Daily Reading Schedule I
- Week One
01-17
- Introduction.
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY AND FICTION
- Week Two
01-22
- Chapter 1 Why Read Literature? 1-11.
- Out-of-Class Short Write (125-150 words): Respond to Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" 1252-53. (REMINDER: LATE SHORT WRITES ARE NOT ACCEPTED.)
01-24
- Figurative Language 50-1 and Alliteration 50
- Robert Burns, "Red, Red Rose" (hand-out)
- Visit Computer Lab, Grubbs 101
- Week Three
01-29
- Emily Dickinson, "After Great Pain" 1243.
- In-class Group Work: Dickinson figure of speech exercise (hand-out).
- Plot/Structure/Conflict 28-30; Characters Growing and Changing 36-7; Point of View 37-39; Terms Related to Places and Times 46; Verbal Irony 51; Theme 53-54.
01-31
- Writing an Analysis 121
- Kate Chopin, "Story of an Hour" (hand-out)
- In-class Group Work: Chopin exercise (hand-out).
ROMANTIC LOVE
- Week Four
02-05
- William Shakespeare, "Marriage of True Minds" 592. Sonnets 68.
- Christopher Marlowe, "Passionate Shepherd to his Love" 598-9 and Sir Walter Raleigh, "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" 599-600. (Read these two as a pair.)
- Pablo Neruda, Saddest Poem (hand-out)
- Margaret Atwood, "You Fit into Me" 59.
- Short Write
02-07
- VIDEO: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Rappaccini's Daughter," plus hand-out.
- Begin reading Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, Act I 608-31.
- Short Write
- Week Five
02-12
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, Act II 631-48.
02-14
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, Act III 648-64.
- Short Write
- Week Six
02-19
- W. D. Wetherell, "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" 227-32.
02-21
- OPEN-BOOK EXAM. Review the literature we read, what we discussed in class, authors and titles, and the literary terms covered in class. About 1/3 of the exam will be on Ibsen.
For the rest of the semester, we will spend 2-3 weeks on each of these thematic units:
Families
Nature vs Civilization
War: Soldiers and Civilians
Crime and Punishment.
NOTE: The Otsuka novel will be assigned later in the semester, but make sure you get your copy now. About mid-semester, the bookstore returns unsold copies back to the publisher.
REMINDER: Make copies of "Schedule II" (click on the box below).
