Week XIII    (April 13 and 15)

Petrarch        QUIZ!

    All Sonnets 

Machiavelli

                The Prince  [quiz]

The Renaissance in Europe: Art and Literature. 

The Enlightenment in Europe   

Jonathan Swift   2027      

            A Modest Proposal   2028  [quiz]

Write your own modest proposal, using Swift's essay as a model. Think of a real problem in your school, job, city and propose a satirical solution in a two or three page essay.  Counts as two quizzes. Due 15 April, as is your federal and state income tax returns. This is an extra credit assignment and not required. 

Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America    2131

Jean-Jacques Rousseau       2148

Confessions, Part I   2150

William Wordsworth   2273

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey   2275

           Tintern Abbey   photo

The World is Too Much with Us   2284  

Prosody  information (3 pages in MS Word)

Week XIV    (April 20 and 22)

Tuesday:  Review for Exam III  

Thursday: 

Link to Shakespeare's sonnets  http://www.bartleby.com/70/index1.html .  

 Essay IV: Consider the material we have read and discussed that relates to literary modernism. Compose an essay that demonstrates the various attributes of modernism in 3 - 5 assigned works. Outside sources--works and criticism not in your text or discussed in class--are not required.  However, if you elect to use these, cite and document them according to MLA guidelines. Due 10 May. 

Week XIV    (April 27 and 29)

Exam III   Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Swift,  Rousseau, and Wordsworth.  

Thursday: The Twentieth Century: Self and Other in Global Context   2279

T. S. Eliot   2784

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock   2787  

The Wasteland (not assigned reading but use as source material for essay IV)

Robert Frost  "Out Out--"        "After Apple-Picking"    

Study notes on modernism in MS Word format. 

What is Man?  Mark Twain (This is a 72-page document, so don't print this in any of the computer classrooms at OTC.) 

50-page Word document of What is Man?

Week XVI    (May 4 and 6)

Mark Twain

Final Exam: Tuesday, 11 May (1:15 - 3:15) Comprehensive with emphasis on Swift, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Twain, and Eliot.  

Essay Questions for Final Exam: You will choose two of these and write an essay on each. 

1.  Choose two or three stories from the list below, in addition to "What is Man?"  and explain the pedagogical function of these and how these "lessons" apply to life and conduct in America, 2004. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey,  The Aeneid.  

2. We began the semester reading "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and ended with "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "What is Man?." Explore the themes or meanings of these works: What do these authors want readers to understand about themselves and the world? Consider the methods used by these authors. 

3. We have read texts, parts of texts, that contain laws. In these are rules of conduct and penalties for breaking these laws. Explain how these are relevant (or not) to people today. The texts are "The Koran," "The Old Testament" ("Leviticus" and "Exodus"), and "The Code of Hammurabi," and "The New Testament" ("The Gospel of Mathew"). 

For the third short essay, after reading "What is Man?" consider the argument that the O. M. (Old Man) is making and the many examples he uses to support his central assertion about the essential nature of humanity.  

[I'll finish this prompt on or before Sunday, 9 May.]

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