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Week 1 |
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08.27 Monday: |
Basic introduction |
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• Essay Guidelines |
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08.29 Wednesday: |
Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality, Literary Devices |
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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08.31 Friday: |
Types of Conflict |
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• demo-Antagonists and Conflict |
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Classification of Literature and Literary Modes |
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• demo-Conflict and Classification |
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Franz Kafka, Selection from “The Metamorphosis” —supplemental |
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Week 2 |
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09.03 Monday: |
No class; Labor Day
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09.05 Wednesday: |
Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales |
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• demo-Definitions of Early Genres |
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Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth “Admetus and Alcestis” |
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Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death” |
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Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant” |
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Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native Americans, |
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“How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas” |
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>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide |
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09.07 Friday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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• another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander |
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Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due 09/10 |
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Week 3 |
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09.10 Monday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental
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09.12 Wednesday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “GodFather Death” —supplemental |
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• demo: Freytag's Pyramid (The Short Story Structure) |
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• demo: Comparisons of Elements |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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• Thesis and Introduction paragraph due 10/05 |
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• Full paper due 10/12 |
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Review of Essay Guidelines |
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09.14 Friday: |
Class cancelled. |
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Week 4 |
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09.17 Monday: |
Literary Criticism - part 1 |
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• demo |
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Thesis Statements |
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• demo |
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09.19 Wednesday: |
Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 110-114 |
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• demo |
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Aesop, “The Man,the Boy, and the Donkey” |
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Literary Criticism - part 2 |
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• demo |
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09.21 Friday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 1, —supplemental |
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• demo: Fertility Symbols
• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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Week 5 |
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09.24 Monday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 2, —supplemental |
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• demo: Milton and Hawthorne |
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09.26 Wednesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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• demo-Types of Narration and Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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09.28 Friday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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• demo-Video clip of death watch beetle |
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Week 6 |
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10.01 Monday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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10.03 Wednesday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555 |
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10.05 Friday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529-532
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero |
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Assignment 1: Comparison Analysis Thesis/Introduction Paragraph due |
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Week 7 |
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10.08 Monday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529-532 |
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• speed dating |
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10.10 Wednesday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 525-528 |
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• demo |
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10.12 Friday: |
Midterm Study Guide |
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Flash Fiction • Kenneth J. Eppes, “untitled” —supplemental |
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• demo .:—and then again, perhaps not... |
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Emily St. John Mandel, "Hint Fiction: Brevity is the Soul of What?" book review |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due |
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Week 8 |
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10.15 Monday: |
Midterm-Bring BlueBook to class |
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10.17 Wednesday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 803-830 |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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• demo-Analysis of Opposition |
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10.19 Friday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 803-830 |
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• demo-Analysis of Approach |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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• Image of caryatid |
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Week 9 |
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10.22 Monday: |
Antigone test |
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10.24 Wednesday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases • Article Synopsis due 10.29 |
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• Comparison Analysis |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis– review |
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10.26 Friday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Discuss final project expectations |
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• Final Project Overview – Updated 10.25 |
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• Article Synopsis Guidelines |
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Week 10 |
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10.29 Monday: |
Article Synopsis |
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• Assignment 2- Annotation |
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Review of MLA Guidelines |
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10.31 Wednesday: |
Ray Bradbury, “The October Game” —supplemental |
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11.02 Friday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo-introduction |
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Eve Merriam, “How to Eat a Poem” |
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William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say” |
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Anne Sexton, “Two Hands” |
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Poetical Devices and Terminologies-part 1 |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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• demo-Poetic Devices |
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• demo–CommonThemes in Poetry |
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Week 11 |
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11.05 Monday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies-part 2 |
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English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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•video: "The Unquiet Grave" |
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•video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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• Assignment 3- Declare a Topic/Thesis Statement due |
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• Assignment 4- Tentative Works Cited Page due |
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11.07 Wednesday: |
Haiku —supplemental (for handouts) |
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• Haiku Poems |
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• demo |
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• Yet Another Definition of Haiku |
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11.09 Friday: |
Modernism: |
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e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13”—supplemental |
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William Carlos Williams “Danse Russe” —supplemental |
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• Further Example of Influence |
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• video: L'Apres-midi d'un Faune |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 (overview) |
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Week 12 |
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11.12 Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 |
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• demo |
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11.14 Wednesday:
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Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311-313 |
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• demo |
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> "The Disquieting Muses" by Giorgio de Chirico 1916, Metaphysical Modern Art |
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• video: Sylvia Plath Reads “Daddy” |
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> S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide March 16, 2009 |
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11.16 Friday: |
Modernism |
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Week 13 |
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11.19 Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 |
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• demo |
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11.21 Wednesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 |
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Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311-313 |
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• demo |
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11.23 Friday: |
Thanksgiving Holidays |
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Week 14 |
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11.26 Monday: |
History of the Sonnet: Variation of the Form, Blank Sonnet |
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• demo |
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History of the Sonnet: Italian |
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Supplemental Sonnets: F. Petrarch |
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Final Project Due |
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11.28 Wednesday: |
History of the Sonnet: Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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Supplemental Sonnets: H. Howard, E. Spenser |
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11.30 Friday: |
History of the Sonnet: Elizabethan English Form |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare)” p 581 |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 126 (O, Thou My Lovely Boy)” |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 130 (My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun)” |
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Week 15 |
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12.03 Monday: |
History of the Sonnet: Modern and Contemporary Sonnets |
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e. e. cummings, three poems —supplemental |
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Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” —supplemental |
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12.05 Wednesday: |
Contemporary Poetry Overview |
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12.07 Friday: |
Contemporary Poetry • Review for Final |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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Finals Week |
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12.12 Wednesday: |
Final Exam 11:00 am- 12:50 pm |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
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