Spring 2006 Calendar
Unless otherwise indicated, the Arabic numerals following the titles of the works listed below refer to the major divisions of the work in question--for Homer and Vergil, "books"; for Dante, "cantos"; and for Petrarch, individual poems.
By midnight on this date . . . |
students should have read the assignments below, and submitted responses to questions about the readings posted in the Discussion Area of Blackboard. |
| 17 January | Course introduction. Go to the Discussion Area in Blackboard, find the "Introductions" forum, and introduce yourself. Please also submit a response to the "What is literature, and why is it important?" forum. Go to Texts and Documents in Blackboard and read the following three texts: the Akedah (the binding of Isaac), from the Hebrew Bible; the story of Abraham and Ishmael in the Qur-an; and Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" (there are both text and audio files for this one). Respond to the questions related to these texts in the Discussion Area in Blackboard. |
| 19 January | Creation/garden and flood stories: The Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1-3, 6-9; The Qur'an, Sura 11 (Noah); the story of Lilith, from the Alphabet of Ben Sira; selected Sumerian creation and flood myths. (Blackboard) |
| 24 January | Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on Mycenaean Greece, the Trojan War, and Homer. Post any questions you have in the "Ancient Greece and Homer" forum. Read, and respond to: Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. |
| 26 January | Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. |
| 31 January | Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9, 16. |
| 2 February | Homer, Iliad 18, 19 (lines 333-356 only), 22, 24.. |
| 7 February | Vergil, Aeneid 1-2. Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on ancient Rome and Vergil before answering the questions in the Discussion Area. |
| 9 February | Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6. |
| 14 February | Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 793-992), 10 (lines 606-1276), 12 (lines 963-1298). |
| 16 February | The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11. |
| 21-23 February | EXAM #1: The three parts of the exam (multiple choice, quotation, essay) will be available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Saturday, 18 February. You have until noon on Sunday, 26 February, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam cannot be retaken). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box noon on that day as well. No activity in the Discussion Area this week. Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |
| 28 February | The New Testament, Sermon on the Mount (King James Version) (Matthew 5-7); selections from Augustine's Confessions; selections from Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. (Blackboard) |
| 2 March | Dante, Inferno 1-4. |
| 7 March | Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13. |
| 9 March | Dante, Inferno 14-15, 21-22, 26-27. |
| 14/16 March | Spring Break. |
| 21 March | Dante, Inferno , 30-34, selections from Purgatorio and Paradiso. (Blackboard) |
| 23 March | Selections from Li Po. (Blackboard) |
| 28-30 March | EXAM #2: The three parts of the exam (multiple choice, quotation, essay) will be available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Saturday, 25 March. You have until noon on Sunday, 2 April, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam cannot be retaken). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box noon on that day as well. No activity in the Discussion Area this week. Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |
| 4 April | Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere. (Blackboard) |
| 6 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part 1, chs. 1-8. |
| 11 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part 1, chs. 9-15. |
| 13 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part 1, chs. 20, 22, 25, and 52 . |
| 18 April | Milton, Paradise Lost 1 (lines 1-270), 9. (Blackboard) |
| 20 April | Milton, Paradise Lost 9, continued. |
| 25 April | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17. |
| 27 April | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30. |
| Final Exam: The three parts of the exam (multiple choice, quotation, essay) will be available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Saturday, 29 April. You have until noon on Friday, 5 May, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam cannot be retaken). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box noon on that day as well. No activity in the Discussion Area this week. Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |