ENGL 2122/Spring 2022/Schedule

Introduction	Requirements	Policies	Schedule	Instructor

This schedule represents the ideal outline for our study this semester. Yet, like all best-laid plans, we may not be able to keep up with our agenda. Please be flexible and try to look and read ahead whenever possible.

We will do our best to stick by this schedule, but I will inform you verbally, via an email, and/or a literal change to the schedule below whenever there is a deviation. Getting these updates is solely your responsibility. Therefore, this schedule is tentative and subject to change contingent upon the needs of the students and the professor, and dictated by time and other constraints which may affect the course. For face-to-face classes, this schedule reflects only an overview of the assigned reading and other major course assignments. It may not indicate specific class session assignments or activities. Specific in-class assignments may not be reflected on the schedule.

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Each week of this class has its own unit or lesson corresponding to a literary movement. Each week is divided into daily work that contain readings (with the occasional reading quiz) and writing. Each week concludes with a test on the materials covered. All assignments during the unit are due on the last Tuesday at 11:59 pm—the day check-ins are scheduled.

Schedule Overview

• 3/9 Class begins / Introduction
• 3/9–3/29 — Romanticism
• (3/21–3/27 — Spring Break)
• 3/30–4/5 — Victorianism
• (4/6 — Midterm grades due)
• (4/8 — Withdrawal date)
• 4/6–5/3 — The Twentieth Century
  • 4/6–4/12 — Through WWI
  • 4/13–4/19 — Modernism
  • 4/20–4/27 — Postmodernism / Contemporary
• 5/3 — Short Lit Crit Response due
• 5/3 — Class ends

Daily Work

As this is a session course and time is limited, here’s how I recommend your proceed: work every day. Put aside at least an hour on every class day, and

1. Read the primary texts (these are assigned below in individual class days) taking notes as you do, maybe highlighting passages that speak to you in some way;
2. Take the reading quiz if there is one assigned;
3. Read some secondary texts: i.e., do some research on at least one of the texts, being sure you understand the major themes, symbols, etc.;
4. Take the short-answer quiz if there is one assigned;
5. Respond on r/LitWiki (see Repond) (click the to take you directly to a r/LitWiki post) on what you think about the text(s), supporting it with evidence from both the primary and secondary texts. I give some suggestions below for potential responses, but these are really up to you—you needn’t respond to every single text, but it is a good idea. You should write a minimum of two posts per lesson (or week).
6. Check-In at the end of each lesson on D2L. The last day of each unit is set aside for these evaluations.

The idea here is that you engage with the course materials in a consistent way. Not all of it will speak to you, and that’s fine. However, you must actively engage the materials and show that engagement in your weekly work.

Schedule

Date	Assignment
3/9	Class Begins Read the syllabus completely, including policies; note any questions you might have. Read How to Do Well in My Class and Writing in the Liberal Arts. Take Introduction Quiz about the syllabus on D2L ➭ . Read Reddit Discussions, create a Reddit account, and join r/LitWiki. Respond to r/LitWiki » Welcome to British Literature II (S22). After completing the above, upload a screenshot of your Reddit profile page (get to your profile by clicking your user name in the upper-right in Reddit) on D2L—this way I know your username (so I can evaluate your work) and see that you have done the assignment. This is crucial as it will indicate that you are attending; failure to do this will result in your being reported as a no-show and dropped from the class. If this happens, you will not be readmitted.
The Romantic Period
3/10	Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30. Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L ➭ . Respond on r/LitWiki » Romanticism (This link is thew same as the after the title above).
3/11	William Blake From Songs of Innocence: “Introduction” “The Lamb” “The Chimney Sweeper” “The Blossom” “The Divine Image” From Songs of Experience: “Introduction” “Earth’s Answer” “The Tyger” “The Chimney Sweeper” “The Sick Rose” “The Human Abstract” “London” Respond on r/LitWiki » William Blake (General). Or, if you want to respond to a particular poem, locate its thread, or if one has not already been created, feel free to start a new one.; e.g. Blake: “The Sick Rose” as the title of the thread.
3/14	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication on the Rights of Women Take Reading Quizzes Respond on r/LitWiki
3/15	Ashford, Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” “I wandered lonely as a cloud” “I travelled among unknown men” “The World Is too Much with Us” Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “Kubla Khan” Respond on r/LitWiki.
3/16	George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” “Darkness” “So We’ll No More Go A-Roving” Respond on r/LitWiki.
3/17	Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” “To a Sky-Lark” “Ode to the West Wind” Respond on r/LitWiki.
3/18	Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Cry of the Children” “How do I love thee?” Dorothy Wordsworth “Grasmere—A Fragment” Take Reading Quiz on D2L ➭ Respond on r/LitWiki.
3/28	Joseph Severn, Portrait of John Keats John Keats “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” “When I have fears that I may cease to be” “Ode to a Nightingale” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Respond on r/LitWiki.
3/29	Take the Romanticism Check-In on D2L ➭
The Victorian Period
3/30	Introduction to Victorian Literature Editor’s Introduction, pp. 527–551 Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L ➭ Respond on r/LitWiki: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Victorian Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
3/31	Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” “The Lotos-Eaters” “Ulysses” Gerard Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur” “The Windhover”
4/1	Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” “Porphyria’s Lover” Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” Christina Rossetti “Goblin Market”
4/4	Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Take Reading Quiz on D2L ➭
4/5	Take the Victorian Period Check-In on D2L ➭
The Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries
4/6	Introduction to the Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1015–1042 Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L ➭ Respond on r/LitWiki: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the the turn of the century’s trends in literature. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in works of this period?
4/7	Rudyard Kipling “The Man Who Would Be King”
4/8	E. M. Forster “The Machine Stops” “Tolerance” James Joyce “Araby” Take Reading Quiz on D2L ➭
4/11	Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” Siegfried Sassoon ‘They’” “The Rear Guard” “The General” “Glory of Women” Wilfred Owen “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” “Dulce Et Decorum Est” “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”
4/12	Take the Edwardian/WWI Check-In on D2L ➭
Modernism
4/13	Hulewicz, Leda and the Swan (1928) William Butler Yeats “Leda and the Swan” “The Second Coming” “Sailing to Byzantium”
4/14	T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
4/15	W. H. Auden “Musée des Beaux Arts” Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
4/18	Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”
4/19	Take the Modernism Check-In on D2L ➭
World War II / Postmodernism
4/20	Philip Larkin “The Mower” “Talking in Bed” Seamus Heany “Digging” “Clearances” “Punishment” “The Skunk”
4/21	Nadine Gordimer “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”
4/22	Katherine Mansfield “The Garden Party” Take Reading Quiz
4/25	Margaret Atwood “Death by Landscape”
4/26	Salman Rushdie “The Prophet’s Hair” Take Reading Quiz
4/27	Take the Postmodernism Check-In on D2L ➭
5/4	Short Lit Crit Response due

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