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Spring 2012
     contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog  
     English 1302-Composition 2 || room 271 (20249) 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.
 

   
Week 1         01.17
 
Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Academic Load
    Essay Guidelines
    Intro to Literary Analysis Process
   
 
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 01.24
 
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
   
 
Thursday: 
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 3 01.31
 
Tuesday: 
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
              • another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander
              • Another View of Archetypes
   
 
Thursday: 
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
              • demo-Freytag's Pyramid
     
     
  Week 4 02.07
 
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 due 02/23
   
 
Thursday:  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 1, p 225
              • demo-Fertility Symbols
     
     
  Week 5 02.14
 
Tuesday:  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 2, p 225
              • demo 2-Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism
    Short Story Structure • Setting • Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2
              • demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 2
   
 
Thursday: 
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
     
     
  Week 6 02.21
 
Tuesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
              • demo-Gothic Ideology
 
          • demo-Atmospheric Setting
   
 
Thursday:  

William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293

              • demo-Faulkner
              Assignment 1: Comparison Paper thesis due
     
     
  Week 7      02.28
  Tuesday:  William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293
   
          • demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
              >Faulkner's Interpretation
   
  Thursday:  James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3-7
              • demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics
     
     
   Week 8 03.06
 
Tuesday: 
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
              • demo-Hemingway
    Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
             • demo-Chopin    
              • Assignment 1: Comparison Paper full paper due
   
 
Thursday: 
Review For MidTerm
    Expectations for Final Project, Paper due: 04.26
    Thesis due: 04.03    
              • Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step
              • demo-Student paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne
              • Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis– review
     
  Spring Break 03.12-03.18
     
     
  Week 9 03.20
 
Tuesday:  
MidTerm
   
 
Thursday:  
Sophocles, Antigone p 722-757
              • demo-Royal House of Thebes
              • demo-Analysis of Opposition
     
     
  Week 10 03.27
  Tuesday:   Sophocles Antigone p 722-757
              • demo-Analysis of Approach
              • Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone
              • Image of caryatid
   
  Thursday:   Library Orientation: Literary Databases/ Final Project Expectations   
    Article Synopsis, due 04.03
  •   Tentative Works Cited Page due 04.17
     
     
  Week 11 04.03
 
Tuesday:  
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
   

Poetical Devices and Terminologies – part 1

              • demo
    Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem"
    William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"
    Anne Sexton, "Two Hands"
    Article Synopsis due today
   
  Thursday:   Easter Holidays
     
     
  Week 12 04.10
  Tuesday:   Poetical Devices and Terminologies – part 2
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
 
English/Irish Folk Ballads 
              • demo-Ballads
   
 
Thursday:  
Haiku p 513-514,      supplemental
              • Individual Haiku Pages
              • demo
    •   Poetry Assignment, due 04.24
    Thesis due today
  Friday:   Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W”
     
     
  Week 13 04.17
  Tuesday:   e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608
              “l(a”    supplemental
              “13”    supplemental
    Groups meet and discuss objectives: 20 minutes
     
   
  Thursday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • demo
    Groups meet and discuss objectives: 15 minutes
  •   Preliminary Works Cited Page due
     
     
  week 14 04.24
 
Tuesday: 
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • video: Recitation of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
  •   Poetry Assignment due
    Group 1 presentation
   
 
Thursday:  
History of Sonnet— Italian forms: Petrarch
              • demo
    Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, & a poem attributed to W. Shakespeare
    Group 2 presentation
    Final project due
     
     
  week 15 05.01
 
Tuesday:  
History of Sonnet— English forms: Howard, Spenser
    Review of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas
    Group 3 presentation
   
 
Thursday:  
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
            > Illustration
            > Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594
                  (Fitzwilliam Museum)
    Group 4 presentation
     
     
  week 16 05.08
 
Tuesday:  
Group 5 presentation
   

Modern Sonnets

              e. e. cummings, three poems   supplemental
    Contemporary Poetry
              Susan Mitchell "Havana Birth"     supplemental
              Lynda Hull "Ornithology"     supplemental
              • Video Recording of a reading by Lynda Hull
              • demo
    Study Guide for Final
 
 
     
  Final Exams      Final Exams: 05.09 - 05.15      < Click for full exam schedule