ENG10208: Composition and Literature (T)

ENG10208 :Composition and Literature (T)

Date Readings to be completed before class Writing Assigned (Due by date listed) Focus of class discussion

Read the Course Syllabus
Active Reading: 1315-1317
Introduction to literary terms: 1-14
Critical approaches to literature: 1409-1429
“Guide to Schools of Literary Criticism” (BB)
Complete the Syllabus Quiz on Blackboard by 6 pm, Tuesday, August 30.

On your List of Literary Terms, define:
Plot: (14-16)
Point of View: (26-29)
Character: (74-76)
Theme: (184-186, 198-200)
Tone: (181-183, 155-157)

Blog #1:(20 points) Use the literary approach you chose to study more deeply to write a short, 1-2 page, analysis to present your understanding of “The Yellow Wallpaper.” You should use only the short story for this analysis, not the critical articles.Try to present this analysis in a way that will help your classmates to understand the critical approach you chose for study. Your analysis must be posted on Blackboard before midnight, Friday, August 26. Course introduction:What is the point of reading and studying literature? Why are there literary classics, and what makes them great? Why am I here, and why should I think this is important?

– Literary Terms: Plot, Point of view, Character, Theme, Tone

Literary Criticism
-How do we read and analyze for this class? What are “Schools” of criticism? What is the difference between summary and analysis? How do we form “How/Why Questions” for use in analysis?
-Perkins, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 304
Choose 1:
-Fleenor, “Gender and Pathology in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’,” 318
OR
-Gilbert and Gubar, “Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement,” 320

*Essay 1 Modeling (Choose 1: Walker, “Everyday Use” (323) OR Hemingway, “A Clean-Well Lighted Place,” 158)
PowerPoint

“Develop a Literary Argument” 1315-1335
“Writing about Literature” 1293-1314
“Writing about a Story,” 1315-1337 (Paying particular attention to the section on Analysis and the section on Explication) Blog #:2 Discuss the critical article you read over “The Yellow Wallpaper.” What did this critical essay help to illuminate about the story? Do you agree with the conclusions the author/s draw about the story? Why or why not? (A complete response should be about 250-300 words long.) Post your response to Blackboard by midnight, Monday, August 29.

Complete the Week 2 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, September 6.
How would we diagram the plot in the story? What is the point of view of the story, and how does it affect us as readers? How do we learn about the characters in the story? What is the tone, and how do we determine that? What are the themes in the story, and how can we use literary criticism to discuss these themes?

Distribute Essay #1 Prompt

Prep for Essay #1
How do I respond to and use a critical essay on a work of literature in my own analysis?

Discussing critical perspectives of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Analysis
-How do I support a thesis statement in a literary analysis essay: From my own ideas? From research? Create search terms?
Gendered Perspectives:
-Hurston, “Sweat,” 385

-Atwood, “Happy Endings,” 346
Pay particular attention to how Atwell plays with plot in this story, and how it affects the theme of the story.

-O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” 429

Complete the Week 3 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, September 6.

Blog #3: Form a “how/why” question about any of the short stories in this unit (hopefully the one you plan to use for Essay 1). You may choose one of the stories you have read thus far, or read ahead in the unit. In 250-350 words, discuss what you feel the answer to the how/why question might be, using the text and your own knowledge to support your answer. Post your Blog to BB before midnight, Friday, September 9.

Blog #4: Find an article on the library database (not the free web), that relates to the short story you have chosen to write about for Essay #1. First, write the full MLA citation for the article. Then, describe the article and how you will use it to relate information in your essay in about 250 words. (The article might reference the story directly, or may give relevant information about the author, the setting, etc.) This should be posted to BB before midnight on Monday, September 12.
On your List of Literary Terms, define: Style: (156)

Be prepared to show evidence of Active Reading strategies used in today’s readings.
What is the relationship between plot and theme? Review of summary and analysis. What aspects of these stories lend themselves to a gendered analysis? Are there other perspectives that might be used to analyze these stories?

How do I recognize style in literature? How should I be mindful of my academic audience when choosing tone and style for my own writing?

Developing a literary argument
-How can I interpret my reactions to a work of literature? How can these factor into an analysis?

-Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergernon,” 192 What is the theme of this story? What is the author trying to convey about the concepts of diversity and equality?

-Updike, “A & P,” 17
Pay particular attention to the writing style in this story, and how the point of view affects the story.

-Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” 204
Pay particular attention to the objects in the story and be prepared to discuss how they function as symbols. Complete the Week 4 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, September 13.

Blog #5: (20 points) Post a draft of your Essay #1 to Blackboard by midnight, Friday, September 16. Choose a draft from one of your classmates (please do not double up), and post feedback to that classmate before midnight, Monday, September 19.

On your List of Literary Terms, define:
Symbol: (201-203)

Be prepared to show evidence of Active Reading strategies used in today’s readings.
How does the point of view affect this story? Is the narrator reliable/unreliable? What perspectives might be useful in analyzing this story?

Symbolism
-How do I identify a symbol in a story? How do stories use symbols to convey meaning?
-Alexie, “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” 338
What effect does the setting have in this story? How might it have been different if it had a different setting?

Genre: 271-275
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” 376
King, “The Man in the Black Suit” BB
On your List of Literary Terms, define:
Setting: 117-119

Complete the Week 5 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, September 20.

Your completed, final draft of Essay #1 is due by MIDNIGHT, Friday, September 23. Submit to me via Blackboard.
Setting
-How does setting affect the other elements of a story? What effect does setting have in a story?

MLA style, incorporating research, avoiding plagiarism

What’s the point of Genre fiction? How/Where is it used? Is it “good” fiction? What is a critic’s role in determining what is “good” fiction?

