Tentative Schedule for 160/1 Poetry and Drama LA 370 Winter 2012 Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:25pm
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R= Reading Assignments from 250 Poems (Second ed,) edited by Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl or 12 Plays, edited by Janet E. Gardner. Handouts will be available on Blackboard – if printing these out is difficult, I will happily print you copies with 48 hours notice. You are responsible to have the days’ reading assignment completed before class begins at 11am, and it will serve you to be able to have the handouts in class for discussions and quizzes. W= Writing assignment for next class RRP= Reading Response Page
	Reading and Writing Assignments Due
January 9	Introductions – in class “Why Poetry Matters” Handout
January 11	R= Beginning Poems Handout
January 16	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day College Closed
January 18 Author Presentation Commitments Due	R= 250 Poems250 Poems pp xxiii –xxvii, pp 1 – 4, 6-12 (Anonymous, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Queen Elizabeth I, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne) Author Presentation Commitments Due
January 23 William Blake Presentation John Keats Presentation	R= 250 Poems pp34 -38, 42 – 50, 51 – 59 (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Bryon, Shelley, Keats) W= RRP 1 Due
January 25 Browning Presentation Walt Whitman Presentation	R= 250 Poems pp60 -64,70 - 84 (Barrett Browning, Poe, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman)
January 30 Dickinson Presentation William Carlos Williams Presentation cummings presentation	R= 250 Poems pp 93 – 97, 110 - 117, 122 – 124, 135 -139 (Dickinson, Crane, Dunbar, Frost, Stein, Williams, Pound, McKay, Owens, cummings) W=RRP 2 Due
February 1 Langston Hughes Presentation Theodore Roethke Presentation Dudley Randall Presentation	R= 250 Poems pp 142 – 144, 151 – 155, 159 – 164 (Hughes, Cullen, Auden, Roethke, Bishop, Hayden, Randall, Stafford, Thomas, Jarrell)
February 6 Charles Bukowski Presentation Sylvia Plath Presentation	R= 250 Poems pp169 – 171, 172, 185-189, 194 – 197, 204-208 (Bukowski, Larkin, Kinnell, Wright, Levine, Sexton, Plath, Knight) & Charles Bukowski Handout, Sylvia Plath Handout W= 3rd RRP Due
February 8 Billy Collins Presentation Sharon Olds Presentation Analytic Literary Paper Assignment passed out in class	R= 250 Poems pp 225, 232-233, 252, 256 – 259 (Heaney, Collins, Komunyakaa, Sundiata, Ali) & Sharon Olds Handout
February 13 Lucille Clifton Presentation Gwendolyn Brooks Presentation Nikki Giovanni Presentation		R= Poems by all too few African American Women Handout W= 4th RRP Due
February 15 Analytic Literary Paper Topic Commitments Due Jimmy Santiago Baca Presentation Carolyn Forche Presentation		R= 250 Poems pp261,265-267, 278 – 279, 286 – 287, 309 -310,313 - 314 (Forche, Harjo, Baca, Moss, Liu, Joseph)
February 20 Rainer Maria Rilke Presentation Pablo Neruda Presentation		R= Rainer Maria Rilke Handout and Pablo Neruda Handout W= 5th RRP Due
February 22 In-Class Midterm Exam		This will be an open book exam - you may bring your textbook, along with any RRPs or notes.
February 27 - March 3 Winter Recess No Credit Classes
March 5 Glaspell Presentation		R= 12 Plays : pp 321 – 332. Trifles by Susan Glaspell
March 7 Sophocles/Oedipus presentation		R= 12 Plays : pp 1 – 15 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles(up to scene 2) Rough draft of Analytic Literary paper to Writing Center
March 12 Analytic Literary Paper Due		R= 12 Plays pp 10-27 Oedipus Rex (up to scene 3) W= Analytic Literary Paper Due
March 14 Assignment for Final project handed out		R= 12 Plays pp 27-45 Oedipus Rex (to end of play)
March 19 Hamlet presentation Shakespeare presentation		R- 12 Plays pp 91 -119 Hamlet Act 1(by Shakespeare) W= 6th RRP due
March 21		R= 12 Plays pp 119 -140 Hamlet (Act 2)
March 26 In class commitment on final project due		R= 12 Plays pp 140 -169 Hamlet (Act 3) W= 7th RRP due & In class commitment on final project due
March 28		R= 12 Plays pp 169 -190 Hamlet (Act 4)
April 2		R= 12 Plays pp 191 – 212 Hamlet Act 5 W= 8th RRP due
April 4 Tennessee Williams Presentation Final Presentation plan due		R= 12 Plays pp 334 -356 Begin The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams(scene i – iv ) Final Presentation plan due
April 9 Final Exam handed out in class Schedule Final presentations		R= 12 Plays pp 356 – 389 Complete The Glass Menagerie (scene v- vii) W= 9th RRP due
April 11 Aristophanes Presentation Lysistrata Presentation	R= 12 Plays pp 46-59 Lysistrata by Aristophanes (up to scene 1)
April 16	R12 Plays pp 59-79 Lysistrata (up to scene 4) W= 10th RRP due
April 18	R= 12 Plays pp 80-90 Lysistrata (through exodus)
April 23 Final Exam Due	Presentations could begin today…. W= Final Exam Due (and if you are writing a paper for the final project and hope to revise your paper, it is due today as well)
April 25	Presentations (if you are writing a paper for the final project and do not want the option to revise your paper, it is due today)
April 30	Presentations (Last Day)
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