Updated: Nov. 12, 2008
Week 1 Aug. 25-29
Tues, Getting organized.
Thurs, Chapter 2, Making Literature Matter
Read: Thinking and Reading
Critically, pp. 14-23
1) Writing exercise, p. 23: Thinking about the
Text. Choose one topic to write on.
Week 2 Sept. 1-5
Mon. Labor Day
Tues. Read pp. 23-37,
2) Writing Exercise: Thinking about the Text, p. 25. Choose one topic to write on.
Thurs. Read pp. 38-51
Week 3 Sept. 8-12
Tues. Read Appendix A, pp. 1544-61.
Thurs. Read pp. 1565-1572.
3) For Thinking and Writing, p. 1565. Choose one topic to write on.
Essay #1 assignment: A Writing Exercise, p. 1565 for
"Like a Winding Sheet." (Choose only the following critical approaches: Marxist,
Feminist, or Psychoanalytic criticism. Do not write on any other critical
approach.)
When writing your essay on "Like a Winding Sheet,"
please pay careful attention to the student example on "Counterparts" on p.
1562. Please see Essay 1 on Essays
for further explanation, grading standards, and student example.
Week 4 Sept. 15-19
Tues. Essay #1 is due.
Read "My Last Duchess," p. 1177. Click here for a recording of this poem being read by an actor.
Thurs. Feminist Criticism. Read p. 1546: review the definition and read "Two Kinds," p. 346.
4) Writing: Thinking about the Text, p. 354. Choose one topic to write on.
Week 5 Sept. 22-26
Tues. Read "Hills Like White Elephants," p. 571
5) Writing: Thinking about the Text, p. 575. Choose one topic to write on.
Conferences on Essay 1
6) Writing: Thinking about the Text, p. 1179. Choose one topic to write on.
Note: "Girl" and "Night Waitress" also fit into this category of works that lend themselves well to feminist criticism.
Thurs. Conferences on Essay 1
Essay # 2 assignment: Chose two of the poems or stories we have read since writing Essay 1 and write an essay using Feminist criticism to analyze the stories or poems you choose.
Week 6 Sept. 29-Oct.3
Tues. Essay # 2 due.
Drama: Read Antigone, pp. 1328-1667
Tues. and Thurs. Watch the play in class. Bring textbooks to class.
You can watch the online full production of this play. Here are the directions: Click on "Course Content" then click on "College Databases." This takes you to the library site. Click on "Find Articles," then "Literature, Poetry, and Books." Scroll down the page to the third listing from the bottom, Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare Series. Type Antigone in the search box at the top of the screen which will take you to the streaming video.
Week 7 Oct. 6-10
Tues. Conferences on Essay 2
Bring to my office the exercise on MLA documentation: Works Cited exercise. Click on icon "MLA," on the website and work the first exercise, using Knight Cite. Notice that for electronic citations on Knight Cite, you must click "electronic" on the left side of the page for electronic sources, as well as other relevant choices such as journal, newspaper, book, etc. This is homework # 7.
Thurs. Conferences on Essay 2
Parenthetical documentation exercise. Click on icon "MLA," and study the
second exercise and the answers to this. You don't have to turn anything in, but
I want you to see the difference between quoted material and paraphrased
material.
Also, study the corrected copy of Exercise 3. This will give
you a visual demonstration of how the parenthetical documentation -- the
parentheses -- fits the Works Cited.
Week 8 Oct. 13-17
Find five secondary sources on Antigone. You will use these sources to write your research paper on Antigone. (The primary source is Antigone itself; the secondary sources are written by critics analyzing the play.)
How to find sources. Here are the directions starting from "Data bases" on my website. This takes you to the library site. Click on "Find Articles," then "Literature, Poetry, and Books." This takes you to the page of the college databases. The databases that are easiest to use are Literature Reference Center and Literature Resource Center. A little more scholarly and interesting are Academic Search Premiere, JStor, and Project Muse. You will need to consult several of these databases in order to select five articles (secondary sources) that you want to use in your essay.
Writing Exercises: Homework 8, 9, 10, 11, 12: Write brief summaries, paraphrasing your five secondary sources.
Week 9 Oct. 20-24
Tues. and Thurs. Work on your Research paper, Essay # 3:
Please read your textbook, pp. 1573-98 for help and an example. But remember that I require you to use only the college databases for this assignment, so ignore the textbooks discussion of various sources you might use and limit yourself to the databases.
Please see my full directions and a student example in Essay 3 on the website.
Week 10 Oct. 27-31
Tues. Research paper due. This essay must be complete when you turn it in. I will grade you on how well you follow the checklist for Essay 3. If you make mistakes with your internal documentation and Works Cited, you can revise these mechanics in the final draft.
Tues. and Thurs. Drama: Read Othello, p. 723. Repeat the process we used with Antigone -- watch the movie then search the databases -- though you will only need two secondary sources for essay # 4.
Week 11 Nov. 3-7
Tues. Othello in class
Thurs. Othello in class
Week 12 Nov. 10-14
Tues. Othello in class
Thurs. Conferences
Writing homework 13 and 14 due next week: Write brief summaries of your two secondary sources on Othello.
Week 13 Nov. 17-21
Work on essay # 4 this week, but we will also have class.
Tues.: Mechanical corrections of Research paper, Essay # 3 is due.
Bring homework 13 and 14 to class
Thurs. Bring homework 13 and 14 to class.
Week 14 Nov. 24-28 Thanksgiving
Tues. Library Day. Use class time to find sources for the essay on Othello.
Week 15 Dec. 1-5
Tues. Essay # 4 is due.
This is your final essay. There is no exam.
Thurs. Record keeping
Week 16 Dec. 8-12 Exam Week