This calendar is dynamic: it will be updated during the course of the term if necessary. If you have any question about what is due for a specific day, check here: even if I make a mistake and say something different than this in class, this calendar is always right. Here is the University's overall calendar.
Work "To Read" and "To Write" is to be finished for class on the day it is assigned. Readings are often designated by author's last name for brevity. All line or page numbers refer to the 8th Edition of the Norton Anthology, except for Paradise Lost, which we will read in the Teskey edition. Read the Introductions when you read the texts!
Aug. 28th
Introductions
To Read: "Introduction"; Selections from Bede (including "Caedmon's Hymn"); Denise Levertov, "Caedmon" (handout); Beowulf ll. 1-85
To Write:
To Read: "Introduction"; Selections from Bede (including "Caedmon's Hymn"); Denise Levertov, "Caedmon" (handout); Beowulf ll. 1-85
To Write:
Sept. 4th
Old English: Violence
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1-1069; "The Wanderer"; "The Dream of the Rood"
To Write: Response #1 due; here are
suggested prompts.
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1-1069; "The Wanderer"; "The Dream of the Rood"
To Write: Response #1 due; here are
suggested prompts.Sept. 11th
Old English: Men and Women
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1070-2199; "The Wife's Lament"; "Judith"
To Write: Response #2 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1070-2199; "The Wife's Lament"; "Judith"
To Write: Response #2 due; here are
suggested prompts.Sept. 18th
Old English: Orality
To Read: Beowulf ll. 2200-3182; Jared Diamond, "Vengeance is Ours." Here is a summary of the feud between the Geats and the Swedes.
To Write: Quiz #1
To Read: Beowulf ll. 2200-3182; Jared Diamond,
"Vengeance is Ours." Here is a summary of the feud between the Geats and the Swedes. To Write: Quiz #1
Sept. 25th
Old to Middle English: Textuality, History, and Romance
To Read: King Alfred, selections from "Preface" to the Pastoral Care; selections from "Legendary Histories of Britain" (117-128); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
To Write: Analysis #1 Due
To Read: King Alfred, selections from "Preface" to the Pastoral Care; selections from "Legendary Histories of Britain" (117-128); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
To Write: Analysis #1 Due
Oct. 2nd
Middle English: Pilgrimage
To Read: Chaucer, "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales; "Introduction" to the "Parson's Tale"; selections from Piers Plowman (just 331-340); selections from The Book of Margery Kempe (just 383, 388-92)
To Write: Response #3 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: Chaucer, "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales; "Introduction" to the "Parson's Tale"; selections from Piers Plowman (just 331-340); selections from The Book of Margery Kempe (just 383, 388-92)
To Write: Response #3 due; here are
suggested prompts.Oct 4th - 7th
No Classes
Fall Break and Professional Development Day
Fall Break and Professional Development Day
Oct. 9th
Middle English: Religious Culture
To Read: Selections from Piers Plowman (331-367); selections from Incarnation and Crucifixion lyrics; selections from Julian of Norwich, Book of Showings; selections from The Book of Margery Kempe; and the York Play of the Crucifixion
To Write:
To Read: Selections from Piers Plowman (331-367); selections from Incarnation and Crucifixion lyrics; selections from Julian of Norwich, Book of Showings; selections from The Book of Margery Kempe; and the York Play of the Crucifixion
To Write:
Oct. 16th
Middle English: Romance
To Read: Marie de France, "Lanval"; Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale." Here is an outline of her Prologue.
To Write:
Quiz #2
To Read: Marie de France, "Lanval"; Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale." Here is
an outline of her Prologue.To Write:
Quiz #2Oct 20th
Analysis #2 due by 12:00 noon in my office. Oct. 23rd
Medieval to Early Modern, part 1: Drama before Shakespeare
To Read: Everyman (463 ff.); Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (1023 ff.)
To Write:
To Read: Everyman (463 ff.); Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (1023 ff.)
To Write:
Oct. 30th
Medieval to Early Modern, part 2: Fantasy and New Worlds
To Read: Voyage of St. Brendan (handout); selections from Mandeville's Travels (handout); More, Utopia, Introduction, and Book 2; selections from Raleigh (923-26); selections from Frobisher, Drake, Amadas and Barlowe, and Hariot (927-43); Drayton, "Ode. To the Virginian Voyage"; Donne, "Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Marvell, "Bermudas"; Montaigne, "Of the Cannibals" (handout); Strachey, "A True Repertory of the Wrack" (handout); Jourdain, "A Discovery of the Bermudas" (handout); and get a copy of Shakespeare's The Tempest and read Acts 1 and 2 (a copy of the play will be on reserve).
To Write:Paper #1 due (and, don't forget to submit it to Blackboard as well)
To Read: Voyage of St. Brendan (handout); selections from Mandeville's Travels (handout); More, Utopia, Introduction, and Book 2; selections from Raleigh (923-26); selections from Frobisher, Drake, Amadas and Barlowe, and Hariot (927-43); Drayton, "Ode. To the Virginian Voyage"; Donne, "Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Marvell, "Bermudas"; Montaigne, "Of the Cannibals" (handout); Strachey, "A True Repertory of the Wrack" (handout); Jourdain, "A Discovery of the Bermudas" (handout); and get a copy of Shakespeare's The Tempest and read Acts 1 and 2 (a copy of the play will be on reserve).
