title schedule
This is an overall schedule to help you plan your semester. Each week's tasks will be posted in Blackboard.

Note several things:

  • Weeks run from Wednesday through Tuesday except where noted. This will allow weekend work, which seems effective for many online students. However, do not plan to do all your work on the weekends.
  • You will need to check in and post comments at least twice a week, once early (Wednesday-Saturday) and once later (Sunday-Tuesday).
  • There could be small changes in the schedule. Ample notice will be provided in Blackboard if that should happen.
  • Paper drafts are optional but recommended. Note the due dates.

Week beginning Readings and other assignments

9/2 (Tues.) Orientation and first assignment. Explore Blackboard and this website. Then you have several required tasks and one that is optional.

Required tasks
Deadline: Tuesday midnight (EST), 9/9.

  • Read the Course Information pages, especially the syllabus, carefully. Get your textbooks.
  • Complete the first assignment (attached to the Syllabus), which has several parts.
  • Follow any other instructions that appear in Blackboard.

You have plenty of time to complete these tasks. If you want full points, please be attentive to doing them well and on time.
Note: At the moment, I only have the page numbers for the 7th edition (the purple book), which should be the one most of you have. But the 8th edition is OK, too. If you have the 8th edition (green), please use the index at the back of the book until I can update the page numbers. Thanks!
9/10 (Weds.) Short story: plot and setting web pages
"The Cask of Amontillado," 539
"Popular Mechanics," 248
9/17 Short story: characterization web pages
"Love in L.A.," 256
"Saving Sourdi," 110
9/24 Short story: symbol and theme web pages
"Clothes," 214
"Revelation," 376
10/1 Short story: writing style, point of view web pages
"55 Miles," 544
"How to Tell a True War Story," 473
"Girl," 517
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/
fiction/Girl/audio.asp
10/8

10/13: Columbus Day off

 Poetry: Sound and rhythm web pages
"Player Piano," 707
"We Real Cool," 636 and
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/
prmMID/15433
"Blackberry Eating," 711
"Root Cellar," 648
10/15

Poetry: Rhyme and form web pages
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death," 824
"Harlem," 895
"My Papa’s Waltz," 745
"Those Winter Sundays," 565
"Sex Without Love," 633

Paper #1 optional drafts due by midnight Tuesday, 10/21.
10/22 Poetry: Diction and imagery web pages
"The Fish," 574, and
http://archive.salon.com/audio/poetry/
2001/11/27/bishop/index.html

EXAM
The exam must be taken between Friday, 10/24 and Tuesday, 10/28.
10/29 Poetry: Figures of speech web pages, overall effect
"The Road Not Taken," 851 and
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/
prmMID/15717
"Alzheimer's," 779
"The Secretary Chant," 564
"Marks," 679
"February," 674
11/5

11/10:
Veterans Day off
Modern drama web pages and
The Glass Menagerie, 1326

PAPER #1 due by Tuesday midnight, 11/11.
11/12 Web pages on Shakespeare and Othello, plus Act I

Read Othello, Act I, beginning on page 1112.
11/19 Web pages for Act II, Act III, and Act IV.
Othello, Acts II-IV.
11/26 Thanksgiving break through Sunday, 11/23.
11/24-25
Othello web page, Act V
Othello, Act V
12/3 Theme Book web page

Optional first drafts of Paper #2 due by Tuesday night, December 9. Note that this leaves very little time for revision; submitting drafts sooner is an excellent idea!
12/10 Wrap-up, course evaluations.

FINAL EXAM
The exam must be taken between Friday, 12/12 and Tuesday, 12/16.

PAPER #2 final draft due by Wednesday midnight (EST), 12/17.
First drafts may be submitted at any time during the semester.