English 2111 schedule, fall 2025
Updated 9/12/2025
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
English 2111 schedule, fall 2025
Updated 9/12/2025
This schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.
| Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
| Thursday, August 14 |
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Course syllabus 21XX syllabus supplement 2000-4000 grades and grading |
| Tuesday, August 19 | Simple Stuff Elements of fiction Norton Anthology: Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-5 (pp. 90-117) |
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| Thursday, August 21 | Golden rules 1-5 |
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| Tuesday, August 26 | Terminology test (D2L quiz) | Golden rules 6-10 Norton: Homer headnote, pp. A-151-52, A-155-66 The Odyssey Books, I-VI, pp. A-295-356 |
About the epic |
| Thursday, August 28 | Nuggets 1-5 The Odyssey, VII-XII A-356-435 |
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| Tuesday, September 2 | Nuggets
6-10 |
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| Thursday, September 4 | Quotations 1-3 The Odyssey, XIX-XXIV A-505-72 |
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| Tuesday, September 9 | Sappho headnote A-573-75 Sappho poems A-575-87 |
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| Thursday, September 11 | Quotations 4-5 Sophocles headnote A-656-58 & A659-61 Antigone A-711-42 |
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| Tuesday, September 16 | Word problems Euripides headnote A-742-44 Medea A-745-76 |
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| Thursday, September 18 | On
plagiarism Catullus headnote A-856-58 Poems 1-51 & 70-101, pp. A-858-63 & 873-75 Poem 8 Translation Lab A-881-83 |
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| Tuesday, September 23 | Writing Matters Test (D2L Quiz) | Virgil headnote A-885-89 Aeneid excerpts Books 2 and 4: A 889, A-910-50 |
Paper 1 assigned |
| Thursday, September 25 | "Stories and Tales" A-1261-79 | ||
| Tuesday, September 30 | Paper 1 proposal | Bhagavad-Gita headnote A-1241-43 Bhagavad-Gita excerpts A-1243-59 |
Discuss midterm |
| Thursday, October 2 | Midterm exam | ||
| Tuesday, October 7 | Norton Vol B: Song of Roland excerpts B-750-85 |
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| Thursday, October 9 | Paper 1 | Roland excerpts B-786-816 |
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| Tuesday, October 14 | Dante headnote B-917-21 Inferno B-921-69 |
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| Thursday, October 16 | Inferno B-969-1023 | ||
| Tuesday, October 21 | Inferno B-1023-76 | ||
| Thursday, October 23 | The 1001 Nights B 1101-27 | ||
| Tuesday, October 28 | Paper 1 corrections | Chaucer overview Chaucer headnote B-1199-1203 "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" B-1224-51 |
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| Wednesday, October 29 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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| Thursday, October 30 | "The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale" | ||
| Tuesday, November 4 | Cervantes headnote C-408-13 Don Quixote C-413-52 |
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| Thursday, November 6 | Don Quixote C-474-86 & 517-25 | Paper 2 assigned | |
| Tuesday, November 11 | Paper 2 proposal | Shakespeare headnote C-705-9 The Tempest overview The Tempest Act 1, pp. C-710-25 |
On research |
| Thursday, November 13 | The Tempest Acts 2-3, pp. C-725-48 | ||
| Tuesday, November 18 | Paper 2 | The Tempest Acts 4-5, pp. C-748-65 | |
| Thursday, November 20 | John Milton headnote C-784-87 |
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| Monday-Friday, November 24-28 |
Thanksgiving holiday | ||
| Tuesday, December 2 | Paradise Lost Book 9 C-828-56 |
About the final | |
| Final exam Thursday, December 4 1:00-3:00 |
Paper 2 corrections | Final exam | |