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     English 1302-Composition 2 || room 277 T   Th 08.00 - 09.15 am
                                                              room 270 T   Th      10.50 - 12.05 am
 
     Syllabus || Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 
     Page numbers below reflect the Ninth Edition of Literature and the Writing Process.
 

     
Week 1         08.31.10-09.02.10
 
Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
General Essay Guidelines
  Literary Analysis Process
Guidelines for Reading
Intertextuality
Literary Devices
              • demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process
   
 
Thursday:  
Types of Conflict
Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
              • demo-Conflict and Classifiation
    Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales
    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 American Folk Tale
         >Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
     
  Week 2 09.07.10-09.09.10
 
Tuesday:  
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
   
 
Thursday: 
Creating a Literary Analysis
              • demo: Literary Criticism Overview  (pages 1-9)
    Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
     
  Week 3          09.14.10-09.16.10
 
Tuesday: 
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm “God Father Death”
    Short Story Structure • Setting • Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2
              • demo: Freytag's Pyramid
          • demo: Comparisons of Elements
          • demo: Literary Criticism Overview (pages 10-20)
   

 
Thursday: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 225
 
• 
Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due Tuesday 09.28.10
              • demo: Fertility Symbols
          • demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism
     
  Week 4           09.21.10-09.23.10
 
Tuesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
   
 
Thursday:
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”     supplemental
              • demo-Gothic Ideology
 
 
          • video: death watch beetle
     
    Banned Book Week: September 25-October 2, 2010
     
  Week 5            09.28.10-09.30.10
 
Tuesday: 
Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
              • demo-Chopin ||revised 10.01.10
   
 
Thursday:  
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
              • demo-Heminway
     
  Week 6           
10.05.10-10.07.10
 
Tuesday: 
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287
              • demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
          >Faulkner's Interpretation
          >William Faulkner on the Web
   
 
Thursday: 
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3
 
          • demo-Definition of Anti-Hero
     
  Week 7            10.12.10-10.14.10
 
Tuesday: 
James Joyce, “Araby”     supplemental
   
 
Thursday: 
Richard Wright, “A Man Almost a Man” p 306
     
  Week 8            10.19.10-10.21.10
 
Tuesday: 
Midterm
   

 
Thursday: 
Library Orientation: Literary Databases
Final project outlined: Ten page essay, with MLA Work Cited Page , due 12.09.10
      Choose topic of interest for final essay, due 10.26.10.     Updated 10.30.10
              • Student example-paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne
     
  Week 9            10.26.10-10.28.10
 
Tuesday: 
Flash Fiction
Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House”     supplemental
Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392
              • demo
 
 
Emily St. John Mandel, "Hint Fiction: Brevity is the Soul of What?"
 
  
NPR news item: "Hint Fiction Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story"
    (To listen to archive recording of item, click here.)
   
 
Thursday: 
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
Poetry Reading Journals
              • demo
    Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem"
William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"
 
              • demo-Limericks
     
  Week 10            11.02.10-11.04.10
 
Tuesday: 
English/Irish Folk Ballads 
Formal Thesis for Final Project due || Continue Research
              • demo-Ballads
              •video: "Lucy Wan" 
          •video: "The Unquiet Grave"  
          •video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave"
   
 
Thursday: 
Poetical Devices and Terminologies
              • demo
    Haiku p 513-514,      supplemental
              • demo
     
  Week 11           
11.09.10-11.11.10
 
Tuesday: 
William Carlos Williams,  “Danse Russe” p 600, “The Red Wheelbarrow” p 601
e. e. cummings, “l(a”     “13”    supplemental
   
 
Thursday: 
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • video: Recitation of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
              • demo
 
•  
Assignment 2: Poetry Analysis due Tuesday 11.23.10
     
  Week 12            11.16.10-11.18.10
 
Tuesday: 
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”     supplemental
              video: Sylvia Plath Reads "Lady Lazarus"
          >
Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009
              • demo
    Ted Hughes, "Suttee"     supplemental
    Emily Dickinson, “I Like a Look of Agony”     supplemental
              >The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup and Full image
   
 
Thursday: 
Follow-up
 
 
Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step
 
Friday: 
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W”
     
  Week 13            11.23.10-11.25.10
 
Tuesday: 
Preliminary Work Cited due
    William Blake “The Sick Rose” p 573
Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep”     supplemental
e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608
   
 
Thursday: 
Thanksgiving Holiday
     
  Week 14            11.30.10-12.02.10
 
Tuesday: 
History of the Sonnet     supplemental
              • demo
    Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, attributed to W. Shakespeare
    Dissection of Two English Renaissance Sonnets
    Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas
 
William Shakespeare
            “Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 487
            “Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” p 564
            “Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 566
              > Illustration
   
 
Thursday: 
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice—”      supplemental
Lady Mary Wroth     supplemental
     
  Week 15            12.07.10-12.09.10
 
Tuesday: 
e. e. cummings, three poems   supplemental
    John Berryman, “Sonnet 115”     supplemental
    Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More”     supplemental
   
 
Thursday: 
Review for final
John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” p 567
William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” p 575
 
  
Final Paper due
     
     
  Week 16            Finals Week || 12.14.10 Tuesday
 
Final Exam