| Wed., Sept. 3: Course, professors, & website introduction. For Sept. 5, purchase Graff & Birkenstein's They Say, I Say, and bring it to class. | Fri., September 5: University-level research. | |
| Mon., September 8: Period & other specializations in the discipline of English. What we write about in English. Argumentation. Read Graff & Birkenstein, pp. 1-14. |
Wed., September 10: What does it mean "to read"? Reading poetry. Wyatt Howard |
Fri., September 12: Shakespeare |
| Mon., September 15: Amilia Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum," ll. 745 - 832. | Wed., September 17:John Donne, "The Flea," "The Canonization," "The Sun Rising." | Fri., September 19: The academic essay |
| Mon., September 22: S.T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | Wed., September 24: W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming," "All Things can tempt me" | Fri., September 26: Use this class time to finish your Poetry essay, due Monday. |
| Mon., September 29: Poetry essay due at start of class. T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
Wed., October 1: Definition: Aristotle's Poetics |