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Literary studies

English 205 Online Class Schedule

Instructor: Ann Warren
Office: NEA 297
Phone: (310) 233-4250
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: annw708@earthlink.net

Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Week 2 Course Schedule: Week 3 Course Schedule: Week 4 Course Schedule: Week 5
Course Schedule: Week 6 Course Schedule: Week 7 Course Schedule: Week 8 Discussion Questions Writing Assignments

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1 June 20 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to English Literature
The Role of Poetry in Early Cultures
Writing About Literature
Go to Lecture 1
Go to Discussion Questions 1		 Reading: Reading: Bede, “Caedmon’s Hymn”
“The Dream of the Rood”
“The Wanderer”
“The Wife’s Lament”
Week 1 June 21
Old English Literature

Go to Lecture 2
No Discussion Questions due today 		Reading: Beowulf (This can be found in the Resources section on ETUDES)
(If you would prefer to listen, there’s a YouTube version here: Beowulf)
Week 1 June 22
Old English Literature
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Beowulf (This can be found in the Resources section on ETUDES)
(If you would prefer to listen, there’s a YouTube version here: Beowulf)
Week 1 June 23
Old English Literature
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Beowulf (This can be found in the Resources section on ETUDES)
(If you would prefer to listen, there’s a YouTube version here: Beowulf)
Week 2 June 27
The Middle Ages
Go to Lecture 3
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 2 June 28
The Middle Ages
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 3		 Reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 2 June 29
The Middle Ages
Go to Lecture 4
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales:
“The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale”
NOTE: In the left column, click the button that says “Modern and middle english side by side”
Week 2 June 30
The Middle Ages
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 4		 Reading: Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales:
“The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale”
NOTE: In the left column, click the button that says “Modern and middle english side by side”
Week 3 July 5
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 5
No Discussion Questions due today
quill penPaper 1 due		 Reading: Kempe, excerpts from The Book of Margery Kempe:

  • The Birth of Her First Child and Her Vision
  • Her Pride and Attempts to Start a Business
  • Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement

Malory, excerpts from Morte Darthur:

  • Read a summary of the full story at Morte Darthur Summary
  • Read chapters XX and XXI of Morte Darthur
Week 3 July 6
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 6
No Discussion Questions due today 		Reading: More, Utopia:
Read only the following sections:

  • Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
  • Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
  • Of the Religions of the Utopians
Week 3 July 7
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 5		 Reading: More, Utopia:
Read only the following sections:

  • Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
  • Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
  • Of the Religions of the Utopians
Week 4 July 11
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 7
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Week 4 July 12
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Week 4 July 13
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 6		 Reading: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Week 4 July 14
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 8
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Shakespeare, King Lear
Week 5 July 18
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Shakespeare, King Lear
Week 5 July 19
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 7		 Reading: Shakespeare, King Lear
Week 5 July 20
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 9
No Discussion Questions due today
quill penPaper 2 due		 Reading: Donne,

  • “The Flea”
  • “The Canonization”
  • “A Valediction Of Weeping”
  • “The Bait”
  • “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
  • “Holy Sonnet 10”
  • “Holy Sonnet 14”

Herrick,

  • “Delight in Disorder”
  • “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
  • “The Night-Piece, to Julia”

Herbert,

  • “Easter Wings”
  • “Denial”
  • “The Pulley”

Crashaw,

  • “To the Infant Martyrs”

Vaughan,

  • “They Are All Gone…”
  • “The Waterfall”

Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Week 5 July 21
The Seventeenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Donne,

  • “The Flea”
  • “The Canonization”
  • “A Valediction Of Weeping”
  • “The Bait”
  • “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
  • “Holy Sonnet 10”
  • “Holy Sonnet 14”

Herrick,

  • “Delight in Disorder”
  • “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
  • “The Night-Piece, to Julia”

Herbert,

  • “Easter Wings”
  • “Denial”
  • “The Pulley”

Crashaw,

  • “To the Infant Martyrs”

Vaughan,

  • “They Are All Gone…”
  • “The Waterfall”

Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Week 6 July 25
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 10
No Discussion Questions due today 		Reading: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Week 6 July 26
The Seventeenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 8		 Reading: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Week 6 July 27
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 11
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Milton, selections from Paradise Lost:

  • Required: Books 1, 5, and 9
  • Optional: Books 4, 8, and 10
Week 6 July 28
The Seventeenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Milton, selections from Paradise Lost:

  • Required: Books 1, 5, and 9
  • Optional: Books 4, 8, and 10
Week 7 August 1
The Seventeenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 9 		Reading: Defoe, excerpt from Roxana: Chapter 13
Week 7 August 2
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Go to Lecture 12
No Discussion Questions due today
quill penPaper 3 due		 Reading: Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
Week 7 August 3
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
Week 7 August 4
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Go to Lecture 13
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Parts 1 and 4
Week 8 August 8
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Parts 1 and 4
Week 8 August 9
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 10		 Reading: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Parts 1 and 4
Week 8 August 10 CATCH YOUR BREATH DAY No reading assignment for today
Week 8 August 11 FINAL EXAM
quill penFinal Exam due

No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.
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