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     English 1302-Composition 2 || room 162 T Th room 271:  T Th     08.00 am - 09.15 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.
 

  Click here to view Week 01 - Week 06
   
  Week 7 03.01
 
Tuesday:  
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3
 
          • demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics 1
   
 
Thursday:  
Richard Wright, “A Man Almost a Man” p 306
              • demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics 2
     
     
  Week 8 03.08
 
Tuesday:  
Review For MidTerm
              • Study Guides and Discussion Questions
    Expectations for Final Project
              • Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step
              • demo-Student paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne
   
 
Thursday:  
MidTerm
     
     
  Week 9 03.14-03.20
    Spring Break
     
     
  Week 10 03.22
 
Tuesday:  
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
              • demo-Hemingway
    Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
             • demo-Chopin    
   
 
Thursday:  
Flash Fiction
    Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392
    Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House”     supplemental
    Carolyn Forche “The Colonel”      supplemental
              • demo-Flash Fiction defined
 
 
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.)
     
     
  Week 11 03.29
 
Tuesday:  
Library Orientation: Literary Databases
   
 
Thursday:  
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
              •video: "Lucy Wan" 
          •video: "The Unquiet Grave"  
          •video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave"
     
     
  Week 12 04.05
 
Poetical Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
              • demo
   
    Haiku p 513-514,      supplemental
              • demo
     
     
  Week 13 04.12
 
Tuesday: 
e. e. cummings, “l(a”     “13”    supplemental
    e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608
    Formal Declaration of Thesis due April 19, Tuesday
   
 
Thursday:  
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • video: Recitation of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
              • demo
  Friday:   Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W”
     
     
  week 14 04.19
 
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:  
Easter Break 04/20 - 04/24
     
     
  week 15 04.26
 
Tuesday:  
Introduction to Poems of Witness/Protest Poems
              • demo-Blake's Views of Revolution
    William Blake, “London” p 574
    William Blake “The Sick Rose” p 573
    Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep”     supplemental
    Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California”     supplemental
              • demo
     
   
 
Thursday: 
History of the Sonnet
              • demo
    Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser, attributed to W. Shakespeare
    Dissection of Two English Renaissance Sonnets
    Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas
    Other Examples:
 
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice—”      supplemental
Lady Mary Wroth     supplemental
     
     
  Week 16   05.03
 
Tuesday: 
William Shakespeare
                Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 487
                Sonnet 116: “Let Me Not” p 565
            > Illustration
            > Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
   
 
Thusday:  
            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
    Poetry Dissertation
     
     
  Week 17 05.10
 
Tuesday:  
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets
 
            e. e. cummings, three poems   supplemental
                John Berryman, “Sonnet 115”     supplemental
                John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” p 567
                William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” p 575
                Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More”     supplemental
    Final Project Due
   
 
Thursday: 
Review for Final Exam
              • demo
     
     
  Finals Week 05.17
 
Tuesday:  
8.00-10.00AM