ENGL 102.008/009 Assignments
10/25 - 11/3/05 (Weeks 9-10)


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»»WEEK 9 (10/25 & 10/27/05)

  • for TUESDAY October 25

    -- have read and be ready to discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" M 601-11 (also photocopy the Hawthorne guidesheet from library course reserve, or print out from onine PDF)
    (just for fun, here's an image of the kind that inspired Hawthorne's story)
    -- QUIZ #2 (Short Fiction)

  • for THURSDAY October 27

    Have read, taken notes on, and be ready to discuss:
    -- "Writing on Poetry" from either library course reserve, or online PDF
    -- in Making Arguments, pp. 127-32 (Elements of Poetry) and 136-37 (Summing Up)
    -- Shakespeare Sonnett 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," in Making Arguments pp.946-46 to discuss in class

  • FRIDAY 10/28: ROUGH DRAFT PAPER #2 DUE to my office by 4 p.m.

    »»WEEK 10 (11/1 & 11/3)

  • for TUESDAY November 1

    For the first of the Dias de los Muertos, a treat for you: CLASS DOES NOT MEET.

    la Catrina

    (Here, la Catrina, the symbolic female figure of los Dias de los Muertos as popularized by Méxican folk artist Posada.)

  • for WEDNESDAY November 2--Research Paper Due, to my office (Holloway 344) by 4 p.m.

  • for THURSDAY November 3

    Have read, taken notes on, and be ready to discuss:
    --Emily Dickenson "I like a look of agony," "I've seen a Dying Eye," "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died" (in MA 361-364) [guidesheet for these poems available as printable PDF or through library course reserve]

    I also need to meet briefly with poetry groups #1 & 2 either today or tomorrow to discuss their poems before their presentations next week

    Group 1, Walt Whitman "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (MA p.333)
    ENGL 102.008: Marianne Johnson, Andrew Behringer, Brandi Nieland, Jessica Petersen
    ENGL 102.009: Lee Braverman, Scott Dunsmore, Jennifer Drake, Katie Wandishin

    Group 2, Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" (MA pp.662-63)
    ENGL 102.008: Slade Brenneman, Juli Harper, Justin Michaliga, Kimberly Soaper
    ENGL 102.009: Nick Calabrese, Cleveland Harris III, Cassie Schneider

  • FRIDAY 11/4 last day to drop courses for a "W"
    »» Links:
    Schedule for Weeks 11-12
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