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This is a course devoted to the first two or three books of Edmund Spenser's long poem, The Faerie Queene. If we're able, within the amount of time we have this term, we'll study the third book in addition to the first two. The pace we achieve and maintain will determine how far we get.
The course is designed to allow us to shift to an online model if we need to do so. That said, your attendance in every class is required, and this is reflected in the grading scheme. In the event we are required to abandon the classroom, attendance grades will be based on that portion of the term we shared prior to being forced out. [So don't miss any classes unless you absolutely must.]
You may want to have your computer with you in every class so you can move independently through your classmates comments. On this, see Commentaries, below.
You must turn your phone off and put it away during class. This is the professor's rule. The professor assigns your grade for this course. You do not want to generate animosity between you and the person who assigns your grade.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ed. Thomas P. Roche. Penguin: 1978.
Attendance:
Required. Each student should expect to be called on to speak during every class period.
Commentaries:
Click on the Book 1 link in the Menu you used to get to this page. You'll be able to see that The Faerie Queene has been sub-divided and that each student registered in the class has been assigned a few stanzas upon which to comment. Find your name in the right-hand column and you'll be able to see which stanzas are your responsibility. Your name will appear more than once; be sure you make all the comments for which you are responsible.
On the first day of class the professor will obtain from you the email address you use most often. That address will then be used to invite you to join these Google documents. You will then be able and are required to write your comments in the right-hand column, below your name, in the cell beside the stanzas themselves. Sometimes it will seem that you have several stanzas on which to comment, other times you may only have one. This will be true for everyone. Keep that in mind if your requirement seems heavy in comparison to others. There will be times when your roles reverse. By the end of the term, students always seem to find this system fair.
As for the comments themselves:
Short paper:
I do mean short. This paper should be no more than 5 pages long.
While the field is wide open, I'll gladly accept papers that address your response to The Faerie Queene as a poem, or that offer your sense of Edmund Spenser as a poet. Alternatively, you might find yourself wanting to consider on a deeper level something we discuss in class or that you begin to address in one of your comments. Whatever you decide to write, be sure it's more than a mere rant; support what you have to say with evidence from the poem. We'll decide as a class when this paper is due.