Introduction to Poetry, 452-465
Words, 493-497
Open Forms
Closed Form, 648
Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” BB
Owens, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” 486
Sandberg, “Grass,” 499
Ray/Prince, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (BB)
Hetfield/Ulrich, “One” BB
Turner, “The Hurt Locker” BB

Writing about a Poem, 1340-1359 (pay particular attention to the section on writing a compare/contrast essay)

Plath, “Metaphors,” 545
Gunn, “Baby Song,” (BB)
Blog #6: Choose one of the poets that we are reading in class, and read two of their poems that are not listed on the syllabus. (There are several poetry sites on the free web that will give you collections of poems for many of these authors.) Give the names of the poems you read, and in about 250 words, describe any features that seem to reoccur or be common to more than one poem. Post your blog to BB before midnight, Monday, September 26.

Complete the Week 6 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, September 27.

On your List of Literary Terms, define:
Denotation and Connotation: (513-516, 520)
Allusion: 498
Imagery 523-524, 534-535
Metaphor and Simile: (540-545)
Other Figures of Speech, 548-551, 554-555
Persona, 473-478
Symbol 683
Be prepared to show evidence of Active Reading strategies used in today’s readings.
Essay #2 distribution /Prepare for Essay #2
-What makes a good compare/contrast essay?

Poetry Introduction
-What is poetry? How do I make sense of poems?What are some strategies for reading poetry out loud? What is alliteration and assonance?

Diction, Connotation, Denotation
-What difference does word choice make?

Open and Closed forms, what they are, and why that matters.

Figures of Speech
-Look at metaphor, extended metaphors, simile, personification, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy and synecdoche

Imagery, Allusion, and Symbols
-What is an allusion? What do they convey about a poem? How do symbols convey meaning in poems? How do images enhance poems?

Essay 2 prompt

Discuss modelling for essay 2, and how students might choose to approach the assignment (thematic approach, works by the same author or written in the same historical period, or works written as a response to other authors)

Author: Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice,” 758; “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 768, “Mending Wall,” 754
Sound: 575-588
Rhythm: 590-603
Tone: 467-470, 488

Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning,” 533;
Parker, “Resume,” 636
Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death,” 728
Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night,” 615

Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” 468;
Thiel, “The Minefield,” 517;
Bishop, “Sestina,” 616
Williams, “This is Just to Say,” 494,
Response to “This is Just to Say” BB
Brooks, “The Bean Eaters,” BB;
Blog #7: In looking over the list of poems by theme, (located in your textbook on page 1474-1479) choose two poems and briefly compare how they deal with the subject. Focus on only one image or aspect of the subject in this brief comparison. Post your blog to BB midnight, Friday, September 30.

Blog #8: Of the poems that you have read for class (or look ahead to future readings), choose three that you liked best (or, if there were not three poems you liked, the three that stuck with you the most). Name the poems and authors, and in about 250 words, describe why you like them, what you find compelling, or what you have questions about. Post your blog to BB before midnight, Monday, October 3.

Complete the Week 7 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, October 4.

On your List of Literary Terms, define:
Alliteration and Assonance (578)

Be prepared to show evidence of Active Reading strategies used in today’s readings. Persona: -Who is the speaker of a poem? How do we discover how the author feels about a subject?

Rhythm/Sound
-How do rhythm, stresses, pauses and sound affect poetry and its meanings? What is the relationship between songs and poetry? What is scanning, a meter, a foot, and why should I care?
Houseman, “When I Was One and Twenty,” 600,
Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” 835,
Browning, “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways,”792
Gailey, “Job Requirement: A Supervillain’s Advice,” BB (Persona)
Plath, “Daddy,” 827;
Trethewey, “White Lies,” 473
Nazario y Colón “What can Brown Do for You?” BB
Hughes, “Harlem [Dream Deferred],” 742;
“I, Too”
Writing about a Poem, 1381—1386 Blog #9: Review the assignment sheet for Essay #2, and create a how/why question that works for essay #2, and try to answer that question in about 250-350 words. Post your blog to BB before midnight, Monday, October 10
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Blog #10: (20 Points) Submit a rough draft of your Essay #2 to Blackboard by midnight, Friday, October 14. Choose a draft from one of your classmates (please do not double up), and post feedback to that classmate before midnight, Monday, October 17.

Complete the Week 8 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, October 11.
Distribute Research Essay Prompt

Voice/Tone
How do poets explore their personal identity in poems? How should we approach discussing these works?
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress,” 821;
Hope, “His Coy Mistress To Mr. Marvell,” BB;
Eliot, “The Waste Land,” BB; (Do not attempt to analyze this poem too deeply. Skim it, but pay attention to the tone, style and form of the poem.)
Cope, “The Waste Land: Five Limericks,” BB;
Davis, “Sweet Reader, Flann’ld and Tull’d,” BB;
Hudnall, “Ah Poet,” BB Complete the Week 9 Comprehension Quiz by 6pm, Tuesday, October 18.

Your completed, final draft of Essay #2 is due by MIDNIGHT, Friday, October 21. Submit to me via the appropriate link on Blackboard (in the Essay 2 folder under “Assignments”.)

Blog #11: (20 points) Review the research essay assignment sheet. Answer the list of research essay proposal questions (located on the Blog on BB) in complete sentences. You do not need to write the questions out in your post, just number your answers. You must answer all 7 questions and post your proposal by midnight, Monday, October 24.

Be prepared to show evidence of Active Reading strategies used in today’s readings. Parody
-What is a parody? How can it be used to study poetry?