Schedule

Week 1
day 1

Introduction to course: F2F

Syllabus quiz
Protocol quiz
Bio-graph
Diagnostic essay

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Week 2
Day 1

Day 2

The Romantics
Wordsworth, “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads;“Ode on Intimations of Immortality,”
Coleridge, “Biographia Literaria,” “Rime of the Ancient Mariner;

Reflection Paper*
Weekly quiz**

*Reflection papers are due by 10 pm, every Saturday.
**weekly quizzes are due by 10pm, every Saturday.

Week 3
Day 1
Day 2

Shelley, ““Ode to West Wind;” 
Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale;” “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

Weekly quiz
Reflection Paper

Week 4
Day 1
Day 2

In class writing

Byron, Don Juan

Weekly quiz Reflection Paper
Discussion poster
Discussion critic

Group Discussion posting starts. Postings due by midnight, Sunday.

Week 5
Day 1

Day 2

Dorothy Wordsworth, “Thoughts on my sickbed;” Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the rights of woman,”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, vol.2

Weekly quiz
Reflection Paper

Discussion poster and
Discussion critic 

Week 6
Day 1

Day 2

Victorian Age
 Tennyson, “Ulysses” and “Tithonus;” Arnold,  “Dover Beach,”
Browning, “My Last Duchess;”  “Porphyria’s Lover;”

Exam#1; Reflection paper

Discussion poster
Discussion critic

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Week 7
Day 1

Day 2

Elizabeth Browning, Sonnets & from “Aurora Leigh”

Christian Rossetti, from “Goblin Market”

Weekly quiz
Reflection Paper
Discussion poster
Discussion critic

Paper 1 due

Week 8
Day 1

Day 2

Darwin, “Descent of Man;” Mill, “The Subjection of Women.”

Sarah Ellis, “From the Women of England..” Coventry Patmore, “The Angel in the House;”

Weekly quiz Reflection Paper

Discussion post:
Discussion critic

Discussion posting session ends

Week 9
Day 1
Day 2

Reviewing for Exam #2
In-class writing

Exam #2
Reflection Paper

3/4
Select your group project topic and submit group member’s names

Week 10

Spring break

Week 11
Day 1
Day 2

20th Century
Eliot, “Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Yeats, “The Second Coming;”

Weekly quiz reflection paper

Week 12
Day 1

Day 2

In-class writing
Conrad,  Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness contd.

Weekly quiz reflection paper

Group Project on major novelists
Group Project on Jane Austen Group Project on Wollstonecraft

Week 13
Day 1
Day 2

Walcott, “A Far Cry from Africa;”
Achebe, “From an Image of Africa”

Weekly quiz reflection paper
Group project

Group Project on Pre-Raphaelites
Group Project on Horror Fiction 
Group Project on the Woman Question
Group Project on Oscar Wilde

Week 14
Day 1

Day 2

Woolf, “Professions for women;” “Modern Fiction.”
In-class writing

Weekly quiz
Group project:

Group Project on 20th century Drama
Group Project  on 20th century Women Writers ;
Group Project on major Irish writers  of 20th century

Week 15
Day 1
Day 2

Reviewing 20th century
TBA

Exam#3

Exam due by 10 pm Sunday

Paper 2 due

Week 16

Last Class
Final exam