Schedule of Events 202-95

Shared Resident and Internet Schedule of Events for 202
English Literature II
Dr. Edward E. Eller
Summer 2006

The Schedule is the center of the class. Check it often.

Every text linked below is required reading. All links in study centers and within on-line texts in our class web site are required reading.

Unit One

Week
Assignments
Announcements

Day 1
Monday

June 5

Email Eller

Send email to whole class using Blackboard.ulm.edu Email to All Users. Introduce yourself to the class. Ask any questions about the class you may have after reviewing Syllabus and Schedule.

Begin reading in Class:

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience [Emphasis is on poems that have links attached to them]

Day 2
Tuesday
June 6

Romantic insanity or penetrating insight?

Read:

Finish Songs of Innocence and Experience [Emphasis is on poems that have links attached to them]

William Blake: The Book of Thel at the William Blake Archive [Reading Guide Not Yet Available]
William Blake: Visions of the Daughters of Albion [Reading Guide integrated into poem]

Study Center: Blake's Visions and Romantic Liberation

Study Center: William Blake: His Life and Times

Deadline Tuesday: Open-book quizzes will be posted at Blackboard every Monday. You have till Tuesday night at 11 p.m. each week to take quizzes. Don't forget to click Submit button at the bottom of the quiz.

Day 3

Wednesday

June 7

Experience and Nature vs. books and science

Read:

Study Center: Enclosure and Its Influence on Romantic Writers

Study Center: Romantic Revolution

Study Center: Introduction to Lyrical Ballads

Study Center: Romantics and Nature

From Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads [1798 Verison] --

Wordsworth--

Excerpts from the Preface to 2nd Edition of Lyrical Ballads

Expostulation and Reply [Click Go to Table of Contents]
The Tables Turned
The Convict
The Dungeon

Coleridge--Read the 1800 version by clicking here

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere

Wordsworth--

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Day 4
Thursday
June 8

Sex, drugs, and dead people

Read:

Study Center: Gothic Romance

Coleridge: Christabel and Kubla Kahn

Unit Two

Day 5
Monday
June 12

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein "Letters," and Chapters 1-VIII

Day 6
Tuesday
June 13

Read:

Study Center: Science and Gender in Frankenstein

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein "Letters," and Chapters 1-VIII

Day 7
Wednesday
June 14

Raising children right: They're just little monsters anyway

Read:

Study Center: The Romantic Sublime

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Chapters VIII-XVIII

Day 8
Thursday
June 15

When the monster's out of the box, what can you do?

Read:

Study Center: Frankenstein's Geography

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Chapters IXX-end

Week 3 Unit Three

Day 9
Monday
June 19

Read:

Robert Browning: The Dramatic Monologue
                 Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister

                 My Last Duchess
                 Porphyria's Lover
                 Johannes Agricola in Meditation

                 Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came

The education of women in the 1800s

Study Center: Victorian Values

Sarah Stickney Ellis
~~From E.B. Browning's Aurora Leigh, Book I~~ [This reading cancelled]

First writing due on Monday, June 19th.

Day 10
Tuesday
June 20

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version. Chapters 1-7 [approx 90 pages]

Day 11
Wednesday
June 21

The New Woman

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version. Chapters 8-13 [approx 90 pages]

Day 12
Thursday
June 22

The bad woman?

Study Center:

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version Chapter 14-19 [approx 80 pages]

Week 4

Day 13
Monday
June 26

Taking care of business

Study Center: Dracula's Geography

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version Chapter 20-end [approx 120 pages]

Day 14
Tuesday
June 27

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Writing #2: Due June 27

Day 15
Wednesday
June 28

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Day 16
Thursday
June 29

Study Center: How Woolf Thinks

Read: Woolf:

"A Society,"

"Kew Garden,"

and "The Mark on the Wall."

Find an on-line version by clicking here.

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Syllabus

Unit One
Week	Assignments	Announcements
Day 1 Monday June 5	Email Eller Send email to whole class using Blackboard.ulm.edu Email to All Users. Introduce yourself to the class. Ask any questions about the class you may have after reviewing Syllabus and Schedule. Begin reading in Class: William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience [Emphasis is on poems that have links attached to them]
Day 2 Tuesday June 6	Romantic insanity or penetrating insight? Read: Finish Songs of Innocence and Experience [Emphasis is on poems that have links attached to them] William Blake: The Book of Thel at the William Blake Archive [Reading Guide Not Yet Available] William Blake: Visions of the Daughters of Albion [Reading Guide integrated into poem] Study Center: Blake's Visions and Romantic Liberation Study Center: William Blake: His Life and Times Deadline Tuesday: Open-book quizzes will be posted at Blackboard every Monday. You have till Tuesday night at 11 p.m. each week to take quizzes. Don't forget to click Submit button at the bottom of the quiz.
Day 3 Wednesday June 7	Experience and Nature vs. books and science Read: Study Center: Enclosure and Its Influence on Romantic Writers Study Center: Romantic Revolution Study Center: Introduction to Lyrical Ballads Study Center: Romantics and Nature From Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads [1798 Verison] -- Wordsworth-- Excerpts from the Preface to 2nd Edition of Lyrical Ballads Expostulation and Reply [Click Go to Table of Contents] The Tables Turned The Convict The Dungeon Coleridge--Read the 1800 version by clicking here The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere Wordsworth-- Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Day 4 Thursday June 8	Sex, drugs, and dead people Read: Study Center: Gothic Romance Coleridge: Christabel and Kubla Kahn
Unit Two
Day 5 Monday June 12	Mary Shelley: Frankenstein "Letters," and Chapters 1-VIII
Day 6 Tuesday June 13	Read: Study Center: Science and Gender in Frankenstein Mary Shelley: Frankenstein "Letters," and Chapters 1-VIII
Day 7 Wednesday June 14	Raising children right: They're just little monsters anyway Read: Study Center: The Romantic Sublime Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Chapters VIII-XVIII
Day 8 Thursday June 15	When the monster's out of the box, what can you do? Read: Study Center: Frankenstein's Geography Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Chapters IXX-end
Week 3 Unit Three
Day 9 Monday June 19	Read: Robert Browning: The Dramatic Monologue Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister My Last Duchess Porphyria's Lover Johannes Agricola in Meditation Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came The education of women in the 1800s Study Center: Victorian Values Sarah Stickney Ellis ~~From E.B. Browning's Aurora Leigh, Book I~~ [This reading cancelled]	First writing due on Monday, June 19th.
Day 10 Tuesday June 20	Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version. Chapters 1-7 [approx 90 pages]
Day 11 Wednesday June 21	The New Woman Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version. Chapters 8-13 [approx 90 pages]
Day 12 Thursday June 22	The bad woman? Study Center: Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version Chapter 14-19 [approx 80 pages]
	Week 4
Day 13 Monday June 26	Taking care of business Study Center: Dracula's Geography Bram Stoker's Dracula. Click here to see an online version Chapter 20-end [approx 120 pages]
Day 14 Tuesday June 27	Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness	Writing #2: Due June 27
Day 15 Wednesday June 28	Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Day 16 Thursday June 29	Study Center: How Woolf Thinks Read: Woolf: "A Society," "Kew Garden," and "The Mark on the Wall." Find an on-line version by clicking here.
	Grades Posted in Blackboard on