Course evaluation Novel Poetry Play Requirements & Grading Policy  Spring, 1999Kate Liu,

Date	Text and Period	Genre, Topic and Techniques
wk 1. 3/2, 3/4	Victorian Dramatic Monologue Browning * "My Last Duchess"  (p. 536) Browning * "Porphyria's Lover"  (handout) Tennyson  *"Ulysses"  (p. 662) C. Rossetti  "After Death" (handout) Charlotte Mew * "The Farmer's Bride" (handout)	Poetry Love, Life and Death
wk 2.  3/9,	Romantic Poetry Keats *  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (p. 522) Byron * "She Walks in Beauty" (handout) Shelley * "Ozymandias"	Art , Love and Life,
wk 2-3  3/11, 3/16	18th Century Poems Gray *"Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes)  (handout) Swift *  "A Description of Morning" (handout) * "On Stella's Birthday" Pope  "Essay on Criticism" (ll. 337-393)  "Essay on Man" (Epistile 1, [10] & Epistle 2 [1]) * Making Homepage lesson begins in your Word Processing class.	18th-century: poetry of sensibility, heroic  couplet;  "proper words in proper places"
wk 3-4  3/18, 3/23   back to top	17th Century Poetry Donne (1572-1631) *"Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"   Donne * "The Flea" (handout) Herbert(1593-1633) "Easter Wings"  (handout) Herrick (1591-1674) "Upon Julia's Clothes" Marvell (1621-1678) *"To His Coy Mistress"  (p.592)	metaphysical poetry; metaphysical conceit;  love--courtly and religious
wk4-5. 3/25;  3/30 (1st hour)	16th Century Poetry Shakespeare (1564-1616) * "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (handout)  *"That Time of Year" (p.650) excerpts from his plays:  * the courting sonnet from Romeo and Juliet*;  a soliloquy from Macbeth	sonnet, love & life  ¡@
wk 5 3/30 (2nd hr),  4/1	Anonymous Medieval Poems and Ballads   lyrics * "Western Wind" (p.511) * "Now Goes the Sun Under Wood"  (handout) ballads "Sir Patrick Spence" (p. 641) * "Barbara Allen" (handout)  3/30 group homepage report (1) --Poetry* The Relationships among Human, Art and Nature in Four Poems	¡@
wk 6 7. 4/6, 4/8	Spring Break  back to top	¡@
wk 7 4/13,	Mid-Term (1)	¡@Novel
wk 7  4/15,	Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: Introd. and Chaps 1-5
wk 8. 4/20, 4/22	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 6-12	¡@
wk 9 4/27, 4/29	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 13-23	¡@
wk 10  5/4, 5/6	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 24-37 group homepage report (2) --Novel THE MERYTON & NETHERFIELD BALL SCENES	¡@
wk 11  5/11, 5/13	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 37-47 group homepage report (4) --Novel DARCY & ELIZABETH    VS.       BINGLEY & JANE	¡@
wk 12 5/18, 5/20	Pride and Prejudice: Chaps 48 -61 5/20 group homepage report (3) --Novel The First Two Marriage Proposals	¡@
wk 13. 5/25,	Pride and Prejudice: Conclusion
wk 13 5/27	¡@Mid-Term (2) back to top	¡@
,wk14 6/1¡@	The Death of a Salesman	Drama
wk 14-15 6/3, 6/8 ¡@	The Death of a Salesman:ACT I 6/3  Expressionism in The Death of a Salesman group homepage report (5)	¡@
wk 15-16, 6/10, 6/15,	The Death of a Salesman: ACT II 6/10What Makes Willy Fail?  group homepage report (6)
wk 16.  6/17 back to top	The Death of a Salesman:Requiem &  Conclusion
6/22	Final Exam

Requirements and Grading Policy:
For regular requirements, please see the syllabus of Fall, 1998.
In addition, this semester, we will have you do homepage on an author, a genre or an issue.  Please see instructions.

GRADING POLICY  (subject to change):
                Journal and class participation: 20%
                Homepage: 10%
                2 Midterms-each 20%
               Final: 30%

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