Syllabus-- Spring, 2000

Date	Text and Period #-- text to report	Genre, Topic & Techniques
2/22 2/24	Victorian Dramatic Monologue Victorian Period Browning “My Last Duchess” (883) # Students' journal (Kate's class)' (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Tennyson “Ulysses” (857) # Students' journal (Ray's class)'(1) # Students' journal (Kate's class)(1) (2) * Browning “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (645)	Poetry Love, Life and Death
2/29 3/02	Romantic Poetry Romantic period Shelley “Ozymandias” (791) # Students' journal (Ray's class) (1) # Students' journal (Kate's class) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (960) # Students' journal (Ray 's class)(1) # Students' journal (Kate's class) (1) (2) (3) * Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" # Students' journal (Ray's class) (1) # Students' journal (Kate's class)' (1)	Lyric, Italian Sonnet, Ode Art, Love, and Life
3/07 3/09	18^th Century Poems 18th century literary history # Pope "An Essay on Criticism" (XeroX) #Students' journal (Ray's class) (1) # Pope " An Essay on Man" Pope "Sound and Sense”(744) Swift "A Description of a City Shower”(815)	"Proper words in proper places," heroic couplets *Group Reports 1, 2*
3/14 3/16	17^th Century Poetry 17th century literary history # Donne (1572-1631) "Valediction: Forbidden Mourning" (947) # Students' journal (Ray's class) (1) # Students' journal (Kate's class) (1) (2) (3) * "The Flea” (664) Herrick (1591-1674) " Upon Julia's Clothes” (810) * "To the Virgins…”(756) # Marvel (1621-1678) “To His Coy Mistress”(674) # Students' journal (Ray's class) (1)	Metaphysical Poetry, conceit Love: courtly & religious *Group Reports 3, 4*
3/21 3/23	16^th Century Poetry 16th century literay history Shakespeare (1564-1616) # "Let me not to the marriage…” (618) * sample analysis # Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (847) # Ralegh “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” (849) Back to Top	Shakespearean Sonnet, Pastoral Poems Various ways to see love Group Reports 5, 6, 7
3/28 3/30	Medieval Drama Fair
4/04 4/06	--Spring Break— Back to Top
4/11 4/13	Medieval Lyric & Ballads Medieval literary history Anonymous "Western Wind"(809) # Anonymous "Sir Patrick Spence" (770)* *Anonymous "Barbara Allen" # Students' journal (Kate's class) (1) (2) # Cf. Keats "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (handout) Back to Top	Anonymous lyric & folk ballad cf. Literary ballad Group Reports 8, 9
4/18	Mid-term Examination- Poetry
4/20 4/25 4/27 5/02	Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard: Introduction Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard:Act I Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard: Act II Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard: Act III-1, Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard: Act III-2, Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard: Act IV Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard: Conclusion Back to Top	Annual Play
5/04 5/09	Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: Intro. & 1-5 Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 6-12	Novel Group Homepage
5/11 5/16	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 13-23
5/18 5/23	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 24-37 The Meryton & Netherfield Ball Scenes
5/25 5/30	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 38-47 Darcy & Elizabeth vs Bingley & Jane
6/01 6/06 6/08	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 48-61 The 1^st two marriage proposals --Dragon Boat Festival-
6/13	Pride and Prejudice: Conclusion
6/15	--Final Examination—Back to Top