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     contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu
     English 1302-Composition 2 || room 269 T   Th 10.00 am - 11.55 pm
                                                                  
     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           06.07.10  
 
Monday:  
Basic introduction
7 Ways to Fail a Class
Literary Analysis Process
Guidelines for Reading
Intertextuality
Literary Devices
          • demo
   
 
Tuesday:  
Types of Conflict
Literary Modes, Classification of Literature
          • Reading Journals
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
          • demo
   
 
Wednesday:  
Figurative Language
Archetypes and Symbol
Elements of Fairy Tales
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim “The Goose Girl”“God Father Death”      supplemental
          • demo
   
 
Thursday:  
Creating a Literary Analysis
Short Story Structure • Setting
          • demo
          • demo 2
   
 
Friday: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 225
          • demo
  Week 2           06.14.10  
 
Monday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”     supplemental
         >Video clip of death watch beetle
          • Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due Friday 06.18.10
          • demo
 

 
Tuesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236 <continued>
Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
          • demo
   
 
Wednesday:  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”     supplemental   
          • demo
 

 
Thursday: 
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287
          • demo
         >Faulkner's Interpretation
         >William Faulkner on the Web
         >William Faulkner's Home in Oxford, MS: Rowan Oak 
 

 
Friday:  
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3
“Araby”      supplemental
          • demo
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” p 306
                  • Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due
  Week 3           06.21.10  
 
Monday:  
Review for Midterm
Library Orientation: Literary Databases introduced
Final Project Expectations || Begin Preliminary Research

Formal Declaration of Thesis due 06.23.10
 

 
Tuesday: 
Flash Fiction
          • demo
Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House”     supplemental
 

 
Wednesday:  

Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel”     supplemental
Ray Bradbury: “I See You Never”   supplemental
Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392

Formal Declaration of Thesis due

 

 
Thursday:  
Midterm
 

 
Friday: 
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
video:
"Lucy Wan" 
"The Unquiet Grave"  
•  "I am Stretched on Your Grave"
  Week 4          06.28.10  
 
Monday:  
Tentative Works Cited Page due (at least four sources)

Poetical Devices and Terminologies
          • demo
Haiku      supplemental
          • demo
William Carlos Williams,  “Danse Russe” p 600, “The Red Wheelbarrow” p 601
James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock”    supplemental
e. e. cummings, “l(a”    “13”    supplemental
Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” p 637
 

 
Tuesday:  
Poetry Reading Journals
Emily Dickinson, “#365 (Because I Could Not Stop for Death)” p 585
            plus supplemental
         >The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup and Full image
 

 
Wednesday:  
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
 

 
Thursday:  
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”     supplemental
         >
Sylvia Plath Reads "Lady Lazarus"
         >
Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009
 

 
Friday: 
William Blake “The Sick Rose” p 573     • Illustration
                         Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep”     supplemental
Camille Paglia, Critical commentary from Break, Blow, Burn     supplemental
e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608
Final Paper due
  Week 5           07.05.10  
 
Monday:  
School Holiday
   
 
Tuesday: 
Final Paper due || essay rubric
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of "W"

History of the Sonnet
          • demo
Various Sonnets:
     Francesco Petracrch, “Sonnet XX” (Italian sonnet)     supplemental
     Edmund Spencer, “Sonnet IX” (Spencerian sonnet)     supplemental
     William Shakespeare (English sonnet)               • Illustration
            “Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” p 564
            “Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 487
            “Sonnet 126: O Thou My Lovely Boy”     supplemental
            “Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 566
    >Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
>Lady Mary Wroth — a female perspective on the English sonnets 
>Sonnets created in Spanish
   
 
Wednesday:  
Sonnets, continued
     Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice—”      supplemental
     Lady Mary Wroth     supplemental
     John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” p 567
     William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” p 575
     e. e. cummings, “somewhere I have never travelled”   supplemental
                  “If I have made, my lady, intricate”   supplemental
                  “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in”    supplemental
   
 
Thursday: 
Final exams