The Lady of Shalott, Alfred Lord Tennyson

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(The Lady of Shalott, Alfred Lord Tennyson)

English 2323 British Literature from 1780 to the Present

Dr. Catherine E. Ross

Spring 2012

MWF 9:00-9:50

BEP 218

Office: BUS 242; Telephone: 903-566-7275; E-mail:

Office Hours: MWF 10-10:50 AM; W 1-4 PM, and by appointment

POLICY STATEMENT

Required Texts (these may be ebooks or hard copies, if you prefer):

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre http://amzn.to/2323janeeyre

Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre Affair http://amzn.to/2323eyreaffair

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein http://amzn.to/2310frankenstein

Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest http://amzn.to/2323impbeing

eReaders and iPad or Laptop Computer Applications:

Kindle (iPads and pc laptops)

iBook (iPads and Mac laptops)

Goodreader (iPads)

Noterize (iPads)

Dropbox (both)

This course is part of the UT Tyler IPACC (iPad-Assisted Core Curriculum) initiative, an exciting new teaching program, the first in the UT System, that will use iPads to create portable, collaborative learning environments. Students will use iPads (or laptop computers), e-books, and a variety of learning-related applications and faculty-generated electronic documents, most of which are free. As required course materials, iPads are eligible for financial aid and will be tax-deductible for student families. We have set up an on-line store for students to purchase their iPads, which you may visit at www.apple.com/edu/uttyler. The benefits of this iPad initiative are many, including but not limited to long-term cost effectiveness (more than 200,000 books are available free or at prices lower than hard copy books), increased efficiency in information handling, and portability.

(Jane Eyre and Rochester, on the Thornfield Estate)

Goals of this course: This course will introduce you to representative writers, texts, and concerns in British literature from the Romantic Period, the Victorian Period, the 20th and 21st Centuries. We will read poetry, prose, and drama, and study a representative novel from each period. If you participate actively, you will leave this course with improved skills in critical thinking, reading, and writing as well as an enhanced sense of what is singular and important about the British literature of these three periods.

Course work: Course activities include reading selected texts closely, taking frequent unannounced quizzes; participating actively in class discussion of these readings; studying the social and cultural history of the British Romantic period; learning the proper terms used in literary criticism; and taking three tests. There will be no final exam or term paper.

(Byron, et al at Percy Shelley’s cremation)

Class participation, attendance: This course requires regular attendance, thorough preparation for class, and active participation in discussions. Everyone is required to contribute to discussion in class or on blackboard. I will explain my specific expectations for class participation and method of tracking it on the first day of class. Missing three class periods(the equivalent of one full week of class) due to unexcused absence lowers a student’s final course grade by one letter.

Grading: Your grade will be based upon your engagement with assigned texts as demonstrated in your participation in discussions and upon the quality of your work on quizzes and tests. Do your best at all times to show me your interest, involvement, and willingness to work in this course. You do not always have to “know the ‘right’ answer” to do well in this course. Do the work, think about what you have read, show up, and participate helpfully in class discussions. The following formula will be used to calculate your grade:

Class Participation 15%

Daily Quizzes 20%

Romantic Period Test 20%

Victorian Period Test 20%

“Long Test” 25%

Academic honesty: You are encouraged to collaborate with your classmates when you prepare for quizzes, class discussion, and tests, but turning in work that is not the product of your own learning, or any other form of academic dishonesty, will result in appropriate disciplinary action.

(Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake)

Communication: It is important that you keep abreast of what is going on in this course at all times. Because you can set up your iPads to receive email and to access Blackboard, Dropbox, and other electronic communication tools, you will find that keeping up with what is going on or expected in this class will be quick and easy. You should check Blackboard (for your Course Schedule and specific assignments) and your Patriots email every day. If you need help in setting up your devices with the various required eBook readers and applications, see the technicians in the Academic Computing Center.

(“The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Tennyson)

Conferences and office hours: You should come to see me at least once early in the semester to discuss your interests, concerns about, and hopes for this course. My office hours are listed above, if these times are inconvenient, I will be happy to set up an appointment for you at another time.

Technology Protocols and Manners.

