J. Roth             World Literature 271  Winter Quarter 2008           02/25/08

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

28 Snow Day

 

29 Snow Day

 

30 Web Wednesday

 

The Greek Theater

31 Snow Day

 

Feb 1

Please have read The Odyssey

Books XXI-XXIV, pp. 452-495

Due Virgil and the Aeneid Web Assignment at the beginning of class.

 

 

Feb 4

 

The Classical Plot Line

 

Discussion and Please have read Oedipus the King, pp. 612-631

 

Beware the pop quiz

 

Due

The Greek Theater Web Assignment

Feb 5

Discussion and Oedipus the King, pp. 632-643

 

Due

Writing Assignment—The Odyssey

6 Please meet in the classroom today

 

Discussion and Oedipus the King, pp. 643-652

 

Review for Experience #1

 

 

 

7 Experience #1

 

Gilgamesh through Oedipus—100 points

8 Please have read The Bible: The New Testament, pp. 1082-1097

 

Beware the pop quiz

 

 

11 Please have read The Koran, pp. 1148-1173 Beware the pop quiz

 

 

 

 

 

12  Course Fair

 

 

13 Web Wednesday Assignment: The Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt. Also, please read The Middle Ages, pp. 1143-1147

14 Please have read Beowulf, pp. 1174-1210

(From the beginning up to the fight with Grendel’s mother.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 No Class—English Department Retreat

 

 

 

18  Holiday

 

No School

19 Please have read Beowulf, pp. 1210-1247

 

(From the fight with Grendel’s mother to the end.)

 

 

 

20 Finish Beowulf discussion

 

 

Introduction to Dante--film

 

21 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #1

 

Assign Dante Writing Assignment

 

 

22 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #2

 

 

25 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #3

26 Finish the Inferno

Middle English

Balade de bon Conseyl

Due

Dante Writing Assignment

27 Web Wednesday

Renaissance Web Assignment

28 Experience #2 The New Testament through Dante—100 points

29 Please have read Lyric Poetry:

Carpe Diem Poems, p. 2041; Poems, pp. 2045-2047; p. 2051-bottom poem; p. 2052-top poem; p. 2053-bottom poem; pp. 2055-2056-To His Coy Mistress

 

The Poems

March 3

Please have read Miguel de Cervantes, pp. 2217-2221 and Don Quixote, Prologue and Chapters 1-8, pp. 2221-2253

4 Please have read

Don Quixote, Chapters 18, 22, 52---pp. 2281-2298

5 Please have read Don Quixote, Part 2, Chapter 16 through end--pp. 2325-2349.

 

Don Quixote Writing Assignment due

6 Hamlet

Please have read Hamlet, pp. 2406-2430 (Through Act I)

7 Hamlet

Please have read Hamlet, pp. 2431-2459 Act II, and Act III, scenes 1 and 2

10 Hamlet

Please have read Hamlet, pp. 2460-2484 Act III, scenes 3-7 and all of Act IV

11 Hamlet

 

Please have read Hamlet, pp. 2484-2500, all of Act V

12 Milton

Paradise Lost

First Day Assignment

Hamlet Writing Assignment due

13 Milton

Paradise Lost

Second Day Assignment

14 Complete Milton

End-of-Course discussion

Review for Experience #3

17

DL Finals

18

Finals

19

Finals

 

COURSE FINAL

Experience #3—9:30

20 Finals

End of Quarter