To Write:
Paper #1 due (and, don't forget to submit it to Blackboard as well)Fri., Oct. 31st
Weds., Nov. 5th
Last Day to W
Wednesday the 5th is the last day you can W. I have no problem letting anyone do so at any time.
Wednesday the 5th is the last day you can W. I have no problem letting anyone do so at any time.
Nov. 6th
Early Modern: Men, Women, the Good Life, and the Lyric
To Read: Wyatt, "Whoso list to hunt," the translation of Petrarch, Rima 190, "They flee from me"; Howard, "The soote season," the translation of Rima 310, "Love, that doth reign. . .," "Alas, so all things now . . .," the translation of Rima 164; Spenser, Amoretti nos. 1, 37, 54, 64, 75; Ralegh, "What is our life?," "Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay"; Sidney, Astrophil and Stella nos. 1, 2, 7, 9, 34; Shakespeare, sonnets 18, 105, 116, 129, 130; Donne, "The Flea," "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization," "A Valediction: Of Weeping," "The Bait," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy," "The Relic," "A Lecture upon the Shadow," "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Jonson, "To Penshurst," "Song: to Celia," "Still to be Neat"; Lanyer, "A Description of Cookham"; tracts by Swetnam and Speght (1544-1549); Herrick, "The Vine," "Dreams," "Delight in Disorder," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," "Upon Appleton House"; Carew, “To Saxham"
To Write: Quiz #3; Analysis #3 due
To Read: Wyatt, "Whoso list to hunt," the translation of Petrarch, Rima 190, "They flee from me"; Howard, "The soote season," the translation of Rima 310, "Love, that doth reign. . .," "Alas, so all things now . . .," the translation of Rima 164; Spenser, Amoretti nos. 1, 37, 54, 64, 75; Ralegh, "What is our life?," "Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay"; Sidney, Astrophil and Stella nos. 1, 2, 7, 9, 34; Shakespeare, sonnets 18, 105, 116, 129, 130; Donne, "The Flea," "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization," "A Valediction: Of Weeping," "The Bait," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy," "The Relic," "A Lecture upon the Shadow," "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Jonson, "To Penshurst," "Song: to Celia," "Still to be Neat"; Lanyer, "A Description of Cookham"; tracts by Swetnam and Speght (1544-1549); Herrick, "The Vine," "Dreams," "Delight in Disorder," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," "Upon Appleton House"; Carew, “To Saxham"
To Write: Quiz #3; Analysis #3 due
Nov. 13th
Early Modern: Religious Devotion
To Read: Robert Southwell, "The Burning Babe" (on page 640); John Donne, "Satire 3," the Holy Sonnets (compare to Shakespeare, sonnet no. 71), "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward," and the selections from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; George Herbert, "Easter Wings," "Church Monuments," "The Pilgrimage," "The Collar," "The Pulley"; Henry Vaughan, "The World"; Richard Crashaw, "On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord," "Luke 11.[27], Blessed be the Paps"; John Milton, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; AND begin Paradise Lost, Book 1 (read at least up to line 241)
To Write: Response #5 due; here are suggested prompts; Extra Credit assignment due, if you like (write a sonnet!).
To Read: Robert Southwell, "The Burning Babe" (on page 640); John Donne, "Satire 3," the Holy Sonnets (compare to Shakespeare, sonnet no. 71), "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward," and the selections from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; George Herbert, "Easter Wings," "Church Monuments," "The Pilgrimage," "The Collar," "The Pulley"; Henry Vaughan, "The World"; Richard Crashaw, "On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord," "Luke 11.[27], Blessed be the Paps"; John Milton, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; AND begin Paradise Lost, Book 1 (read at least up to line 241)
To Write: Response #5 due; here are
suggested prompts; Extra Credit assignment due, if you like (write a sonnet!). Nov. 20th
Early Modern: John Milton
To Read: Milton, "On Shakespeare"; selections from Aeropagitica; "When I Consider how My Light is Spent"; and Paradise Lost, Books 1-3
To Write: Response #6 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: Milton, "On Shakespeare"; selections from Aeropagitica; "When I Consider how My Light is Spent"; and Paradise Lost, Books 1-3
To Write: Response #6 due; here are
suggested prompts.Nov. 27th
No Class
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 4th
Milton, cont'd; and Course Review
To Read: Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 4, 5 (up to line 560), and 9
To Write: Quiz #4; Paper #2 due. Hand it in, and submit it via Blackboard.
To Read: Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 4, 5 (up to line 560), and 9
To Write: Quiz #4; Paper #2 due. Hand it in, and submit it via Blackboard.
Exam
Week
Week
Final Exam: The Final will be held on Thursday, December 11, from 6-8 pm in our classroom.