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is designed to add flexibility to a student's schedule, since many students work, have off campus commitments, families, and so on. The student's schedule for completing course work within the deadlines is at the student's discretion.
The course interaction will be via email, Bulletin Board, chat room, phone, and individual conferences in my office.
This course may not be for everyone. If you are not comfortable with the format, please change your section as soon as possible.
Deadlines for work are very firm: only University approved excuses will be accepted for delayed submissions.
English 010 is designed to strengthen writing, critical and analytical skills, specifically through the study of literary works. This course will examine the three literary genres and the language requirements and possibilities of each; present and apply critical terms, techniques and approaches; and provide opportunity for analyzing and interpreting literary pieces in journal responses averaging 250 words and class participation on the bulletin board. ("Me too!" bulletin board responses do not count toward the weekly total.).
Since literature is a wholly verbal experience care should be taken in analysis. Literary verbal experiences are carefully shaped and focused by the author to produce an effect in the reader and, consequently, the reader may miss the craftsmanship as a result of the effect. The critic should, therefore, always read a piece twice at the minimum. With quality literature the more it is read the more the critic can find of interest and of use for analysis and interpretation.
In addition, because of the strictly verbal experience of literature, the critic must take care to ascertain that the author and he have similar understandings of what the verbiage expresses, both denotatively and connotatively. This may require some adjustment on the critic's part to allow for different backgrounds (geographically, socially, temporally, etc.). The critic cannot expect the concrete experiences of an Eighteenth century poet, for example, to exactly match his own. As the milieu changes so also does the language change.
Yet, much of what can be known about other people and other times comes from this adjusting. Measuring what is different and by how much can reveal to the critic in a more personal and visceral way just how similar or different the world today is to that of yesterday. Literature is a discovery of the transient and the durable from the past and the present.
Due 9/7
Fiction, Plot, The Short Story--[Updike]'s [A&P]
Point of View--Boyle's Greasy Lake (p. 111)
Due 9/14
Character--Oates's[Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (p. 587)] ;
Setting--Chopin's The Storm
Tone and Style--Faulkner's [Barn Burning]
Due 9/21
Irony--Joyce's Araby (p. 517)
Theme--Walker's Everyday Use (p. 71)
Symbol-- Steinbecks' The Chrysanthemums
Due 9/28
9/26--Test on Fiction
9/28--Poetry Reading A Poem;
Tone-- [Roethke's My Papa's Waltz], [Hughes' Homecoming]
Due 10/5
The Person in the Poem--Williams' The Red Wheelbarrow, Browning's My Last Duchess (p. 661)
Irony--[Auden's The Unknown Citizen], Sellers' In the Counselor's Waiting Room;
Literal Meaning-- [Williams' This Is Just To Say]
Due 10/12
Word Choice & Word Order-- [Cummings' anyone lived in a pretty how town]
Saying & Suggesting-- [Frost's Fire and Ice]
Imagery--[Toomer's The Reapers]
Due 10/19
Figures of Speech: Metaphor& Simile-- [Plath's Metaphors]
Other Figures--[ Atwood's You Fit Into Me; ]
Figures Exercise under "Quizzes and Tests" on the class home page
Due 10/26
Sound--di Pasquale's Rain (p. 812);
Alliteration & Assonance--Lewis' Girl Help
The Sound exercise under "Quizzes and Tests" on the class home page
Due 11/2
Rime, [Belloc's Hippopotamus], [Yeats' Leda and the Swan (p. 821)]
Rhythm:Stresses & Pauses-- [Brooks' We Real Cool] , [Parker's Resume]
Meter Exercise under "Quizzes and Tests" on the class home page
Due 11/9
Meter; Symbol-- [Stevens' The Anecdote of the Jar (p. 915) and 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (p. 887)
The Context exercise under Quizzes and Surveys on the class home page
The week of 11/16
Review exercises.
Criticism: On Poetry-- Gioia
11/16 Test on Poetry (Online)
Due 11/21
Drama; Criticism on Drama, Aristotle; How to Read a Play
Sophocles' Antigone
Due 11/30
Synge's Riders to the Sea
Due 12/7
Albee's The Sandbox
All work must submitted by the date due. You are solely responsible for meeting this deadline. Only campus-wide University system problems will be accepted as an excuse. The email date and time stamp will stand as the final authority on timeliness. Submit early.
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