DAILY ASSIGNMENTS(Revised 4/27/2014)
Tuesday,
January 14, 2014
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First Class.
Thursday,
January 16, 2014
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Be prepared to have your photo taken.
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Read and mark and sign the class contract (see Handouts
section of class web page)
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Email required contact information to Dr. Halbert at hhalbert@mc3.com. Download and use document
template from Blackboard in the handouts section.
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Read and mark the following. Put tabs to mark each page:
o
"How to Really
Mark This Book."—Halbert (handout)
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"The Garden of
Love" -- Blake (Norton 131)
o
"The Human
Abstract" -- Blake (Norton 133)
o
"To a
Mouse" --Burns (Norton 171)
o
"Elegiac
Stanzas" --Wordsworth (Norton 343)
o
"Kubla
Khan" --Coleridge (Norton 459)
o
"She Walks in
Beauty" --Byron (Norton 617)
o
"Ode on
Melancholy" --Keats (Norton 931)
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Then read and mark "The Romantic Period:
1785-1830" (Norton pages 3-30)
Tuesday,
January 21, 2014
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Please read and mark
the following selections by Robert Burns:
o
Intro (165-167)
o
"Green grow the rashes" (167-168)
o
"Holy Willie's Prayer" (168-171)
o
"To a Louse" (172-173)
o
"Auld Lang Syne" (173-174--try singing it
out loud)
o
""Tam O'Shanter: A Tale" (174-179)
o
"Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation"
(179-180)
o
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn"
(180-181)
o
"A Red, Red, Rose" (181)
o
"Song: For a' that and a' that" (181-182)
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Register for our
class on Turnitin.com. You will
need to follow the instructions in the handouts section on Turnitin.com.
Thursday,
January 23, 2014
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Read and mark the
following sections from William Blake:
o
Intro (112-116)
o
"All Religions Are One" (116)
o
"There Is No Natural Religion" (A and B
116-117
o
selections from Songs
of Innocence and of Experience
§
Songs of Innocence:
§
"Introduction"
(118)
§
"The Echoing
Green" (119-120)
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"The Lamb"
(120)
§
"The Little
Black Boy" (120-121)
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"The Chimney
Sweeper" (121-122)
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"The Divine
Image" (122)
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"Holy
Thursday" (122-123)
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"Nurse's
Song" (123)
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"Infant
Joy" (123-124)
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"On Another's
Sorrow" (124-125)
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Songs of Experience
§
"Introduction"
(125)
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"Earth's
Answer" (125-127)
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"The Clod &
the Pebble" (127)
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"Holy
Thursday" (127)
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"The Chimney
Sweeper" (128)
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"Nurse's
Song" (128)
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"The Sick
Rose" (128)
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"The Fly"
(129)
§
"The Tyger"
(129-130)
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"My Pretty Rose
Tree" (131)
§
"Ah
Sun-Flower" (131)
§
"The Garden of
Love" (131)
§
"London"
(132-133)
§
"The Human
Abstract" (133)
§
"Infant
Sorrow" (134)
§
"A Poison
Tree" (134)
§
"To Tirzah"
(134-135)
§
"A Divine
Image" (135)
Tuesday,
January 28, 2014
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Read and mark the
introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft and the selection from A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (208-293).
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Read and mark the
following selections from Wordsworth:
o
Intro (270-272)
o
From Lyrical Ballads
§
"Simon Lee"
(275-278)
§
" We Are
Seven"(278-279)
§
"Lines Written
in Early Spring" (280)
§
"Expostulation and
Reply" (280-281)
§
"The Tables
Turned" (281-282)
§
"The Thorn"
(282-288)
§
"Lines"
(aka Tintern Abbey; 288-292)
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Note: break the reading up over several days.
