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English
1B Course Calendar |
| Tues. |
8-20 |
Class Introduction. The Giving Tree. What is Literature?
Homework: "A Flea" and "A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne, "The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, "God's Grandeur"
by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "To His Coy Mistress"
by Andrew Marvell, "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred
Owen, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
by William Shakespeare, "An Old Man's Thought of School"
by Walt Whitman, and handouts definitions of "alliteration,"
"assonance," "euphony," "meter,"
"rhyme," "cacophony," "free verse,"
"sonnet." |
| Tues. |
8-27 |
Class discussion. Explication of "God's Grandeur."
Application of definitions. Essay Assignment. Example Paper.
Homework: Handout on writing about literature. Frank
Chin's Donald Duk. |
| Tues. |
9-3 |
Group Presentation--New Criticism. First Drafts Due/Peer
Revision. Class discussion. Homework: Frank Chin's
Donald Duk. |
| Tues. |
9-10 |
Class discussion. Group Presentation--Asian-American Literature.
Homework: Ana Castillo's Loverboys. |
| Tues. |
9-17 |
Final
Drafts Due. Class discussion. Homework: Ana Castillo's
Loverboys. |
| Tues. |
9-24 |
Class discussion. Group Presentation--Mexican-American Literature.
Homework: Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, My Love. |
| Tues. |
10-1 |
Class discussion. Homework: Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla,
My Love. |
| Tues. |
10-8 |
Class discussion. Group Presentation--African-American Literature.
Essay Assignment. Brainstorming. |
| Tues. |
10-15 |
First
Drafts Due/Peer Revision. Midterm review. |
| Tues. |
10-22 |
Midterm.
Homework: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. |
| Tues. |
10-29 |
Final
Drafts Due. Class discussion. Viewing The Merchant
of Venice. Homework: William Shakespeare's The
Merchant of Venice. |
| Tues. |
11-5 |
Class discussion. Viewing The Merchant of Venice. Group
Presentation--Marxism. Homework: David Mamet's Glengarry
Glen Ross. |
| Tues. |
11-12 |
Class discussion. Homework: David Mamet's Glengarry
Glen Ross. |
| Tues. |
11-19 |
Class discussion. Group Presentation--Feminism. Essay Assignment.
Brainstorming. Homework: Calvin Trillin's The Tummy
Trilogy. |
| Tues. |
11-26 |
First
Drafts Due/Peer Revision. Class discussion. Homework:
Calvin Trillin's The Tummy Trilogy. |
| Tues. |
12-3 |
Gastrocriticism. da Vinci's "The Last Supper." Class
discussion. |
| Tues. |
12-10 |
Final
Drafts Due. Film Big Night. Class discussion. |
| Tues. |
12-17 |
Final.
Potluck. |
