Course: English 206--English Literature II
Instructor: Ann Warren
Office Hours: Via Zoom, by appointment. Email me to make an appointment to meet.
E-mail: annw708@gmail.com
| Course Schedule: Week 1 | Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5 | Course Schedule: Weeks 6-9 | Course Schedule: Weeks 10-15 | Course Schedule: Final Exam |
Course Schedule
| Week 1 Feb. 6-12 INTRODUCTION THE ROMANTICS Writing About Literature Go to Discussion Questions 1 We will be using the Canvas Discussion Board for this class. Click on the link below to get to the LACCD portal, sign in, and then click on the link for Canvas in the right column. This will take you to the Canvas dashboard. From there, click on the square with the name of our class. Once you've entered the class, you will find the "Discussions" link on the left side of the screen:
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Reading: Lecture 1 Blake,
Note: This is not a mistake: there are two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper," and two poems called "Holy Thursday." The similarity in names is explained in the lecture. Wordsworth, Coleridge, |
| Week 2 Feb. 13-19 THE ROMANTICS No Discussion Questions due this time |
Reading: Lecture 2 Byron,
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| Week 3 Feb. 20-26 THE ROMANTICS Go to Discussion Questions 2 |
Reading: Lecture 3 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 4 Feb. 27-Mar. 5 ROMANTIC OR VICTORIAN? Go to Discussion Questions 3 |
Reading: Lecture 4 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 5 Mar. 6-12 THE VICTORIANS Go to Discussion Questions 4 |
Reading: Lecture 5 Tennyson,
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| Week 6 Mar. 13-19 THE VICTORIANS No Discussion Questions due this time  Paper 1 due |
Reading: Lecture 6 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 7 Mar. 20-26 THE VICTORIANS No new lecture this time Go to Discussion Questions 5 |
Reading: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 8 Mar. 27-30 THE VICTORIANS Go to Discussion Questions 6 |
Reading: Lecture 7 Arnold, Pater, Conclusion to The Renaissance Hopkins, |
| ************ HOLIDAYS/SPRING BREAK March 31-Apr. 9 ************* | |
| Week 9 Apr. 10-16 THE VICTORIANS Go to Discussion Questions 7 |
Reading: Lecture 8 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 10 Apr. 17-23 THE VICTORIANS? Go to Discussion Questions 8 |
Reading: Lecture 9 Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Note: This is a play; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 11 Apr. 24-30 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY No Discussion Questions due this time
Paper 2 due |
Reading: Lecture 10 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 12 May 1-7 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Go to Discussion Questions 9 |
Reading: Lecture 11 Brooke, "The Soldier" Sassoon, "They" Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" Yeats, "The Second Coming" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" Eliot, The Wasteland Note: This is a long poem. You should read at least the first part, "The Burial of the Dead"; the other parts are optional. |
| Week 13 May 8-14 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY No Discussion Questions due this time |
Reading: Go to Lecture 12 Woolf, "The Mark on the Wall" Joyce, "The Dead" Lawrence, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" Thomas, "Fern Hill" |
| Week 14 May 15-21 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Go to Discussion Questions 10
Paper 3 due |
Reading: Lecture 13 Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Note: This is a play; you should read the whole thing. |
| Week 15 May 22-28 CATCH YOUR BREATH TIME | No reading assignment for this week |
| Week 16 FINAL EXAMFinal Exam due |
The final exam is due on or before midnight on the night of Tuesday, May 30th. No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately. |
