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CALENDAR ENG 4301:BRITISH LITERATURE I


 * DATE || IN CLASS || HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT FOR DISCUSSION THIS DAY ||
 * May 26 || * Review Syllabus
 * Choose authors for reports
 * Persistence of English
 * Characteristics of the Middle Ages
 * Summary of //Beowulf//
 * Audios of Middle Ages || * Read //The Dream of the Rood//
 * Read //Beowulf// ||
 * May 27 || * Discussion of //Sir Gawain and the Green Knight//
 * King Arthur: Romancing Politics
 * Summary of //Sir Gawain and the Green Knight//
 * //Audio of SGAGK// || * Read //Sir Gawain and the Green Knight// ||
 * May 31 || * Student Report on Chaucer
 * Audios of Chaucer and some old English poems
 * Discussion: Medieval Estates and Orders & The First Crusade || * Read Chaucer selections in the text ||

Middle Ages || * Review for Exam ||
 * June 1 || * Discussion of //The York Play of the Crucifixion// || * Read //The York Play of the Crucifixion// ||
 * June 2 || * Exam over The
 * June 2 || * Exam over The
 * June 3 || * Introduction to The Sixteenth Century
 * Student Report on Edmund Spenser || * Read Spenser’s //The Faerie Queen// ||

Student Report on John Milton || * Read selections in text by Milton || John Bunyan || * Read selections by Bunyan || William Tyndale Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Gray George Crabbe ||  ||
 * June 7 || * Student Report on W. Shakespeare || * Read Shakespeare’s sonnets ||
 * June 8 || * Shakespeare’s Plays ||  ||
 * June 9 || * Shakespeare’s Plays ||  ||
 * June 10 || * Shakespeare’s Plays ||  ||
 * June 14 || * Shakespeare’s Plays ||  ||
 * June 15 || * Shakespeare’s Plays ||  ||
 * June 16 || * John Milton
 * June 17 || * Quiz 16th/17th centuries || * Review for Quiz ||
 * June 21 || * Introduction: Restoration and Eighteen Century
 * Student report on
 * June 22 || * Student report on Alexander Pope
 * Discussion of Pope’s works || * Read selections by Pope in the text ||
 * June 23 || * Student Reports on
 * June 24 || * FINAL EXAM
 * NOTEBOOK DUE ||  ||