English 2111.11 schedule, spring 2025
Updated 4/28/2025
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
English 2111.11 schedule, spring 2025
Updated 4/28/2025
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
| Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
| Thursday, January 9 |
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Course syllabus 21XX syllabus supplement 2000-4000 grades and grading |
| Tuesday, January 14 | Simple Stuff Elements of fiction Norton Anthology: Gilgamesh, pp. 50-81 (Tablets 1-6) or as plan b,: Overview & plot summary and online Gilgamesh, pp. 1-15 |
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| Thursday, January 16 | Norton: Gilgamesh, pp. 81-103 (Tablets 7-11) |
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| Tuesday, January 21 | MGA closed for snow | Elements of poetry | Snow day |
| Wednesday, January 22 | Literary terminology test (D2L quiz) due by midnight Wednesday |
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| Thursday, January 23 | No class meeting: weather-delayed opening |
Golden rules 1-5 Norton: Homer headnote, pp. 141-42, 145-57 The Odyssey Books 1, 5, & 6, pp. 228-55 (or Gutenberg eBook, Books 1, 5, and 6) |
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| Friday, January 24 | Reading quiz 1 and threaded Discussion in D2L, due Friday midnight: on our readings from The Odyssey, Books 1, 5, and 6 noted above | ||
| Tuesday, January 28 | Golden rules 6-10 The Odyssey Books 7-10 & 16, pp. 256-312, |
About the epic | |
| Thursday, January 30 |
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Nuggets 1-5 |
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| Tuesday, February 4 |
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Nuggets
6-10 Sappho headnote 369-72 Sappho poems 372-84 |
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| Thursday, February 6 |
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"Ancient Athenian Drama" 387-93 Sophocles headnote 393-97 Oedipus Tyrannos 398-445 |
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| Tuesday, February 11 | Quotations 1-4 Aristophanes headnote 446-48 Lysistrata 448-506 |
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| Thursday, February 13 |
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Quotations 5 Word problems Handout: Catullus lyrics |
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| Tuesday, February 18 | Writing matters test (D2L quiz) |
"The Ancient Roman World" 507-11 Virgil headnote 512-16 Aeneid excerpts 516-57 |
Paper 1 assigned |
| Thursday, February 20 | No class meeting Paper proposals due in D2L |
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| Tuesday, February 25 | On
plagiarism MGA English plagiarism definition Aeneid excerpts 558-612 |
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| Thursday, February 27 | Paper 1 due (by midnight in D2L) | "Stories and Tales" 725-43 | Discuss exam Midterm document |
| Tuesday, March 4 | Midterm exam | ||
| Thursday, March 6 | Bhagavad-Gita headnote 706-8 Bhagavad-Gita excerpts pp. 708-23 |
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| Tuesday, March 11 | Beowulf overview Beowulf headnote 902-5 Beowulf 905-36 |
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| Wednesday, March 12 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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| Thursday, March 13 | Beowulf 936-76 | ||
| Monday, March 17-Friday, March 21 | Spring break | ||
| Tuesday, March 25 | Marie de France headnote 976-77 The Lais excerpts 978-89 |
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| Thursday, March 27 | Dante headnote 989-93 Inferno Cantos 1-12, pp. 993-1036 |
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| Tuesday, April 1 | Inferno Cantos 13-23, pp. 1036-67 | ||
| Thursday, April 3 | Inferno Cantos 24-34, pp. 1067-1108 |
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| Tuesday, April 8 | The 1001 Nights 1109-29 | ||
| Thursday, April 10 | Chaucer overview Chaucer headnote 1130-34 "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" 1154-81 |
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| Tuesday, April 15 | Paper
1 corrections |
Cervantes headnote 1619-24 Don Quixote 1624-89 |
Paper 2 assigned |
| Thursday, April 17 | Don Quixote 1723-60 | ||
| Tuesday, April 22 | Paper proposals due | Shakespeare headnote 1779-83 The Tempest Act 1, pp. 1783-99 |
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| Thursday, April 24 | The Tempest Acts 2-3, pp. 1799-1821 | ||
| Tuesday, April 29 | Paper 2 | The Tempest Acts 4-5, pp. 1821-38 | |
| Final exam Tuesday, May 6 8:00-10:00 |
Optional paper rewrites | ||