This is the first year the Department of Literature and Languages at UT Tyler has used iPads and laptops exclusively in course planning. We want to make sure that this initiative works to your benefit and that your learning is enhanced, not interrupted or derailed in any way. Reading Facebook, sending text messages, or doing work unrelated to our course during class time is rude, inappropriate, and disruptive. Anyone found doing so will be asked to leave the classroom and will receive a zero for that day’s work

Disability Accommodations:

If you have a disability, including a learning disability, for which you request disability support services/accommodation(s), please contact the Disability Support Services office, so that the appropriate arrangements may be made. In accordance with federal law, a student requesting disability support services/accommodation(s) must provide appropriate documentation of his/her disability to the Disability Support Services counselor. For more information, call or visit the Student Services Center located in the University Center, Room 282. The telephone number is 903-566-7079 (TDD 903-565-5579). Additional information may also be obtained at the following UT Tyler Web address: http://www.uttyler.edu/disabilityservices.

Grade Replacement

If you are repeating this course for a grade replacement, you must file an intent to receive grade forgiveness with the registrar by the 12th day of class. Failure to file an intent to use grade forgiveness will result in both the original and repeated grade being used to calculate your overall grade point average. A student will receive grade forgiveness (grade replacement) for only three (undergraduate student) or two (graduate student) course repeats during his/her career at UT Tyler. (2006-08 Catalog, p. 35).

(Tintern Abbey, site of William Wordsworth’s poem)

ENGL 2323, Spring 2012

MWF 9:00-9:50

Course Syllabus

The course units are also posted on Blackboard, with links to the required e-texts.

At the beginning of each class, expect a brief quiz over that day's reading assignment and/or the previous day's class discussion

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 1780-1830

Friday, January 13:

· In Class: Course introduction, policies, look at some digital projects.

· Homework: Open and view this document: Blake. View plates for William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” and study the texts of these poems: “Introduction” to “Songs of Innocence,” The Lamb,” 9.1 songs inn black boy 1.pdf , 9.2. songs inn black boy 2.pdf , and two students’ digital projects: cooks lamb.tyger , digital project little black boy , Open the Blake Study Questions and use them to work on these texts (the text for "The Tyger" is in the next class period's assignments). Blake study questions.docx

Weds., Jan 18:

· In Class: Close reading and discussion of "Introduction," "The Lamb," and "The Little Black Boy." Look at frontis and cover page for "Songs of Experience,"

· Homework: View plates and study the poems for Blake's “Introduction” to “Songs of Experience,” “The Tyger,” and “The Poison Tree.”

o Digital Producer "Introduction" to Songs of Experience: ____________________

o Digital Producer "The Tyger:" ________________________________________

o Digital Producer "The Poison Tree:" ___________________________________

· Prepare for reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by reviewing these two study guides: rime_7_parts.docx and Rime_plot___nore_detailed.docx . Be prepared to answer and discuss the study questions by Monday.

Friday, Jan. 20:

· In Class: Close reading and discussion of "Introduction," "The Tyger," and "The Poison Tree" from Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience.pptx

· Homework: Reread STC's “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

o Digital Producer Part I : _________________________________

o Digital Producer Part II : _________________________________

o Digital Producer Part III : _________________________________

o Digital Producer Part IV : _________________________________

o Digital Producer Part V: _________________________________

o Digital Producer Part VI : _________________________________

o Digital Producer Part VII : _________________________________

Monday, Jan. 23:

· In Class: Share digital productions, discuss “Coleridge's "Rime"

· Homework: Read STC’s “Kubla Khan,” begin by reading three three files (author's explanatory preface for why the poem is a fragment): Preface to "Kubla Khan,", Preface to "Kubla" p. 2 & 3, and Preface to "Kubla" p 4 w. notes. Next, view ross illustrations kubla khan and kierstad digital kubla khan. Bring to class a sketch of what is described in the poem.

o Digital Producer "Kubla Khan:"______________________________________

Weds. Jan. 25:

· In Class: Continue discussing Coleridge's poems.

· Homework: Read Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven,” and "I wandered lonely as a cloud" WW I wandered lonely , listen to yeagers song I wandered

o Digital Producer for "We Are Seven" _______________________________

Friday, Jan. 27:

· In Class: Wordsworth's two lyrics, "We are seven" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud."