Thursday,
January 30, 2014
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Read and mark the
following selections from Wordsworth:
o
selection from Preface
to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems (292-304)
o
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" (334-335)
o
"My heart leaps up" (335)
o
"The Solitary Reaper" (342)
o
"Elegiac Stanzas" (343-344)
o
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September
3, 1802" (344-345)
o
"It is a beauteous evening" (345)
o
"To Toussaint l'Ouverture" (345-346)
o
"September 1st, 1802" (346)
o
"London, 1802" (346-347)
o
"The world is too much with us" (347)
o
"Surprised by joy" (347))
o
"Mutability" (348)
o
"Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways"
(348)
Tuesday,
February 4, 2014
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Read and mark the
following selections for Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
o
Intro (437-439)
o
"The Eolian Harp" (439-441)
o
"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
(441-443)
o
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459)
o
Christabel (462-477)
o
"The Pains of Sleep" (483-484)
o
"from Biographia
Literaria: [On the Imagination, or Esemplastic Power] (491)
o
from The Statesman's Manual: [The Satanic Hero] (504-505)
Thursday,
February 6, 2014
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Read and mark the
following selections from Lord Byron:
o
Intro (612-613)
o
"Written after Swimming from Sestos to
Abydos" (616-617)
o
"She Walks in Beauty" (617-618)
o
"Darkness" (618-619)
o
"So, we'll go no more a roving" (620)
o
The Vision of Judgment (726-742)
Tuesday,
February 11, 2014
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Read and mark all of Don Juan by Lord Byron (672-726)
Thursday,
February 13, 2014
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Read and mark the
following selections by Percy Bysshe Shelly:
o
Intro (748-751)
o
"Mutability" (751-752)
o
"To Wordsworth" (752)
o
"Mont Blanc" (770-773)
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"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (773-775)
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"Ozymandias" (776)
o
"England in 1819" (790)
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"Ode to the West Wind" (791-793)
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"To a Sky-Lark" (834-836)
o
"To Night" (836-837)
o
"To---[Music, when
soft voices die] (837)
Tuesday,
February 18, 2014
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Read and mark the
following selections by John Keats:
o
Intro (901-903)
o
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
(904)
o
"O or Ten Years" (904-906)
o
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (906)
o
"A Thing of Beauty" (907-908)
o
"When I Have Fears that I May Cease to
Be" (911)
o
"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad"
(923-924)
o
"Sonnet to Sleep" (925)
o
"Ode to Psyche" (925-927)
o
"Ode to a Nightingale" (927-929)
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"Ode to a Grecian Urn" (930-931)
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"Ode to Melancholy" (931-933)
o
letter to George and Thomas
Keats [Negative Capability] (967-968)
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Quote Assignment #1 due by noon. Download and use the template from the
Assignment's page. Submit to
Blackboard Dropbox.
Thursday,
February 20, 2014
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Read and mark the introduction to the Victorian Age
(1017-1043).
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Read and mark John Henry Cardinal Newman's The
Idea of a University (1076-1086).
Tuesday,
February 25, 2014
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Rough Draft of Paper #1 Due. Post a copy to the "Paper #1: Rough
Draft" forum and bring two copies to class. 20 points for a full paper with a
complete works cited. Drafts with
less than that will be prorated.
Thursday,
February 27, 2014
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Read and mark Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: Author's Preface and
Chapters I through the end of XI.
Tuesday, March
4, 2014
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NO CLASS: Final Draft of Paper #1 Due by noon. See checklist for details.
Thursday,
March 6, 2014
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Midterm Exam. Bring your exam card.
Tuesday, March
11, 2014
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No Class: Spring Break.
Thursday,
March 13, 2014
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No Class: Spring Break.
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Last day to withdraw without Dr. Halbert's signature.
Tuesday, March
18, 2014
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Finish reading and marking Jane Eyre.
