ENG104

English 104: 6
Grant T. Smith, Ph. D.
Spring Semester, 2005

Office: MC 536 Office Hours: T Th 10 - 12 p.m. and T Th 1 - 3 p.m.

M W F: 1:10 - 2 p.m., MC 406
Phone: 796-3485

Texts:

Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Bedford Books, 2001.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
I also encourage you to have a good composition handbook. Any handbook will suffice, but the The St. Martin's Handbook in the College Bookstore is a good resource.

Course Description:
In this course we will focus on four genres of literature short story, novel, poetry, and drama. We will investigate the form and function of the literature as well as the various social, political, personal, religious implications of the works. Our approach to this class will include investigation, discovery, and sharing. All members of the class are encouraged to debate, question, and support one another as we discuss each piece of literature.

Format:
Composition is an integral component of English 104. This semester we will continue to develop those writing skills emphasized in English 103, while devoting much of our attention to analytical writing. All students are encouraged to keep a journal in which they record personal responses to class reading assignments and discussions. Three or more one-page entries each week will satisfy any journal requirement (or one three-page entry).   Click here for sample journal topics.   Included in the personal responses should be questions regarding the reading assignments that you would like to have answered by the class in group discussions. We will often begin class discussions with your journal entries. The journal will be reviewed every week or so and I will respond to your insights and observations. Four short (three to five pages) essays on literature in the anthology will be required; one of the essays must include references to outside research properly documented. Click here for a web site on MLA documentation. The four short essays will be reviewed, and one rewrite may be requested by the student if needed.

Methods of Assessment:
Every student may receive 100 points for each essay. Because there will be no exams this semester, perfect attendance is requested. All students who have three absences or fewer will receive 100 points. Students who have three to four absences will receive 60 points. Any student who has more than five absences will be asked to withdraw from the class.   Every student will receive 100 points for a complete journal. Incomplete journals (those journals that have fewer than two or fewer pages each week) will receive 75 points. Each essay is worth 100 points.

Intended Student Outcomes:

Students will read sample literature from four genres critically.

Students will discuss the literature critically.

Students will write about the literature critically. Click here for suggestions on how to write an acceptable essay on literature.

Students will respond to the personal, spiritual, intellectual, physical and cultural implications of the literature on their own social value system as well as other social value systems.

Click here for the Viterbo web page on critical thinking.

　

Schedule:

Week One: January 17,
Slide Festival - Why do we read? "Basic Types of Literary Papers" 2081-2119; "The Story of an Hour" 185 (related commentary, 670); "My Papa's Waltz" 1110, Click here for an interpretation of Roethke's poem, to hear Roethke read the poem, click here; "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" 926; "My Last Duchess" 903; "The Red Wheelbarrow" 898; "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" 1010. Read "Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field" by Beth Ann Fennelly
Click here for a web site for Benetton. Click here for Benetton's discussion of their controversial campaigns. Click here for Benetton Power Point Presentation
Click here for a feminist reading of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and here for a collection of Calvin Klein ads.
　

Week Two: January 24
Drama 1283-13156, Oedipus the King 1317 (related commentaries noted on pages 1955, 1961, 1970, 1977, 1933). For discussion questions for Oedipus the King, click here. Click here for a fun web site on Oedipus. Click here for the "best" web site on Oedipus.

Week Three: January 31
Hamlet 1407 (related commentaries noted on pages 1963, 1966), Watch the video of Hamlet on reserve in the library. Click here for a "costly" web site on Shakespeare. Click here for the teacher's web site for Hamlet. For a "sound" of Shakespeare web site, click here. Click here for some notes on the play.

Week Four: February 7

A Doll House 1575 (related commentaries noted on page 1980, 1993). See Schrader's steel engraving, "Jepthah's Daughter."
Click here for the Heinz dilemma

Click here for some "classic" notes on A Doll House
Click here for some "spark" notes on A Doll House

Click here for discussion questions for A Doll House; and here for drama essay questions. Four additional essay possibilities!
Click here for a web site on The Death of a Salesman
Click here for a second web site on The Death of a Salesman
Click here for a link to literary criticisms on The Death of a Salesman

Week Five: February 14

Essay on drama due
Click here for tips on how to write the first essay

What Is a Short Story? 33, "Peter Klaus the Goatherd" 33, "Rip Van Winkle" 361, Click here for a Rip Web Site; Click here for Quidor's painting of Rip; "A Rose for Emily" 239 (commentary on page 679); Click here for sample student essays on "A Rose for Emily." Click here for a fun web site on Faulkner's story. "I Stand Here Ironing" 572.
Click here for a web page on Tillie Olsen

Week Six: February 21
"A White Heron" 387, "The Chrysanthemums" 605 ; Click here for some sample essays on "A White Heron;" "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 551 (related commentary 776-797)
Click here for a journal assignment on "A White Heron" and "The Chrysanthemums;" Georgia O'Keeffe images.

