English 2111.01 schedule, fall 2024
Updated 10/1/2024
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
English 2111.01 schedule, fall 2024
Updated 10/1/2024
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
| Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
| Thursday, August 15 |
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Course syllabus 21XX syllabus supplement 2000-4000 grades and grading |
| Tuesday, August 20 | Simple Stuff Elements of fiction Norton Anthology: Gilgamesh, pp. 18-51 or as plan b,: Overview & plot summary and online Gilgamesh, pp. 1-15 |
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| Thursday, August 22 | Golden rules 1-5 |
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| Tuesday, August 27 | Terminology test (D2L quiz) | Golden rules 6-10 Norton: Homer headnote, pp.122-37 The Odyssey I-VI 195-223 (or Gutenberg eBook, Books 1, 5-6) |
About the epic |
| Thursday, August 29 | Nuggets 1-5 The Odyssey VII-XII 223-95 |
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| Tuesday, September 3 | Nuggets
6-10 |
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| Thursday, September 5 | Quotations 1-4 The Odyssey XIX-XXIV 321-78 |
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| Tuesday, September 10 | Quotations 5 Sappho headnote 379-81 Sappho poems 381-89 |
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| Thursday, September 12 | Word problems Ancient Athenian Drama 390-95 Sophocles headnote 395-99 Oedipus the King 399-437 |
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| Tuesday, September 17 | Euripides headnote 438-40 Medea 441-72 |
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| Thursday, September 19 | Virgil headnote 473-77 Aeneid excerpts 477-520 |
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| Saturday, September 21 | Writing matters test (D2L quiz) by midnight |
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| Tuesday, September 24 | Aeneid excerpts 521-69 | ||
| Thursday, September 26 | On
plagiarism Ovid headnote 577-80 Metamorphoses 580-603 |
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| Tuesday, October 1 | Metamorphoses 603-19 | Paper
1 assigned Discuss midterm |
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| Thursday, October 3 | Midterm exam | ||
| Friday, October 4 | Paper 1 proposal | ||
| Tuesday, October 8 | Beowulf overview Beowulf headnote 836-42 Beowulf 842-71 |
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| Thursday, October 10 | Beowulf 871-912 |
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| Tuesday, October 15 | Paper 1 | Dante headnote 925-29 Inferno 929-82 |
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| Wednesday, October 16 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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| Thursday, October 17 | Inferno 982-1031 | ||
| Tuesday, October 22 | Inferno 1031-84 | ||
| Thursday, October 24 | Paper 1 corrections | The 1001 Nights 1084-1108 | |
| Tuesday, October 29 | Chaucer overview Chaucer headnote 1109-13 "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" 1133-60 |
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| Thursday, October 31 | Christine de Pizan overview 1160-62 "From The Book of the City of Ladies" 1162-77 |
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| Tuesday, November 5 | Shakespeare headnote 1708-13 Hamlet, 1713-34 |
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| Thursday, November 7 | Hamlet 1734-73 | ||
| Tuesday, November 12 | Hamlet 1774-1808 | ||
| Thursday, November 14 | Cervantes headnote 1535-40 Don Quixote 1540-80 |
Paper 2 assigned | |
| Tuesday, November 19 | Paper 2 proposal | Don Quixote 1642-93 | On research |
| Thursday, November 21 | Handout: Paradise Lost Book 1 | ||
| Monday-Friday, November 25-29 |
Thanksgiving holiday | ||
| Tuesday, December 3 | Handout: Paradise Lost Book 9 |
Discuss exam |
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| Paper 2 | |||
| Final exam Tuesday, December 10 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
Final exam | ||