Thursday,
March 20, 2014
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Read and mark the
following from Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
o
Intro (1156-1159)
o
"Mariana" (1159-1161)
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"The Lady of Shalott" (1161-1166)
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"The Lotos-Eaters" (1166-1170)
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"Ulysses" (1170-1172)
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"Locksley Hall" (1177-1183)
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"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
(1235-1236)
o
"Crossing the Bar" (1259)
Tuesday, March
25, 2014
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Read and mark the
following selections by John Stuart Mill:
o
Intro (1086-1088)
o
Selection from On Liberty (1095-1104)
o
The Subjection of Women (1104-1105)
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Read and mark the
following selections by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
o
Intro (1123-111124)
o
"The Cry of the Children" (11-24-1128)
o
"To George Sand (A Desire)" (1128)
o
"To George Sand (A Recognition) (1128-1129)
o
Sonnets 21, 22, 32, and 43 (1129-1130)
o
"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"
(1130-1137)
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Break this reading up
over several days.
Thursday,
March 27, 2014
·
Begin reading and marking The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Stevenson. (1675-1693: up to
"Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon")
Tuesday, April
1, 2014
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Finish reading and marking The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Thursday,
April 3, 2014
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Read and mark Charles
Darwin, from The Descent of Man (1569-1573)
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Read and mark Charles
Dickens, from Hard Times (1599)
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Read and mark
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold (1387-1388)
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Read and mark Bernard
Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1780-1829).
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Read and mark Joseph
Conrad's Intro (1947-1948) and Heart of Darkness (1951-2011).
Thursday,
April 10, 2014
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Read and mark
"To an Athlete Dying Young" (2013) by A. E. Housman.
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Read and mark the
following selections from William Butler Yeats:
o
Intro (2082-2085)
o
"Easter 1916" (2093-2095)
o
"The Second Coming" (2099)
o
"Sailing to Byzantium" (2102-2103)
o
"Among School Children" (2103-2105)
o
"Byzntium" (2107-2108)
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"Lapis Lazuli" (2109-2110)
o
"The Circus Animals' Desertion"
(2114-2115)
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Read and mark the
following selections from T.S. Eliot:
o
Intro (2521-2524)
o
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(2524-2527)
o
"The Hollow Men" (2543-2546)
o
"Journey of the Magi" (2546-2547)
Tuesday, April
15, 2014
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Read and mark Eliot's The
Waste Land (2529-2543)
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Read and mark the
following by W. H. Auden:
o
"Musee des Beau Arts" (2685)
o
"In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (2685-2687)
Thursday,
April 17, 2014
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NO CLASS: Dr. Halbert will be presenting a paper at a
national conference.
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Annotated Bibliography for Paper #2 Due by 11:59 PM. Post a copy in the Paper #2 Research
Bank (Copy and Paste & Attachment). Submit a copy to the Dropbox.
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Quote Assignment #2 Due by 11:59
PM. Download and use the template from the Assignment's page. Submit to Blackboard Dropbox.
Tuesday, April
22, 2014
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Draft of Paper #2 Due.
Thursday,
April 24, 2014
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Last Class.
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Read and mark the following from Virginia Woolf
o
Intro (2143-2144)
o
"The Mark on the Wall" (2145-2149)
o
from A Room of One's Own (2264-2272)
Friday, May 2, 2014 (Revised 4/27/2014)
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NO CLASS.
· Paper #2 Due by noon. See checklist for submission details.
Please note: becaue that because I moved the due date, I am expecting all papers to be no later than noon on Friday. Papers submitted after that time will not be accepted, and they need to be submitted to the dropbox, the discussion board, and Turnitin.com.
Tuesday, May
6, 2014
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Final Exam: 8AM to 10 AM in our normal classroom.
Wednesday, May
7, 2014
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NO CLASS.
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Major Paper Rewrite Due by 8AM. Email paper directly to Dr.
Halbert. Use "Major Paper
Rewrite" in email subject and attach an MS Word compatible file with the
revised paper that follows this naming convention:
LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_ENG#_P1REV.doc (or .docx or .rtf).