| Ray Schulte
Office: SF 122 Phone: 2903-1111, x 3713 Email: engl1006@fujens.fju.edu.tw |
Classroom: (T) AV 204 / (TH) LB301
T 3:40-4:30 / TH 1:40 - 3:30 Spring 1999 |
| Attendance | Texts | Reading Journals | Grading Policy | Plagiarism |
| Welcome back to our study of American and
British literature! This semester we will have the same basic course
policies and objectives as last semester. Once again you will be
expected to regularly contribute to classroom discussions, make oral presentations,
write weekly reading journals, complete three exams, and do various other
assignments related to our readings. Plus you will also be
expected to create and present to the class a literature homepage based
on one of the texts we read this semester.
Again this semester our class will be web-assisted
so that we can go beyond the walls and boundaries of the traditional classroom.
By using the web, you will have access to many helpful sites about literature
on the
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| As you know already, I expect you to attend every class session and to come prepared. Attendance will be taken each class throughout the term. If you miss more than three classes, your final grade for the course will be lowered. Please remember: if you are not present, you cannot participate, and participation is necessary in this class. I expect you to come on time and ready to work. Coming late to class will lower your final grade. |
| Our basic textbook for this class is the eleventh edition
of An Introduction to Literature, edited
by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto, and William E. Cain. We will also be reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. To help you understand terms and ideas related to literature, you will also need a copy of The Harper Handbook to Literature (second edition). Besides these texts, we will also have additional reading materials available either on our class website or on handouts. |
| Each week you will be expected to write a journal in which you respond to the reading assignment for that week. The journals are your chance to give your personal response and understanding of the literature we read. You may want to present your thoughts about the text, questions that you have, and the results of visiting relevant web sites (at least ONE entry). You are required to write at least three journal entries online. If you respond online to other students' online journals, you will receive extra credit. I will not accept late journals. |
| 1.) Reading Journals, homepage, and participation (30%)
2.) Poetry exam (20%) 3.) Novel exam (20%) 4.) Final exam (30%) |
| Presenting other people's work as though it were your own is a serious mistake. Plagiarism--whether intentional or unintentional--is not acceptable and will severely lower your grade. It is essential that you do your own work for this class. |
| March 2 Introductions; reading poems
4
Victorian
Monologues
9 Victorian Monologues 11
Romantic
Poetry
16
Eighteenth Century Poems
23
Seventeenth Century Poetry
30
Sixteenth
Century Poetry: Shakespeare
6 No Class: Spring Break 8 No Class: Spring Break 13 Poetry Exam (it will take two hours) 15 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 20
Pride and Prejudice
27
Pride and Prejudice; first
group homepage
May 4 Pride and Prejudice;
second
group homepage
11
Pride and Prejudice; third
group homepage
18 Pride and Prejudice conclusion; fourth group homepage 20 Pride and Prejudice review 25 Pride and Prejudice exam (it will take two hours) 27
Death
of a Salesman Act I
June 1 Death of a Salesman
Act II; forth
group homepage
8
Death of a Salesman ; fifth
group homepage
15
Death of a Salesman ; sixth
group homepage
22
Final Exam
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