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Fall 2012
     contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog  
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (11456) room 277 T Th 08.00 am - 09.15 am
     
 
     Student Daily Packet || Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 
     Syllabus
 

   
Week 1          
 
08/28 Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Academic Load
    Essay Guidelines
    Intro to Literary Analysis Process
   
 
08/30 Thursday:  
Literary Analysis Process:
    • Guidelines for Reading
    • Intertextuality
    • Literary Devices
              • demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process
    Types of Conflict
              • demo-Antagonists and Conflict
    Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
              • demo-Conflict and Classifiation
     
     
  Week 2  
 
09/04 Tuesday: 
Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature-part 2
              • demo-Conflict and Classifiation-part 2
    Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales
              • demo-Early Genres
   
 
09/06 Thursday: 
Early Genres
    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 Folktale
              • demo-Native American Folktales
     
     
  Week 3  
 
09/11 Tuesday: 
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
              • another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander
              • Another View of Archetypes
   
 
09/13 Thursday: 
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
              • demo-Freytag's Pyramid (TheShort Story Structure)
  •  Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due 09/18
     
     
  Week 4  
 
09/18 Tuesday:  
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “Godfather Death”
              • demo-Comparisons of Elements
    Creating a Literary Analysis
              • demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 1
               demo- Guideline for Thesis
    Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis
              Thesis and proposal due 10/04
              Full paper due 10/16
   
 
09/20 Thursday:  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 1, p 225
              • demo-Fertility Symbols
     
     
  Week 5  
 
09/25 Tuesday:  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 2, p 225
              • demo 2-Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism
              • Student Example of Literary Introduction
    Short Story Structure • Setting • Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2
              • demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 2
   
 
09/27 Thursday: 
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
              • demo-Gothic Ideology
              • demo-Atmospheric Setting
     
     
  Week 6  
 
10/02 Tuesday:  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”    supplemental  
              • demo-Gilman
    Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
                     • demo-Chopin  
   
 
10/04 Thursday:  
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293
              • demo-Faulkner
              • demo-Chronology
              Assignment 1: Comparison Paper thesis due
     
     
  Week 7       
  10/09 Tuesday:  William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293
   
          • demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
              >Faulkner's Interpretation
   
  10/11 Thursday:  James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3-7
              • demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics
     
     
   Week 8  
 
10/16 Tuesday: 
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
              • demo-Hemingway
              • Assignment 1: Comparison Paper full paper due
   
 
10/18 Thursday: 
Review For MidTerm
    Overview of Expectations for Final Project, Paper due: 11/29
              • Review of MLA guidelines: signal phrases, in-text notes
                     <see Student Daily Packet, page 9>
              • Review of MLA guidelines: works cited page
    Final Project Thesis due: 11/15    
              • Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step
              • demo-Student paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne
     
     
  Week 9  
 
10/23 Tuesday:  
MidTerm
   
  10/25 Thursday:   Library Orientation: Literary Databases 
    Final Project Expectations Reviewed
    Article Synopsis, due 11/13
    Thesis due 11/15
    Tentative Works Cited Page due 11/15
    Final Project Due 11/29
     
     
  Week 10  
  10/30 Tuesday:   Sophocles Antigone p 722-757
              • demo-Royal House of Thebes
              • demo-Analysis of Opposition
   
  11/01 Thursday:   Sophocles Antigone p 722-757
               demo-Analysis of Approach
              • Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone
              • Image of caryatid
  •   Article Synopsis Form
     
     
  Week 11  
 
11/06 Tuesday:  
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
   
  11/08 Thursday:   Test over Antigone
    Poetical Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
              • demo
    Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem"
    William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"
    Anne Sexton, "Two Hands"
     
     
  Week 12  
 
11/13 Tuesday:  
Haiku p 513-514,      supplemental
               Individual Haiku Pages
               demo
   
 
11/15 Thursday:  
Modernist Poetry
    e. e. cummings
              “l(a”    supplemental
              “13”    supplemental
    T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • demo
   
  11/16 Friday:   Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W”
     
     
  Week 13  
  11/20 Tuesday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • demo
    Article Synopsis due today
    Final Project Thesis and Tentative Works Cited due today
  •   Haiku Assignment
   
  11/22 Thursday:   Thanksgiving Holiday
     
     
  week 14  
  11/27 Tuesday:  Works Cited Demo: Anthology Entries
 
History of Sonnet— Italian forms: Petrarch
              • demo
    Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, & a poem attributed to W. Shakespeare
   
 
11/29 Thursday:  
History of Sonnet— English forms: Howard, Spenser
    Review of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas
     
     
  week 15  
 
12/04 Tuesday:  
History of the Sonnet English— poems attributed to 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
            > Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
   
 
12/06 Thursday:  
Modern Sonnets
              e. e. cummings, three poems   supplemental
             Marilyn Hacker   supplemental
    Contemporary Poetry
              Susan Mitchell "Havana Birth"     supplemental
              • demo
    Study Guide for Final
    Final project due
     
     
  week 16      Final Exams      < Click for full exam schedule
  12/11 Tuesday:   8:00 am -10:00 am