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Week 1 |
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01.14 Monday: |
Basic introduction |
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• Essay Guidelines |
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01.16 Wednesday: |
Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality, Literary Devices |
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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01.18 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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01.21 Monday: |
No class; MLK Day
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01.23 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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Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” trans. by Andrew Lang |
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“Summarize to demonstrate your understanding,” A Writer's Reference, pp 72-73 |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary of Literary Work, due 01.28 |
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01.25 Friday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol |
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• demo |
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• another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander |
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Elements of European Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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Week 3 |
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01.28 Monday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental
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01.30 Wednesday: |
Jacob & 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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02.01 Friday: |
Literary Criticism - part 1 |
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• demo |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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• Thesis and Introduction paragraph due 02/15 |
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• Full paper due 02.22 |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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Week 4 |
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02.04 Monday: |
Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 110 |
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• demo |
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Literary Criticism - part 2 |
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• demo |
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02.06 Wednesday: |
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-Types of Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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02.08 Friday: |
Criticism regarding Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
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• demo-Video clip of death watch beetle |
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Week 5 |
updated 02.14.13 |
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02.11 Monday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 611 |
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• demo |
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02.13 Wednesday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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Basic Construction of a Literary Paper |
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• demo |
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02.15 Friday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544 |
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Assignment 1: Comparison Analysis Thesis/Introduction Paragraph due |
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Week 6 |
updated 02.19.13 |
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02.18 Monday: |
Modernism in Fiction |
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James Joyce, "Eveline" p 529 |
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• demo-Eveline as an Anti-hero |
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02.20 Wednesday: |
Review of MLA Guidelines, part 1 |
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Paraphrasing versus Plagiarism |
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• demo |
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Signal phrases, in-text notes: A Writer's Reference, pp 371-372, 376-379,382-384, 388-395 |
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• demo-Signal Phrase Examples |
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02.22 Friday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Week 7 |
updated 02.24.13 |
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02.25 Monday: |
MLA Guidelines, part 2 |
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Quoting Dialogue • Titles within Titles: See Daily Packet page 14 "General Info." |
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Works Cited Pages: A Writer's Reference, pp 398-401, 407-408 |
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• demo |
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Discuss final project expectations |
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• demo-Commonalities |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due |
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02.27 Wednesday: |
Creating a Synopsis of an Academic Article |
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Discuss final project expectations |
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03.01 Friday: |
Midterm Study Guide |
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Exercise 2: Article Synopsis, due |
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Week 8 |
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03.04 Monday: |
Midterm |
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03.06 Wednesday: |
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" p 302 |
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• demo-Story's Chronology |
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• demo |
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03.08 Friday: |
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" p 302 |
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• demo-Example of Faulkner's Extreme Writing Style |
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Week 9 |
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03.11 Monday: |
Mid Semester Break |
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03.13 Wednesday: |
Mid Semester Break |
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03.15 Friday: |
Mid Semester Break |
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Week 10 |
updated 03.08.13 |
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03.18 Monday: |
William Faulkner Quiz: "A Rose for Emily" |
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Review Final Project Expectations |
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How to Read Poetry • Poetic Devices, part 1 |
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• demo-introduction |
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• examples |
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03.20 Wednesday: |
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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03.22 Friday: |
English-Irish Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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• examples |
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Week 11 |
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03.25 Monday: |
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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03.27 Wednesday: |
Modernism in Poetry |
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e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13”—supplemental |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 (overview) |
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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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03.29 Friday: |
Spring Holiday; No Class |
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Week 12 |
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04.01 Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 |
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• demo |
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04.03 Wednesday: |
class cancelled |
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04.05 Friday:
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In-Class Survey |
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Week 13 |
updated 03.07.13 |
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04.08 Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 |
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Final Paper Due |
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04.10 Wednesday: |
Quiz over "Prufrock" and Modernism Themes |
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Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311 |
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• demo |
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Emily Dickinson, “I Heard a Fly Buzz” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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04.12 Friday: |
William Blake, “London” p 795 |
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• demo |
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Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” p 124-127 |
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• demo |
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Week 14 |
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04.15 Monday: |
History of the Sonnet, part 1 |
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Variations of the Form: Blank Sonnet • Italian Sonnet themes: Francesco Petrarch |
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• demo |
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• example sonnets |
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04.17 Wednesday: |
History of the Sonnet, part 2 |
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Italian Sonnets: Francesco Petrarch |
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04.19 Friday: |
History of the Sonnet, part 3 |
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Early English Sonnets: Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser |
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Week 15 |
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04.22 Monday: |
History of the Sonnet, part 4 |
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• Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare)” p 581 |
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04.24 Wednesday: |
Modern Sonnets |
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e. e. cummings, three poems —supplemental |
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04.26 Friday: |
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets |
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Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” —supplemental |
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Billy Collins, "Sonnet" —supplemental |
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Week 16 |
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04.29 Monday: |
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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05.01 Wednesday: |
Study Guide for Final Exam |
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05.03 Friday: |
Student Conferences |
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Finals Week |
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05.06 - 05.12: |
Final Exam tba |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
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