literature

Module I: Ancient World

NOTE: Please notice that we often “end” a week on Mondays or Tuesdays with work due by midnight on those days. Periodic Quizzes are often due on Thursdays. Week 1 Refers to August 27th through September 4th

Step #1 View “A Visual Intro to this Course” PowerPoint (under Course Content) Step #2 Post in the “Introduce yourself to your classmates Discussion” (Click

“Discussions”) Step #3 Take Mastery Quiz (Click on Quizzess)

DEADLINE: you have until midnight September 4th to complete Week 1 items

Week 2 Iliad & Odyssey (September 5th through September 11th)

Step #1 View Iliad and Odyssey PowerPoint (Located under “Course Content”) Step #2 For The Iliad read pages 121-177 (Includes Homer intro) in your Norton; For The Odyssey read 178-188 (Book I) & read 271-283 (Book IX “In the Cyclops’s Cave”)

Break up the reading over a few sittings. Step #3 Respond to discussion questions on Discussion Board Optional Step #4 Watch the film Troy to help with reading The Iliad

DEADLINE: You have until midnight September 11th to complete Week 2 items.

Week 3 Oedipus the King (September 12th through September 18th)

Step #1 View the Oedipus and Greek Drama PowerPoint Step#2 Read (Sophocles intro), in Norton 481-485 & Read Oedipus, 485-525 in Norton

To enhance your reading experience, you might acquire this unique film interpretation of Oedipus and follow along as you read:

Oedipus Rex (1957) (ASIN: B00006674E) Free to view on YouTube here: Link to the Film Version of Oedipus on Youtube

Step#3 Respond to discussion questions on Discussion Board Step#4 Take the Ancient World Quiz (Click on “Quizzess”)

DEADLINE: You have until midnight September 18th to complete items Week 3 items #1-#3 and you have until midnight September 20th to complete Step #4.

Module II: Medieval Week 4 The Thousand and One Nights (September 19th through September 25th)

Step #1 View The Thousand and One Nights Powerpoint Step# 2 Read The Thousand and One Nights in the Norton, pages 1173-1197. Step #3 Respond to discussion questions

DEADLINE: You have until midnight September 25th to complete Week 4 items.

Week 5 (September 26th through October 2nd )

Read from The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath & “Bisclavert” from Lias by Marie de France Step #1 No Powerpoint this week; Read Chaucer introductory material in Norton: (pages 1197-1202) & Read Lias introductory material (pages 1029-1030). Step #2 Read “The Wife of Bath” from The Canterbury Tales (in Norton pages 1221-1249) & read Bisclavert (posted in module II as a PDF file). Step #3 Respond to discussion questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight October 2nd to complete Week 5 items.

Week 6 Dante’s Inferno (October 3rd through October 9th )

Step #1 View Dante PowerPoint with Gustave Doré’s illustrations & Listen to Dr. Carsley’s Guest audio lectures located in Module II. Step #2 Read Dante’s Inferno pages 1049-1172**

**If you are pressed for time this week, focus on the first 5 cantos; canto 9, 10, 11 & 31-34** Doing so cuts the reading to about 30 pages, but you miss out on several levels of the Inferno. You are welcome to read the entire Inferno, but for our purposes, the Cantos above will do the trick.

Step #3 Respond to discussion questions Step #4 Take the Medieval World Quiz (Click on “Quizzes”)

DEADLINES: You have until midnight October the 9th to complete Week 6 Steps #1-#3. Note: you have until midnight October 11th to complete Step #4.

Module III: Early Modern (Note: There is no Quiz at the end of Module III. Your forthcoming Module IV Quiz will cover some material from both modules). Fall Break from October 12th through October the 17th extends the deadline for this week. Week 7 (October 12th to October 23rd)

Excerpts from Machiavelli’s The Prince & from Cervantes’s Don Quixote Step #1 View Don Quixote/Machiavelli PowerPoint Step #2 Read The Prince on pages 1625-1637 in Norton & read from Don Quixote on pages 1666-1703 (this will take you through the famous jousting at windmills chapters) Step #3 Respond to discussion questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight October 23rd to complete Week 7 items.

**We move to Volume II of the Norton for the rest of the assigned readings.**

Week 8 Japanese Haiku in context (October 24th through October 30th)

Step #1 Read 321-339 in Norton Volume II Step #2 View “Haiku Slideshow PPT Lecture & Discussion Assignment Prompt” Step #3 Respond to Discussion Questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight October 30th to complete Week 8 items.

Module IV: 19th Century

Week 9 India’s Ghalib and his Poetry (October 31st to November 6th)

Step #1 “View Ghalib PPT” & Consider viewing one of the Supplemental Powerpoints on Blake, Dickinson, or Whitman Step #2 Read 618-632 in Norton Volume II and per the PPT, select one other poet from the book to read as well. Step#3 Respond to Discussion Questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight November 6th to complete Week 9 items.

Week 10 Quiz Week (November 7th to November 13th)

Catch up week: No Reading—Just a Quiz Take Early Modern/19th Century Combination Quiz (Click on “Quizzes”)

DEADLINES: You have until midnight November 13th to complete the Quiz.

Module V: 20th Century

Week 11 (November 14th through November 20th) PICK TWO OF THE FOLLOWING:

Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart”; Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”; Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” (Note: technically, Tolstoy and Flaubert’s selected works are late 19th Century, but thematically they fit this unit).

Step#1 No powerpoint this week, but read all introductory material that precedes each story Step #2 Read Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart” (Norton 780-807); Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” (Norton 917-960); Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” (Norton 807-850) Step #3 Respond to discussion questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight November 20th to complete Week 11 items.

Week 12 Kafka; Borges (November 21st to November 30th –extended for Thanksgiving)

Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Hang in there—these texts may baffle and surprise. Step #1 View Modernism Powerpoint Step #2 Read Kafka (Norton 1201-1235); Eliot (Norton 1382-1388); and Borges (Norton 1335-1344) Step #3 Respond to BOTH sets of discussion questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight November 30th to complete Week 12 items.

Week 13 Joyce’s “The Dead” (December 1st through December 8th)

No powerpoint this week—Last week’s Modernism PowerPoint goes with this week Step #1 Read Joyce (Norton 1168-1201) Step #2 Respond to Discussion Questions

DEADLINES: You have until midnight December 8th to complete Week 13 items.

Week 14 Final Period (December 9th to December 13th) . DEADLINES: You have until midnight December 13th to complete the Final Exam.