ENGL 1030.01 (Fall I, 2005)

Daily Schedule

For more detail, see homework calendar.

Day 1 (August 23rd)

• Introduction to class. Discuss "What is literature?"
• Discuss Chapters 19 and 20:   Reading and Writing about Poetry, Chapter 21:   Word Choice, Word Order, Tone, Chapter 22: Images, and Chapter 23:   Figures of Speech.

Between classes: Participate in online discussions relating to Chapter 24.

Day 2 (August 30th)  

• Due: Poetry Explication.
• Discuss Chapter 25: Sounds, Chapter 26: Patterns of Rhythm, and Chapter 27: Poetic Forms

Between classes: Turn in assignment relating to sounds and rhythm.

Day 3 ( September 6th)                       

• Test 1 (covering Chapters 19-27).
• Due: Response to Sylvia Plath poems.
• View a film on Plath's life and poetry from the PBS Voices and Visions series; write a second response to Plath poems.
• Discuss Chapters 37 and 38, including the one-act play Trifles.
• Discuss topics for Paper 1. Discuss sample paper.

Between classes: Peer response on Paper 1.

Day 4 (September 13th)

• Due: Paper 1.
• Discuss Twelfth Night (possible quiz).
• Watch a film version of Twelfth Night and practice explicating a scene from the play.

Day 5 (September 2)                      

• Discuss The Glass Menagerie (p. 1326 in your textbook).
• Due: Explication 2 (on one scene from The Glass Menagerie).
• Look at different productions of a scene from The Glass Menagerie.
• Turn in topics for Paper 2.

Between classes: Complete Test 2 (take-home).

Day 6 (September 27)

• Discuss Chapters 1 and 2, including "The Story of an Hour"
• Discuss Chapter 3: Plot and James Joyce's "Araby" (available on electronic reserve and in an annotated form online)
• Discuss Chapter 4: Character and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" (available on electronic reserve).

Between classes: Peer response on Paper 2.

Day 7 (October 4):

• Due: Final draft of Paper 2.
• Discuss Chapter 5: Setting and Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (p. 309).
• Discuss Chapter 6 and Susan Minot's "Lust" (p. 282).
• Discuss Chapter 7 and Louise Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" (available on electronic reserve).
• Discuss paper topics for Paper 3; we will also discuss how to find secondary sources for your third paper.

Day 8 (October 11)

• Due: Annotation for Paper 3, Explication 3.
• Discuss Chapter 8: Theme and Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Interpreter of Maladies" (available on electronic reserve).
• Discuss Chapter 9: Style, Tone, and Irony, Annie Proulx's "55 Miles to the Gas Pump" (p. 544), and Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (available on electronic reserve).
• View a film version of "Hills Like White Elephants" and write a response to it.

By 5:30 pm October 18th: Turn in final draft of Paper 3.