SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II

ENGL 2322: SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II

Spring – 2013

COURSE MATERIALS:

Required: Greenblatt, Stephen. Ed. Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th ed. Vol. D-F. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012. Print.

Suggested: Any writing handbook such as The Brief Wadsworth Handbook (includes the 2009 MLA Update) or access to Purdue Owl website with MLA format information: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Do not try to pass this course without reading the syllabus.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

A survey of the development of British literature from the Romantic period to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:

1. Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.

2. Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions.

4. Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.

5. Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

General Course Information: This class is a combination of self-paced independent study, organized in several brief modules with strict paper deadlines, but it is also designed to be interactive. Students are expected to participate by way of the discussion board, sharing their thoughts and perspectives on each of the literary discussion topics.

Students taking this course must ask themselves: Is this the right class for me? Some students think that internet classes are easier. I can definitely say, however, that this class will require a large amount of participation and self-discipline along with assignments. This course requires EXTENSIVE reading.

This class is designed for the highly-motivated student, one who reads carefully and follows directions, who is already computer literate, as well as proficient in email, discussion boards, and the internet. You also must have sufficient software of your own, including a current browser and word processor that will allow you to open and save documents in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format.

Problems with your computer system are not a sufficient excuse for non-participation of any kind. Technical support is available 24-hours/7 days a week on www.lonestar.edu. Also, if problems persist, you may always come to campus and access a campus computer to submit assignments.

Attendance Policy: Since this is an online course, students are responsible for keeping up with all writing projects, discussions, exams, and any additional assignments. The instructor reserves the right to lower a student’s grade or fail a student for insufficient completion of assignments. You are expected to connect to the course regularly to check for new messages or participate in all required discussions. In a 16-week course, you will need to participated online at least three times per week. Lone Star now has the capacity to “alert” professors automatically when a student has not checked in for a three-day period; repeated alerts could lower your grade in the course. Any participation less than three times per week may affect your grade negatively.

Class Participation: The college classroom is a place for adult men and women to come together with the common purpose of improving their intellectual and academic skills. All students deserve a classroom environment that is free of interruptions or distractions that impede learning. While this is an online learning environment, I ask that students be mindful and courteous of other students when posting on Discussion Boards. Please remember to use proper “netiquette” throughout the course. However, do not be afraid to appropriately express your opinion or thoughts on the literature that we read throughout the semester.

Assignments: All assignments are to be completed and submitted to the instructor on or before the scheduled due date. This regulates both student and instructor workload and allows me to make comments on your assignments with an eye to building your critical thinking skills over the course of the semester. Assignments:

· One short response (mini-essay: see example online)

· Two formal essays (see example online)

· One discussion-board question per week (Sunday) over assigned texts (See example below)

· One reading quiz per week (Sunday) over assigned texts

· One final exam in written format (non-comprehensive)

You must submit assignments in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), or Rich Text (.rtf) formats If you submit assignments in other formats (such as Wordperfect, Wordpad, or Microsoft Works), I will not grade them, and they will be considered late if you must resubmit in the correct format. If this happens to be for a final document at the end of the course, you will receive a zero and it cannot be made up.

For each essay or short response, you will submit an attachment to the drop box provided in ANGEL by the scheduled due date. Do not cut and paste your essay to the drop box, as I cannot make comments in the drop box. I will indicate in the instructions if an assignment can be completed within the drop box.

Do not email an assignment to me directly, as I will not grade any assignment not sent through the drop box provided under the Lessons tab on ANGEL.

Grading Policy:

Final grades are determined by averaging the total of each area listed below:

How to complete the Discussion Board posts:

Every Sunday night by midnight by midnight, you will have a discussion board conversation that will be due and the discussion thread can be found in the Volume Folder (D, E, or F) within the Weekly Folder. This will make up a major part of the work in this course. In most cases, I will post a thought-provoking question or idea to you, and then you will respond to me and your classmates. This is one of the ways in which you will learn about historical references, symbolic meanings, and overall ideas and themes within a text from late English literature.

Example of Discussion Board question posted by instructor:

Jonathan Swift in his satirical “A Modest Proposal” introduces a narrator who cares about his country, Ireland, and specifically three things associated with 18th-century Ireland: the poverty, the overpopulation, and the underemployment.

How, specifically, does the narrator suggest these three areas can be rectified? What is his solution within the essay?

