Calendar- Fall2011 - EGL 102 - Professor J.

Mignano-Brady

This is a general overview. All classwork and homework will be announced in class and or posted on the blog. There will be extensive reading and writing in this class so please come to class on a regular basis. Literature Circles, Workshop dates and Homework Assignments will be announced in class and are subject to change. Papers: All final drafts must be handed in on the dates they are due. Failure to hand in your papers will greatly affect your grade. You will be given the opportunity to revise.See Syllabus: Rules for Revising Week 1 8/30 Introductions Week 2 9/6 Elements of Drama Cont Week 3 9/13 Continuation of Drama Unit ______________ Literature Workshop ______________ Week 4 9/20 Literature Workshop/ Fishbowl Discussion Symbols & Motifs _________________ Discuss -Paper # 1 Week 5 9/27 Short Story Discussion Elements of Fiction Character Analysis Point of View ________________ Week 6 10/4 Twentieth Century Womens Rights Movements Workshop & Discussion Week 7 10/11 Week 8 10/18 Comparing & Contrasting Characters in Fiction

Define Literature? Form & Structure Prose Poetry ________________

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

Sign into Blog

9/1 Elements of Drama Begin Drama Unit Greek Tragedy, Tragic Hero Irony, Character, Plot & Theme 9/8

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

9/15

The Storm by Kate Chopin

Antigoneby Sophocles
____________ Irony- Verbal & Situational

Literature Circle/Socratic Seminar _______________

Theme, Character, Setting Time Period

Paper # 1 2 pagesDue Today MLA Format In-Text Citation + Works Cited Begin Short Story Unit __________________ A& P by John Updike Post Modernism

9/29 Elements of a Story & Literary Elements Literature Circles

Interpreter of Maladies by JhumpaLahiri 10/6

Theme Analysis Author & Purpose Time Period _______________ Literature Workshop

10/13 Existentialism and Modernism: Kafka _____________ Allegory Theme POV

Connecting Themes&Interpr eting, Literature Workshop 10/20 Paper #2 2-3 pages Due Today MLA Format In-Text Citation The Birth-Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Antigone by Sophocles

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte PerkinsGillman

Calendar- Fall2011 - EGL 102 - Professor J. Mignano-Brady

Week 9 10/25

Week 10 11/1

Week 11 11/8 Election Day No Classes _______________ Begin Poetry Unit _____________ Introduction to Poetry: Structure & Form ________________ Imagism

Week 12 11/15 Figurative Language/ Allusion ___________________ Selections from diverse poets in Family: An Album __________________ Workshop: Writing Poetry Analyzing Poetry

Week 13 11/22 Paper #3 3-4 pages Due Today MLA- In Text Citation & Works Cited

Week 14 11/29 Poetry In Motion Sound Devices Selections from The Sounds of Poetry

Week 15 12/6 Final Paper Due Today 4 5 pages ________________ Presentations Begin: Students will present Final Papers

Short Story Unit Continues ________________ Allusion, Allegory & The Human Condition in Hawthornes The Birth-Mark _______________ Romanticism & Transcendentalism

Midterm Review

Poetry Unit Continued Preparation for Final Paper

Calendar- Fall2011 - EGL 102 - Professor J. Mignano-Brady

10/27 Literature Circle

11/3

11/10

11/17 Poetry /Writing Workshops Speaker & Setting Selections from Cultural Homelands: An Album Pg. 539 Diverse Poets

11/24 Thanksgiving Break- No classes

12/1 Last Day before the final paper is due: Review concepts

12/8

Midterm Romanticism & Transcendentalism In Class Essay

Poetry Out Loud/ Poetry as a spoken language

Presentations

Continuation of Romantic Album Theme & Tone

Papers: All final drafts must be handed in on the dates they are due. Failure to hand in your papers will greatly affect your grade. You will be given the opportunity to revise.See Syllabus: Rules for Revising

Week 16 Week 17 12/13 12/20 Calendar- Fall2011 - EGL 102 - Professor J. Mignano-Brady Student Presentations Finals Week Revisions

12/22 12/15 Last Day of Classes Student Presentations Continue Graded Finals will be distributed Final Paper- Revised Papers will be Distributed

*Creative Assignments to look forward to: RAFT, Panel Discussions, Character Diaries, Informal Presentations, Blogging& Fishbowls.

Note: Throughout the semester you will discover that lectures, literary and writing workshops, blog assignments, creative projects and written assignments will be announced in class. This is a general timeline of the curriculum. Dates and lessons are subject to change. Announcements regarding any changes will be made in class in advance.