Schedule of Readings and Assignments | Great Works of Literature II

REVISED Schedule of Readings & Assignments (as of 4/14/2013)

Week Twelve

Monday, April 15

Readings to Discuss: Virginia Woolf, all selections (Vol. F, p.336-371), Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” (Vol. F, p.1145-1146)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
Oral Presentation (Part 3): Soyoung, Katie, Sue, Shirley

Wednesday, April 17–NO CLASS!

Writing Due: Revisions of Paper #1 (include all past drafts)–leave in my mailbox in the English Dept (VC Building, 7th Floor)

Week Thirteen

Monday, April 22

Readings to Discuss: Jose Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Vol. F, p.489-496), Nawal Wl Saadawi, “In Camera” (Vol. F, p.1106-1115)
Oral Presentation (Part 4): Rey, Mark, Ruiqi, Rilda

Wednesday, April 24

Readings to Discuss: Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Vol. F, p.736-751); Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem” (Vol. F, p.568-575), Mahmoud Darwish, “Identity Card” (Vol. F, p.893-895)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
Oral Presentation (Part 5/6): Kitty, Dave, Jaesung

Week Fourteen

Monday, April 29

Readings to Discuss: Hanan Al-Shaykh, “The Women’s Swimming Pool” (Vol. F, p. 1165-1171), Junot Diaz, Drown (Vol. F, p. 1240-1249)
Oral Presentation (Part 7): Leesha, Aminata, Pasqual

Wednesday, May 1

Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
Writing Due: Rough Draft, Paper #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please bring 3 copies to class)

Week Fifteen

Monday, May 6

Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments

Wednesday, May 8

Readings to Discuss: Arkadii Dragomoshenko, Dust
Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft) **I do NOT accept papers by email**

Week Sixteen

Monday, May 13

Readings to Discuss: Arkadii Dragomoshenko, Dust

Wednesday, May 15

FINAL EXAMINATION

Good Luck!

Tentative SCHEDULE OF READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS

Read selections for the day they appear on the syllabus; always bring your book to class.

Week One

Monday, January 28

Course Introduction, Review of Syllabus
Readings to Discuss: Samuel Johnson, from “A Dictionary of the English Language” (Vol. D, p.104), Benjamin Franklin, “Letter to Joseph Priestly” (Vol. D, p.128)

Wednesday, January 30

Readings to Discuss: “The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas” (Vol. D, p.91-104), Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment” (Vol. D, p.105-113)
Writing Diagnostic

Week Two

Monday, February 4

Readings to Discuss: Mary Wollstonecraft, from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (Vol. D, p.133-136), Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (Vol. D, p.315-320)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments

Wednesday, February 6

Readings to Discuss: Sor Juana Inées De La Cruz, “Poem 145,” “Poem 164,” “Philosophical Satire: Poem 92” (Vol. D, p.262-264), Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man” (Vol. D, p.344-351)

Week Three

Monday, February 11

Readings to Discuss: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (Chapters 1-14, Vol. D, p.355-377)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments

Wednesday, February 13

Readings to Discuss: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (Chapters 15-30. Vol. D, p.377-413)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments

Week Four

Monday, February 18

NO CLASS (President’s Day)

Wednesday, February 20

Readings to Discuss: “Early Modern Chinese Vernacular Literature” (Vol. D, p.415-420), Cao Xueqin, from The Story of the Stone (Chapters 1-3, Vol. D, p. 517-553)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments

Week Five

Monday, February 25

Readings to Discuss: Cao Xueqin, from The Story of the Stone (Chapters 17, 96-98, 119-120, Vol. D, p. 553-583)

Wednesday, February 27

Readings to Discuss: Cao Xueqin, from The Story of the Stone
Writing Due: Rough Draft, Essay #1 (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 copies to class)

Week Six

Monday, March 4

Readings to Discuss: U.S. Declaration of Independence (Vol. E, p.18-21), Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Vol. E, p.21-23), Jean Jacques Dessalines, Liberty or Death (Vol. E, p.37-39), Simón Bolívar, Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of this Island (Vol. E, p.44-49), Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments (Vol. E, p.50-52)

Wednesday, March 6

Readings to Discuss: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Vol. E, p. 293-321)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments

Week Seven

Monday, March 11

Readings to Discuss: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Vol. E, p. 293-321)

Wednesday, March 13

Readings to Discuss: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapters, 1-10, Vol. E, p.236-280)(Chapters 11-Appendix, Vol. E, p.281-293)
Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #1 (3-5 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft) **I do NOT accept papers by email**

Week Eight

Monday, March 18

Readings to Discuss: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapters 11-Appendix, Vol. E, p.281-293)
Writing Due: MidTerm Questions–Everyone should post at least 2 potential questions for the midterm. (POST BY SATURDAY 12PM)

Wednesday, March 20

MID-TERM EXAMINATION
SONNET CHALLENGE: John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (Vol. E, p.406), William Blake, “London” (Vol. E, p.340), William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much With Us” (Vol. E, p.369), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portugese (Vol. E, p.426-427)

Week Nine

Monday, March 25

SPRING BREAK

Wednesday, March 27

SPRING BREAK

Week Ten

Monday, April 1

SPRING BREAK

Wednesday, April 3

Readings to Discuss: Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (Vol. E, p.448-453), Emily Dickinson, “258”, “303”, “341”, “712” (Vol. E, p.483-484, 487-488), José Martí, “I am an Honest Man” (Vol. E, p.520-521), Ghalib, all selections (Vol. E, p.587-601)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments

Week Eleven

Monday, April 8

Readings to Discuss: Tanizaki Jun’Ichiro, “The Tattooer” (Vol. F, p.78-84), Lu Xun, “Diary of a Madman” (Vol. F, p.242-253)
Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
Oral Presentation (Part 1):
Fabian, Luis, Yanni, Dave, Alex

Wednesday, April 10

Readings to Discuss: Rabindrath Tagore, “Punishment” and “Kabuliwala” (Vol. E, p. 889-904)
Oral Presentation (Part 2): Joe, Duyen, Xiaoying, Michelle