Acceptable “Official” post response:

Jonathan Swift suggests that in order to rectify the problems of poverty, overpopulation, and unemployment in Ireland that many policies will need to be established. Swift says that revenue can be received by taxing the English absentee landowners, that the Irish should be allowed to buy property in Ireland and grow food on it, and that the Irish people need to change their priorities and learn to make and use their own products, such as clothing and furniture, instead of buying expensive foreign items. He recommends that the Irish stop frivolous spending.

Swift also suggests that the Irish should learn to love their country and show honesty, compassion, and mercy upon each other. In his satire, he proposes a preposterous suggestion that one year old babies be sold to the English as a delicatessen at a high price. He is saying in a sarcastic manner that the control the English has had over the Irish has already devoured many adults, why not let the Irish make money as the English devour the Irish babies as well.

Rules for “official” Discussion Board Posts:

1. Posts should be:

· Well-Thought-out: Responses should be longer than a few sentences, and I expect them to reflect some reasoned thought on your part, thought beyond what you might put into a normal email or chat response. Think of them as mini-essays that help you make a clear, focused point. Remember, you are not only developing your writing, you are also responding thoughtfully and pointedly on the literature you read.

· Detailed: Each of your “official” Discussion Board posts must be at least 125 words. (Note: I am not as interested in the actual word count as I am in the depth of your ideas.)

· Semiformal: Your posts should contain some degree of formality: spell-checked, organized, etc. However, they will also be part of a dialogue, so in that regard, they will differ from an essay you turn in for a class. It is inevitable that we will take some time to reach a mutual understanding of the appropriate level of formality. I am interested in what YOU think about what you read and how you feel about the reading. There is most often no right or wrong answer in what you think about a reading. I do not want you to search the internet for an “appropriate answer.” I want you to say what you think or feel based on the material within the text. If you do not understand what you read, feel free to ask questions in the post and your classmates can help (and myself) to clarify.

· Referenced: While you will not need citations in your posts, you should look for opportunities to build your argument by referencing our readings, other sources, or your colleagues’ comments. If you have taken time to research something about the topic on the internet, then you would want to give credit to that source. However, if you are simply making a comparison between two works, you do not have to use MLA format to cite the information, just make your point.

· Courteous: We do not always have to agree, but no one should resort to making negative personal comments.

2. Grading – I will grade your “official” posts in accordance with these rules. I will evaluate each Discussion Board post and one thoughtful response per post on a combined 10-point scale:

· If you complete them adequately, you will receive 8s.

· If you go above and beyond the basic requirements of the assignment, you will receive 9s.

· Very good-completed with a great deal of effort and thought-posts will receive 10s.

· If you complete an “official” post but fail to respond to one post of your peers, your grade will suffer.

A Discussion Board post will receive a 7 or below if it

· is too short.

· shows little thought.

· is excessively sloppy in terms of grammar, spelling, and mechanics, especially to the point that it was difficult to understand.

· is missing one response required.

· engages in personal attacks or other breaches of common online etiquette.

· Late posts will not be graded and will receive a zero.

3. Reading – You are responsible for reading all of the posts in the class, although you can obviously focus your attention on the threads in which you are directly engaged.

4. Shorter posts – Feel free to post as many shorter, informal comments on the Discussion Board threads as you like; for instance, a couple of lines to clarify a point or to state your agreement with another author’s point of view. But remember the rules for “official” posts.

5. Staying current – One of your responsibilities in taking an online course is that you will make it a frequent habit to check the Discussion Boards and stay current on the conversations taking place there.

6. Extra credit – Those of you who are diligent and become active members of these conversations will find that you will receive a high grade for the Discussion Board component of the course, and you will enjoy the experience more and will often achieve a higher understanding of the material. If you post more comments than the required Discussion Board posts, you will be eligible for extra credit in the course (some of you may naturally find that you have more to say on some of our topics this term, so I want to reward you if you put in extra work on some of the Discussion Boards).

7. Secondary Response – For each discussion board question, you are expected to complete a response to the question AND at least ONE secondary response to one of your peers’ “official” posts. This does not mean you respond to everyone who responds to your “official” post (or anyone who replies to your post); it simply means that out of all the “official” posts submitted in the forum, you choose ONE that you find interesting enough to respond to.

The Secondary Response is simply conversational glue where you may agree and explain why, disagree and explain why, add to, or comment on your colleague’s “official” posts. However, the secondary post will not count if you simply state, “I agree,” or “I disagree. Also, if you fail to submit an “official” post of your own, you will not receive credit for ANY Secondary Responses.

