English 2111.03 schedule, spring 2024
Updated 4/17/24
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
English 2111.03 schedule, spring 2024
Updated 4/17/24
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
| Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
| Thursday, January 11 |
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Course syllabus 21XX syllabus supplement 2000-4000 grades and grading |
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| Tuesday, January 16 | Student info (online) | Simple Stuff Elements of fiction Norton Anthology Vol. A: Gilgamesh, pp. 89-122 or as plan b,: Overview & plot summary and online Gilgamesh, pp. 1-15 |
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| Wednesday,January 17 | Drop/add ends | ||
| Thursday, January 18 | Golden rules 1-5 |
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| Tuesday, January 23 | Terminology test (D2L quiz) | Golden rules 6-10 Norton: Homer headnote, pp. 216-17, 220-31 The Odyssey I-VI 325-93 (or Gutenberg eBook, Books 1-6) |
About the epic |
| Thursday, January 25 | Nuggets 1-5 The Odyssey VI-XII 393-465 |
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| Tuesday, January 30 | The Odyssey, XIII-XVIII 465-535 |
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| Thursday, February 1 | Class canceled | ||
| Tuesday, February 6 | No class meeting: D2L discussion | The Odyssey XIX-XXIV 535-602 | No class meeting: D2L discussion |
| Thursday, February 8 | Sophocles headnote 681-85 Oedipus the King 687-724 |
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| Tuesday, February 13 | Nuggets
6-10 Euripides headnote 756-58 Medea 759-90 |
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| Thursday, February 15 | Quotations 1-4 Aristophanes headnote 791-93 Lysistrata 793-827 |
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| Tuesday, February 20 | Quotations 5 Catullus headnote 902-4 Catullus Poems 904-21 |
Paper 1 assigned | |
| Thursday, February 22 | Word problems Virgil headnote 922-26 Aeneid excerpts 926-67 |
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| Tuesday, February 27 | Paper 1 proposal (by midnight in D2L) | Aeneid excerpts 967-1014 | Discuss midterm |
| Thursday, February 29 | Midterm exam | ||
| Tuesday, March 5 | Paper 1 | On
plagiarism Norton Vol B: Song of Roland excerpts 220-51 |
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| Thursday, March 7 | Roland excerpts 251-86 |
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| Tuesday, March 12 | Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 835-61 | ||
| Wednesday, March 13 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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| Thursday, March 14 | Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 861-90 | ||
| Saturday, March 16 | Writing matters test (D2L quiz) by midnight |
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| Monday-Friday, March 18-22 |
Spring Break | ||
| Tuesday, March 26 | Dante headnote 387-91 Inferno 391-441 |
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| Thursday, March 28 | Inferno 441-90 | ||
| Tuesday, April 2 | Inferno 491-548 | ||
| Thursday, April 4 | Class canceled | ||
| Tuesday, April 9 | Inferno 491-548 | No class meeting: D2L discussion | |
| Thursday, April 11 | Norton Vol C: Shakespeare headnote 651-55 Hamlet, 655-77 |
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| Tuesday, April 16 | Hamlet 677-716 | ||
| Thursday, April 18 | Hamlet 717-51 | Paper 2 assigned | |
| Tuesday, April 23 | Paper 2 proposal | Cervantes headnote 357-62 Don Quixote 362-401 |
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| Thursday, April 25 | Milton headnote 770-73 Paradise Lost 774-804 |
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| Tuesday, April 30 | Paradise Lost 814-42 |
On research Discuss exam |
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| Friday, May 3 | Paper 2 | ||
| Final exam Tuesday, May 7 10:30-12:30 p.m. |
Final exam | ||