Kent-Drury
ENG 202-01 & ENG 202-03
Spring 2007
English 202-01 & 03, Survey Brit Lit I, Schedule*

Date 
Topic/ Reading Assignment 
Due 
Week 1 Medieval Period  
1/9

Introductions; Syllabus; Anglo-Saxon culture and history
Caedmon's Hymn (A-S side by side with modern English)

 
1/11** Bede (112-117)
Wanderer (130-133); Wife's Lament (133-135)
  Study questions
 
Week 2 Anglo Saxon Epic  
1/16

Beowulf (27-73)
Study questions
Kennings in Beowulf

Extra credit: Beowulf crossword

 
1/18 Beowulf (73-91)  
Week 3 Arthurian Romance  
1/23 Marie de France, "Prologue" & "Lanval" (153-169)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (169-196)
Study Questions
 
1/25*** Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (196-225)  
Week 4 Estates Satire  
1/30
Canterbury Tales, "General  Prologue"
(1st 40 lines + profiles of Knight, Squire, Prioress, Monk, Friar, and Wife of Bath) (begins on 246)

Miller's "Prologue" and "Tale" (271-287)
(Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original)
 
2/1 Wife of Bath's "Prologue" and "Tale" (287-314)
(Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original)
Midterm 1(take home)
 Essay #1
Week 5 Renaissance Period; Renaissance Poetry
 
2/6 Intro to Renaissance period
Intro to sonnet form: Wyatt, Intro (419);"WLH" (420); Petrarch 90 (421)
Sidney: Intro (590-592)  & sonnets 1 (592); 71 (593)
Background  (best viewed in Internet Explorer)
Poetry

2/8 Shakespeare (733-736); sonnets 1 (737), 73 (739), , 130 (741)  
Week 6 Renaissance Poetry  
2/13 Snow day
 
2/15 Shakespeare; sonnets 138 (741), 116 (740), 20 (737)
 
Week 7 Renaissance Poetry  
2/20

Donne, "The Flea" (810)

Elizabeth I (616-619)

 Midterm 1 due
2/22   Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (658-663)  
Week 8 Renaissance Drama  
2/27 Donne, "Sun Rising" (808);
Donne, "Holy Sonnets 6 & 10" (815)
 
3/1***

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Acts I, II, III) (742-770)

 
Week 9
3/5-3/10
Spring Break--Have Fun!
 
Week 10 Restoration & 18th Century: Public and Private Expressions  
3/13

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (ActIV, V) (770-796)
Midterm 2(take home)

 
3/15

Diaries & Journals: Pepys (+Evelyn) (1066-1085)

Perspectives: The Royal Society & The New Science (1086-1103)

Swift, Gulliver's visit to the Academy of Logado (1188-1193)


Week 12 Slavery and Exoticism  
3/20

Behn, Oroonoko (1134-1157)
Study Questions 

Midterm 2 due
3/22****

Behn, Oroonoko (1157-1176)

 
Week 13 Gendered Perspectives  
3/27   Behn, "To the Fair Clarinda" (1122); Chudleigh, "To the Ladies" (1123-1125); Finch, "The Introduction" (1125-1126);  Leapor, "An Essay on Woman" (1131-1132)
 
3/29

Poetic Conversations Part I:
Behn, "The Disappointment" (1116-1119 ) and Rochester, "Imperfect" (1119-1121)  

 
Week 14 Satire: Poetry  
4/3

Poetic Conversations Part II:
Swift, Intro (1176-1178) and "Dressing Room" (1181-1185)
Montague, "Reasons" (1185-1187)

 
4/5*****

Pope, Intro (1239-1241) & Rape of the Lock (1248-1255)

 
Week 15 Satire : Prose  
4/10 Pope, Rape of the Lock (1255-1267)
 
4/12***** Swift, A Modest Proposal & Petty (1231-1238)  
Week 15 Satire : Drama  
4/17

Satire : Drama
Gay, "Intro" (1275-1277); Backgrounds (1322-1345)
Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act I (1278-1292)

 
4/19

Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act II (1292-1307)

 
Week 16 Satire : Drama  
4/24 Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act III (1307-1322) E-mail Dr. Kent-Drury 1 quotation from each work read since Midterm 2 by midnight!
4/26 Final Exam Test Review
Essay #2 (was #3)
Finals Week
4/28-5/4
ENG 202-01, Tuesday, 5/1, 10:10 am - 12:10 pm
ENG 202-03, Thursday, 5/3, 10:10 am - 12:10 pm
 
*Any of the above is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
** 1/16: Last day to register or enter a course; last day to withdraw with 100% refund; last day to change grading option.
*** 1/29: Last day to drop course without grade appearing on permanent record; last day to drop course with 50% refund.
****3/26: Last day to drop full term course with grade of W
*****4/9: Deadline to file application for degree candidacy for Summer/Fall 2007 graduation with Registrar.

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Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury
1/6/07