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Summer 2- 2012
     contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog  
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (40017) room 269 M T W Th F 10.00 am - 11.55 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         07.09 - 07.13
 
Monday:  
Basic introduction
    Academic Load
    Intro to Literary Analysis Process
    • Guidelines for Reading
    • Intertextuality
    • Literary Devices
              • demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process
    Types of Conflict
              • demo-Antagonists and Conflict—commentary from Jed Alexander
    Conflict and Classification of Literature
              • demo-Conflict and Classifiation
   
  Tuesday:   Read supplied examples of Fairy Tales from Grimm Brothers.
   
  Wednesday:   Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales
              • demo-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 Folk Tale
  Summarizing a Written Text, Bedford Handbook, p 91-95
 
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
              • another blog commentary Jed Alexander
              • Another View of Archetypes
 
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
              • demo-Freytag's Pyramid
  •   Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due 07.13
   
  Thursday:  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 07.16
              Full paper due 07.20
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 1, p 225
              • demo-Fertility Symbols
   
 
Friday:  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, continued
              • demo 2-Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism
    Student Example of Literary Introduction
    Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2
              • demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 2
              Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due
     
     
  Week 2 07.16 - 07.20
 
Monday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
              • demo-Gothic Ideology
              • demo-Atmospheric Setting
              Thesis and proposal due
   
  Tuesday:  William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293
              • demo-Faulkner
              • demo-Chronology
   
          • demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
              >Faulkner's Interpretation
   
  Wednesday:   James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3-7
              • demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics
                       • Review of MLA guidelines: signal phrases, in-text notes
                     <see Student Daily Packet, page 9>
              • Review of MLA guidelines: works cited page
   
  Thursday:   Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
              • demo-Hemingway
    Expectations for Final Project, Paper due: 07.30
              • Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step
              • demo-Student paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne
   
  Friday:   Sophocles, Antigone p 722-757
              • demo-Royal House of Thebes
              • demo-Analysis of Opposition
   •   Assignment 1: Comparison Paper full paper due
    Review For MidTerm
     
     
  Week 3 07.23 - 07.27
  Monday:   MidTerm
    Sophocles Antigone continued
              • demo-Analysis of Approach
              • Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone
              • Image of caryatid
   
  Tuesday:    Library Orientation: Literary Databases/ Final Project Expectations   
    Article Synopsis, due 07.27
    Thesis due 07.30
  •   Tentative Works Cited Page due 07.31
  •   Final Project Due 08.03
    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"
   
  Wednesday:   Poetical Devices and Terminologies – part 2
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
    English/Irish Folk Ballads 
              • demo-Ballads
   
  Thursday:   Haiku
              • Individual Haiku Pages
              • demo
    e. e. cummings, two poems
              “l(a”    supplemental
              “13”    supplemental
   
  Friday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
              • demo
    Article Synopsis due today
     
     
  Week 4 07.30 - 08.03
  Monday:   History of Sonnet
    Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, & a poem attributed to W. Shakespeare (#126)
              • demo
    • Thesis due today
    Groups meet and discuss objectives: 20 minutes
   
  Tuesday:   • Tentative Works Cited Page due
    Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W”
    Review of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas
    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)
    Groups meet and discuss objectives: 20 minutes
   
  Wednesday:   Modern Sonnets
    e. e. cummings, three poems   supplemental
    Marilyn Hacker
    John Berryman
    Group 1 presentation
   
  Thursday:   Contemporary Poetry
    Susan Mitchell "Havana Birth"     supplemental
    Lynda Hull "Ornithology"     supplemental
              • demo
    Group 2 presentation
   
  Friday:   Study Guide for Final
    Final project due
    Group 3 presentation
     
     
  Week 5 08.06 - 08.08
  Monday:   Flash Fiction
    Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House” —supplemental    
    Group 4 presentation
   
  Tuesday:   Flash Fiction contiunued
    Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392
    Group 5 presentation
   
  Wednesday:   Flash Fiction
    Review for Final Exam
 
 
  Thursday:   Final Exam