1483 - 93 - Sections 06/07 and 01/02

Schedule

Course Schedule

Date

You are expected to have done the
Weekly Reading
before the class in which it's listed.

Things Due

September

Week 1

Sept. 8
& 13

A) Introductions:

To the prof
To each other
To the course
To the Oxford English Dictionary
To the Parts of speech.

B) The importance of the course webpage, including how to use it.

C) (Time allowing:) Introduction to literary genres.

When something is due, its date is indicated in this column.

Daily class notes:
On any given class day during the year you may be called on to submit your daily notes. You must then do so. Expect this to happen multiple times during the year.

Week 2

Sept. 15
& 20

Poetry
Sonnets
Read Mortimer J. Adler, "How to Mark a Book", then print off and read Stephen King, "Reading to Write".

In class, we will spend some time reading sonnets with a view to developing a skill known as close reading, and we will start talking about the practice of writing.

Follow Adler's advice when you read King's essay. Submit your marked up version for comment. Be sure to put your name on the top of the first page.

Week 3

Sept. 22
& 27

Poetry - more sonnets
This week, we will again spend some time reading sonnets with a view to developing the skill of close reading. We will also think some more about the practice of writing.

October

Week 4

Sept. 29
& Oct. 4

Be sure to bring a fully charged computer to class today. You are going to use it to write your first paper, in class.

These links will be activated at the beginning on each class period. To get credit for having submitted this assignment, you must attend class and write the paper there.
FA07
FA06

Week 5

Oct. 6
& 11

Drama
Everyman
Everyman Reading test
In addition to discussing Everyman, we'll look at academic styles (APA, MLA, and Chicago).

Week 5

Oct. 13
& 18

Drama
Oedipus Rex Reading Test
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
In today's writing instruction, we'll look at how punctuation can shape meaning.

Week 7

Oct. 20
& 25

Drama
A Doll's House Reading Test
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, pp 249 - 307.

Week 8 for section FA07

Oct. 27

Enemy
and an example of analysis

Oct. 31 - Nov. 4

Reading Week. No Classes

November

Week 8 for section FA06

Nov. 8

Enemy
and an example of analysis

Week 9

Nov. 15

Introduction to Fiction
and how to write about it
Recommended reading: pp 1 - 15, Broadview Introduction

No class for FA07 on Nov. 10

Week 10

Nov. 22
& 24

Short Fiction:
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" p 25 ff
"The Story of an Hour" reading test
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" p 28 ff
"The Yellow Wallpaper" reading test

Your second paper is due for FA06.
Specific formatting instructions for the second paper

Week 11

Nov. 29
& Dec. 1

Short Fiction:
Thomas King's "A Short History of Indians in Canada" p 151 ff
Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"

Your second paper is due for FA07.
Specific formatting instructions for the second paper

December

Week 12

Dec. 6

Short Fiction:
Lynn Coady's "Hellgoing" p 202 ff.
Margaret Atwood's "Happy Endings" p 127 ff.

January

Reading Journal is due Wednesday, January 4.

Week 13

Jan. 10
& 12

Poetry of the Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Colergidge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Week 14

Jan. 17
& 19

Non-fiction:
George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
Laura Sullivan, "Plastic Wars"

"Politics and the English Language" test

Week 15

Jan. 24
& 26

Non-fiction:
Richard Wagamese's "Finding Father" p 805 ff
"Report reveals ‘massive plastic pollution footprint' of drinks firms"
"No mountain high enough: study finds plastic in ‘clean' air"

February

Week 16

Jan. 31
& Feb. 2

Non-fiction:
Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" p 781
"Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time"

"A Modest Proposal" test

Week 17

Feb. 7
& 9

Long Fiction:
Scott Fotheringham's The Rest is Silence

Week 18

Feb. 14
& 16

Long Fiction:
The Rest is Silence

Feb. 21 - 24

Reading Week. No Classes

March

Week 19

Feb. 28
& Mar. 2

Nineteenth-century poetry:
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" p 543 - 4
Cristina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" p 557 ff

Your third paper is due this week.

Week 20

Mar. 7
& 9

Nineteenth-century poetry:
Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallott" p 531
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" p 511 - 12

Week 21

Mar. 14
& 16

Modernism:
Presentation (no reading for today)

Week 22

Mar. 21
& 23

Modernist Poetry:
Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" p 592
William Carlos Williams' "Red Wheelbarrow" p 588
T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" p 596 ff

Week 23

Mar. 28
& 30

Modernist Poetry:
Eliot's "The Wasteland"

Reading Test Review

April

Week 24

Apr. 4
& 6

Review

Exam Study Sheets

Final Exam

1493-WI06 - Apr. 12 @ 2:00 PM in BAC 207
1493-WI07 - Apr. 19 @ 7:00 PM in BAC201