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World Lit 1 Assignments

TENTATIVE READING ASSIGNMENTS--ENGL2310

 

Mon Aug 28                Class introductions

Wed Aug 30                Discuss study techniques, sign up for videos

Fri Sept 1                     Discuss “Invention of Writing” p. 3-6 and Gilgamesh p. 10-17

Mon Sept 4                  Labor Day Holiday

Wed Sept 6                  Discuss Gilgamesh p. 17-24, 30-41

Fri Sept 8                     Tentative Research Topics due. Discuss The Bible p. 52-64

Mon Sept 11                Discuss The Bible p. 64-77

Wed Sept 13                Discuss The Odyssey p. 114-119 and Book I

Fri Sept 15                   Discuss The Odyssey Book II

Mon Sept 18                Discuss The Odyssey Book IX

Wed Sept 20                Discuss The Odyssey Book XXI

Fri Sept 22                   Discuss The Odyssey Book XXII

Mon Sept 25                Discuss background to Sophocles and Oedipus p. 612-615

Wed Sept 27                Discuss Oedipus

Fri Sept 29                   Complete Oedipus. Working Bibliography due.

Mon Oct 2                   Discuss Confucious p. 820-831. Review for exam

Wed Oct 4                   First Exam

Fri Oct 6                      Discuss India’s Heroic Age p. 881-885, The Ramayana p. 890-903

Mon Oct 9                   Discuss The Bhagavad-Gita p. 1010-1025

Wed Oct 11                 Discuss Virgil 1052-1054, The Aeneid p. 1056-1063.

Fri Oct 13                    Highlighted sources due. Discuss Aeneid p. 1063-1073

Oct 14-17                    Mid-Term Break

Wed Oct 18                 Discuss Aeneid p. 1073-1085

Fri Oct 20                    Discuss Aeneid p. 1085-1106

Mon Oct 23                 Discuss The New Testament 12-4-1220

Wed Oct 25                 Discuss The Koran p. 1419-1432

Fri Oct 27                    Discuss The Koran 1432-1441, 1446-1455

Mon Oct 30                 Peer Draft of Research Project Due

Wed Nov 1                  2nd Exam. Objective questions

Fri Nov 3                     2nd Exam. Essay questions

Mon Nov 6                  Discuss Beowulf p. 1626-1642

Wed Nov 8                  Discuss Beowulf p. 1642-1650, 1661-1669

Fri Nov 10                   Discuss Dante 1826-1835, Inferno. Read summaries of Cantos I-XV

Mon Nov 13                Discuss Inferno. Read summaries of Cantos XV-XXXIII

Wed Nov 15                Rough Draft Due. Begin Chaucer

Fri Nov 17                   Discuss Caucer p. 2045-2050. General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

Mon Nov 20                The Miller’s Tale p. 2067-2082, the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale

Wed Nov 22                The Pardoner’s Tale

Fri Nov 24                   Discuss Machiavelli p. 2517, Chapters 15, 16, 17, 18, 25

Mon Nov 27                Presentations of Research Projects

Wed Nov 29                Final Draft of Research Project Due

Fri Dec 1                      Discuss Cervantes 2671-2674 and Don Quixote 2680-2696

Mon Dec 4                   Discuss Don Quixote 2696-2725

Wed Dec 6                   Class evaluations

Dec 7, 8, 11-13                        Final Exams