CLASS CALENDAR

Week 1 (August 22-26)
Monday: Introduction to class: review of syllabus and overview of textbooks.
Thursday: Various haiku by Basho, Buson, and Issa (handout).


Week 2 (August 29-September 2)
Monday: Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind 7-14, The Odyssey by Homer 21-24, and The Iliad by Homer 25-29.
Thursday: The Allegory of the Cave (handout) by Plato.


Week 3 (September 5-9)
Monday: Labor Day. No class.
Thursday: The Roman Empire 41-45.


Week 4 (September 12-16)
Monday: The Formation of Western Literature 53-57 start “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (handout).
Thursday: Finish “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (handout).


Week 5 (September 19-23)
Monday: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Shakespeare 123-126, excerpt (handout), and Shakespeare Sonnet 15 (handout).

Thursday: The Renaissance in Europe 85-93, The Prince by Machiavelli 95-97, and (handout).


Week 6 (September 26-30)
Monday: The Enlightenment in Europe 113-121 and Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America 129-138.
Thursday: “The Tyger” (handout) and “The Fly” (handout) by William Blake and “The World is Too Much With Us” (handout) by William Wordsworth.


Week 7 (October 3-7)
Monday: Review.
Thursday: Midterm.


Week 8 (October 10-14)
Monday: Columbus Day. No class.
Thursday: Discussion of test.


Week 9 (October 17-21)
Monday: “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley (handout) and “Ulysses” (handout) by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Thursday: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (handout) by John Keats and “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (handout) by Walt Whitman.


Week 10 (October 24-28)
Monday: “The Cask of Amontillado” (handout) by Edgar Allan Poe.
Thursday: Realism, Symbolism, and European Realities 145-157.


Week 11 (October 31-November 4)
Monday: “To Build a Fire” (handout) by Jack London.
Thursday: Twentieth Century 171-189.


Week 12 (November 7-11)
Monday: “The Second Coming” (handout) by William Butler Yeats, “Sparklers” (handout) by Ted Kooser, and "Power" (handout) by Adrienne Rich.
Thursday: ”Bullet in the Brain” (handout) by Tobias Wolff.


Week 13 (November 14-18)
Monday: Essay due.
Thursday: “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is Just to Say” (handout) by William Carlos Williams, "Canis Major" (handout) by Robert Frost, and "Nothing and Everything" (handout) by Simon J. Ortiz.


(November 21-25)
Thanksgiving Break. No classes.


Week 14 (November 28-December 2)
Monday: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (handout).
Thursday: Finish “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.


Week 15 (December 5-9)
Monday: “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” (handout) by Robert Olen Butler. Thursday: Review.


Week 16 (December12-16)
Thursday: Final Exam.