English 202, Survey Brit Lit I, Schedule* (Rev 4/1/08)

Date	Topic/ Reading Assignment	Due
Week 1	Medieval Period
1/14	Introductions; Syllabus;Study questions
1/16	Anglo-Saxon culture and history Bede (112-117) Caedmon's Hymn (A-S side by side with modern English) Dream of the Rood (106-110))
1/18**	Wanderer (130-133); Wife's Lament (133-135)
Week 2	Anglo Saxon Epic/Norse Saga
1/21	Martin Luther King Day--Have Fun!
1/23	Beowulf (27-51) Study questions Kennings in Beowulf
1/25	Beowulf (51-75)
Week 3	Anglo-Saxon Epic/ Cultural Backgrounds to Medieval/Renaissance Periods
1/28	Beowulf (75-end) Extra credit: Beowulf crossword
1/30	Beowulf Jeopardy
2/1	Christian Medieval/Renaissance World View ppt Tracts on Women and Gender (821-844)
Week 4	Arthurian Romance
2/4***	Marie de France, "Prologue" & "Lanval" (153-169) SGGK (171-182)  Study Questions
2/6	SGGK (182-196)	Essay #1
2/8	SGGK (196-end)
Week 5	Estates Satire; Cultural Backgrounds to Medieval/Renaissance Periods
2/11	Canterbury Tales, "General  Prologue" (1st 40 lines + profiles of Knight, Squire, Prioress, Monk, Friar, and Wife of Bath) (begins on 252) CT Handout (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original)
2/13	"Prologue" Cont.
2/15	Miller's "Prologue" and "Tale" (271-287) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original)
Week 6	Estates Satire
2/18	"Miller's Tale"
2/20	Wife of Bath's "Prologue" and "Tale" (287-314) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original)	Email 2 quotes from each work by Thursday
2/22	Midterm I Review	Midterm I
Week 7	Renaissance Poetry
2/25	Intro to sonnet form: Wyatt "WLH" (420); Petrarch 90 (421) Background  Poetry
2/27**	Sidney sonnets 1 (592); 71 (593)
2/29	Class cancelled--Lit & Lang Dept. Retreat
Week 8	Renaissance Poetry
3/3	Elizabeth I (616-620) Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (658-663) Study Questions	Midterm I Due
3/5	Shakespeare sonnets (736-741) 1, 73 Sonnets Handout
3/7	Shakespeare sonnets 130, 138
Week 9	Spring Break--3/10-3/15--Have fun!
Week 10	Renaissance Drama
3/17	Shakespeare sonnets 144, 20
3/19	Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (742-768)
3/21	Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (768-786)
Week 11	LaterRenaissance Poetry
3/24	Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (787-end)
3/26	Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (film)
3/28	Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (film)
Week 12	Restoration & 18th Century: Public and Private Expressions
3/31****	Donne, "Sun Rising" (808); "The Flea" (810)
4/2	Donne, "Holy Sonnets 6 & 10" (815-816) Midterm II (Take-home)
4/4	Intro to the Restoration/18th Century Period Poetic Conversations: Rochester (1119) & Behn (1116)
Week 13	Gendered Perspectives; Slavery and Exoticism
4/7*****	Poetic Conversations II: Swift (1181) & Montague "Reasons" (1185)
4/9	Behn, "To the Fair Clarinda" (1122) ; Finch, "The Introduction" (1125); Chudleigh, "To the ladies" (1123); Leapor, "An Essay on Woman" (1131)
4/11	Behn, Oroonoko (2150-2165) Study Questions	Midterm II due
Week 14	Slavery and Exoticism; Satire
4/14	Behn, Oroonoko (2165-2180)
4/16	Behn, Oroonoko (2180-end)
4/18	Pope, Rape of the Lock (2489-2508)
Week 14	Satire
4/21	Pope, Rape of the Lock (continued)
4/23	Essays and Projectors   Swift, A Modest Proposal (2451)
4/25	Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act I (2573-2587) Study Questions
Week 15	Satire
4/28	Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act II (2587-2602)
4/30	Gay, The Beggar's Opera , Act III(2602-2625)	Email: two quotes from each work by Friday
5/2	Final Exam Test Review
Finals Week	Friday, May 3, 10:10-12:10	Essay #2

*Any of the above is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
**1/22- Last day to register or enter a course; last day to withdraw with 100% refund; last day to change grading option.
***2/4-Last day to drop course without grade appearing on permanent record; last day to drop course with 50% refund.
****3/31- Last day to drop full term course with grade of W
*****4/7-Deadline to file application for degree candidacy for Summer/Fall2008 graduation with Registrar.

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Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury
1/10/08; rev 4/1/08