World Literature 272--Tentative J. Roth 05-04-2010
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5 APRIL Syllabus and course introduction |
6 Introduction to the web and Overview of the era Introductions—what would
surprise us if we knew it about you? |
7 Continue Overview of the era Introductions-- what would
surprise us if we knew it about you? |
8 Please have browsed pp. 10-19. Please have read Tartuffe, Act I, pp. 10-29 Introductions PG-13/R Warning |
9 Please have read Tartuffe, Act II, pp. 29-40 Begin Tartuffe Writing Assignment Introductions |
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12 Please have read Tartuffe, Act III and IV, pp. 40-58 |
13 Please have read all of Tartuffe, Acts IV and V, pp. 10-67 Class discussion Compare Enlightenment
Notes and Thoughts to Moliere’s play |
14 Discuss Tartuffe Tartuffe Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class. Modern Day Tartuffes? Modern Day Orgons? Assign |
15 Please have read Jean Racine, pp. 159-161 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 162-171, (Act I) Beware the pop quiz Discuss Classical Plot Line and drama/fiction terms Assign Phaedra Writing Assignment |
16 Computer Lab 1220-G Work on Neoclassicism Web Research Assignment and |
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19 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 171-185 (Acts II-III) Beware the pop quiz |
20 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 186-200 (Acts IV-V) Beware the pop quiz |
21 Please have all of Phaedra read Phaedra Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class. |
22 Continue discussion of Drama and fiction terms, Green Packet pp. 13-14 in the course packet Art
of the Neoclassic and Romantic Periods Web Assignment |
23 English Department Retreat No class but the computer lab is open. Consider completing the and Romantic Periods Web Assignment |
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26 Begin Candide Writing Assignment Before
we begin Candide, some questions
from the Phaedra writing assignment
responses Please have read Voltaire and Candide, pp. 377-396 (chapters 1-12) |
27 Please have read Candide, pp. 396-421 (chapters 13-22) Art of the Neoclassic and Romantic Periods Web Assignment due at the beginning of class |
28 Please have read Candide, pp. 421-438 (chapters 23-30) |
29 Please have read the Rousseau biography and Confessions, pp. 496-519 Candide Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class |
30 Study and Reflection Day to prepare for Experience #1. Please come to my office if you have questions. |
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3 MAY Experience #1—100 points—Tartuffe—Rousseau |
4 Communication Conference in
the Lair
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5 Introduction to the Romantic Era Poetry introduction—rhythm, meter, and rhyme How to Read a Poem and A Primer on Poetic Feet , Course Packet, pp. 15-19 and Sonnets Made Easy (a new handout) |
6 William Blake Please have read Blake, pp. 540-549 Please STUDY the following Blake poems” From Songs of Innocence: ðIntroduction ðThe Lamb, ðThe Little Black Boy ðHoly Thursday, ðThe Chimney
Sweeper From Songs of Experience: ðIntroduction, ðThe Tyger, ðThe Sick Rose, ðLondon, ðThe Chimney
Sweeper, ðAnd Did
Those Feet |
7 Web Friday |
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10 Continue William Blake (briefly--We’ll Web
Assignment--Romanticism due at the beginning of class Please have read Blake, pp. 540-549 How Knowledge Grows lecture |
11 Please meet in the SCC Library |
12 Please meet in the SCC Library |
13 William Wordsworth, biography--pp. 549-552 Poem--Lines Composed a Few Miles . . ., pp. 552-555 Poem--Composed Upon Westminster Bridge . . ., p. 560 and Poem--The World Is Too Much With Us, pp. 560-1 Assign FIELD TRIP On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk |
14 Weather permitting, please enjoy the On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk |
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14 No class— English 101Portfolio Reading Day |
15 DL testing day |
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