World Literature 272--Tentative                   J. Roth                                     04-02-12        

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

2 APRIL

 

Syllabus, course, Journal, and Introduction to the Course

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Introduction to the web and

 

Overview of the era

 

Introductions—what would surprise us if we knew it about you?

4 A look back in history and an overview of the era

 

Introductions-- what would surprise us if we knew it about you?

 

 

5 Please have browsed pp. 10-19.  Please have read Tartuffe, Act I,

pp. 10-29

 

Tartuffe Who’s Who

Introductions-- what would surprise us if we knew it about you?

 

PG-13/R Warning

6  WEB DAY Become familiar with ANGEL and write your ANGEL personal introduction and respond to at least two other introductions

 

Read Tartuffe, Act II, pp. 29-40

 

Begin Tartuffe Writing Assignment

 

 

9 Please have read Tartuffe, Act III and IV, pp. 40-58

 

Moliere Links

 

DUE: Journal #1—Tartuffe. Please be ready to share your response with the class

10 Please have read all of Tartuffe, Acts IV and V, pp. 10-67

 

Class discussion

Compare Enlightenment Notes and Thoughts to Moliere’s play

 

By midnight, respond to at least two other personal introductions on ANGEL.

 

 

11 Discuss Tartuffe

Tartuffe Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class (MLA format required)

Modern Day Tartuffes?

  Modern Day Orgons?

 

DUE: Journal #2—Tartuffe. Please be ready to share your response with the class

Who’s Who in Phaedra

 

Assign

Neoclassicism Web Assignment

12 Please have read Jean Racine, pp. 159-161

 

Who’s Who in Phaedra

 

Please have read Phaedra, pp. 162-171, (Act I)

Beware the pop quiz

Discuss Classical Plot Line and drama/fiction terms

 

Assign Phaedra Writing Assignment

 

Racine Links

 

 

13 WEB DAY

work on Neoclassicism Web Research Assignment and

Phaedra Writing Assignment

16 Computer Lab 1220-G COMPUTER LAB DAY.  Activities will include help with log-on, ANGEL, writing assignment conferences

 

 

17 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 171-185 (Acts II-III)

 

Racine Links

 

DUE: Journal #3—Phaedra. Please be ready to share your response with the class

 

 

Beware the pop quiz

 

 

 

18 Please have read Phaedra, pp. 186-200 (Acts IV-V)

Racine Links

 

Beware the pop quiz

 

Neoclassicism Web Research Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

19 Please have all of Phaedra read

Phaedra Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class.

Continue discussion of

Drama and fiction terms, Course Packet

 

Who's Who in Candide

 

Optimism and Candide Handout

 

Art of the Neoclassic and Romantic Periods Web Assignment

 

20 WEB DAY

 

Art of the

Neoclassic

and Romantic Periods Web Assignment

 

Complete  Journal #4—Phaedra. Please be ready to share your response with the class

 

 

 

23 Classroom

 

Begin Candide Writing Assignment

 

Before we begin Candide, some questions from the Phaedra writing assignment responses

 

Please have read Voltaire and Candide, pp. 377-396 (chapters 1-12)

 

Who's Who in Candide

 

Voltaire Links

 

 

24 Please have read Candide, pp. 396-421 (chapters 13-22)

 

Art of the Neoclassic and Romantic Periods Web Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

Voltaire Links

 

Candide screen notes

 

25 Please have read Candide, pp. 421-438 (chapters 23-30)

 

Voltaire Links

 

 

 

 

26 Please have read the Rousseau biography and Confessions, pp. 496-519

 

Candide Writing Assignment due at the beginning of class

 

Rousseau Links

27 Study and Reflection Day to prepare for Experience #1.

 

Please come to my office if you have questions.

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Experience #1—100 points—Tartuffe—Rousseau

 

End of revised calendar—beginning through April 30

 

 

1 MAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Introduction to the Romantic Era

 

Poetry introduction—rhythm, meter, and rhyme

 

Beginning Poems for Practice

 

How to Read a Poem and A Primer on Poetic Feet , Course Packet, pp. 15-19 and

Sonnets Made Easy (a new handout)

 

3 William Blake

 

Please have read Blake, pp. 540-549

 

Please STUDY the following Blake poems”

 

From Songs of Innocence: ðIntroduction

ðThe Lamb,

ðThe Little Black Boy

ðHoly Thursday, ðThe Chimney Sweeper

 

From Songs of Experience:

ðIntroduction,

ðThe Tyger,

ðThe Sick Rose, ðLondon,

ðThe Chimney Sweeper,

ðAnd Did Those Feet

 

Other Blake selections

 

4 Web Friday

 

Web Assignment--Romanticism

7 Continue William Blake (briefly--We’ll

 

Web Assignment--Romanticism due at the beginning of class

 

Please have read Blake, pp. 540-549

Other Blake selections

 

How Knowledge Grows lecture

8 Please meet in the SCC Library

9 Please meet in the SCC Library

 

The Grasmere Journals assignment due

10 William Wordsworth, biography--pp. 549-552

Poem--Lines Composed a Few Miles . . ., pp. 552-555

Poem--Composed Upon Westminster Bridge . . ., p. 560 and

 

Poem--The World Is Too Much With Us, pp. 560-1

Other Wordsworth selections

 

Assign FIELD TRIP

On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk

 

11 Weather permitting, please enjoy the On the Trail of the Romantics Self-guided nature walk

 

 

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11 No class— English 101Portfolio Reading Day

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15 DL Testing Day—Reading Day--No school

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