English 2122.04 schedule, fall 2017
Updated 11/26/17
Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative. I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Monday, August 14 | Course syllabus |
Introduction to course |
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Wednesday, August 16 | Student info (online) | Golden rules |
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Thursday, August 17 | Drop/add ends | ||
Monday, August 21 | Nuggets Blake: Songs of Experience 54-64 "The Book of Thel" 64-68 |
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Wednesday, August 23 | Quotations Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview Coleridge headnote 250-52 "The Eolian Harp" 252-54 "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" 254-56 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 256-72 "Frost at Midnight" 290-92 |
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Friday, August 25 | Terminology test (D2L quiz) | Elements
of fiction Elements of poetry |
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Monday, August 28 | Word problems |
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Wednesday, August 30 | Writing matters test (D2L quiz) | Class canceled | Class canceled |
Monday, Sept. 4 | Labor Day holiday | Labor Day holiday |
Labor Day holiday |
Wednesday, Sept. 6 | Percy Bysshe Shelley overview Shelley headnote 376-78 "Mont Blanc" 380-83 "Ozymandias" 386 "A Song: Men of England" 386-87 "England in 1819" 387 "Ode to the West Wind" 388-90 |
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Monday, Sept. 11 | Class canceled | MGA closed for Irma | Class canceled |
Wednesday, Sept. 13 | On
plagiarism Mary Shelley overview Frankenstein iii-x, 1-54 |
Paper 1 assigned | |
Monday, Sept. 18 | Frankenstein 54-114 | ||
Wednesday, Sept. 20 | Paper proposal | Frankenstein 114-66 | |
Monday, Sept. 25 | Introduction
to Victorians |
Discuss midterm | |
Wednesday, Sept. 27 |
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Midterm exam | |
Monday, October 2 | Paper 1 due | Elizabeth
Browning overview |
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Wednesday, October 4 | Wuthering Heights v-vi, 1-53 | ||
Monday, October 9 | Wuthering Heights 53-125 | ||
Wednesday, Oct. 11 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
Wuthering Heights 125-79 | |
Monday, October 16 | Wuthering Heights 180-248 | ||
Wednesday, Oct. 18 | Robert
Browning overview Robert Browning headnote 709-12 "Porphyria's Lover" 713-14 "Soliloquy of the Spanish..." 714-16 "My Last Duchess" 716-17 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" 723-29 |
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Monday, October 23 | Oscar Wilde overview Wilde headnote 874-77 The Importance of Being Earnest 886-929 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 25 | Hardy headnote 986-87 "Hap" 988 "Neutral Tones" 988 "The Darkling Thrush" 989-90 "Channel Firing"991-92 "The Convergence of the Twain" 992-93 "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" 993-94 "He Never Expected Much" 995 |
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Monday, October 30 | Paper 1 corrections | Joseph
Conrad overview Conrad headnote 996-99 Heart of Darkness 999-1057 |
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Wednesday, November 1 | W.
B. Yeats overview Yeats headnote 1057-60 "No Second Troy" 1066 "September 1913" 1067-68 "Easter 1916" 1068-70 "The Second Coming" 1073-74 "Leda and the Swan" 1076-77 "Sailing to Byzantium" 1077-78 |
Paper 2 assigned | |
Monday, November 6 | Virginia Woolf overview Woolf headnote 1095-97 "The Mark on the Wall" 1097-1102 "Professions for Women" 1217-20 James Joyce overview Joyce headnote 1221-23 "Araby" 1223-27 |
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Wednesday, November 8 | Paper proposal | James Joyce: "From Ulysses" 1256-64 Handout: Ulysses excerpt: "Lestrygonians" |
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Monday, November 13 | T. S. Eliot overview Eliot headnote 1298-1301 "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1301-5 "The Waste Land" 1305-1319 "The Hollow Men" 1320-22 "Journey of the Magi" 1322-23 |
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Wednesday, November 15 | Paper 2 due | Samuel Beckett overview |
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Monday-Saturday, November 20-25 |
Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday |
Monday, November 27 |
W. H. Auden headnote 1411-12 "Lullaby" 1412-13 "Musee des Beaux Arts" 1415 "The Unknown Citizen" 1418 "September 1, 1939" 1419-21 Dylan Thomas headnote 1428-29 "Poem in October" 1430-31 "Fern Hill" 1431-32 "Do Not Go Gentle . . ."1433 |
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Wednesday, November 29 | Philip Larkin 1433-40 Seamus Heaney headnote 1469-70 "Digging" 1471 "The Forge" 1471-72 "Punishment" 1473-74 "Clearances" 1480-83 |
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Monday, December 4 |
Paper 2 corrections | Margaret Atwood headnote 1485-86 "Death by Landscape" 1486-98 |
Discuss exam |
Final exam Wednesday, December 6 1:00-3:00 |