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Fall 2013
contact: David.G.Smith@lonestar.edu      • Instructor's Blog     •@davidglensmith
 
 English 1302-Composition & Rhetoric 2
5009 || CASA328  
     
 M W F     11:20 am - 12:15 pm    
 
 Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with prior notice.
 
 Daily Packet      Syllabus
 

   
  Week 1
  08.26 Monday:   Basic introduction
    • Essay Guidelines
   
  08.28 Wednesday:   Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality, Literary Devices
              • demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process
   
  08.30 Friday:   Types of Conflict
              • demo-Antagonists and Conflict
    Classification of Literature and Literary Modes
              • demo-Conflict and Classification
    Franz Kafka, Selection from “The Metamorphosis”     —supplemental
     
     
  Week 2
 
09.02 Monday:  
No class; Labor Day
   
 
09.04 Wednesday:  
Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales
              • demo-Definitions of Early Genres
              • Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth “Admetus and Alcestis”
              • Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death”
              • Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant”
              • Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native Americans,
                   “How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas”
                   >Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
   
 
09.06 Friday:  
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
              • another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander
    Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due 09/09
    Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” (retold in English by Andrew Lang)
     
  Week 3
 
09.09 Monday:  
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl”     —supplemental
   
 
09.11 Wednesday:  
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “GodFather Death”      —supplemental
              • demo: Freytag's Pyramid (The Short Story Structure)
              • demo: Comparisons of Elements
   
 
09.13 Friday:  
Literary Criticism - part 1
              • demo
    Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis
              • Abstract due 10/04
              • Full paper due 10/11
    Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis < building themes
    Thesis Statements
              • Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis
     
     
  Week 4
  09.16 Monday:   APA versus MLA
              • demo
   
  09.18 Wednesday:   APA versus MLA - part 2: Presentation of Material
    Discussion of Evidence Presentation
    Literary Criticism - part 2
              • demo
   
  09.20 Friday:   Basic Construction of a Literary Paper
              • demo-Argumentative Papers
              • demo-Construction of an Abstract
     
     
  Week 5  
  09.23 Monday:  Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"      —supplemental
              • demo-Poe and Anti-heros
              • demo-Types of Narration
              • demo-Irony
   
 
09.25 Wednesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"      —supplemental
              • demo-Gothic Ideology
              • demo-Atmospheric Setting
   
 
09.27 Friday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"      —supplemental
              • Various Criticism
              • demo-Video clip of death watch beetle
     
     
  Week 6
 
09.30 Monday:  
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 525-528
              • demo
   
 
10.02 Wednesday:  
 Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555
              • demo-Gilman
   
 
10.04 Friday:  
 Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555
     
     
  Week 7
 
10.07 Monday:   
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529-532
              • demo-Definition of Anti-hero review
   
 
10.09 Wednesday: 
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529-532
   
 
10.11 Friday: 
Midterm Study Guide
    Discuss final project expectations
              • Final Project Overview
              • Article Synopsis Guidelines
              • Assignment 1: Full Comparison/Contrast Analysis due in Angel
     
     
  Week 8
  10.14 Monday:   Midterm-bring BlueBook to class
   
 
10.16 Wednesday:  
In Class Assignment
   
 
10.18 Friday:  
Sophocles Antigone p 803-811: Prologue, Parados, Scene 1
              • demo— general overview of Greek Drama
              • demo-Royal House of Thebes
     
     
  Week 9  
  10.21 Monday:   Sophocles Antigone p 811-815: Scene 2; 816-819: Scene 3
              • demo-Analysis of Opposition
   
  10.23 Wednesday:   Sophocles Antigone p 823-825: Ode 4; 825-826: Paean; 826-830: Exodus
              • demo-Analysis of Approach
              • Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone
              • Image of caryatid
   
 
10.25 Friday:  
Sophocles Antigone p 803-830
     
     
  Week 10  
  10.28 Monday:   Antigone test
   
  10.30 Wednesday:  Ray Bradbury, “The October Game”      —supplemental
   
  11.01 Friday:   William Faulkner A Rose for Emily” p 302-307
              • demo-Story's Chronology
              • demo
     
     
  Week 11  
 
11.04 Monday: 
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily” p 302-307
              • Various Criticism
              • demo-Example of Faulkner's Extreme Writing Style
   
 
11.06 Wednesday:  
How to Read Poetry • Poetic Devices, part 1
              • demo-introduction
              • examples
    Quick Review of Final Assignment Deadlines
   
  11.08 Friday:   Poetical Devices and Terminologies-part 2
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
              • demo-Poetic Devices
              • demo–CommonThemes in Poetry
     
     
  Week 12  
  11.11 Monday:             • Introductory page due for Final Project
    English-Irish Ballads
              • demo-Ballads
              • examples
   
 
11.13 Wednesday:  
Haiku
              • examples-one page for printing
              • examples-class demo
              • demo
              • Yet Another Definition of Haiku
    Last day to drop and receive a "W"
   
  11.15 Friday:  Modernism in Poetry
    e. e. cummings, “l(a”    “13”—supplemental
    William Carlos Williams “Danse Russe”     —supplemental
              • Further Example of Influence
              • video: L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
              > "The Disquieting Muses" by Giorgio de Chirico 1916, Metaphysical Modern Art
              • Tentative Works Cited page due
     
  Week 13  
  11.18 Monday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595
              • demo
   
  11.20 Wednesday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595
   
  11.22 Friday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591-595
     
     
  Week 14  
  11.25 Monday:  Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”     —supplemental
              • demo
    Final Project Due
   
 
11.27 Wednesday:  
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311-313
              • demo
              • video: Sylvia Plath Reads “Daddy”
              > S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide March 16, 2009
   
 
11.29 Friday:  
Thanksgiving Holidays
     
     
  Week 15  
 
12.02 Monday: 
Emily Dickinson, “I Heard a Fly Buzz”     —supplemental
             • demo
   
  12.04 Wednesday:   Contemporary Poetry
    Lynda Hull “Ornithology”      —supplemental
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”      —supplemental
              • demo
 

  12.06 Friday:   Review for Final
     
     
  Finals Week Final Exam Schedule
 
12.11 Wednesday:  
Final Exam 11.00 am - 12:50 pm
              • Bring Blue Book to class