Acceptable Secondary Response (to the above question/post):

David, I was also appalled at how Swift suggested that the government could also “flea the carcass” and make gloves out of the babies’ skin. It was interesting at the end how Swift eliminates himself from the equation as he has no young children of his own and his wife is past child-bearing age. My previous English teacher in high school told us that historical studies confirm Swift’s depiction of widespread poverty and misery of the Irish people in the 18th century, noting that his essay did nothing to help the situation because Ireland suffered another year of severe poverty. It would be interesting to maybe research and see how the people of England reacted to this essay since it was directed at them. I saw on the news the other day that Queen Elizabeth II recently made amends with Ireland and returned an ancient artifact back to them. Did anyone else hear anything about that?

Discussion Board Due Dates: “Official” posts are due on Sundays at midnight as listed in the schedule. Secondary Responses will be due by Tuesdays of each by midnight. I will not accept posts late. Period.

Note: Do not hold off the reading until the last minute, as it will make your posts seem rushed. Note that Discussion Board posts will be checked for plagiarism as well. Please do not devalue your education and personal standards by reading online material and using it for your own posts. Please see Plagiarism section for more information.

Short Response and Essays: One short response (mini-essay) will be completed before your first essay to help you brush up on your writing skills. This is a mini-essay. Explicit instructions will be given for you to follow in completing the response. Any short response or essay MUST be completed in MLA format with proper headings, page numbers, and spacing as indicated for MLA format. An example will be posted online in ANGEL. YOU MUST COMPLETE ALL THREE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS OR YOU WILL NOT MAKE HIGHER THAN A “D” IN THE COURSE—no matter what your grade is, as the writing component is an essential part of the requirements for this course.

Exams: There will weekly reading quizzes and one final exam. The weekly quizzes are over the readings over the week. As a hint: you might review the Norton Anthology of English Literature site online. The final exam is not comprehensive, but it will be written. The final exam will be available the final week—with the window closing at 11:59pm on Sunday, May 12th to take the exam. Once the window of opportunity for taking the exam is over, it is over. Since you will have an entire week to take the exam, you may not make up the exam for any reason.

Grading Scale:

*I do round up!

Grade Information:. Grades will be posted on ANGEL weekly for your review. It is your responsibility to check your grade periodically throughout the course. If you have an issue with a grade listed, you must contact me prior to the end of the semester to discuss. If there is a discrepancy between the grade listed and the grade emailed to you, email me and alert me of the error. As mentioned previously, I am human and with 35+ students in a course, sometimes a grade error can occur. Once grades are submitted after the final exam, no changes can be made to your grade for any reason. You should know going into the final exam what your grade is up to that point. Contacting me two weeks later to complain about your grade is unacceptable.

Late Work:

· Late Discussion Board Official Posts will not be graded. Also, if you fail to post initial post, you will not receive credit for your Secondary Response (and if you submit an “official” post but do not post a secondary post, you will only get up to ½ credit).

· Formal essays and the short response may be submitted up to two days late; however, a 10-point deduction will be taken. (If extenuating circumstances apply to your situation, you must contact me before the assignment is due, and we can make a plan. Contacting me two days or a week after an assignment is due, is not acceptable and you will receive a zero for the assignment—be proactive, but above all, stay in contact with me.)

· The Final Exam CANNOT BE LATE. This is for grading reasons, as the final is on the last day of class.

· Quizzes may be submitted up to two days late without penalty, except for the final quiz; again, it cannot be late for grading reasons. Do not panic if you miss one of the quizzes, as I will drop the lowest quiz grade.

A note about English: The prerequisite for this course is English 1301 and 1302. This means that you should be familiar with the five-paragraph essay, including composing a thesis statement, topic sentences, introductions, conclusions, and proper MLA format in the form of parenthetical citations and a works cited page at the end of your essay.

If for any reason you are unfamiliar with these areas of writing, you may need to review a writing manual to refresh your memory. Discussion Board posts will require knowledge of these areas of writing so you can write proper, coherent paragraphs to make a point in your post. This is an English class. So please know that incoherent ramblings on a given topic filled with grammatical mistakes will not suffice for a Discussion Board post. Also, please do not post in “phone texting” format. If I see this is a problem during the course, I may contact you and suggest you visit the writing center on the 2nd floor of the library at Tomball for additional help with your writing.

