English 2121.02 schedule, fall 2009

Updated 11/17/09

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Tuesday, August 18  

Course syllabus
2000-4000 grades and grading

Introduction to course
Golden rules 1-5
Beowulf context
Thursday, August 20

Student info form (online)
Drop/add ends

Simple Stuff
Norton Anthology: Beowulf 26-48
 
Tuesday, August 25 Simple Stuff exercise Golden rules 6-10
Beowulf 48-77
   
Thursday, August 27

Golden rules quiz
GR quiz answers

Beowulf 77-97

 
Tuesday, Sept. 1

Golden rules exam (online)

Nuggets 1-5
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 112-37

 
Thursday, Sept. 3

Nuggets quiz
Nuggets quiz answers

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)
 
Thursday, Sept. 10

Quotes/documentation quiz
QD quiz answers

Quotes and documentation 5
"The Miller's Prologue & Tale" 191-207
  (Penguin edition 86-106)
 
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

Paper proposals due

  Exam 1
Thursday, Sept. 24   Piers Plowman 268-81
Margery Kempe 285-89
 
Tuesday, Sept. 29 Paper 1 Morte Darthur 299-318  
Thursday, October 1   Doctor Faustus 458-91  
Tuesday, October 6  

Shakespeare headnote 493-96
Twelfth Night
510-33

 
Thursday October 8 Fall break Fall break Fall break
Tuesday, October 13  

Twelfth Night 533-56

 
Wednesday, Oct. 14 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
   
Thursday, October 15

 

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

  

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
 
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.