Survey of English Literature II (EH 204) Dr. Gates
May 2009
My office: 206 Stone Center
Office Phone: extension 5548
May 2009 office hours: best is after this class, MTWT at 12:30-1:30
EH 204 Section 001 (Schedule 30512): Class meets MTWT 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in SC 234
Required Text:
Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. Vol. 2. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2006.3 credit hours. Course prerequisite: Successful completion of EH 102.
I. Course description: Survey of English Literature. Representative English writers in the major periods of their nation's cultural development. 204: Romantics to modern writers.
II. Objectives (SDE rules applicable to this course are relevant if you are an Education major with Language Arts or Teaching of English grades 7-12 as your emphasis. The rules will be listed in bold. Disregard the bracketed numbers if not an Education major):
A. To present examples of English literature from the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods, including works by female writers. [(1)(a)4]
B. To suggest several theories and methods of literary analysis. [(1)(a)4]
C. To exercise students' techniques of critical thinking, questioning, and problem solving.
D. To present several literary types, including the short story, novel, poetry, drama, and the essay. [(1)(a)4]
E. To provide the student with the historical, cultural, and philosophical backgrounds that influenced the words studied.
F. To continue to work with the significant literary terms, as well as explore new methods in evaluating canonical literature.
G. To use several methods of probing traditional canonical literature, including film adaptations, on-line resources, and, where applicable, a broad consideration of the elegy and the elegy in prose fiction.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:
Any individual who qualifies for reasonable accommodations under The Americans With Disabilities Act or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 should contact the instructor immediately.Course Conduct:
All students are expected to attend class fully prepared with appropriate materials and all devices which make noise turned to the off position (e.g., cellular phones, pagers, personal stereos, etc.). Any student behavior deemed disruptive by the professor will result in expulsion of the student from the classroom, with an absence for the day and possible disciplinary action. Also consult the JSU Student Handbook for Academic Honesty Policies.III. Evaluation:
There will be a mixture of exams (essay and short answer), quizzes, and reports.50 % AVERAGE of Writing Assignments. SDE rule tested: [(1) (a)4 lit. analysis]
1. In-class writing in response to films 20 %
2. Major essays on Tuesdays May 9. 50% (20, 20, 10: the week of your lowest grade is weighted less.)
3 Daily class grade: a possible quiz, often a discussion or attentance grade on days when only reading, not a report or writing is required. 10%
4.20% FINAL EXAM. mainly short answer, with the potential for a brief essay component. No one is exempt from taking the exam, no matter what your circumstances.
IV. Attendance: The Department-wide Attendance Policy in the English Department is as follows: Cuts are allowed up to one-quarter (25%) of the class meeting times. Over-cutting will result in an F grade. For classes meeting this semester, you are allowed four and have over cut when you take five absences. This begins from the first day of the semester whether or not you add the class after the first class meeting. Tardiness (or leaving early) of more than ten minutes is strongly discouraged. If the Professor feels you are disrupting class decorum by your tardiness or by leaving early, you will be informed. Patterns of missing parts of class will likely result in partial cuts, but not without my notifying you. Whenever in doubt, make sure to check on your attendance status. Absence on the day of an important grade does not excuse you from the work. Make up work must be scheduled and may result in alternate essay assignments.
Cutting on the day of an announced film is equally discouraged. Even though you think you might be able to locate the film and see it out of class, I generally do not give permission for viewing of films that are viewed as part of the course work (don't depend on AV to help you).Syllabus: SDE (State Department of Education) rules apply to most activities; specific components rules apply where stated.
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Day 1. Wednesday, May 6.
Intro Course, Watch Mrs Warren's Profession, 1746; discuss issues.
Assign for Thursday: Mary Wollstonecraft, all printed from Vindication of the Rights of Women. 170 [(1)(a)4: women authors]; Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 102, as a mythic representation of issues raised by Wollstonecraft. Optional: Perspectives on Wollstonecraft/rights of women (read selections as announced).
Day 2. Thursday, May 7.
Last day to add. . Discussion of Wollstonecraft
Intro to William Blake Archive and to English Literature on line.
Introduction to Wordsworths, Coleridge and Romantic Poets.
Practice with close reading of selected texts:
"Lines... Tintern Abbey" 258. Brief comment on Burns.
For next class: Be responsible for the basic characteristics of Romanticism, in the anthology's introduction, pages 1-15, and for Wordsworth poems as assigned, Make sure to read the editors' introduction and WW's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 262
Day 3. Monday, May 11
Continue W. Wordsworth, focus on Ode: Intimations,306, and Lines/Tintern 258, Michael, 292, Resolution and Independence, 302
read about and in The Prelude 322; Dorothy Wordsworth, 389, Intro, Poems and Journals [(1) (a) 4: women authors]
S. T. Coleridge, bio 424, Kubla Khan, 446
and optional, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 430. See later date for use of Mariner Coleridge continued next week. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The Mortal Immortal 961.
Dejection: An Ode, 466 See also Ted Hughes, "The Wind," 2594
Despair, doubt, and recovery.
