English 1101
Schedule
Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| W | September 3 | Introduction | |
| F | September 5 | Sonnets: Nicolas Boileau, "Its Origin" (247) Robert Burns, "Its Length" (248) William Wordsworth, "Its Enclosure" (249), "Its History" (25) |
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| M | September 8 | Dante Alighieri, "Broken Thoughts" (25) Petrarch, "Love the Tyrant" (29) |
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| W | September 10 | Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Hands Off!" (37) Sir Philip Sidney, "Poetry's Source" (44) |
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| F | September 12 | Edmund Spenser, "Eternizing Her" (68) William Shakespeare, "146" (89) |
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| M | September 15 | John Donne, "Death Rebuked" (94) John Milton, "On His Blindness" (102) |
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| W | September 17 | Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, "To Her Self Portrait" (107) William Wordsworth, "Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways" (123) Edgar Allan Poe, "To Science" (149) |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 1 on Sonnets |
| F | September 19 | William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" (196) Elizabeth Bishop, "Sonnet" (230) Richard Wilbur, "O" (233) |
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| M | September 22 | Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Part I | |
| W | September 24 | Dai, Part II, pp. 45-75 | Response to Web-X 1 due |
| F | September 26 | Dai, Part II, pp. 76-105 | |
| M | September 29 | Dai, Part III, pp. 109-146 | |
| W | October 1 | Dai, Part III, pp. 146-end | |
| F | October 3 | PART ONE EXAM | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Dai |
| M | October 6 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, pp. 1-32 | |
| W | October 8 | Shelley, Volume I, Chapters 1-5 | |
| F | October 10 | Shelley, Volume I, Chapters 6-8 | |
| M | October 13 | Shelley, Volume II, Chapters 1-3 | |
| W | October 15 | Shelley, Volume II, Chapters 4-9 | |
| F | October 17 | Shelley, Volume III, Chapters 1-4 | |
| M | October 20 | Shelley, Volume III, Chapters 5-7 | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Shelley |
| W | October 22 | Cormac McCarthy, The Road, pp. 1-49 | |
| F | October 24 | McCarthy, pp. 49-93 | |
| M | October 27 | McCarthy, 93-135 | |
| W | October 29 | McCarthy, 135-178 | |
| F | October 31 | McCarthy, 178-221 | |
| M | November 3 | McCarthy, 221-end | |
| W | November 5 | McCarthy, conclusion | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on McCarthy |
| F | November 7 | PART TWO EXAM | |
| M | November 10 | William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I | |
| W | November 12 | Shakespeare, Act II | |
| F | November 14 | Shakespeare, Act III | |
| M | November 17 | Shakespeare, Act IV | |
| W | November 19 | Shakespeare, Act V | |
| F | November 21 | Shakespeare, conclusion | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Morrison |
| M | November 24 | Elizabeth Bishop, "The Imaginary Iceberg" (4) | |
| W | November 26 | Bishop, "The Monument" (23), "The Fish" (42) | |
| F | November 28 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| M | December 1 | Bishop, "At the Fishhouses" (64), "The Prodigal" (71) | |
| W | December 3 | Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" (91) "Questions of Travel" (93) | |
| F | December 5 | Bishop, "The Armadillo" (103), "Filling Station" (127) | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Bishop |
| M | December 8 | Bishop, "Under the Window: Ouro Prêto" (153) | |
| W | December 10 | Bishop, "In the Waiting Room" (159) | |
| F | December 12 | Bishop, "Sonnet" (192) | Response to Web-X 2 due |
| Th | December 18 | FINAL EXAMINATION FROM 10 TO 11:55AM |
3 September 2008