World Literature 272                          J. Roth                                     05/28/08         

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

28William Blake

 

Please have read Blake, pp. 683-693

 

 

 

 Other Blake selections

29 Introduction to Romanticism

Blake and Wordsworth Poems

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 For today please have studied

 

John Keats, pp. 755-6;

Ode on a Grecian Urn, p. 759-60

To Autumn, p. 763-4

 

 

 

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

 

Assign Poem Paraphrase

 

Pop Quiz?

6 Attend Spring Communication Conference—Lair Auditorium

10:30-11:30

7 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, pp. 820-821;

 

Please google Ulysses the character and the characters Aurora and  Tithonus as a pair before reading the following Tennyson poems

 

Ulysses, pp. 822-3 and Tithonus, pp. 823-25

 

 

8 For today please have studied

 

Robert Browning, pp. 843-845; My Last Duchess, pp. 845-846

 

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?

 

9 Emily Dickinson, pp. 986-7; Poem numbers 328, 341, 435, 585, pp. 988-991

 

Pop Quiz?

 

 

The Whitman and Dickinson Page

 

12 Self-directed study

 

 

13 Catch up on poems we have studied but have not discussed.

 

Poem paraphrase due

 

The Whitman and Dickinson Page

 

 

Dickinson Small Group Work

14 (Please have read Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species (from chapter XIV), pp. 1371-1376 and The Descent of Man (from chapter XXI) , pp. 1376-1381

 

Musee Des Beaux Arts

 

Pop Quiz?

 

Darwin Links

 

Marx Links

15 Poetry Wrap-up

16 Chekhov The Lady with the Dog, pp. 1486-1502

 

Review for Monday

19 Experience #2—100 points

20 Joyce and The Dead,

pp. 1888-1921

21 Joyce and The Dead,

pp. 1888-1921

22 Kafka and The Metamorphosis, pp. 1964-1984

23 Kafka and The Metamorphosis, pp. 1964-1984

26 HOLIDAY

27 Wrap-up of

 

Joyce and The Dead,

pp. 1888-1921

 

and Kafka and The Metamorphosis, pp. 1964-1984

 

T.S. Eliot and The Love Song, pp. 1999-2006

 

 

28 Anna Akhmatova and Requiem, pp. 2028-2038

 

Before the beginning of class, please select the two most meaningful to you.  Be prepared to share

29 Faulkner and Barn Burning, pp. 2067-2083

30 Final day for the Biographical Research Summary

 

Last day for presentations

 

The Guest, pp. 2250-2262

2 JUNE

Salman Rushdie, Step across This Line, pp. 2410-2415

3 Walker Brothers Cowboy, pp. 2508-2520

 

4 Best and Worst Day—Review for Experience #3

 

5 Experience #3

6 English 101 Portfolio Reading Day

9

10 DL testing day

11 Finals

12 Finals

 

Results in the classroom at 10:30

13 Finals