EL150 (2007; Intro to Literary Study): Outline

Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

01/22/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Course Overview"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>How Does a Poem Mean?"; ?>
01/24/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Introduction to Weblogs"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Lemire, I'm an English Major: Now What? (Intro & Ch 1)"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Schackner, ''Freedom of speech redefined by blogs''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 1-1: Diagnostic Essay"; ?>
01/25/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Agenda Items"; ?>
01/26/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Close Reading Diagnostic"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Fitzgerald, ''Bernice Bobs Her Hair'' (online)"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Close Reading"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Foster (1-3, 5)"; ?>
01/28/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Agenda Items"; ?>
01/29/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Glaspell, ''Trifles''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Reflection Paper"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Foster (19,20)"; ?>
01/31/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Eliot, ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Foster (Ch 12 and Interlude [p. 183])"; ?>
02/02/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor, ''A Good Man is Hard to Find''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Foster (6-9, 11, 14)"; ?>
02/05/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31)"; ?>
02/07/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Workshop: Close Reading"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 1-1: Response"; ?>
02/09/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 1-2: Close Reading"; ?>
02/12/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Forster, ''The Machine Stops''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (112-149)"; ?>
02/14/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Anonymous, ''Everyman''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (68-97)"; ?>
02/16/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Quiz 1: Rhetorical Strategies in ''Everyman''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (98-111; 150-166)"; ?>
02/19/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 1-3 Presubmission"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor, ''The River''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>London, ''To Build a Fire''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67)"; ?>
02/21/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Kennedy, ''Short Stories: 10 Tips''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Portfolio 1"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Fiction workshop."; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Foster (TBA)"; ?>
02/23/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Prosody Workshop 1"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 1-3: Short Story Draft"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Poetry Selections"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Blank Verse Workshop"; ?>
02/26/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Prosody Workshop 2"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Jerz, ''Poems: Short but Effective''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (198-225)"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear''"; ?>
02/28/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Your English Career"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Lemire (skim Ch 2-7)"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 2-1a: Career Research"; ?>
03/02/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Resume Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 1 Presubmission"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Foster (Cancelled)"; ?>
03/12/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Blank Verse Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (226-246)"; ?>
03/14/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Quiz 2: Prosody"; ?>
03/16/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 1 Full Draft"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Blank Verse Workshop"; ?>
03/19/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves"; ?>
03/21/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 1 Revision Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves"; ?>
03/23/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Entrepreneurial Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves"; ?>
03/26/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 2-2: Response to Truss (moved from Mar 23)"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor, ''The Life You Save May Be Your Own''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor, ''A Stroke of Good Fortune''"; ?>
03/28/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 2-1b: Job Application Portfolio"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.''"; ?>
03/30/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor (Choose One of Three)"; ?>
04/02/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>A clever blank-verse entry on your blog."; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor, "Good Country People""; ?>
04/04/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Portfolio 2"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>O'Connor, "The Displaced Person""; ?>
04/11/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Shakespeare, King Lear Acts 1,2"; ?>
04/13/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Shakespeare, King Lear Acts 3-5"; ?>
04/16/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Zunder, "Shakespeare and the End of Feudalism...""; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear""; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Introduction to Media Fasting"; ?>
04/18/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Research Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Blogging Checkpoint"; ?>
04/20/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Card, Ender's Game Ch 1-6"; ?>
04/23/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Card, Ender's Game Finish"; ?>
04/25/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 2 Presubmission Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 2 Presubmission"; ?>
04/27/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Sonnet Workshop"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 3-1a: Sonnet Draft"; ?>
04/30/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Sonnet Slam"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 3-2: Media Fasting Reflection"; ?>
05/02/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 2 Workshop"; ?>
05/04/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 3-1b: Revised Sonnet"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 2 Full Draft"; ?>
05/07/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Ex 3-3: ''Response to Weird Romance''"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Portfolio 3"; ?>
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Wit"; ?>
05/08/07
- "; ?>Due: "; ?>Paper 2 Final (10:30am)"; ?>