English 2112
Tentative Schedule
Aug. 11
Syllabus; Research paper
Aug. 13
Turnitin.com & Plagiarism; Intro. to the Enlightenment, p. 1; Tartuffe, Acts I and II
Aug. 18
Conclude Tartuffe – Watch production
Aug. 20
Conclude production; Begin Gulliver's Travels (Part IV), p. 292, Chapter I-VI
Aug. 25
Conclude Gulliver Travel’s; ; A Modest Proposal, p. 341;
Aug. 27
An Essay on Man, p. 368; Volture, pp. 375-377
Sept. 1
Labor Day! No class!
Sept. 3
Candide, pp. 375-400
Sept. 8
Conclude Candide, pp. 400-438
Sept. 10
Enlightenment Test
Sept. 15
Begin Romanticism; Confessions, pp. 496-519; Enlightenment Essay Due
Sept. 17
Faust, pp. 519-563
Sept. 22
Faust (cont’d), pp. 563-596
Sept. 24
Faust (concluded), pp. 596-625
Sept. 29
Romanticism poems: Blake, pp. 683-685; “The Lamb,” p. 686; “Chimney Sweeper,” p.
688; “The Tyger,” p. 690; “The Chimney Sweeper,” p. 692; Wordsworth, p. 693; “Lines
Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” p. 696; “The World is Too Much with Us,”
p. 704
October 1
Keats, p. 755; “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” p. 759; “Ode to a Nightingale,” p. 760;
Tennyson, p. 820; From In Memoriam A. H. H., p. 825; Browning, p. 843; “My Last
Duchess,” p. 845
October 6
Whitman, p. 916; From Song of Myself, p. 918; Dickinson, p. 986; Poem 328, p. 988;
Poem 465, p. 990; Poem 712, p. 992; Poem 1129, p. 994.
October 8
Romanticism Test
October 13
Fall Break! No Class!
October 15
Realism and Symbolism, p. 997; Madame Bovary, pp. 1175-1249; Video of Madame
Bovary; Romanticism Essay Due
October 20
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" p. 1330-1368
October 22
Hedda Gabler, pp. 1410-1144
October 27
Hedda Gabler, pp. 1144-1166; Watch production of the play
October 29
The Cherry Orchard, pp. 1503-1538
November 3
Catch-up day
November 5
Modernisms and Modernity, p. 1621; “When You Are Old,” p. 1726; “The Second
Coming,” p. 1726; “Among School Children,” p. 1730
November 10 “The Metamorphosis,” p. 1966-1988
November 12 “The Metamorphosis,” p. 1988-1999; Begin Eliot, p. 1999-2002
November 17 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pp. 2003-2006
November 19 “Flowering Judas,” pp. 2038-2048
November 24 Catch-up day
Nov. 26-28
Thanksgiving Holidays! No class!
December 1
Last day of class! Last essay due
December 8
Final Exam from 3:30-5:30 in our classroom