Week Seven: February 28
　

Revision of drama essay due

"Bartleby the Scrivener" 458 (read related commentaries on Melville, 693 and 695).
Click here for a good web site on "Bartleby." (Go to Herman Melville Sites)
The "Bartleby the Scrivener Critique Site" has student responses to the novella.

Click here for a web site on "Bartleby" with good links
Click here for discussion questions on "Bartleby the Scrivener."

Spring Break

March 7
　

Week Eight:

March 14

　
"Where are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates 499" and "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien 511. Click here for a web site on "Where are You Going..." Click here for an outline of Oates' themes and here for more help in reading Oates' story. Click here for a good web site on Tim O'Brien that contains a speech on Viet Nam. Click here for discussion questions on O'Brien's story. Click here for Sherida Taylor's web site on "Things." Click here for a student essay on "Things."

Week Nine:

March 21

Essay on short story due

"The Yellow Wallpaper" 274, read "A Feminist Reading of Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" 681, 683.   Click here for a web site on "The Yellow Wallpaper." Click here for an outline on domestic violence. Easter Break March 25

Week Ten:

March 28

Read The Death of Ivan Ilich by Leo Tolstoy. Click here for the Tolstoy Home Page

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Click at http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/GSmith/CuckooNotesandQuestions.htm for questions on Cuckoo's Nest.

The Natural by Bernard Malamud. Click here for some background on baseball. Click here for discussion questions on The Natural. Click here for an on-line baseball trivia quiz. Definition of a hero.
Click here for a web site on Steinbeck; lecture notes.   Easter Break March 28

Click here for the "class notes" web site for Of Mice and Men and here for the "spark notes" web site for Of Mice and Men
Click here for discussion questions on My Antonia

Week Eleven: April 4 Revision of the short story essay due. What is your favorite poem? What Is a Poem? 803; Click here for a web page on "How to Read a Poem."Shakespeare 1116; Donne 1014; Click here for a Donne web site. Marvell 849; Kennedy's essay on "Mistress" 1188; Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Poetry, 955. Click here for a theories of literature page

Week Twelve: April 11 Reflection paper on The Death of Ivan Ilyich due.
What is your favorite poem? Keats 1066, Shelley 1119, Wordsworth 1141, Blake 974-980; Commentary on Blake, 1166. Click here for a good web site for Blake. Click here for a comprehensive web site on "The Tyger." Click here for a comprehensive web site on Keats; click here for notes on reading Keats.

Week Thirteen: April 18

Dickinson 1004-1013 (see related commentaries), read Higginson's commentary on page 1234 and Dickinson's letters on page 1235.

Click here for a criticism of "Wild Nights"
Click here for a good web site on Dickinson
Click here for an insight to Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Week Fourteen:

April 25

Robert Frost 1027 (see related commentaries).
Click here for a web site on "The Road Not Taken"

Week Fifteen:

May 2
Plath's poetry: "Daddy," 1105; "Lady Lazarus," 1107; "Mirror," 1105; "Mushrooms," Plath as Confessional Poet, 1194. Click here for a Sylvia Plath web page with links to students' essays on Plath

Week Sixteen: May 9
(Final Exam Week)
Final poetry essay due
T. S. Elliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1017, related commentary on 1156; Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" 1149; "The Second Coming" 1151; "Wild Swans at Coole" 1150.
Click here for a good web site on "Prufrock"
Click here for a web site on Allen Ginsberg
Click here for a second web site on Allen Ginsberg and the "Beat" poets
Click here for a biography web site on Ginsberg.

　
Click here for Round Table Discussion Final Exam

Policies:

Click here for the university definitions of an excused and unexcused absence
Click here for the university policy on sexual harassment
Click here for the university policy on plagiarism

If you are a person with a disability and require any auxiliary aids, services or other accommodations for this class, please see Wayne Wojciechowski in Murphy Center room 320 (796-3085) within ten days to discuss your accommodation needs. If there other accommodations that need to be made for you to succeed in the class, please indicate those needs to the instructor. Click here for a link to the Learning Center.

