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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 || 01.03 |
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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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Unit 1: Anglo-Saxon Poetry |
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Basic Introduction: Syllabus Semester 2
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Follow @PrufrocksBlues in Twitter |
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The Apocalypse |
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• Tumblr: The Red Stairway, Ben Shahn, 1944 |
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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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Thursday—Friday: |
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• In-class Exercise |
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Week 2 || 01.10 |
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Monday: |
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Old English Overview |
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• Old English runes (Norse) |
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• Old English text (Latin–roughly Seventh Century) |
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• archived text of Beowulf in Old English Latin Script |
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Old English Alphabet |
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• Latin Script formalized |
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• demo–Latin script |
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The Book of Exeter |
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Anon., "The Wanderer" |
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Tuesday: |
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Anon., "The Wanderer" |
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Wednesday: |
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Anon., "The Wanderer" |
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Thursday: |
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Anglo-Saxon Riddle Poems |
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• demo |
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Anon., Riddle Poem #14 Dr. Aaron Hostetter, trans. |
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Anon., "The Wife's Lament" Dr. Aaron Hostetter, trans. |
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Friday: |
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Anon., "The Wife's Lament" Ann Stanford, trans. |
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• In-class Exercise |
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Week 3 || 01.17 |
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Monday: |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Tuesday — Friday: |
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Anon., Beowulf |
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Analysis of passage — ll. 64-98, Building of the mead-hall Heorot |
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• In-class Exercise |
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Week 4 || 01.24 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Anon., Beowulf |
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Analysis of three scenes through Critical Articles |
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• Beowulf and Breca swimming challenge |
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• Beowulf and Grendel |
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• Beowulf and Grendel's Mother |
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• In-class Exercise |
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Week 5 || 01.31 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Anon., Beowulf |
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Week 6 || 02.07 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Anon., Beowulf |
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Week 7 || 02.14 |
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Monday — Tuesday: |
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Unit 2: Middle English Poetry |
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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/Murder Ballad |
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Thursday: |
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Hymns/Arthurian Tales |
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Friday: |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Week 8 || 02.21 |
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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 (retains some OE textforms) |
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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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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 |
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• A Lover's Confession |
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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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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 9 || 02.28 |
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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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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 10 || 03.07 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Unit 3: Middle Ages/Dark Ages (Middle English Poetry—part 2) |
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Framestory |
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• demo |
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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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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Analysis of Characterizations |
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• In-class Exercise |
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Week 11 || 03.14 |
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Monday—Friday: |
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Spring Break |
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Week 12 || 03.21 |
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Monday: |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Tuesday — Friday: |
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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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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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"The Tale of the Wife of Bath" |
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Week 13 || 03.28 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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Week 14 || 04.04 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
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Week 15 || 4.11 |
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Monday — Thursday: |
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Unit 4: English Renaissance (Early Modern Period) |
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest |
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Friday: |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Week 16 || 04.18 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest |
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Week 17 || 04.25 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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attributed to William Shakespeare, The Sonnets |
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Week 18 || 05.02 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Unit 5: The Modern Age |
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T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Week 19 || 05.09 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Lone Star Finals / Tomball Final Project |
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Week 20 || 05.16 |
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Monday — Friday: |
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Final Tomball Project / Review for High School Finals |
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Week 21 || 05.23 |
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Finals Week |
