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Week 1 |
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08.26 Monday: |
Basic introduction |
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• Essay Guidelines |
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08.28 Wednesday: |
Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality, Literary Devices |
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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08.30 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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09.02 Monday: |
No class; Labor Day
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09.04 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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09.06 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 09/09 |
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Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” (retold in English by Andrew Lang) |
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Week 3 |
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09.09 Monday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental
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09.11 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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09.13 Friday: |
Literary Criticism - part 1 |
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• demo |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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• Abstract due 10/04 |
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• Full paper due 10/11 |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis < building themes |
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Thesis Statements |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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Week 4 |
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09.16 Monday: |
APA versus MLA |
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• demo |
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09.18 Wednesday: |
APA versus MLA - part 2: Presentation of Material |
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Discussion of Evidence Presentation |
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Literary Criticism - part 2 |
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• demo |
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09.20 Friday: |
Basic Construction of a Literary Paper |
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• demo-Argumentative Papers |
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• demo-Construction of an Abstract |
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Week 5 |
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09.23 Monday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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• demo-Poe and Anti-heros |
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• demo-Types of Narration |
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• demo-Irony |
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09.25 Wednesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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09.27 Friday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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• Various Criticism |
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• demo-Video clip of death watch beetle |
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Week 6 |
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09.30 Monday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 525-528 |
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• demo |
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10.02 Wednesday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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10.04 Friday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555 |
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Week 7 |
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10.07 Monday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529-532 |
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero review |
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10.09 Wednesday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529-532 |
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10.11 Friday: |
Midterm Study Guide |
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Discuss final project expectations |
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• Final Project Overview |
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• Article Synopsis Guidelines |
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• Assignment 1: Full Comparison/Contrast Analysis due in Angel |
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Week 8 |
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10.14 Monday: |
Midterm-bring BlueBook to class |
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10.16 Wednesday: |
In Class Assignment |
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10.18 Friday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 803-811: Prologue, Parados, Scene 1 |
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• demo— general overview of Greek Drama |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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Week 9 |
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10.21 Monday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 811-815: Scene 2; 816-819: Scene 3 |
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• demo-Analysis of Opposition |
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10.23 Wednesday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 823-825: Ode 4; 825-826: Paean; 826-830: Exodus |
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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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10.25 Friday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 803-830 |
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Week 10 |
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10.28 Monday: |
Antigone test |
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10.30 Wednesday: |
Ray Bradbury, “The October Game” —supplemental |
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11.01 Friday: |
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” p 302-307 |
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• demo-Story's Chronology |
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• demo |
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Week 11 |
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11.04 Monday: |
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” p 302-307 |
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• Various Criticism |
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• demo-Example of Faulkner's Extreme Writing Style |
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11.06 Wednesday: |
How to Read Poetry • Poetic Devices, part 1 |
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• demo-introduction |
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• examples |
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Quick Review of Final Assignment Deadlines |
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11.08 Friday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies-part 2 |
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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 12 |
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11.11 Monday: |
• Introductory page due for Final Project |
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English-Irish Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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• examples |
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11.13 Wednesday:
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Haiku |
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• examples-one page for printing |
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• examples-class demo |
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• demo |
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• Yet Another Definition of Haiku |
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Last day to drop and receive a "W" |
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11.15 Friday: |
Modernism in Poetry |
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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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> "The Disquieting Muses" by Giorgio de Chirico 1916, Metaphysical Modern Art |
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• Tentative Works Cited page due |
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Week 13 |
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11.18 Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 |
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• demo |
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11.20 Wednesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 |
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11.22 Friday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595 |
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Week 14 |
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11.25 Monday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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Final Project Due |
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11.27 Wednesday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311-313 |
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• demo |
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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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11.29 Friday: |
Thanksgiving Holidays |
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Week 15 |
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12.02 Monday: |
Emily Dickinson, “I Heard a Fly Buzz” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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12.04 Wednesday: |
Contemporary Poetry |
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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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12.06 Friday: |
Review for Final |
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Finals Week |
Final Exam Schedule |
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12.11 Wednesday: |
Final Exam 7.00 am - 08:50 am |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
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