Also, I have suggested a writing handbook in the textbook information. If you are unable to purchase this writing handbook, you may access http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ for the proper use of MLA format. This online source will also offer an example of a properly formatted first page of an essay for your review. I expect in this stage of your educational career that you should be aware of how to complete a proper essay for submission.

EXTENDED LEARNING CENTER AND TUTORING: The Extended Learning Center (ELC) is available for students at all Lone Star College locations to help students perform better in their academic classes. Free tutoring by professional tutors, resource materials, and computer-based instruction are available to help students with their academic goals. The English department highly recommends taking advantage of the resources available through our tutors and reference librarians.

1. If English is not your first language, RECONSIDER TAKING THIS COURSE. You will struggle; it is a fact.

2. Review ALL examples provided. It should not be that hard, even if you’ve NEVER written in MLA format, to copy an example essay or short response and complete a Works Cited page.

3. While this is a literature course, don’t make the mistake of thinking it isn’t an ENGLISH course; I expect that you are familiar with how to write a basic essay with the major parts: Introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, conclusion paragraph, and works cited page. If I was speaking a different language just now to you, then look up these elements in your writing handbook.

4. IF YOU CHEAT BY PLAGIARIZING EVEN ONE SINGLE SENTENCE, you will be dropped from the course with an F (if it is after the drop date—April 5th). I dropped three people from one class one week ago for using the internet to find wording to put in their research papers. Since the drop date had passed, they received a zero for the course, even though some of them had B’s going into the final exam. Don’t be THAT person!

5. I am not an evil person. If you have a personal problem come up and need to make arrangements (as we all do from time to time), just email me. We can work something out. But do so BEFORE your assignments are due, not after.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is a serious issue and will not be tolerated in my class. Plagiarism involves intentional and unintentional copying of any written or unwritten material or idea without attributing that material or idea to the original source. This includes material retrieved from the Internet.

If you plagiarize, you are telling me that you would rather cheat to get a good grade than learn the material to earn the grade. Some students feel that an online class means “surfing the net” to get the answer to questions asked in Discussion Board posts and/or information for their essay. Let me assure you, if this is how you intend to pass the class, you will dealt with in the following manner:

Any student who turns in a plagiarized paper before the “drop date” will be asked to drop the course or receive an “F” in the course. Any student who turns in a plagiarized paper after the “drop date” will receive an “F” in the course. (Refer to the “Code for Academic Honesty” for more details on plagiarism).

Non-Acceptable Internet Sites for Research and Data Sources

While the majority of source material needed for your essays, exams, and Discussion Posts will be obtained from the primary text, Norton’s Anthology of English Literature, it may be necessary to access other sources of information. Accessing Wikipedia, Sparknotes, Cliff Notes, Cummings Study Guide Online, Bookrags, Wiki, Yahoo!, Ask, eNotes, Novel Summaries (on LSC Database)—ANY TYPE OF SITE that summarizes the stories or is a random person’s opinion of the text to further understand meanings within a text is NOT acceptable to use within your essays and postings.

From time to time, to help with understanding when reading a difficult text you might review a site such as this for understanding, but you cannot use in your papers and cannot reference in your papers, etc. For more clarification, contact me or a tutor at Lone Star. Students choosing to use information from these sites in their coursework will receive an F for the assignment as these are not suitable sources to enhance your learning. Also, the work CANNOT be made up. You are sophomore college students and above, and I expect more from you as you should yourself. I want you to give me YOUR ideas and thoughts on class assignments. It means more to me that you use your brain rather than parrot a study site. I will offer some helpful websites, videos, and powerpoints from time to time that are educational to help you understand the material. As always, you have access to all of Lone Star’s libraries and database material with scholarly information and essays.

Also, it is imperative that for each reading assignment, you read the time period introduction AND the author/assignment introduction as these are the best sources of information to help you understand the material and its significance to that era and the people of that era and its importance in the literature world today.

WITHDRAWAL POLICY:

The official last day for withdrawal is April 5th. Withdrawal by this date means a final grade of “W” on the student transcript, and no credit will be awarded. I CANNOT DROP YOU FROM THE COURSE, SO DO NOT EMAIL ME ASKING ME TO DO SO. For more information on how to withdraw, contact [email protected].

Prior to the official day, it is the student’s responsibility to initiate and complete a request for withdrawal from any course. Withdrawals are processed only if the student completes and submits for signature(s) the required withdrawal form(s) available from the Admissions Office.