· Homework: Read Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey": tintern abbey text ; tintern abbey images , perkins digital tintern

o Digital Producer “Tintern Abbey,” Stanza I: ___________________________

o Digital Producer “TA” Stanza II: ______________________________________

o Digital Producer “TA” Stanza III: ______________________________________

o Digital Producer “TA” Stanza IV:______________________________________

o Digital Producer Stanza “TA” V: _____________________________________

Monday, Jan. 30:

· In Class: William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”

· Homework: Read two lyrics by Lord Byron: “She Walks in Beauty,” and “When We Two Parted.” . For the latter poem, make a hard copy of the text and mark all the rhymes and echoing sounds as modeled in class ENGL 2323 byron study questions.docx

o Digital Producer: "She Walks in Beauty":_____________________________

o Digital Producer: "When We Two Parted":____________________________

Weds. Feb. 1:

· Class: Byronic hero and byron's lyrics: "She walks in beauty" and "When we two parted"--see n.weber byron digital project

· Homework: Look for examples in literature, film, television of the Byronic hero. Also references to Frankenstein. If you are a slow reader, begin reading the novel.

Friday, Feb. 3:

· In Class: Finish with Byron's lyrics, byronic hero. Introduction to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. View the powerpoint on Frankenstein attached above.

· Homework: Read Preface and Volume I of Frankenstein. Volume I is the first eight chapters. Here is the Preface: Preface to Frankenstein.docx

o Digital Producer: ______________________________________________

Monday, Feb. 6:

· No class: reading day to get head start on reading this novel.

· Homework: Finish reading Volume I of Frankenstein

Weds. Feb. 8:

· In Class: Discuss Volume I of Frankenstein

· Homework: Read Volume II of Frankenstein. (The next nine chapters)

o Digital Producer: _____________________________________________

Friday, Feb. 10:

· In Class: Discuss Volume II of Frankenstein.

· Homework: Read Volume III of Frankenstein. (The last seven chapters) Look at the file re Volume III attached above (images from the adventures of the last volume and Harold Bloom's notes on "Romantic Prometheanism"

o Digital Producer: _____________________________________________

Monday, Feb. 13:

· In Class: Discuss Volume III of Frankenstein.

· Homework: Review for Romantic Period Test, refer to the test template to review. Look back at the digital projects for review, begin working on the test template

Weds. Feb. 15:

· In class: Review for Romantic Period test

· Homework: Review for Romantic Period Test, use the test template and digital projects to review.

Friday, Feb. 17:

· In Class: TEST over the Romantic Period

THE VICTORIAN PERIOD 1830-1901

February 20, Monday

· In class: Introduction to The Victorian Period, first look at three poems by Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott," "Ulyssess," "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

· Homework: Read three poems by Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott," ford digital project lady of shalott , blundell lady of shalott digital project , "Ulysses," "Charge of the Light Brigade." , dorman digital project light brigade , duty digital project light brigade Find and view at least one YouTube video of "The Lady of Shalott." Familiarize yourself with the story of Ulysses' (or Odysseus') return from the Trojan War as told in The Odyssey, and find out the story of the cavalry charge described in Tennyson's poem about the Light Brigade (for starters, it took place in the Crimean War).

February 22, Wednesday

· In Class: Discuss Tennyson's poems and their historical contexts.

· Homework: Read five sonnets from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese , lammes ebb sonnet . Find out about what a sonnet is (how many lines, how strucutured, uses of the form).

o Digital Producer Sonnet 1: __________________________________,

o Digital Producer Sonnet 21: _________________________________,

o Digital Producer Sonnet 32: ________________________________,

o Digital Producer Sonnet 43: _________________________________,

o Digital Producer Sonnet 44: ________________________________

February 24, Friday

· In Class: Sonnets from the Portuguese

· Homework: Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess." okland last duchess project Look up and be sure you understand the term "dramatic monologue."

o Digital Producer "My Last Duchess": ____________________________

February 27, Monday

· In Class: the dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess"

· Homework: Jane Eyre, chapters 1-3

February 29, Wednesday

· In Class: Jane Eyre, chapters 1-3

· Homework: Jane Eyre, chapters 4-6

o Digital Producer: ______________________

March 2, Friday

· In Class: Jane Eyre, chapters 4-6

· Homework: Jane Eyre, chapters 7-9

o Digital Producer: ______________________

March 5, Monday

· In Class: Jane Eyre, chapters 7-9

· Homework: Jane Eyre, chapters 10-12

o Digital Producer: ______________________

March 7, Wednesday

· In Class: Jane Eyre, chapters 10-12

· Homework: Jane Eyre, chapters 13-15

o Digital Producer: ______________________