English 2121.02 schedule, fall 2009
| Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
| Tuesday, August 18 | Introduction to course Golden rules 1-5 Beowulf context |
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| Thursday, August 20 | Student
info form (online) |
Simple Stuff Norton Anthology: Beowulf 26-48 |
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| Tuesday, August 25 | Simple Stuff exercise | Golden
rules 6-10 Beowulf 48-77 |
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| Thursday, August 27 | Golden
rules quiz |
Beowulf 77-97 |
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| Tuesday, Sept. 1 |
Golden rules exam (online) |
Thursday, Sept. 3 | Nuggets quiz |
Nuggets
6-10 Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 137-65 |
| Tuesday, Sept. 8 | Nuggets exam (online) | Quotes
and documentation 1-4 The Canterbury Tales: 165-70 "The General Prologue" 170-90 (Penguin edition 3-26) |
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| Thursday, Sept. 10 | Quotes/documentation
quiz |
Quotes
and documentation 5 "The Miller's Prologue & Tale" 191-207 (Penguin edition 86-106) |
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| Tuesday, Sept. 15 | QD exam (online) | Word problems "The Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale" 207-34 (Penguin edition 258-92) |
Paper 1 assigned |
| Thursday, Sept. 17 | Word problems quiz |
On
plagiarism "The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale" 235-49 (Penguin edition 241-58) |
Discuss exam Sample passages |
| Tuesday, Sept. 22 | Exam 1 | ||
| Thursday, Sept. 24 | Piers Plowman 268-81 Margery Kempe 285-89 |
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| Tuesday, Sept. 29 | Paper 1 | Morte Darthur 299-318 | |
| Thursday, October 1 | Doctor Faustus 458-91 | ||
| Tuesday, October 6 | Shakespeare headnote 493-96 |
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| Thursday October 8 | Fall break | Fall break | Fall break |
| Tuesday, October 13 | Twelfth Night 533-56 |
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| Wednesday, Oct. 14 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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| Thursday, October 15 |
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Twelfth Night 556-72 | |
| Tuesday, October 20 | Paper 1 corrections | Henry V 5-41 (Bantam edition) (1.1-2.4) | |
| Thursday, October 22 | Henry V 42-82 (3.0-4.2) | ||
| Tuesday, October 27 | Henry V 82-119 (4.3-5.2) | ||
| Thursday, October 29 | Selected 17th-century poetry Shakespeare sonnets #'s: 18, 60, 116, 130, 144 (pp. 496-508) John Donne 600-2 "The Flea" 603 "The Canonization" 607-8 "Holy Sonnet #10" 623-24 "Holy Sonnet #14" 624 |
Discuss exam | |
| Tuesday, November 3 | Exam 2 | ||
| Thursday, November 5 | Paradise Lost 723-43 |
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| Tuesday, November 10 | Paradise Lost 743-65 | Paper 2 assigned | |
| Thursday, November 12 | Paradise Lost 811-36 | ||
| Tuesday, November 17 | Paper proposals due | Aphra Behn headnote 922-24 Oroonoko 927-71 |
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| Thursday, November 19 | Gulliver's Travels 971-1016 | ||
| Tuesday, November 24 | Gulliver's Travels 1016-56 | On research | |
| Wednesday-Saturday, November 25-28 |
Thanksgiving break | Thanksgiving break | Thanksgiving break |
| Tuesday, December 1 | Paper 2 | Gulliver's Travels 1056-83 | |
| Thursday, December 3 | Gulliver's Travels 1083-1113 | Discuss exam | |
| Final exam Thursday, Dec. 10 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative. I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.