*[ Selected reading of William Blake 76, as announced, primarily Songs of Innocence, Experience 81). ]
Day 4. Tuesday, May 12. Re-examine W. Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations and its companion poems, Shelley's Ode to the West Wind 772
Write Essays. 20%
Day 5. Wednesday, May 13. To a Sky-Lark, 817, Keats (Ode to a Nightingale, 903, Ode on a Grecian Urn, 905) Coleridge, The Eolian Harp, 426. Others as announced. Nature as a recuperative force. Imagination: From Biographia Literaria: chapters 4, 13, 14, begins on page 474. The elegy in English. Shelley's Adonais, 822 (elegy for Keats), with references to Arnold's Thyrsis, not in text. Introduce Tennyson. Read Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H. 1138
Day 6, Thursday May 14. Continue working on In Memoriam. Review criteria for film report.
Day 7. Monday, May 18. James Joyce: The Dead, 2172. Film and discssion of differences of film and text.
Day 8. Tuesday, May 19. 20% Weekly essays. Intro. to Conrad's Heart of Darkness, 1890; V. Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 2092. Optional: A Mark on the Wall, 2082
Day 9. Wednesday May 20. Mutability: various poems. Shelley's Ozymandias, 768; Mutability, 744; STC's "Kubla Kahn"; 446 Dorothy Wordsworth's Floating Island, not in text; others as announced; and Theatre of the Absurd, introduced. .
Conrad: Heart of Darkness. Read full text by this class Also, revisit Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 430
Day 10. Thursday May 21. Revisit women's issues. . [(1) (a) 4: women authors]
E. B. Browning
Read those sonnets from the Portuguese 1084that are printed and from Aurora Leigh 1092 as announced, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, 1085
Christina Rossetti, In an Artist's Studio 1463
Uphill 1465 and Goblin Market 1466, George Eliot: make sure to read biography 1334, and Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft, 1342
Florence Nightingale Cassandra; 1598
Woolf's feminism and the structure of A Room of One's Own. 2092
Monday, May 25. No class Monday, Memorial Day
Day 11. Tuesday, May 26. Review last week's reading; Preview upcoming assignments.
Final set of essays.
Day 12. Wednesday May 27. Faith and doubt, Science and religion. Read for today: Matthew Arnold biography, and "Dover Beach" 1368
Hopkins:1513: read all. Class discussion will focus on: The Windhover 1518, God's Grandeur 1516, Carrion Comfort 1521, No Worst, There is None 1522, I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day 1522
Robert Browning bio 1248
"My Last Duchess" 1255 and "Caliban upon Setebos" 1296. Revisit Rossetti's Goblin Market. Suggested Readings on Darwin, War Poetry, time permitting.
Day 13. Thursday May 28.
Wilde Importance of Being Earnest, 1686 bio; 1698, play textDay 15. Monday June 1. Pinter, The Dumb Waiter 2601
Day 16. Tuesday June 2 Catch-up and review. Go over film responses.
Revisit Tintern Abbey, other works. Prepare for final. Makeups after class.
Final exam is Wednesday, June 3.
Notice: Please be aware that the Department of English has access to
powerful software that scans and detects unauthorized documents that are
submitted to your instructor. Use of such documents constitutes an
admission of academic dishonesty.
About electronic cheating: All forms of personal electronic communication devices must be out of sight and in the power-off mode for class and testing periods. During a testing period in class, any use of a personal electronic communication device, without the prior consent of the instructor, constitutes prima-facie evidence of academic dishonesty with no right of grade appeal. If the instructor observes the device, the presumption is that cheating has occurred and a grade of "F" will be assigned to that exam, quiz, etc.
Other Notes: Currently, I participate in an on-going Teacher Inquiry support group, which uses classroom-based research to analyze and improve teaching techniques and strives to publish results. For this reason, I may ask for permission to publish selections from student comments and written work. All student writing will be referenced with either pseudonyms or as anonymous comments. My working strategy for a focus in this class encompasses a broad and an all-inclusive strategy that is tentatively entitled "Collect Something Every Class." I may use this to focus the particular challenges of reading and analyzing English Literature, or I may incorporate the strategies I use into a study that includes other courses, for instance a focus on the need to recognize and respond to students' learning styles or on the backgrounds, comfort level and training lessons for general citation work. I have also used class experiences to teach "Attribute All Sources" as a way to prepare students to fully understand the importance of documentation style. Some of my interests also lie in the use of the computer environment to make accessible electronic texts and supplements to the works in the anthology. A survey of on-line resources will be incorporated for all students. Even though this course is designated a computer-assisted class, there will be several class assignments where you will have the option to work in the lab using internet resources (especially with Blake, Tennyson, Conrad, film responses). If you are computer-phobic or do not feel you want to work with on-line resources, alternate projects and response media can be arranged.
TERMS THAT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK WITH
To e-mail Dr. Gates: jgates@jsu.edu.
[Some of these are less relevant to English Lit studies, but this list is a good review of terms you mastered in EH 102.]