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

 

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

 

The Painting and the Poem Web Assignment due at the beginning of class

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

Introduction to the Koran

Please have read The Koran, pp. 1148-1173

 

 

 

11 Web Assignment—Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt—10 points

14 Please have read Beowulf, pp. 1174-1210

 

Beware the pop quiz J

 

Assign the Poem d’ AMOUR

15 Poem d’ AMOUR due

 

Please have read Beowulf, pp. 1210-1247

 

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

 

16 Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt due

Complete Beowulf, pp. 1174-1247

 

English through the Ages

 

Terza Rima

 

Introduction to Dante—Structure of the Inferno.

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

The Seven Deadly Sins

 

Dante Links

17 Dante—film

 

Assign Dante Writing Assignment

 

Please have read the Introduction to Dante, pp. 1456=1464

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Dante Links

 

18 Bring writing questions to my office—anything I have marked that you would like me to explain.

 

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Dante Links

 

21 HOLIDAY

22 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #1

 

 

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

 

23 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #2

 

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Name that SIN! Pop quiz notes

24 Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #3

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Name that SIN! Pop quiz notes

 

Dante Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

Please browse the Purgatorio-Paradiso Reading Assignment

Review for Experience #2

 

 

25 Web Day—The Renaissance Web Assignment

28 Finish Dante—film?

Please have read Dante Reading Assignment #3

Jim’s Guide to the Inferno

 

Name that SIN! Pop quiz notes

 

Dante Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

Please browse the Purgatorio-Paradiso Reading Assignment

Review for Experience #2

 

 

 

 

1 March

Experience #2—100 points New Testament through Dante

2 Don Quixote

 

Introductory Paragraph

 

Please have read Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote, Chapters 1-8, pp. 2226-2253

 

 

 

3 Please have read

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

 

4 Computer Lab 1220-G open for your use

Free Day

 

I recommend your explore the following website to prepare for Hamlet—specifically health, manners, and fashion

 

 

 

7 Please have read Don Quixote, Part 2, Chapter 14 through end--pp. 2316-2349.

 

The Renaissance Web Assignment

Due

 

The Shakespeare Insult Kit—Amaze your friends!

 

Who’s Who in Hamlet

 

8 Finish Don Quixote

Introduction to Hamlet

Assign Hamlet Writing Assignment

 

Key Passages

 

Hamlet

Please have read Hamlet, pp. 2406-2430 (Beginning of the play through Act I)

 

Key Passages

9 Hamlet

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

 

Key Passages

 

10

Hamlet

Please have read Hamlet, pp. 2460-2484 from Act III, scene 3 through all of Act IV

Key Passages

11 Please meet in the classroom for Act IV of Hamlet, pp.  2468-2484

 

Work on Hamlet Writing Assignment

14 Hamlet

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

 

Hamlet Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class

Key Passages

 

Milton introduction

 

 

15 Complete the discussion of Hamlet

 

 Hamlet Writing Assignment due at the beginning of the hour

Milton

Milton Reading Assignments

 

Paradise Lost—selected excerpts

 

 

16 Milton Reading Assignments

 

Paradise Lost—selected excerpts

 

Best and Worst Day

 

Review for Experience #3

Course Evaluation

Recommended Reading

 

17 English 101 portfolio reading day

 

Recommended Reading

 

18 No School

21 Finals 8:30 and 11:30 classes

22 Experience #3—Don Quixote through Hamlet (plus a general question or two)

23 Finals 7:30, 10:30, and 1:30 classes

24 Spring Break

25 Spring Break

 

 

 

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