Week One: January 17,	Slide Festival - Why do we read? "Basic Types of Literary Papers" 2081-2119; "The Story of an Hour" 185 (related commentary, 670); "My Papa's Waltz" 1110, Click here for an interpretation of Roethke's poem, to hear Roethke read the poem, click here; "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" 926; "My Last Duchess" 903; "The Red Wheelbarrow" 898; "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" 1010. Read "Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field" by Beth Ann Fennelly Click here for a web site for Benetton. Click here for Benetton's discussion of their controversial campaigns. Click here for Benetton Power Point Presentation *Click here for a feminist reading of Sports Illustrated* swimsuit issue and here for a collection of Calvin Klein ads.**
Week Two: January 24	Drama 1283-13156, Oedipus the King 1317 (related commentaries noted on pages 1955, 1961, 1970, 1977, 1933). For discussion questions for Oedipus the King, click here. Click here for a fun web site on Oedipus. Click here for the "best" web site on Oedipus.
Week Three: January 31	Hamlet 1407 (related commentaries noted on pages 1963, 1966), Watch the video of Hamlet on reserve in the library. Click here for a "costly" web site on Shakespeare. Click here for the teacher's web site for Hamlet. For a "sound" of Shakespeare web site, click here. Click here for some notes on the play.
Week Four: February 7	A Doll House 1575 (related commentaries noted on page 1980, 1993). See Schrader's steel engraving, "Jepthah's Daughter." Click here for the Heinz dilemma Click here for some "classic" notes on A Doll House Click here for some "spark" notes on A Doll House *Click here for discussion questions for A Doll House;* and here for drama essay questions. Four additional essay possibilities! Click here for a web site on The Death of a Salesman** Click here for a second web site on The Death of a Salesman Click here for a link to literary criticisms on The Death of a Salesman
Week Five: February 14	Essay on drama due Click here for tips on how to write the first essay What Is a Short Story? 33, "Peter Klaus the Goatherd" 33, "Rip Van Winkle" 361, Click here for a Rip Web Site; Click here for Quidor's painting of Rip; "A Rose for Emily" 239 (commentary on page 679); Click here for sample student essays on "A Rose for Emily." Click here for a fun web site on Faulkner's story. "I Stand Here Ironing" 572. Click here for a web page on Tillie Olsen
Week Six: February 21	"A White Heron" 387, "The Chrysanthemums" 605 ; Click here for some sample essays on "A White Heron;" "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 551 (related commentary 776-797) Click here for a journal assignment on "A White Heron" and "The Chrysanthemums;" Georgia O'Keeffe images.
Week Seven: February 28	Revision of drama essay due "Bartleby the Scrivener" 458 (read related commentaries on Melville, 693 and 695). Click here for a good web site on "Bartleby." (Go to Herman Melville Sites) The "Bartleby the Scrivener Critique Site" has student responses to the novella. Click here for a web site on "Bartleby" with good links Click here for discussion questions on "Bartleby the Scrivener."
Spring Break March 7
Week Eight: March 14	"Where are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates 499" and "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien 511. Click here for a web site on "Where are You Going..." Click here for an outline of Oates' themes and here for more help in reading Oates' story. Click here for a good web site on Tim O'Brien that contains a speech on Viet Nam. Click here for discussion questions on O'Brien's story. Click here for Sherida Taylor's web site on "Things." Click here for a student essay on "Things."
Week Nine: March 21	Essay on short story due "The Yellow Wallpaper" 274, read "A Feminist Reading of Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" 681, 683. Click here for a web site on "The Yellow Wallpaper." Click here for an outline on domestic violence. Easter Break March 25
Week Ten: March 28	*Read The Death of Ivan Ilich* by Leo Tolstoy. Click here for the Tolstoy Home Page** One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Click at http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/GSmith/CuckooNotesandQuestions.htm for questions on Cuckoo's Nest. *The Natural* *by Bernard Malamud. Click here for some background on baseball. Click here for discussion questions on The Natural. Click here for an on-line baseball trivia quiz. Definition of a* hero. Click here for a web site on Steinbeck; lecture notes. Easter Break March 28 Click here for the "class notes" web site for Of Mice and Men and here for the "spark notes" web site for Of Mice and Men Click here for discussion questions on My Antonia
Week Eleven: April 4	Revision of the short story essay due. What is your favorite poem? What Is a Poem? 803; Click here for a web page on "How to Read a Poem."Shakespeare 1116; Donne 1014; Click here for a Donne web site. Marvell 849; Kennedy's essay on "Mistress" 1188; Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Poetry, 955. Click here for a theories of literature page
Week Twelve: April 11	*Reflection paper on The Death of Ivan Ilyich* due.** What is your favorite poem? Keats 1066, Shelley 1119, Wordsworth 1141, Blake 974-980; Commentary on Blake, 1166. Click here for a good web site for Blake. Click here for a comprehensive web site on "The Tyger." Click here for a comprehensive web site on Keats; click here for notes on reading Keats.
Week Thirteen: April 18	Dickinson 1004-1013 (see related commentaries), read Higginson's commentary on page 1234 and Dickinson's letters on page 1235. Click here for a criticism of "Wild Nights" Click here for a good web site on Dickinson Click here for an insight to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Week Fourteen: April 25	Robert Frost 1027 (see related commentaries). Click here for a web site on "The Road Not Taken"
Week Fifteen: May 2	Plath's poetry: "Daddy," 1105; "Lady Lazarus," 1107; "Mirror," 1105; "Mushrooms," Plath as Confessional Poet, 1194. Click here for a Sylvia Plath web page with links to students' essays on Plath
Week Sixteen: May 9 (Final Exam Week)	Final poetry essay due T. S. Elliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1017, related commentary on 1156; Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" 1149; "The Second Coming" 1151; "Wild Swans at Coole" 1150. Click here for a good web site on "Prufrock" Click here for a web site on Allen Ginsberg Click here for a second web site on Allen Ginsberg and the "Beat" poets Click here for a biography web site on Ginsberg.
	Click here for Round Table Discussion Final Exam