English 2613 schedule, spring 2007

Updated 4/14/07

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Monday, January 8

Syllabus
2000-4000 grades and grading

Introduction to course
Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-5

Wed., January 10 Student info (online)

Simple Stuff
Golden rules 6-10

Norton Introduction to Literature
:
   Trifles
1314-23

 
Monday, January 15 Snow day: RSU closed

Snow day: RSU closed

Snow day
Wed., January 17

Snow day: classes canceled

Snow day: classes canceled Snow day
Friday, January 19 Golden rules quiz
GR quiz w/ answers
Golden rules exam (online)
   
Monday, January 22 Simple Stuff exercise
Nuggets 1-5
Norton
: A Raisin in the Sun 1942-68
 
Wed., January 24

Drop/add ends
Syllabus input (online)

Nuggets quiz

Nuggets quiz w/ answers

Nuggets 6-10
Norton
:
A Raisin in the Sun 1968-2002
  
Monday, January 29

Nuggets exam (online) 

Quotes and documentation 1-3
Norton
:
Pygmalion 1370-1402
 
Wed., January 31

Quotes/documentation quiz
QD quiz answers

Quotes and documentation 4-5
Norton: Pygmalion 1402-1439
Paper 1 assigned
Monday, February 5 QD exam (online)
Paper proposals due
Elements of poetry
Norton: "Poetry" 1037-38
  "The Fury of Overshoes" 822-23
  "London" 841
  "To a Daughter Leaving Home" 888-89
  "[Batter my heart, three-personed God]" 950
  "A Prayer, Living and Dying" 990-91
  "Mr. Tambourine Man" 993-94
  "123rd Street Rap" 995
  "Boom" 1134-36
  "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" 1172
 
Wednesday, Feb. 7   Word problems
Norton: "How Do I Love Thee?" 811
  "[Let me not to the marriage. . .]" 827
  "On Her Loving Two Equally" 828-29
  "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" 845-46
  "To His Coy Mistress" 896-97
  "[My mistress' eyes are nothing like . . .]" 1034
  "Last Night" 827-28
  "Wedding-Ring" 829
  "Peeling an Orange" 898
  "Sex without Love" 924
 
Monday, February 12 Word problems quiz

Paper 1 due
 
On plagiarism
Norton: "Alzheimer's" 856
  "After a Death" 967
  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" 1037
  "Barbie Doll" 835-36
  "The Ruined Maid" 861-62
  "Morning Song" 903
  "A Red, Red Rose" 945-46
  "What's That Smell in the Kitchen" 1082
  "The Silence of Women" 1086
 
Wednesday, Feb. 14   Norton: "Mostly My Nightmares Are Dull" 857
  "The Night-Wind" 895-96
  "The Masque of Rhyme" 929-30
  "From Paradise Lost" 931-34
  "Symphony in Yellow" 937
  "Diving into the Wreck" 965-67
  "Ray Charles" 1145
  "Kubla Khan" 1238-39
  "The Road Not Taken" 1247-48
  "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" 1268
  "I Knew a Woman" 1265-66
 
Monday, February 19     Midterm 1
Wednesday, Feb. 21   Norton: Death of a Salesman 2120-45  
Monday, February 26   Norton: Death of a Salesman 2145-65  
Wednesday, Feb. 28   

Norton: Death of a Salesman 2165-85

 
Monday, March 5 Paper 1 corrections  Norton: A Streetcar Named Desire 1539-63  
Wednesday, March 7 Gary Lucas performance Gary Lucas performance Gary Lucas
Monday, March 12   Norton: A Streetcar Named Desire 1563-84  
Wednesday, March 14   Norton: A Streetcar Named Desire 1584-1602 Paper 2 assigned
Monday, March 19-
Friday, March 23
Spring break Spring break Spring break
Monday, March 26 Paper proposals due Elements of fiction
Norton
: "The Story of an Hour" 536-38
  "A Rose for Emily" 594-601
  "The Yellow Wallpaper" 667-78
Research help
Wednesday, March 28  

Norton: "Cathedral" 20-30
  "Hills Like White Elephants" 132-35
  "Babylon Revisited" 560-75

 
Monday, April 2 Paper 2 due Norton:   "Shiloh" 747-57
  "An Occurrence at Owl Creek . . ." 639-45
 
Wednesday, April 4

  

Norton: "Everything That Rises . . ." 487-97
  "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 451-62

 
Monday, April 9     Midterm 2
Wednesday, April 11   Pride and Prejudice 5-59 (Vol. 1, chaps. 1-12)  
Friday, April 13 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
   
Monday, April 16

 

Pride and Prejudice 59-125 (Vol. 1, chs. 13-23)  
Wednesday, April 18   Pride and Prejudice 129-92 (Vol. 2, chs. 1-12; or chaps. 24-35)  
Monday, April 23 Paper 2 corrections 
Pride and Prejudice 192-279 (Vol. 2, ch. 13- V. 3, ch. 6; or chaps. 38-48)  
Wednesday, April 25   Pride and Prejudice 279-360 (Vol. 3, chs. 7-19; or chaps. 49-61)
Norton
:
   "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1099-1100)
Discuss exam
       
Final exam
Monday, April 30, 12:45-2:45