***If you are considered a first-time college student, a new law was passed in Fall2007 that limits to six the number of courses you may drop (withdraw with a grade of “W”) while enrolled at any Texas public institution of higher education. A first time in college student is a student not currently enrolled in high school and who has never taken a college or university course anywhere at any time. If you consider dropping this course during the semester, you might want to go to advising prior to dropping and get information about the Six-Drop Rule.

CODE FOR ACADEMIC HONESTY:

The System upholds the core values of learning: honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and accountability. We promote the importance of personal and academic honesty. We embrace the belief that all learners – students, faculty, staff and administrators – will produce their own work and must give appropriate credit to the work of others. No fabrication of sources or unauthorized collaboration is permitted on any work submitted within the System. Even inadvertent cheating or plagiarizing must be avoided by careful documentation of the other people’s ideas and language. Please refer to the Academic Honesty and Student Success brochure for more information:www.lonestar.edu/31695.pdf.

The Lone Star College System subscribes to Turnitin.com, an online collaborative learning tool for faculty which supports faculty I their quest to uphold academic integrity. Student coursework may be submitted to the scrutiny of the Turnitin software. Please note that these submissions of assignments to Turnitin.com do not necessarily constitute an accusation or suspicion of plagiarism on the student’s part.

 ADA STATEMENT: If you require reasonable accommodations because of a physical, mental, or learning disability, it is your responsibility to contact the instructor during the first two weeks of class. Check the System Office Catalog for the statement concerning people with disabilities.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT:

Check the System Office Catalog for the statement concerning the equal opportunity principle.

GUARANTEED GRADUATE POLICY:

Check the System Office Catalog for the statement concerning guarantees for graduates.

EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION:

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Tentative Course Schedule: ENG 2323

