| 1 |
8/27 |
Welcome to the Class! |
— |
| 1 |
8/29 |
Homer
Iliad
Translator’s Preface: page ix to break on page xiv only
Books 1-4
Review Some Stylistic Conventions
in the Humanities
and Quotation and Citation Guidelines for Listserv Posts (and follow them in your posts) |
Reading
Post A1 |
| 2 |
9/3 |
Labor Day — No Class |
| 2 |
9/5 |
Homer
Iliad
Books
5-10 |
Reading
Post B1 |
| 3 |
9/10 |
Homer
Iliad
Books
11-15 |
Reading
Post C1 |
| 3 |
9/12 |
Homer
Iliad
Books 16-20 |
Reading
Post D1 |
| Synthesis Post A1 due Saturday, 9/15 |
| 4 |
9/17 |
Homer
Iliad
Books 21-24 |
Reading
Post B2 |
| 4 |
9/19 |
Ancillary materials in the Pelican edition of Henry V:
“The Theatrical World” (including “William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, Gentleman” and “The Question of Authorship”)
“The Texts of Shakespeare”
“Note on the Text” (xxxv-xxxvi only)
William
Shakespeare
Henry V
Act 1, Scene 1 through Act 2, Scene 4
Make sure you read all the notes. |
Reading
Post A2 |
| Synthesis Post C1 due Saturday, 9/22 |
| 5 |
9/24 |
William
Shakespeare
Henry V
Act 3, Chorus, through Act 4, Scene 1 |
Reading
Post D2 |
| 5 |
9/26 |
Movie Assignment: Henry V (1989)
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by William Shakespeare; adapted to the screen by Kenneth Branagh
Starring Kenneth Branagh, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, Robert Stephens, Richard Briers, Judi Dench, and Christian Bale
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .H45 B7)
Also available on Swank Digital Campus, under S on the Library Databases page (you may need to make an acccount, but it’s free) |
Reading
Post C2
Reading
Post A3 |
| Synthesis Post B1 due Saturday, 9/29 |
| 6 |
10/1 |
William
Shakespeare
Henry V
Act 4, Scene 2, through Act 5, Epilogue |
Reading
Post C3 |
| 6 |
10/3 |
Ernest
Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book One
Chapters I-XII |
Reading
Post B3 |
| Synthesis Post D1 due Saturday, 10/6 |
| 7 |
10/9 |
Columbus Day Recess — Monday Classes Meet Tuesday; Tuesday Classes Do Not Meet
Ernest
Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book Two
Chapters XIII-XXIV |
Reading
Post A4 |
Movie
Assignment: All
Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Screenplay by Maxwell Anderson, adapted from the novel by
Erich Maria Remarque
Starring Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, and Slim Summerville
On Reserve at Gateway Library (PN1997 .A456 2012)
Also available on Swank Digitial Campus, under S on the Library Databases page |
Movie Post #1 |
| 7 |
10/10 |
Ernest
Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book Three
Chapters XXV-XXXII
Book Four
Chapters XXXIII-XXXIV |
Reading
Post D3 |
| Synthesis
Post C2 due Saturday, 10/13 |
Mid-Term Grading Point
Mid-Term Grades will include work submitted to this point |
| 8 |
10/15 |
Ernest
Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book Four
Chapters XXXV-XXXVII
Book Five
Chapters
XXXVIII-XLI |
Reading
Post B4 |
Movie
Assignment: Paths of Glory (1957)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson, adapted from the novel by Humphrey Cobb
Starring Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Ralph Meeker, Joe Turkel, and Timothy Carey
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .P3784 2010) |
Movie Post #2 |
| 8 |
10/17 |
Rupert Brooke
“Peace”
“The Dead”
“The Soldier”
John McCrae
“In Flanders
Fields”
Edward Thomas
“This is No Case
of Petty Right or Wrong”
“Adlestrop”
“Rain”
W. B. Yeats
“An Irish Airman Foresees
His Death”
[Anonymous Student]
“Foreign
Field, English Heaven: Rupert Brooke Emerges Victorious
in ‘The Soldier’” (This short essay will give you a model of how to perform
a close reading of a poem) |
Reading
Post C4 |
| Synthesis
Post A2 due Saturday, 10/20 |
| Mid-Term Grades submitted and include work completed through 10 October |
| 9 |
10/22 |
Siegfried Sassoon
“‘They’”
“Dreamers”
“Glory of Women”
“Suicide in the Trenches”
“Does it Matter?”
