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English 1302-Composition & Rhetoric 2 ||
M W F 7.00am - 7.55am || 8.05am - 09.00am|| 09.10am - 10.05am
     
 
     Syllabus || Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
     
 

  > Click here to view Week 1: 01/17 — Week 6: 02/21
  Week 7           02/28
 
Monday:  
Library Orientation: Literary Databases
     
 
Wednesday:  
Library Orientation: Literary Databases • Annotation of Articles
    Discuss final project expectations.
     
 
Friday:  
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”      —supplemental
              • demo-Definition of Anti-Hero-part 2
     
     
  Week 8           03/07  
 
Monday: 
Flash Fiction
    Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel” p 911
              • demo     .:—and then again, perhaps not...
    Emily St. John Mandel, "Hint Fiction: Brevity is the Soul of What?" book review
    11.13.2010:  NPR news item: "Hint Fiction Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story"
    (To listen to archive recording of item, click here.)
    Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House”     —supplemental
     
 
Wednesday:  
Review for Midterm
              • study guides / discussion questions
     
 
Friday:  
Midterm
     
     
  Week 9      03/14-03/20 Mid Semester Break
     
     
  Week 10         03/21  
 
Monday: 
Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt”      —supplemental
     
 
Wednesday:  
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
              • demo
    Eve Merriam, “How to Eat a Poem”
    William Carlos Williams, This is Just to Say
    English/Irish Folk Ballads
              • demo-Ballads
     
 
Friday:  
Poetical Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
              • demo
     
     
  Week 11         03/28  
 
Monday: 
Haiku —supplemental
              • demo
     
 
Wednesday:  
e. e. cummings, “l(a”    “13”—supplemental
              • Final Project Expectations
     
 
Friday:  
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 679 — overview
              • video: Recitation of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
              • demo
     
  Week 12         04/04  
 
Monday: 
T. S. Eliot, "Prufrock" p 679
     
 
Wednesday:  
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 406
              >Sylvia Plath Reads “Daddy”
              > S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide March 16, 2009
              • demo
    Emily Dickinson, “#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)”      —supplemental
              The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup
                   and Full image
     
 
Friday:  
William Blake, “London” p 1020
              • demo
              Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep”      —supplemental
              “The Sick Rose” —supplemental    
  •  Assignment 2: Poetry Analysis
     
     
  Week 13           04/11  
 
Monday: 
Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” p 999
              • demo
  •  Formal Declaration of Thesis due 04.15.11
     
 
Wednesday:  
History of the Sonnet
              • demo
    Supplemental Sonnets: F. Petrarch, H. Howard, E. Spenser
    Last day for withdrawal from class
 
 
  Friday:   History of the Sonnet — part 2
     
     
  Week 14          04/18  
  Monday:  Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas
 
William Shakespeare “Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare)” p 667
    William Shakespeare “Sonnet 116 (Let Me Not)” p 666
    William Shakespeare “Sonnet 29 (When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes)”
            > Contemporary Illustration
            > Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam_Museum)
 
 
 
Wednesday:  
William Shakespeare “Sonnet 126 (O, Thou My Lovely Boy)”
    William Shakespeare “Sonnet 130 (My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun)”
    John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”
    William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us”
     
 
Friday:  
Spring Break (04/22-04/24)
     
     
  Week 15          04/25  
 
Monday: 
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets
    John Berryman, “Sonnet 115”      —supplemental
    Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More”      —supplemental
     
 
Wednesday:
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets
    e. e. cummings, three poems      —supplemental
     
 
Friday:  
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets
     
     
     
  Week 16          05/02  
 
Monday: 
Contemporary Poetry
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”      —supplemental
    Lynda Hull “Ornithology”      —supplemental
    Mark Rothko Chapel
              • demo
  •  Final Project due.
 
 
 
Wednesday: 
Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p 414
    William Carlos Williams “Danse Russe” p 685
 
 
 
Friday: 
Review for Final
              • study guide for final
 
 
     
  Finals Week 05/09 - 05/15  
  Normal meeting time Final Schedule
     
  7.00 - 7.55 AM ENGL 1302-5002 (1670) : 05.11.11     7.00-8.50AM
     
  8.05 - 9.00 AM ENGL 1302-5003 (1678) : 05.09.11     8.00-9.50AM
     
  9.10 - 10.05 AM ENGL 1302-5007 (1695) : 05.11.11     9.00-10.50AM