Course Calendar, Spring 2018
| Class meets: W/F 8:10-10:00 AM in 2-13 Office: 47-35G, tel. 756-2636 (note: I am only in my office for office hours -- email is best for communication) Office Hours: M 8:10-10 AM, T/Th 12:30-1:30 PM, and by appt. |
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Dr. Debora B. Schwartz
e-mail: dschwart@calpoly.edu Main English Office: 756-2597 |
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| Day 1 | 1) Course format and
expectations. Read completely through the information on the ENGL 204 Online Syllabus (Class Home Page) and familiarize yourself with the class Calendar. 2) Introduction to the Renaissance World View: Politics and God. In-class Background Reading:
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| Day 2 | Topic: Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus Required Background Readings:
Primary Readings:
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Topic: Politics of the Reformation and Renaissance Humanism. Required Background Readings:
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| Day 2 | Topic: Vernacular Poetry: Theory and
Practice (Sidney's Defense of Poesy
and Elizabethan
Lyrics I: The Pastoral Tradition)
Required Background Readings (contexts for Sidney's Defense of Poesy):
[LOOKING AHEAD: be aware that erotic love poetry akin to Marlowe's, Ralegh's and Campion's will be written well into the 17th century: see e.g. Donne's "The Bait"; Herrick's "To the Virgins"; Suckling's "Song" and "Out Upon It"; and Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", all of which we will be reading later this term.] |
Ungraded ME 1 on Dr. Faustus
or on any prose work(s) read weeks 1-2, due to
Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Sunday
following week 2; TWO ungraded, paragraph-long CRs due to
Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Monday
of week 3.
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| Day 1 |
Wrap-up:
Sidney's Defense of Poetry and Pastoral
Tradition poems assigned week two New Topic 1:
Other Elizabethan Poetry: Women's Voices
NEW TOPIC 2: Sonnets and
Sonnet Cycles
LOOKING AHEAD: your ungraded ME 2, a Sonnet Analysis of ONE assigned poem by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, or Wroth, OTHER THAN SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29, is due to your Polylearn Discussion Group by midnight on Sunday after week 3; TWO ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due to your Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Monday of week 4. Do not select a sonnet by Wyatt or Surrey or one of the poems previously assigned under the topics of Pastoral Poetry or Women's Voices. |
| Day 2 | WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (bring with you in hard
copy to today's class): write up, as a single
paragraph, a prose paraphrase of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
("When in disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes," NA
1174). We will use your prose paraphrases in class
as the basis of a sample sonnet analysis in preparation
for your ME 2, due this week-end. Sonnets, Continued. Background Readings: review background readings for sonnets listed for previous class meeting as assigned on Study Guide. Review online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. As necessary, consult Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices Overview. Primary Readings: Sonnets and Sonnet Cycles: CONTINUE discussion of previously assigned poems
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| Out-of-Class Writing: your ungraded ME 2,
a Sonnet Analysis of ONE assigned sonnet by Sidney,
Spenser, Shakespeare, or Wroth, OTHER THAN
SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29, is due to your Polylearn
Discussion Group by midnight on Sunday after week
3; TWO ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due to your
Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Monday
of week 4. NOTE 1: Do not select Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, a sonnet by Wyatt or Surrey, or a poem other than a sonnet assigned for our previous unit on Pastoral Poetry and Women's Voices. NOTE 2: Do not write an analysis of an issue or theme that pulls from a number of different poems. Close reading of ONE highly structured poem is the skill this ME asks you to practice.
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| Day 1 | As needed: complete discussion of
sonnets assigned last week. NEW TOPID: Epic I: Spenser's Faerie Queene Required Background Readings:
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| Day 2 | Book I of The Faerie Queene, cont.: cantos 4 and 5 and 7 and 8 (NA 817-43 and 855-80) | |
LOOKING AHEAD: Your ungraded ME 3, on
Spenser's Faerie Queene, will be due
to your Polylearn Discussion Group by midnight on Sunday
after week 5; TWO ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due
to Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Monday
of week 6.
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| Day 1 | Book I of The Faerie Queene, conclusion: cantos 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 (NA 880-934) | |
| Day 2 | 1st hour or as needed: Complete Discussion of Spenser's
Faerie Queene If time permits: effective in-class essay techniques and pointers (preparation for Midterm exam) |
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Your ungraded ME 3, on Spenser's Faerie
Queene, is due to your Polylearn Discussion
Group by midnight on Sunday after week 5; TWO
ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due to Polylearn
Discussion Board by midnight on Monday of week
6.
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| Day 1 | MIDTERM EXAM | NOTE: The MIDTERM EXAM will cover all assigned readings from wks. 1-5 | |
| Day 2 |
William Shakespeare's The Tempest
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| Day 1 | William Shakespeare's The
Tempest, conclusion
Required Background Readings:
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| Day 2 | Early
Seventeenth-Century Lyrics I: John Donne and
Metaphysical Poetry.
Required Background Readings:
Taylor: "Prologue" to Preparatory Meditations; "Meditation 22 (First Series)" ("When Thy Bright Beams, my Lord, do strike mine Eye"); "Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children"; "Huswifery" (headnote and poems are on e-reserve readings; be sure to PRINT THEM OUT and bring them with you to class). Note: you are NOT responsible for Meditations 8 and 42 and "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold," found on the e-reserve pages adjacent to the assigned readings. |
Your ungraded ME 4, on The Tempest, is due
to Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Sunday after
week 7; TWO ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due to Polylearn
Discussion Board by midnight on Monday of week 8.
| Day 1 | As needed, continue discussion of Metaphysical Poets assigned
for last class meeting.
New Topic: Ben Jonson and the "Sons of Ben" / "Cavalier" poets Required Background Readings:
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| Day 2 | 1) As needed, continue discussion of "Cavalier"
Poets / "Sons of Ben" assigned for
last class meeting.
2) Women's Voices II: Poetry and Politics in the 17th Century Required Background Readingss:
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| Day 1 | 1) Women's
Voices
II: Poetry and Politics in the 17th Century,
cont.: As needed, complete discussion of remaining
Cavalier Poets / "Sons of Ben" and Women's
Voices assigned for last class meetings.
2) As time permits, we may begin discussing the Backgrounds to Milton's Paradise Lost. REQUIRED BACKGROUND READINGS:
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| Day 2 | As
needed: Complete discussion of Women's
Voices assigned for last class
meeting.
New Topic: Epic II: Milton and Paradise Lost. NOTE: Please make an effort to have read through ALL assigned Paradise Lost selections prior to class. Lecture and discussion at both class meetings this week will range among this set of selections., not necessarily in the order in which they are listed below and on the study guide. REQUIRED BACKGROUND READINGS:
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Your ungraded ME 5, on a 17th-century poet, is
due to your Polylearn Discussion Group by midnight on Sunday
after week 9; TWO ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due to
Polylearn Discussion Board by midnight on Monday
of week 10.
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| Day 1 |
Epic II: Milton and Paradise Lost, cont. NOTE: Please make an effort to have read through ALL assigned Paradise Lost selections prior to class meeting. Lecture and discussion at both class meetings this week will range among this set of selections., not necessarily in the order in which they are listed below and on the study guide. REVIEW REQUIRED BACKGROUND READINGS:
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Your ungraded ME 6, on Milton's Paradise
Lost, is due to your Polylearn Discussion
Group by midnight on Sunday after week 10; TWO
ungraded, paragraph-long CRs are due to Polylearn
Discussion Board by midnight on Monday of exam
week.
Electronically submitted final essays MUST:
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