January 19
Week 1:
Martin Luther King Holiday

January 26
Week 2:
On Campus Meeting
Practice Posting: “To Virgins to Make Much of Time,”and “To His Coy Mistress”
Practice Email: a one sentence summary of either poem

February 2
Week 3:
Quiz: Angles of Vision reading assignments 4 and 5.
Posting: Extended definition of assigned literary term
You will be assigned one of the following literary terms:

1. character
2. plot
3. narrator/point of view
4. style
5. setting
6. symbol
7. theme

Posting 1: Post an extended definition (500 words) in your own words. You will not receive credit for cutting and pasting someone else’s definition although you may cite it in part and comment on it.

Respond to two other definitions of the same term. Try to create a collaborative working definition giving full credit to your sources. Clearly identify your term in the subject box of your posting.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm

http://web.cocc.edu/lisal/literaryterms/elements_of_literature.htm#Points

Please note how carefully sources are cited on the second site. Use it as a model.

February 9
Week 4

Posting 2: In your posting this week, apply your concept to Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher (500 words). Respond to at least two other postings which use your term (250 words each). Try to create a collaborative working definition giving full credit to your sources. Clearly identify your term in the subject box of your posting.

Write a one sentence summary of the story and email it to me.

Read postings defining literary terms. Read online definitions of literary terms.

February 16
Week 5

Chapter Quiz, Angles of Vision Reading 8 You must read this chapter on “The Descriptive Critical Essay” in order to write our first major paper. This chapter will also be the assignment chapter for the research paper on the World War I poets.

Posting 3: In your posting this week, apply your concept to Ambrose Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”(500 words). Respond to at least two other postings which use your term (250 words each). Try to create a collaborative working definition giving full credit to your sources. Clearly identify your term in the subject box of your posting.

Write a one sentence summary of the story and email it to me.

Read Angles of Vision Chapter 9, The “Essay Examination.”

Read postings defining literary terms. Read online definitions of literary terms.

February 23
Week 6
On Campus Meeting
Film “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Midterm on “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Compare and contrast the use of your term in the two stories. Bring a bluebook. (1 ½ hours.) Open book. No notes. Short answer section on literary terms.

March 1
Week 7
Posting 4: In your posting this week, apply your concept to Louise Erdrich’s “Fleur”(500 words). Respond to at least two other postings which use your term (250 words each). Try to create a collaborative working definition giving full credit to your sources. Clearly identify your term in the subject box of your posting.

Write a one sentence summary of the story and email it to me.
Quiz on literary terms.

March 8
Week 8
Read “Why Poetry Matters” in Angles of Vision (Reading 8). Quiz.
Posting 5: Read the paired poems, “The Man He Killed and “Strange Beauty.” In your posting, compare and contrast the poems and explain any difficulties you had in understanding them (500 words).
Respond to at least two other postings (250 words each).

Paper 1 due: Write a 750 word paper in which you examine the use of your assigned literary term in the three stories we have studied, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” and “Fleur.” Be sure you include a works cited page.

March 15
Week 9
On Campus Session
Film assignment: Behind the Lines
Read Pat Barker’s Regeneration. In Class Quiz.
Bring a possible topic and focus for your WWI literature research paper.

Before you come to class:
Explore the Oxford University World War I Poets Web Site.
.Go to http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ Oxford University Website Virtual Seminars 1. Virtual Seminar Complete Tutorial 1: An Introduction to World War I Poetry. Read all poems by Owen and Sassoon in tutorial, paying special attention to “Disabled,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and “Strange Meeting.” Read “Munition Wages” in the Women’s Poetry section.

Email me the works cited entry for the novel Regeneration and the film Behind the Lines.
Hint: If you do not have publication information, look up the book or film on Amazon.com.

March 22
Week 10
Posting 6: The current theme of the Oxford University World War I poetry seminar is “disablilities–mental and/or physical” as the relate to the war poets posted on the site. This week write an analysis of this theme in the World War I poetry you’ve read on the site, in the film, Behind the Lines and in the novel Regeneration. Post your results (500 words) and respond to at least two other postings. This theme is one possible topic for your research paper although you are not required to write on it.

Continue researching for your paper on Oxford Web site. Send me a 250 email narrowing your topic.

Email me the works cited entry for the Oxford University World War I Poetry Seminar.

March 29
Week 11
Read first EBSCO Host article:
Note: You must have a library bar code to sign in to EBSCO Host on line. The URLs indicated below will take you to the EBSCO Host entry page where you will need to enter this information.

“WHR Rivers Portrait of a Great Physician”
Lancet, o7/19/97 Vol 350 Issue 9072, p205
Katherine G. Nickerson and Steven Shea
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an+9707282001&db=f5h

Posting 7: Write a 500 word discusson of the terms “protopathic” and “epicritic” used in Nickerson and Shea’s article as they apply to the novel Regeneration. Point to passages in the novel although you do not need to copy long citations. This is another possible topic for your research paper.

Write a 250 word update on your research project and email it to me.
Email me the works cited entry for the Nickerson and Shea EBSCO Host Article.

April 5
Week 12

Read second EBSCO Host article:
Note: You must have a library bar code to sign in to EBSCO Host on line. The URLs indicated below will take you to the EBSCO Host entry page where you will need to enter this information.

“British Working Women in the First World War”

Historian Summer 1994 Volume 6 Issue 4 p66
Susan Pyecroft
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an+9410110554&db=5h

Posting 8: Write a 500 word discussion of women’s roles in the poem “Munition Wages” found in the “women’s poetry” section of the Oxford World War I poets tutorial and in the novel Regeneration. This is another possible paper topic.

Email the works cited entry for the Pyecroft EBSCO Host article.

Email me a rough draft of your research paper as a Mircrosoft Word or rtf. attachment.
Be sure it includes a works cited page in MLA format.

Spring Break April 9 to 18

April 19
Week 13
Email me your complete research paper as a Mircrosoft Word or rtf. attachment. Be sure it includes a works cited page in MLA format.

Read the two chapters on writing the personal essay. This is the assignment sheet for your personal essay. Choose a voice–meditation, storytelling, explanation, reaction–that you find appealing. Email me your thoughts on a topic for your own personal essay. Start reading personal essays on reading list for models.

April 26 “Death of a Pig” “A Windstorm in the Forest” “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.”
Posting 9: Quiz: Identify the voice in each of these essays and post your comments (500 words). Respond to two other postings (250 words each.)

Each of the following three assignments can be used as a prewriting for your personal essay.

April 26
Week 14
Posting 10: Quiz: Compare and contrast the following essays, focusing on Gomez-Pena’s idea of the “border.”(500 words). Respond to two other postings (250 words each.)
“Document/Undocumented: “Sometimes It Just Happens That Way” (short story) “I Forgot the Words to the National Anthem.”

Email me an idea for your personal essay. Be sure to read all the essays on the reading list first for models and inspiration.

May 3
Week 15
Revisions of research paper due.

Posting 11: Look up the term “irony” in the on line literary dictionaries listed above. Read “A Modest Proposal” and post your responses. Identify the qualities of an ironic argument. Would you consider writing an ironic argument for your personal essay? Why or why not? (250 words) Respond to one posting.

Email me a one sentence summary of your personal essay.

May 10
Week 16
Posting 12: Write a brief meditation on “marriage and the single life” referring back to Bacon’s essay.
post your responses. Would you consider this topic for your personal essay? Why or why not? (250 words)

Respond to one posting (250 words).

Email me a rough draft of your personal essay.

May 17
Week 17
On Campus Film Lysistrata
Personal essay due.

Week 18
May 24
Required On Campus Final