World Literature 272/ J. Roth May 24, 2010

3 MAY Experience #1—100 points—Tartuffe—Rousseau	4 Communication Conference in the Lair	5 Introduction to the Romantic Era Poetry introduction—rhythm, meter, and rhyme Beginning Poems for Practice A Study of Reading Habits—What is scansion 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. 683-693 Please STUDY the following Blake poems according to the poetry guidelines we discussed yesterday 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 William Blake--Selected Poetry for Class Discussion William Blake--Engravings How Poems are Built—the Basics Other Blake selections	7 Web Friday Web Assignment--Romanticism Please begin The Grasmere Journals assignment
10 Continue William Blake. Please have the assigned poems studied. (Please see the 5/6/2010 box for the list.) Web Assignment--Romanticism due at the beginning of class Please have read Blake, pp. 683-693 Other Blake selections Chimney Sweep Net How Knowledge Grows lecture	11 Please meet in the SCC Library How Poems are Built—the Basics--due	12 Please meet in the SCC Library How Poems are Built—the Basics--due	13 Haiku Day—bring your creativity! The Grasmere Journals assignment due Assign FIELD TRIP On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk How Poems are Built—the Basics—individual help	14 Weather permitting, please enjoy the On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk
17 Literary Criticism Assignment William Wordsworth, biography--pp. 549-552 Poem--The World Is Too Much With Us, pp. 560-1 Other Wordsworth selections Walt Whitman— When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Byron—When We Two Are Parted, pp. 747-8 Keats—Ode on a Grecian Urn, pp. 759-760	18 Tennyson—Ulysses, pp. 822-23 Tithonus, pp. 823-24 Robert Browning—My Last Duchess, pp. 845-846 Youtube rendition	19 Walt Whitman, pp. 916-917; from Song of Myself, pp. 918-923 (Chapters 1,4,7,16,21,24, 32,46,51, and 52 Please also have studied Other Whitman Poems The Whitman and Dickinson Page Pop Quiz?	20 Emily Dickinson, pp. 986-7; Poem numbers 328, 341, 435, 585, pp. 988-991 The Whitman and Dickinson Page Pop Quiz? Musee Des Beaux Arts	21 Web Friday Help with your Literary Criticism Assignment Or complete our discussion and appreciation of Whitman and Dickinson Additional Dickinson Poems
24 Experience #2—Blake through Dickinson	25 Enrichment Day 19^th century and early 20^th centuryAfrican-American poets Olivia Ward Paul Laurence Dunbar Musee Des Beaux Arts Dover Beach and Response	26 Leo Tolstoy Please have read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, pp. 1327-1350, chapters I-IV Pop Quiz? Attend to find out J	27 Please have read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, pp. 1350-1368, chapters V-XII Pop Quiz? Attend to find out J	28 Web Friday Help with your Literary Criticism Assignment
31 HOLIDAY and REMEMBRANCE	1 JUNE Ideas that Changed the World Please have read Charles Darwin, pp. 1370-1381 The Origin of Species, from chapter XIV Recapitulation and Conclusion The Descent of Man, chapter XXI--General Summary and Conclusion Darwin Links	2 Ideas that Changed the World Please have read Marx and Engels, pp. 1381-1390 From the Manifesto of the Communist Party, chapter I, Bourgeois and Proletarians Marx Links	3	4
7 Literary Criticism Assignment due at the beginning of class	8	9	10	11
14 No class— English 101Portfolio Reading Day	15 DL testing day	16 Finals	17 Finals Experience #3 at 10:30	18 Finals