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Week 1 01/17 |
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Monday: |
School Closed; Martin Luther King Day |
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Wednesday: |
Basic introduction
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• Essay Guidelines |
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Friday: |
Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality, Literary Devices
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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Week 2 01/24 |
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Monday: |
Types of Conflict
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Classification of Literature |
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Literary Modes |
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• demo-Conflict and Classification |
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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”
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 |
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Friday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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Week 3 01/31 |
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Monday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental
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Wednesday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, “GodFather Death” —supplemental |
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• demo: Freytag's Pyramid |
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• demo: Comparisons of Elements |
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis || due Feb. 21 |
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• Item of Interest: Blog Commentary from SurLaLune |
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Friday: |
Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 127 |
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• overview demo |
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview-part 2 |
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Week 4 02/07 |
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Monday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 1, p 366 -378 |
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• demo: Fertility Symbols
• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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Wednesday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 2, p 378-389 |
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• demo: Milton and Hawthorne |
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Friday: |
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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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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• demo-Video clip of death watch beetle |
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Week 5 02/14 |
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Monday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 624 |
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Wednesday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 624 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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Friday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” —supplemental
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• demo-Faulkner |
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Week 6 02/21 |
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Monday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” —supplemental |
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• demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
>Faulkner's Interpretation
>William Faulkner on the Web |
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Wednesday: |
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” —supplemental |
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> Rose colors and their symbols |
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Friday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 616 |
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero-part 1 |
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