ENGL 2122/Fall 2021/Schedule

Introduction	Requirements	Policies	Schedule	Instructor

This schedule represents the ideal outline for our study this semester. Yet, like all best-laid plans, we may not be able to keep up with our agenda. Please be flexible and try to look and read ahead whenever possible.

We will do our best to stick by this schedule, but I will inform you verbally, via an email, and/or a literal change to the schedule below whenever there is a deviation. Getting these updates is solely your responsibility. Therefore, this schedule is tentative and subject to change contingent upon the needs of the students and the professor, and dictated by time and other constraints which may affect the course. For face-to-face classes, this schedule reflects only an overview of the assigned reading and other major course assignments. It may not indicate specific class session assignments or activities. Specific in-class assignments may not be reflected on the schedule.

⬇︎ Read More ⬇︎

Each week of this class has its own unit or lesson corresponding to a literary movement. Each week is divided into daily work that contain readings (with the occasional reading quiz) and writing. Each week concludes with a test on the materials covered. The following is a general overview of the schedule.

Daily Work

As this is a session course and time is limited, here’s how I recommend your proceed: work every day. Put aside at least an hour on every class day, and

1. Read the primary texts (these are assigned below in individual class days) taking notes as you do, maybe highlighting passages that speak to you in some way;
2. Take the reading quiz if there is one assigned;
3. Read some secondary texts: i.e., do some research on at least one of the texts, being sure you understand the major themes, symbols, etc.;
4. Take the short-answer quiz if there is one assigned;
5. Write a response (see Writing) on what you think about the text(s), supporting it with evidence from both the primary and secondary texts. I give some suggestions below for potential responses, but these are really up to you. You should write a minimum of two posts per lesson (or week). A day is set aside each week for your responses.

The idea here is that you engage with the course materials in a consistent way. Not all of it will speak to you, and that’s fine. However, you must actively engage the materials and show that engagement in your weekly work.

Schedule

Date	Assignment
The Romantic Period
6 October	Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30 Take Period Introduction Quiz Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Romantic Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
7 October	William Blake From Songs of Innocence: “Introduction” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “The Lamb” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “The Chimney Sweeper” “The Blossom” “The Divine Image” From Songs of Experience: “Introduction” “Earth’s Answer” “The Tyger” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “The Chimney Sweeper” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “The Sick Rose” “Human Abstract” “London”
8 October	Ashford, Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “I wandered lonely as a cloud” “I travelled among unknown men” “The World Is too Much with Us” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Kubla Khan” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
11 October	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication on the Rights of Women Take Reading Quizzes
12 October	Dorothy Wordsworth “Grasmere—A Fragment” Take Reading Quiz
13 October	George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Darkness”
14 October	Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “To a Sky-Lark” “Ode to the West Wind”
15 October	Joseph Severn, Portrait of John Keats John Keats “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” “When I have fears that I may cease to be” “Ode to a Nightingale” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
18 October	Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Cry of the Children” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “How do I love thee?” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
19 October	Write Your Response
The Victorian Period
20 October	Introduction to Victorian Literature Editor’s Introduction, pp. 527–551 Take Period Introduction Quiz Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Victorian Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
21 October	Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “The Lotos-Eaters” “Ulysses” Gerard Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “The Windhover”
22 October	Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Porphyria’s Lover” Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) Christina Rossetti “Goblin Market”
25 October	Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Take Reading Quiz
26 October	Write Your Response
The Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries
27 October	Introduction to the Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1015–1042 Take Period Introduction Quiz Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the the turn of the century’s trends in literature. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in works of this period?
28 October	Rudyard Kipling “The Man Who Would Be King”
29 October	E. M. Forster “The Machine Stops” “Tolerance” James Joyce “Araby” Take Reading Quiz
1 November	Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” Siegfried Sassoon ‘They’” “The Rear Guard” “The General” “Glory of Women” Wilfred Owen “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”
2 November	Write Your Response
Modernism
3 November	Hulewicz, Leda and the Swan (1928) William Butler Yeats “Leda and the Swan” “The Second Coming” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Sailing to Byzantium” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
4 November	T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
5 November	W. H. Auden “Musée des Beaux Arts” Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
8 November	Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”
9 November	Write Your Response
World War II / Postmodernism
10 November	Philip Larkin “The Mower” “Talking in Bed” Seamus Heany “Digging” (Take Short-Answer Quiz) “Clearances” “Punishment” “The Skunk”
11 November	Nadine Gordimer “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”
12 November	Katherine Mansfield “The Garden Party” Take Reading Quiz
15 November	Salman Rushdie “The Prophet’s Hair” Take Reading Quiz
29 November	Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Take Short-Answer Quiz
30 November	Write Your Response; Short Lit Crit Response due

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