World Literature 272                          J. Roth                                     04/28/08         

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

31 MARCH

 

Syllabus and course introduction

1 APRIL

Introduction to the web and

 

Overview of the era

 

Introductions

2 Continue

Overview of the era

 

Introductions

3 Please have browsed pp. 10-19.  Please have read Tartuffe, Act I,

pp. 10-29

 

Introductions

 

PG-13/R Warning

4 Please have read Tartuffe, Act II, pp. 29-40

 

Introductions

7 Please have read Tartuffe, Act III and IV, pp. 40-58

Begin Tartuffe Writing Assignment

 

Moliere Links

 

 

8 Please have read all of Tartuffe, Acts IV and V, pp. 10-67

 

Class discussion

Compare Enlightenment Notes and Thoughts to Moliere’s play

 

Assign Biographical Research Summary

9 Computer Lab 1220-G

 

 

Complete Neoclassicism Web Research Assignment

10 Discuss Tartuffe

Tartuffe Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class.

Please read Jean Racine, pp. 159-161

 

Begin Phaedra Writing Assignment

 

Racine Links

11 Modern Day Tartuffes?

  Modern Day Orgons?

 

Please have read Phaedra, pp. 162-171, (Act I)

Neoclassicism Web Assignment due

 

Discuss Classical Plot Line and drama/fiction terms

14 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 171-185 (Acts I-II)

 

Racine Links

15 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 186-200 (Acts IV-V)

Racine Links

 

Settle on authors for the Biographical Research Summary

16 Computer Lab 1220-G

 

Please complete

 

Neoclassicism and Romanticism Web Assignment

 

17 Please have all of Phaedra read

Phaedra Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class.

Continue discussing

Drama and fiction terms, Green Packet pp. 13-14

 

Optimism and Candide Handout

18 Neoclassicism and Romanticism Web Assignment Due

Please have read Voltaire and Candide, pp. 375-396 (chapters 1-12)

B. T. P. Q.

 

Begin Candide Writing Assignment

 

Voltaire Links

 

21 Please have read Candide, pp. 396-421 (chapters 13-22)

 

Voltaire Links

 

22 Please have read Candide, pp. 421-438 (chapters 23-30)

Candide Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

23NO Web Wednesday this week--Please meet in classroom.

 

Please have read Rousseau and Confessions, pp. 496-519

 

Rousseau Links

24 Experience #1—100 points—Tartuffe--Rousseau

25 Introduction to the Romantic Era

 

Poetry introduction—rhythm, meter, and rhyme

 

Beginning Poems for Practice

 

A Primer on Poetic Feet , Green Packet, pp. 15-19 and

Sonnets Made Easy (a new handout)

28William Blake

 

Please have read Blake, pp. 683-693

 

 

 

 Other Blake selections

29 Introduction to Romanticism

Please have read

William Wordsworth, pp. 693-704

Other Wordsworth selections

30 Other Wordsworth selections

Assign FIELD TRIP

On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk

1 May

Jim attends the 2008 Pacific Northwest Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference

2 Jim continues to attend the 2008 Pacific Northwest Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference

5 On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk poem due

 

Please have read before class Leo Tolstoy and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, pp. 1327-1346

Chapters I-III

 

6 Attend Spring Communication Conference—Lair Auditorium

10:30-11:30

7 Enjoy FIELD TRIP poems

 Paraphrase Writing Assignment

 

due

8 Leo Tolstoy and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, pp. 1346-1368

Chapters IV-XII

 

Ilyich Assignment due

9 Darwin and Marx

pp. 1369-1390

 

(Skim Darwin—read Marx carefully)

 

Darwin Links

 

Marx Links

12 Chekhov, pp. 1486-1502

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26 HOLIDAY

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30 Final day for the Biographical Research Summary

2 JUNE

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10 DL testing day

11 Finals

12 Finals

13 Finals