Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments
Week
Date
Reading and Movie Assignment Due
Writing Assignment Due
1 1/22 Welcome to the Class!
The Listserv Assignment
1 1/27

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 1/29 Homer
Iliad
Books 5-10
Reading Post B1
3 2/3 Homer
Iliad
Books 11-15
Reading Post C1
3 2/5 Homer
Iliad
Books 16-20
Reading Post D1
Synthesis Post A1 due Saturday, 2/8
4 2/10 Homer
Iliad
Books 21-24
Reading Post B2
4 2/12

Ancillary materials in the Folger’s edition of Henry V, on pages xvi-li:
“Reading Shakespeare’s Language: Henry V,” “Shakespeare’s Life,” “Shakespeare’s Theatre,” “The Publication of Shakespeare’s Plays”
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, 2/15
5 2/17

William Shakespeare
Henry V
Act 3, Chorus, through Act 4, Scene 1

Reading Post D2
5 2/19 William Shakespeare
Henry V
Act 4, Scene 2, through Act 5, Epilogue
Reading Post C2
Synthesis Post B1 due Saturday, 2/22
6 2/24

Special Supplement
Elements of Film
A brief explanation of four of the main elements of film production, and how they affect the viewer’s experience
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 A3
Reading Post C3
6 2/26 Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book One
Chapters I-XII
Reading Post B3
Synthesis Post D1 due Saturday, 2/29
7 3/2

Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book Two
Chapters XIII-XXIV

Reading Post A4
Movie Assignment #1: 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 3/4 Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book Three
Chapters XXV-XXXII
Book Four
Chapters XXXIII-XXXIV
Reading Post D3
Synthesis Post C2 due Saturday, 3/21
Mid-Term Grading Point
Mid-Term Grades will include work submitted to this point
3/9-3/18 Extended Spring Break/Viral Outbreak
8 3/23 Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book Four
Chapters XXXV-XXXVII
Book Five
Chapters XXXVIII-XLI
Reading Post B4

Movie Assignment #2: 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
Available on Amazon Prime and Google Play for $2.99, on Apple TV, Fandango,Vudu, and Youtube for $3.99


Movie Post #2
8 3/25

Watch The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Episode 4: Slaughter from 18:12-24:22
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, 3/28
Mid-Term Grades submitted and include work completed through 10 October
9 3/30 Watch The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Episode 4: Slaughter from 24:23-42:57
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

Movie (Television Series, in this case) Assignment #3: Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
Episodes: #1 “Captain Cook,” #2 “Corporal Punishment,” #4 “Private Plane,”
and #6 “Goodbyeee”
(You may skip #3 “Major Star” and #5 “General Hospital”)
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
Available free on Amazon Prime and Hulu, and on
Apple TV and Vudu for $1.99 per episode

Movie (Video) Post #3
9 4/1 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, 4/4
10 4/6 Watch The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Episode 8: War Without End from 16:05-24:10
Wilfred Owen

“Anthem for Doomed Youth
“Dulce et Decorum Est
“Exposure”

“Strange Meeting”
“Disabled”
Reading Post C5
Movie Assignment #4: 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
Available on Redbox for $2.99, on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Fandango, Google Play, and Vudu for $3.99

Movie Post #4
10 4/8 Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Introduction
Part One: Wave, Chapter 1 through Part Two: Argil and Mold, Chapter 4
Reading Post B5
Synthesis Post D2 due Saturday, 4/11
11 4/13 Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
Part Two: Argil and Mold, Chapters 5-7
Reading Post A6
Movie Assignment #5: 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
Available on Apple TV, Fandango, Google Play, Redbox,
and Vudu for $2.99
Movie Post #5
11 4/15 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, 4/18
12 4/20 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 #6: The 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
Available free on Crackle,
on Amazon Prime, Fandango, Redbox, Vudu for $2.99, and on Google Play for $3.99
Movie Post #6
12 4/22 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 4/25
13 4/27 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 #7: 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
 Available free on ZPTV Direct, on Sling for $2.99, and on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Fandango, GooglePlay, and Vudu for $3.99
Movie Post #7
13 4/29 Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 1-9
Reading Post A7
Synthesis Posts B3 due Saturday 5/2
14 5/4 Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 10-22
Reading Post B7
Movie Assignment #8: 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 (loosely) 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
 Available free on Swank Digitial Campus, under S on the Library Databases page, Crackle, and on Apple TV, Fandango, GooglePlay, Redbox, Sling, and Vudu for $2.99
Movie Post #8
14 5/6 Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 23-33
Reading Post C7
Synthesis Posts D3 due Saturday 5/9
15 5/11 Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Chapters 34-42
Reading Post D7
 
 
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