*Syllabus subject to change

*Please note if page numbers are off, simply check the index for correct page #

		Class Activity & Reading Schedule
Vol. D		Romantic Period
Jan. 14-20		Introduction (3-30); Anna Letitia Barbauld (39-40); “Washing Day” (50-52); Charlotte Smith (53-54); “Written at the Close of Spring”; “To Sleep” “To Night” (54-55)
Jan. 22-27		William Blake (112-116); from Songs of Innocence “Introduction” (118-119); “The Lamb” (120); “The Little Black Boy” (120-121); “The Chimney Sweeper” (121-122); “Holy Thursday” (122-123); from Songs of Experience “Introduction” (125); “Holy Thursday” (127); “The Chimney Sweeper” (128); “The Sick Rose” (128); “The Tyger” (129-130); “London” (132-133); Robert Burns (165-167); “Auld Lang Syne” (173-174); “A Red, Red Rose” (181)
Jan. 28-Feb. 3		The Revolution Controversy and the “Spirit of the Age” (183-184); Edmund Burke (187); from “Reflections on the Revolution of France” (187-194); Mary Wollstonecraft (194); from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (194-199); Thomas Paine (199); from Rights of Man (199-203); Mary Wollstonecraft (208-211); from “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (211-239)
Feb. 4-10		William Wordsworth (270-272); “We Are Seven” (278-279); “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (292-304); “My heart leaps up” (335); “Composed upon Westminster Bridgte, September 3, 1802” (344-345); Samuel Taylor Coleridge (437-439); “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (443-459); “Kubla Khan” (459-462); “Christabel” (462-477); “Frost at Midnight” (477-479);
Feb.11-17		The Gothic and the Development of Mass Readership (584-585); Ann Radcliffe (598-599); “from The Mysteries of Udolpho” (601-602); George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616); “She Walks in Beauty” (617-618); “Don Juan” (673-726)
Feb. 18- 24		Percy Bysshe Shelley (748-751); “To Wordsworth” (752); “Ozymandias” (776); “Ode to the West Wind” (791-793); John Keats (901-903); “The Eve of St. Agnes” (912-922); “Bright Star” (922-923); “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” (923-924); “Ode to a Nightingale” (927-929); “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (930-931)
		DB Initial Posts & Reading Quiz EVERY Sunday Night by Midnight Secondary Posts every Tuesday Night by midnight
		First Short Response Due: Sunday, Feb. 24th (midnight) – See folder for topics
Vol. E		Victorian Period
Feb. 25 – Mar. 3		Introduction (1017-1043); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1123-1124); “from Aurora Leigh” (1138-1152); Alfred Lord Tennyson (1156-1159); “The Lady of Shalott” (1161-1166); “Ulysses” (1170-1172); “from In Memoriam A.H.H.” (1187-1233)
Mar. 4 – 10		Robert Browning (1275-1278); “Porphyria’s Lover” (1278-1279); “My Last Duchess” (1282-1283); Emily Bronte (1328-1329); “The Night Wind” (1329-1330); George Eliot (1353-1355); “from Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (1361-1368); Matthew Arnold (1369-1373); “Dover Beach” (1387-1388)
Mar. 18-24		Christina Rossetti (1489-1490); “Goblin Market” (1496-1509); Victorian Issues (1560); Charles Darwin “Origin of Species” and “Descent of Man” (1560-1573); Industrialism: Progress or Decline? (1580-1581); Charles Dickens “from Hard Times” (1599-1600); The “Woman Question”: The Victorian Debate about Gender includes Sarah Stickney Ellis (1607-1612); John Ruskin (1614-1615); “from of Queens’ Gardens” (1615-1616); Anonymous (1620); “The Great Social Evil” (1620-1624); Florence Nightingale (1626) “from Cassandra” (1626-1630)
Mar. 25 – Apr. 1		Empire & National Identity (1636-1640); Joseph Chamberlain (1662) “from The True Conception of Empire” (1662-1664); J.A. Hobson (1665); “from Imperialism: A Study” (1665-1667); Robert Louis Stevenson (1675-1677); The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1677-1719) Since Sunday the 31st is a holiday – assignments are due on the 1st of April – Monday (Secondary response is still due on Tuesday the 2nd) FORMAL WITHDRAWAL DATE IS FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH
Apr. 1 – 7		Oscar Wilde (1720-1721); The Importance of Being Earnest (1734-1777) Rudyard Kipling (1851-1853); “The Man Who Would be King” (1853-1877); “The White Man’s Burden” (1880-1881)
		DB Initial Posts & Reading Quiz EVERY Sunday Night by Midnight (Except for the 31st—see above) Secondary Posts every Tuesday Night by midnight
		First Formal Essay Due: Sunday, April 7th (midnight) – See folder for topics
Vol. F		Modern Period (20th Century and after)
Apr 8-14		Historical Background The 20th Century and After (1887-1913); Joseph Conrad (1947-1948); Heart of Darkness (1951-2011)
Apr. 15-21		A.E. Housman (2011-2012); “To an Athlete Dying Young” (2013); Modernist Manifestos (2056-2058); Hulme (2058-2059); “from Romanticism and Classicism” (2059-2064); Mina Loy (2077); “Feminist Manifesto (2078-2081)
Apr. 22-28		William Butler Yeats (2082-2085); “The Lake of Innisfree” (2087-2088); “Easter, 1916” (2093-2095); “The Second Coming” (2099); Virginia Woolf (2143-2144); Mrs. Dalloway (2156-2264); “from a Room of One’s Own” (2264-2272)
Apr. 29- May 6		James Joyce (2276-2278); The Dead (2282-2311); T.S. Eliot (2521-2524); “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (2524-2527); “The Waste Land” (2530-2543)
May 7 – 12		George Orwell (2604-2605); “Shooting an Elephant” (2605-2610); W.H. Auden (2677-2678); “Musee des Beaux Arts” (2685); “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (2685-2687); Dylan Thomas (2697-2698); “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (2703); Chinua Achebe (2836-2837); “Civil Peace” (2838-2841); Margaret Atwood (2967-2969); “Miss July Grows Older” (2981-2982)
		DB Initial Posts & Reading Quiz EVERY Sunday Night by Midnight Final Formal Essay Due: Sunday, May 6th (midnight) Final Exam Due: Sun. May 12th (midnight)

 COURSE HOLIDAYS:

MLK, Jr. Day – Mon. January 21

Spring Break – March 11 – 17

Spring Holiday – March 29-31

LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW WITH A “W”

Friday, April 5th, 2013

In a typical face-to-face course, my students complete 30 pages of reading per class (3 times per week) for an average of 100 pages of reading a week. This is how I decide on the amount of reading assigned for you.

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MAJOR TEXTS WE WILL READ:

Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

From The Vindication of the Rights of Women

Joyce’s The Dead

Don Juan

Kipling’s The Man Who would be King

Darwin’s Origin of Species and Descent of Man

Heart of Darkness

The rest of the reading will be short poems or introductions; however, be prepared for the longer works and read up on the weeks there is less reading assigned