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Week 1 |
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08/27 Tuesday: |
Basic introduction
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Academic Load |
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08/29 Thursday: |
Critical Analysis Process: |
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• demo-Critical Analysis |
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• demo-Guidelines for Reading |
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• demo-Intertextuality |
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• Literary Devices |
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Week 2 |
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09/03 Tuesday: |
Conflict in Literature
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• demo-Conflict |
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Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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09/05 Thursday: |
Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales
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• demo-Early Genres |
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Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth “Admetus and Alcestis” |
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Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death” |
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Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant” |
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Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale |
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Week 3 |
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09/10 Tuesday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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09/12 Thursday: |
APA versus MLA
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• demo |
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Week 4 |
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09/17 Tuesday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl” |
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• demo-Freytag's Pyramid |
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Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” p 528 |
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Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due 09/24 |
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09/19 Thursday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “Godfather Death” |
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• demo-Comparisons of Elements |
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Creating a Literary Analysis |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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• demo- Guideline for Thesis |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis / APA Style |
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• Abstract and Thesis Declaration, due 10/03 |
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• Full paper due 10/15 |
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• Calendar |
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Week 5 |
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09/24 Tuesday: |
Short Story Structure • Setting •
Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2 |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 2 |
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Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due |
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09/26 Thursday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 325
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• demo-Types of Narration and Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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• demo-Antiheroes |
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Week 6 |
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10/01 Tuesday: |
Creating An Abstract |
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• demo |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 376 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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10/03 Thursday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 220 |
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• demo-Faulkner |
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• demo-Chronology |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison Paper Abstract due |
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Week 7 |
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10/08 Tuesday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 220 |
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>Faulkner's Interpretation |
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10/10 Thursday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 597 |
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• demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics |
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Week 8 |
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10/15 Tuesday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 129 |
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• demo-Hemingway |
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Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 205 |
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• demo-Chopin |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison Paper Full Paper due |
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10/17 Thursday: |
Review For MidTerm |
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Week 9 |
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10/22 Tuesday: |
MidTerm |
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10/24 Thursday: |
Overview of Expectations for Final Project, MLA Paper |
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Thesis Declaration due 11/14 |
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Final Project Due 11/26 |
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• Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step |
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Week 10 |
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10/29 Tuesday: |
Overview of Group Research Project |
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Group Research Project |
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10/31 Thursday: |
Group Research Project |
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Week 11 |
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11/05 Tuesday: |
Group Research Project due |
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11/07 Thursday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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Poetical Devices and Terminologies |
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• demo-Devices and Terminologies |
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• demo |
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Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem" |
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William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say" |
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Anne Sexton, "Two Hands" |
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Week 12 |
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11/12 Tuesday: |
Haiku p 513-514, supplemental |
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• Individual Haiku Pages |
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• demo |
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11/14 Thursday: |
Modernist Poetry |
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e. e. cummings |
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“l(a” supplemental |
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“13” supplemental |
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William Carlos Williams, “Red Wheelbarrow”p 744 |
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Overview of T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989 |
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• MLA Final Project Introduction Page due |
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11/15 Friday: |
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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Week 13 |
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11/19 Tuesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989 |
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• demo |
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11/21 Thursday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989 |
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Citations < MLA Guidelines |
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Week 14 |
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11/26 Tuesday: |
• Final project due |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989 |
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11/28 Thursday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 15 |
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12/03 Tuesday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 776 |
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• demo |
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12/05 Thursday: |
Contemporary Poetry |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” supplemental |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” supplemental |
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• demo |
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Study Guide for Final |
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Week 16: Exam Week |
Final Exams < Click for full exam schedule |
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12/10 Tuesday: |
11456 08:00 am to 10:00 am |
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11957 10:15 am to 12:15 pm |
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12/12 Thursday: |
11956 12:30 pm to 02:30 pm |
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