Week One
- 1/4
Activity: Course introduction - 1/6
Due: Complete online student survey by 10:00 a.m.
Schedule
Jump to week: 1 :: 2 :: 3 :: 4 :: 5 :: 6 :: 7 :: 8 :: 9 :: 10 :: 11
Week Two
- 1/9
Activity: Discuss Mrs. Dalloway
Reading: Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 3-47 (stop at section break); Hussey, “Preface” and “Chronology” (ix-xxxiv); Scott, “Introduction” (xxxv-lxviii); Gilbert and Gubar, "Tradition and the Female Talent" (ER)
Due: Posting on Mrs. Dalloway due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas - 1/11
Activity: Discuss Mrs. Dalloway; annotation assignment distributed
Reading: Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 47-100 (stop at 4th line)
Week Three
- 1/16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - 1/18
Campus snow closure
Due: Posting on Mrs. Dalloway due 10:00 a.m. via Canvas - 1/20
Due: Complete Mrs. Dalloway small-group discussion activity by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Four
- 1/23
Activity: Discuss Mrs. Dalloway
Reading: Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 100-190 - 1/25
Activity: Discuss modernist poetry
Reading: Modernist poet biographies (ER); Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (ER); Moore, “No Swan So Fine” and “Poetry” (ER); Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (ER); Williams, “Spring and All I” (ER)
Due: Posting on modernist poems due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas - 1/27
Due: Annotation of Mrs. Dalloway due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Five
- 1/30
Activity: Discuss Cane
Reading: Toomer, Cane, “Karintha” to “Beehive”; Gates, “Introduction”; Baker, “Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance” (ER) - 2/1
Medical emergency; class canceled
Due: Posting on Cane due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Six
- 2/6
Activity: Discuss Cane with guest instructor Habiba Ibrahim
Reading: Toomer, Cane, “Storm Ending” to “Kabnis” and assigned critical article
- 2/8
Activity: Discuss Ceremony
Reading: Silko, Ceremony, “Preface” and 1-75
Due: Posting on Ceremony due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Seven
- 2/13
Activity: Discuss Ceremony; annotation assignment distributed
Reading: Silko, Ceremony, 75-188 (stop at top-page break); McHale, “From Modernist to Postmodernist Fiction” (ER)
Due: Posting on Ceremony due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas - 2/15
Activity: Discuss Ceremony
Reading: Silko, Ceremony, 188-262 - 2/16
Due : Passage analysis midterm due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Eight
- 2/20
Presidents Day Holiday - 2/22
Activity: Discuss The Things They Carried
Reading: O’Brien, The Things They Carried, “The Things They Carried” through “Stockings” (1-112)
Due: Posting
on The Things They Carried due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Nine
- 2/27
Activity: Discuss The Things They Carried
Reading: O’Brien, The Things They Carried, “Church” through “Field Trip” (113-179)
Due: Posting on The Things They Carried due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas - 2/29
Activity: Discuss The Things They Carried
Reading: O’Brien, The Things They Carried, “The Ghost Soldiers” through “The Lives of the Dead” (180-256) - 3/2
Due: Annotation of Ceremony due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Ten
- 3/5
Activity: Discuss Asterios Polyp
Reading: Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp, start of book to end of section that begins with image of a sleeping cat
Due: Posting on Asterios Polyp due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas - 3/7
Activity: Discuss Asterios Polyp; take-home final distributed; course evaluation
Reading: Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp, section that begins with image of a postmodern building to end of book
Due: Posting on potential final exam questions due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
Week Eleven
- 3/14
Due: Take-Home Final due by 10:00 a.m. via Canvas
