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

Week 1
 
Thurs. Sept. 7

Introductions:

• By the prof
• {By the TA}
• To the course via the Course Website.

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
 
Tues. Sept. 12

The Oxford English Dictionary
The Parts of speech.
Student Introductions

Print off a copy of Stephen King's, "Reading to Write," staple the pages together, and bring it to class on Thursday.

Thurs. Sept. 14

Read Mortimer J. Adler's, "How to Mark a Book", and then, before coming to class on Thursday, print off and read Stephen King's, "Reading to Write".

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
 
Tues. Sept. 19

Sonnets
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.

 

Thurs. Sept. 21

Erin Patterson is the English Liaison Librarian. She will provide an introduction to the library.

 

Week 4 
 
Tues. Sept. 26

Sonnets
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.

 

Thurs. Sept. 28


October

Introduction to Composition

 

Week 5 
 
Tues. Oct. 3

Composition

 

Thurs. Oct. 5

Everyman

MS Office Installation Instructions

 

Week 6 
 
Tues. Oct. 10

Everyman

 

Thurs. Oct. 12

Composition

 

Week 7 
 
Tues. Oct. 17

Composition

 

Thurs. Oct. 19

Composition

 

Week 8 
 
Tues. Oct. 24

Oedipus Rex

Second paper

Thurs. Oct. 26

November

Oedipus Rex

 

Week 9 

Tues. Nov. 7

A Doll's House

 

Thurs. Nov. 9

A Doll's House

 

Week 10 

Tues. Nov. 14

Erin Patterson, on Research Methods

 

Thurs. Nov. 16

No Class

 

Week 11 

Tues. Nov. 21

Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

 

Thurs. Nov. 23

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

 

Week 12 

Tues. Nov. 28

Thomas King's "A Short History of Indians in Canada"

 

Thurs. Nov. 30


December

Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"

 

Week 13 

Tues. Dec. 5

Lynn Coady's "Hellgoing"

Second paper due.

Classes end until January.
No Christmas Exam

January

Read The Rest is Silence and keep a Reading Journal while you do.

Reading Journal due 10:00 AM January 4

Week 14 

Tues. Jan. 9

Discuss Reading Journals and second assignments

 

Thurs. Jan. 11

Composition

"Writing to Learn Increases Long-term Memory Consolidation"

Week 15 

Tues. Jan. 16

Composition

 

Thurs. Jan. 18

Thomas Hobbes, from Leviation

David Hume, from Treatise of Human Nature

John Locke, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

 

Week 16 

Tues. Jan. 23

Sick Day.

 

Thurs. Jan. 25

Non-fiction. "Writing to Learn Increases Long-term Memory Consolidation"

"Which modality results in superior recall for students: Handwriting, typing, or drawing?"

 

Week 17 

Tues. Jan. 30
February

Non-fiction. "Sperm counts . . . are plummeting . . ."

Sperm Counts are Down

"Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy"

 

Thurs. Feb. 1

Non-fiction. On plastic pollution.

Plastic and the Global South

Exporting Plastic Waste

The Secret Life of Plastic


Micro-plastics

Microplastics are Everywhere

No Mountain High Enough

Microplastics in the lungs of living people


Recycling

Toxins

Recycling as Producer of Microplastics


Plastic and the Natural World

An Important Image

Plasticosis

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Microplastics and the Weather ?


Plastic and the Natural World and Human Health

Flesh-eating Bacteria

How Plastics are Poisoning Us

How to Reduce Your Exposure to Microplastics

Can We Reduce Our Exposure ?

Microplastics in the Lungs


Dealing with the Problem—or not

"We can’t carry on"

Can the problem of plastic pollution ever be solved?

An Enzyme to Eat Plastics

Plastic-eating Bacteria

And again . . .

Recycling for Sales

We've been had

A UN Pact . . . or not

 

Week 18 

Tues. Feb. 6

The Rest is Silence

 

Thurs. Feb. 8

The Rest is Silence

 

Week 19 

Tues. Feb. 13

The Rest is Silence

 

Thurs. Feb. 15

The Rest is Silence

Character table 9:30 class
Plot map 9:30 class

Reference example

Character table 11:00 class
Plot map 11:00 class

Week 20 

Tues. Feb. 20

Winter term Reading Week

 

Thurs. Feb. 22

Winter term Reading Week

 

Week 21 

Tues. Feb. 27

16th-century poetry: Read the three Tho. Wyatt poems on pp 468 - 70.

and
Queen Elizabeth Written on a Wall at Woodstock

Queen Elizabeth's Translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

and
These three sonnets by Edmund Spenser Remember there will be a reading test.

Third assignment due.

Thurs. Feb. 29

March

Read pp. 478 - 81, 484 - 86, and 488,
and this.

 

Week 22 

Tues. Mar. 5

17th-century poetry:
Excerpt from Amelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judeorum

Eve excerpts from Paradise Lost

 

Thurs. Mar. 7

Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press

 

Week 23 

Tues. Mar. 12

From Andrew Marvell, p 491 to William Blake, p 499

 

Thurs. Mar. 14

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

 

Week 24 

Tues. Mar. 19

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

 

Thurs. Mar. 21

Modernism:
Presentation

Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro," p 592
William Carlos Williams' "Red Wheelbarrow," p 588

 

Week 25 

Tues. Mar. 26

No Class.

 

Thurs. Mar. 28

April 

Modernist Poetry:
T.S Eliot's "The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock," p 596 ff

Eliot's "The Waste Land"

 

Week 26 

Tues. April 5

Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Course Evals: 9:30 class Open from 10:40 - 11:00 AM

11:00 class Open from 12:10 - 12:30 PM

 

Thurs. Apr. 7

Review