |
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Week 11 || 03.15 |
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Spring Break |
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