UNITS OF STUDY
FIRST QUARTER
September 12, 2011 - January 20, 2012
Introduction and General Habits of Literary Study
3 weeks -- What do we do as scholars do--individually and together--to read literature and grapple with texts?
Week 1 Topics: Scholarship, Reading and Writing, Portfolio Set-UpSummer Reading , Class Website
Reading: Nonfiction Texts: "The Dancing Mind" by Toni Morrison, "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
Assessments: Quiz on Summer Reading Works - In-class essay on Summer Reading Self-Selected Work
Writing: In-Class Essay (ICE) on "self-selected" book from Summer Reading (ICE)
Notetaking: Class Orientation, Class Discussion, Summer Reading
Week 2 Topics: Vocabulary, Notetaking, Wiki Setup, Myth/Bible Allusions , Class Wiki
Reading: Bulfinche's Mythology
Texts: Short Guide to Writing About Literature, Vocabulary, Myth/Bible Packets
Writing: Allusions Poster & Script
Assessment : Quiz on Allusions
Week 3 Topics: Allusions from Bible, Classical, Norse, and Arthurian Myth, About the Research Paper
Reading: Bulfinche's Mythology, Essays Returned from ICE
Assignment: Point-point slide poster: 1 image, 1 minute script uploaded to wiki
Assessment : Post-Quiz on Allusions, Vocabulary 1 Test
Looking at Literature Closely and Writing Critically
4 weeks -- How do literary elements contribute to a text? How does understanding these parts help us in analysis and interpretation?
Week 4 Topics: Research Paper, Canterbury Tales Characters, Significant Detail, Inference, Allusion, Class Blog, Thesis for Research Paper
Writing: Anatomy of a Chaucerian Pilgrim: Inferring Character By Identifying Significant Detail
Notetaking: Annotation of a Text
Research: RP Tentative Topic (Begin taking research notes now--4 weeks till drafting)
Assessment: Presentation of Anatomy of Chaucierian Pilgrim
Assessment: OCE on Chaucer's Use of Characterization (assigned)
Week 5 Topics: Canterbury Tales Proper poetic texts by Geoffery Chaucer (Summer Reading)
Cultural Layers: Ellesmere Manuscript-Illuminated Writing, Gregorain Chants
Writing: Group Work on Pecha-Kucha Presentation of Tales, Blog post on Canterbury Tales
Notetaking: on Presentations
Research: RP Working Thesis, "Going Beyond Google" for Research , Notes Due (20 notecards)
Assessment: Chaucer Presentations,Vocabulary 2 Test
Assessment: OCE on Chaucer's Use of Characterization Due (OCE)
Week 6 Topics: Medieval Allegory of Pilgrimage,morality play, allegory, mise en scene, Dance of Death Motif
Texts: The Seventh Seal, film by Ingmar Bergman; Everyman, drama (morality play) by Anonymous
Cultural Layers: Dance of Death Motif
Film: The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
Text: Everyman by Anonymous
Writing: Blog post on The Seventh Seal
Research: Notes Due (20 notecards)
Week 7 Topics: Medieval Allegory of Pilgrimage,morality play, allegory, Model RP, Argument Outline for RP
Assessment: Vocabulary 3 Test
Research: Notes Due (20 notecards), Outline Due
Writing: Independent Reading Essay Due (IRE)
Writing: Blog on Everyman
Research Paper Assignment: Part 1: Selecting a Topic, Developing a Working Thesis
1 Week -- What are effective ways to research and support a literary thesis?
Week 8 Topics: Writing the Research Paper , Review of the research process to begin the assignment: Compose a source research paper focused on an arguable thesis related to a literary topic. The paper is to be 9-12 pages in length (2,500 - 3,400 words).
Texts: Short Guide to Writing About Literature, BP Stylebook, WESSKA MLA Style
Research: Notes Due (20 notecards)
Week 9 Topics: Writing the Research Paper, Quarter 1 Portfolio Conferences
Writing: Draft 1 of Research Paper
Research: Draft 1 Due
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