Robert Graves
“Goliath and David”
Ivor Gurney
“Pain” |
Reading
Post D4 |
Video
Assignment: Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
Episodes:
#1 “Captain Cook,” #2 “Corporal Punishment,” #4 “Private Plane,”
#5 “General Hospital,” and #6 “Goodbyeee”
(You may skip #3 “Major Star”)
Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Directed by Richard Boden
Starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, and Rik Mayall
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1992.8.C66 B55 2009) |
Movie (Video) Post #3 |
| 9 |
10/24 |
Isaac Rosenberg
“Returning, We Hear
the Larks”
“The Immortals”
“Break of Day in
the Trenches”
“Dead Man’s
Dump” |
Reading
Post A5 |
| Synthesis
Post B2 due Saturday, 10/27 |
| 10 |
10/29 |
Wilfred Owen
“Anthem for Doomed Youth”
“Dulce
et Decorum Est”
“Exposure”
“Strange Meeting”
“Disabled” |
Reading
Post B5 |
Movie
Assignment: The Thin Red Line (1998)
Directed by Terrence Malick
Screenplay by Terrence Malick, adapted from the novel by James Jones
Starring Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Dash Mihok, John Cusack, John C. Reilly, Adrien Brody, Jared Leto, and Woody Harrelson
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .T4554 2010) |
Movie
Post #4 |
| 10 |
10/31 |
Norman
Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Introduction
Part One: Wave, Chapter 1 through Part Two: Argil and
Mold, Chapter 4 |
Reading
Post C5 |
| Synthesis
Post D2 due Saturday, 11/3 |
| 11 |
11/5 |
Norman
Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Part Two: Argil and
Mold, Chapters 5-7 |
Reading
Post A6 |
Movie Assignment: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by Iris Yamashita, based on Gyokusai Soshireikan' no Etegami (Picture Letters from the Commander in Chief ) by Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Starring Ken Watanabe, Kazubari Ninimiya, and Tsuyoshi Ihara
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .L4564 2007) |
Movie
Post #5 |
| 11 |
11/7 |
Norman
Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Part Two: Argil and
Mold, “The Time Machine: Red Valsen / The Wandering Minstrel” through “The Time Machine: Robert Hearn / The Addled Womb” |
Reading
Post D5 |
| Synthesis
Post C3 due Saturday, 11/10 |
| 12 |
11/12 |
Norman
Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Part Two: Argil and
Mold, Chapter 12 through Part III: Plant and Phantom, Chapter 2 |
Reading
Post B6 |
Movie Assignment: Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Directed by David Lean
Screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, adapated from the novel by Pierre Boulle
Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, and Jack Hawkins
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .B7537 2000) |
Movie Post #6 |
| 12 |
11/14 |
Norman
Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Part III: Plant and Phantom, “The Time Machine: Joey Goldstein / The Cove of Brooklyn” through Chapter 8 |
Reading
Post C6 |
| Synthesis
Post A3 due Saturday 11/17 |
| 13 |
11/19 |
Norman
Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Part Three: Plant and Phantom, “The Time
Machine: Polack Czienwicz /
Gimme a Gimmick and I’ll Move the World” through
Part Four: Wake |
Reading
Post D6 |
Movie Assignment: The Third Man (1949)
Directed by Carol Reed
Screenplay by Graham Greene
(with some lines added by Orson Welles)
Starring Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, and Bernard Lee
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .T457 2006) |
Movie Post #7 |
| 13 |
11/21 |
No Class — Happy Thanksgiving |
| 14 |
11/26 |
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 1-9 |
Reading
Post A7 |
Movie Assignment: M*A*S*H (1970)
Directed by Robert Altman
Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr., adapted from the novel by Richard Hooker
Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Tom Skerrit,
Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Gary Burghoff, and Fred Williamson
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .M379662 2005) |
Movie
Post #8 |
| 14 |
11/28 |
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters
10-22 |
Reading
Post B7 |
| Synthesis
Posts D3 due Saturday 12/1 |
| 15 |
12/3 |
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 23-33 |
Reading
Post C7 |
Movie
Assignment: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern,
based (sort of) on Peter George’s novel Red Alert
Starring Peter Sellers (in three different roles), George
C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter
Bull, and James Earl Jones
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .D75 2004) |
Movie
Post #9 |
| 15 |
12/5 |
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 34-42 |
Reading
Post D7 |
| Synthesis
Posts B3 due Saturday 12/8 |