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Spring 2013
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     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (20249) room 271 T Th 08.00 am - 09.15 am     Syllabus
     
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (22187) room 271 T Th 09.25 am - 10.40 am     Syllabus
 
     Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 
 
 

   
Week 1          
 
01.21 Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality
              • demo-Literary Analysis
              • demo-Guidelines for Reading
              • demo-Intertextuality
     
   
 
01.22 Thursday:  
Quiz 1
 
Literary Devices
              • demo
    Types of Conflict
              • demo
    Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
              • demo
    Franz Kafka, selection from “The Metamorphosis”     —supplemental
     
     
  Week 2  
 
01.28 Tuesday: 
Definitions of Early Genres
              • demo-Early Genres
              • Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death
              • Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death”
              • Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant”
              • Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale
   
 
01.30 Thursday: 
Library Orientation: Literary Databases
     
     
  Week 3  
 
02.04 Tuesday: 
Literary Criticism: APA vs. MLA
              • demo
    Academic Paragraphs • Academic Summaries
              • demo
    Quiz 2: Fable
   
 
02.06 Thursday: 
Literary Review: APA versus MLA
              • handout
  •   Assignment 1: APA paper: Overview
    Quiz 3: APA
     
     
  Week 4  
 
02.11 Tuesday:  
Quiz 4: Academic Summary-due in Turnitin.com by 02.13     <updated 02.11.14
    Literary Review • Declaring a Thesis
              • demo
              • Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis
    Basic Construction of a Literary Paper
              • demo
    Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol
              • demo
   
 
02.13 Thursday:  
Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose-Girl” - supplemental
     
     
  Week 5  
 
02.18 Tuesday:  
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Godfather Death” - supplemental
              • demo-Comparison of Elements
    Group Discussions 1: Grimm, “Godfather Death” – supplemental • Presentations of Group
   
 
02.20 Thursday: 
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” p 619
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
              • demo-Gothic Ideology
     
     
  Week 6  
 
02.25 Tuesday:  
Settings
    Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
   
  02.27 Thursday:   Presentations of Group Discussions
    Quiz 5: Reading Comprehension / Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p. 129
              • demo-Hemingway
    Assignment 1-part 1: APA Abstract due
     
     
  Week 7       
  03. 04 Tuesday:  Quiz 6: Reading Comprehension / Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p. 376
              • demo
   
  03.06 Thursday:  James Joyce, “Eveline” p 597
              • demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics
              • demo- Critical Understanding of the Story
     
  Spring Break 03.10 Friday - 03.16 Sunday
     
     
     
   Week 8  
 
03.18 Tuesday: 
Quiz 7: Reading Comprehension / William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 220
              • demo-Chronology
              • demo-Faulkner
              • demo-Example of Faulkner's Extreme Writing Style
   
 
03.20 Thursday: 
— “A Rose for Emily” • Assignment 1-part 2: full APA paper due
     
     
  Week 9  
 
03.25 Tuesday:  
Group Discussions 3: G. García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” p. 590
   
 
03.27 Thursday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions 3
     
     
  Week 10  
  04.01 Tuesday:   How to Read Poetry • Poetic Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
              • examples
              • demo
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
   
  04.03 Thursday:   Last Day to Withdraw
    Quiz 8: Poetic Meter
    English-Irish Ballads
              • demo-Ballads
              • examples
    Assignment 2: MLA paper: Overview
    Click here to view index of film clips.
     
     
  Week 11  
 
04.08 Tuesday:  
Formal Tradition of Haiku / Quiz 9: Haiku
              • demo
              • Individual Haiku Pages
   
  04.10 Thursday:   Group Discussions 4: Modernism in Poetry
     
     
  Week 12  
  04.15 Tuesday:   Presentations of Group Discussions 4
    T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989 (preview)
              • demo
    Introduction paragraph due for Assignment 2: MLA paper: Declaration of Topic and Thesis
   
 
04.17 Thursday:  
Easter Holiday (April 16 - April 21)
     
     
  Week 13  
  04.22 Tuesday:   Quiz 10: Reading Comprehension / T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989
   
  04.24 Thursday:   T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.989
     
     
  week 14  
 
04.29 Tuesday: 
Group Discussions 5: Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 776
              • demo
    Assignment 2: MLA paper due
    Presentations of Group Discussions 5
   
 
05.01 Thursday:  
Modernism > Postmodernism > Post-Postmodernism
    Preparation for Final
     
     
  week 15  
 
05.06 Tuesday:  
Postmodern Poetry
    Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p 891
    Seanus Heaney, “Mid-Term Break” p 1001
    Lynda Hull “Ornithology”  supplemental
     
              • demo
   
  05.08 Thursday:  Post-Modern Poetry
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”  supplemental
    Metamodern Poetry
     
     
  Final Exams Final Exams: 05.12-05.15      < Click for full exam schedule
   

1302-20249 (08:00am-09:15am): May 13     08:00am-10:00am

     
    1302-22187 (09:25am-10:40am): May 15     08:00am-10:00am