Syllabus
English 110 - Literature and Composition, Professor Northrop, Fall Semester, 2008
Class meets MWF 1:05-2:15, West 201 Office: West 101, phone 378
e-mail: northropd@ripon.edu Office hours: R 1-4 and by appointment
This course is designed to improve your skills in reading and writing. It can be safely assumed that you have a solid foundation in both abilities but that you both need and want to develop these abilities further. Since both reading and writing are highly complex and diversified activities, there is ample room for growth and improvement throughout your life. This course will concentrate particularly on analytical skills in reading imaginative literature and on expository and argumentative forms of writing.
To develop these skills, however, requires preparation, attendance, and participation. Each class period will require various kinds of interaction between students, between students and text, between students and teacher, and among all of the above. These interactions will be both oral and written. They will be most valuable and effective if everyone has prepared carefully and participates fully.
Grade:
Ten papers 70 points
Two presentations @ 10 points
Final examination 10 points
Texts:
David Madden ed. A Pocketful of Prose. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
David Madden ed. A Pocketful of Plays. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
David Madden ed. A Pocketful of Poems. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
Diane Hacker, A Pocket Manual of Style. Fifth Edition. New York: Bedford, 2008.
Week
1
Wednesday, August 27 – Introductory Class
Friday, August 29 – Katherine Ann Porter, “Flowering Judas”
2
Monday, September 1 – William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Wednesday, September 3 – continued
Friday, September 5 – paper #1
3
Monday, September 8 – James Joyce, “Araby”
Wednesday, September 10 – Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Friday, September 12 – paper #2
4
Monday, September 15 – Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Wednesday, September 17 – continued
Friday, September 19 – paper #3
5
Monday, September 22 – James Baldwin, “Going to Meet the Man”
Wednesday, September 24 – continued
Friday, September 26 – paper #4
6
Monday, September 29 – John Updike, “A&P”
Wednesday, October 1 – continued
Friday, October 3 – paper #5
7
Monday, October 6 – Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Wednesday, October 8 – continued discussions of Oedipus
Friday, October 10 – paper #6
8
Monday, October 13 – continued discussions of Oedipus
Wednesday, October 15 – continued discussions of Oedipus
Friday, October 17 – paper #7
FALL BREAK
9
Monday, October 27 – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I
Wednesday, October 29 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II
Friday, October 31 – paper #8
10
Monday, November 3 – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III
Choose first poem for presentation
Wednesday, November 5 – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV
Friday, November 7 – paper #9
11
Monday, November 10 – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V
Wednesday, November 12 – continued
Friday, November 14 – paper #10
12
Monday, November 17 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Wednesday, November 19 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Friday, November 21 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
13
Monday, November 24– STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Choose second poem for presentation
Wednesday, November 26 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Friday, November 28 - Thanksgiving Vacation
14
Monday, December 1 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Wednesday, December 3 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Friday, December 5 – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
15
Monday, December 8 - STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Wednesday, December 10 - STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Friday, December 12 – Preparation for the Final Examination
Final Examination Thursday, December 18, 1:00-4:00 p.m.