Syllabus

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Essay (due date)	Lesson	Quiz
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Week (Starting date)	Assignments Readings, lessons, quizzes, essays
1 (28 Aug)	During this week, you should explore our website, post a message to the practice thread on the Discussion Forum, and read the FAQ carefully.
2 (4 Sep)	FICTION "The Zebra Storyteller," 2; "Happy Endings," 26; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," 80; "The Lady with the Dog," 175.
3 (11 Sep)	"The Story of an Hour," 377; "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," 379; "Odour of Chrysanthemums," 579.
4 (18 Sep)	"A Good Man is Hard to Find," 304; "The Lame Shall Enter First," 315; "Everything That Rises Must Converge," 342.
5 (18 Sep)	POETRY (THE SONNET) "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", 612; "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why," 618; "That time of year thou mayst in me behold," 713"; "When I consider how my light is spent ," 790; "Ozymandias," 791; "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," 793.
6 (25 Sep)	"Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You," 724; "Death be not proud, though some have calléd thee," 947; "God's Grandeur," 955; "I, being born a woman and distressed," 895.
7 (2 Oct)	Use this week for research and writing. You should familiarize yourself with both the online resources and library materials available.
8 (9 Oct)	POETRY (GENERAL) "The Ruined Maid,"639; "The Convergence of the Twain," 877; "Channel Firing," 868; "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "My Last Duchess," 883; "Ulysses," 857; "Dover Beach," 671.
9 (16 Oct)	"The Flea,"664; "To His Coy Mistress," 674; "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," 756.
10 (23 Oct)	"Sex without Love," 708; "Living in Sin," 826; "Dulce et Decorum Est," 879; "Disabled," 885; "Musée des Beaux Arts," 812; "Mr. Flood's Party,"758; "Church Going," 763; "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," 797.
11 (30 Oct)	Use this week for research and writing.
12 (6 Nov)	DRAMA "Trifles," 995.
13 (13 Nov)	Antigone, 1524.
14 (20 Nov)	Hamlet, 1214. (Click here for a summary of the play.)
15 (27 Nov)	We will devote the last two weeks to discussing selections of your choosing. (Reading assignments will be posted to the Discussion Forum.)
16 (4 Dec)	To be announced.
17 (11 Dec)	Final examination.