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English 2111.03 schedule, fall 2023

Updated 11/18/23

This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Wednesday, August 9  

 

Course syllabus
21XX syllabus supplement
2000-4000 grades and grading
Monday, August 14 Student info (online)

Simple Stuff
Norton Anthology Vol. A:
   Gilgamesh
, pp. 89-145
 or as plan b,:
   Overview & plot summary
   and online Gilgamesh, pp. 1-24

 
Tuesday, August 15 Drop/add ends
Wednesday, August 16  

Golden rules 1-5
Norton:
Homer headnote, pp. 216-17, 220-31
   The Odyssey
I-VI 325-93
 
plan b:
  Gutenberg eBook, Books 1-6

About the epic
Monday, August 21   Golden rules 6-10
Elements of fiction
The Odyssey
VI-XII 393-465
Wednesday, August 23  

Nuggets 1-5
The Odyssey, XIII-XVIII 465-535

 
Monday, August 28   Nuggets 6-10
The Odyssey XIX-XXIV 535-602
 
Wednesday, August 30 MGA closed for weather
Monday, September 4 Labor Day holiday
Wednesday, September 6   Quotations 1-2
Sophocles headnote 681-85

   Oedipus the King
687-724
 
Monday, September 11   Quotations 3-4
Euripides headnote 756-58
   Medea 759-90
Paper 1 assigned
Wednesday, September 13   Quotations 5
Aristophanes headnote 791-93
   Lysistrata
793-827
 
Monday, September 18 Paper 1 proposal Word problems
Catullus headnote 902-4
   Catullus Poems 904-21

 
Wednesday, September 20   On plagiarism
Virgil headnote 922-26
   Aeneid excerpts 926-67
 
Monday, September 25 Paper 1 Aeneid excerpts 967-1014 Discuss midterm
Wednesday, September 27     Midterm exam
Monday, October 2   Norton Vol B:
  
Song of Roland
excerpts 220-51
 
Wednesday, October 4   Roland excerpts 251-86
 
Monday, October 9  

1001 Nights excerpts, 597-628

 
Wednesday, October 11 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 835-61  
Monday, October 16    Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 861-90  
Wednesday, October 18   Dante headnote 387-91
   Inferno 391-441
 
Monday, October 23   Inferno 441-90  
Wednesday, October 25

  No class meeting

Monday, October 30   Inferno 491-548  
Wednesday, November 1   Norton Vol C:
Cervantes headnote 357-62
   Don Quixote 362-401
 
Monday, November 6    Don Quixote 422-34; 464-77 Paper 2 assigned
Wednesday, November 8   Shakespeare headnote 651-55
   Hamlet, 655-77
On research
Friday, November 10 Paper 2 proposal
Monday, November 13   Hamlet 677-716  
Wednesday, November 15   Hamlet 717-51  
Monday-Friday,
November 20-24
Thanksgiving holiday
Saturday, November 25 Paper 2 in D2L
Monday, November 27   Milton headnote 770-73
Paradise Lost
814-42
 
Wednesday, November 29    

Review and
discuss exam

Sample short answers

Final exam
Monday, December 4
1:00-3:00
    Final exam