J. Roth                               World Literature 271                        February 17, 2009

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THURSDAY

FRIDAY

26 Due the  Quintus and Virgil Web Assignment

 

Please have read The Odyssey

pp. 102-105, Books IX and X, beginning on page 303, line 92 through page 340 (through  line 558)

 

You will read about the following:

 

The Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops, Aeolis, Circe,  the Kingdom of the Dead

 

Beware the pop quiz J

 

The Simpsons’ take on the story

 

Assign

Writing Assignment—The Odyssey

27 Please have read The Odyssey

Books XXI-XXIV, pp. 452-495

The Return Home

 

 

Beware the pop quiz J

28 Web Wednesday Assignment

The Story of Oedipus and Greek Theater

29 Please have read Oedipus the King, from the beginning of the play,

p. 612 through p. 633, line 883

 

Beware the pop quiz J

 

Due

Writing Assignment—The Odyssey at the beginning of class

 

30 Please have read Oedipus the King, p. 633, line 884 through the end of the play, p.652

Beware the pop quiz J

2 February

The Bible: The New Testament, pp. 1082-1097

Due Web Assignment The Story of Oedipus and Greek Theater

 

 

3 Please have read Augustine, pp. 1113-1141

Definitely beware the pop quiz J

4 Review for Experience #1

5 Experience #1—Gilgamesh through Augustine

6 Please have read The Middle Ages, pp. 1143-1147

Introduction to the Koran

Please have read The Koran, pp. 1148-1173

9 Please have read Beowulf, pp. 1174-1210

 

Beware the pop quiz J

 

 

10 Spring Course Fair—Please meet me in the Hagen Center—2nd floor of our SCC Library

11 Web Wednesday Assignment—Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt—20 points

12 Please have read Beowulf, pp. 1210-1247

 

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

 

Assign the Poem de AMOUR

 

13 Please have read Medieval Lyrics and Tales

Warning—some stories will be optional reads

 Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt due at the beginning of class

 

Assign the Poem of LOVE assignment

16 Holiday

 

17 Introduction to Dante—film

 

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Please have read pp. 1456-1464 in our text.

Your Poem de AMOUR

is due at the beginning of class

18 Meet in classroom today

Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #1

 

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Assign Dante Writing Assignment

19 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #2

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

20 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #3

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

23 Complete the Inferno

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

 

Dante Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

24 Chaucer, Please have read pp. 1696-1718, The General Prologue

 

The Harvard University Site

 

Test Link

25 Web Wednesday—The Renaissance Web Assignment

26 The Thousand and One Nights

27 The Renaissance Web Assignment due at the beginning of class

2 March

Don Quixote Week

 

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9 Hamlet Week

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16 Milton

Paradise Lost

First Day Assignment

Hamlet Writing Assignment due

 

17 Milton

Paradise Lost

Second Day Assignment

18 Complete Milton

End-of-Course discussion

Review for Experience #3

19 No Class—English 101 Portfolio Reading

20 DL Testing day

Study Day

23  FINALS

9:30 COURSE FINAL

Experience #3—9:30

24  FINALS

10:30

25 FINALS

11:30