TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
May 13—Introduction to the Course
Homework due:
1. Read the syllabus closely and write down any questions that arise
2. Familiarize yourself with the course website
3. Purchase required texts from the bookstore
May 15—Literacy Narrative
Homework due:
1. Blog Post #1
2. In Being Human, Percy’s The Loss of the Creature (541), Niccol’s Gattaca (34), Lewis’s That Hideous
Strength (49), Selzer’s Imelda (54), Wilson’s Naturalist (87), Feynman’s Surely You’re Joking, Mr.
Feynman (103), Nabokov’s Speak, Memory (296), and Wolff’s The Duke of Deception (344)
3. In The Little Seagull, W-1a, W-1b, W-1c, W-2f (editing sentences p. 11, and editing language p. 12),
W-3b (Describing p. 20 and Narrating p. 21), W-3c, W-3d, and W-8.
May 20—Literacy Narrative
Homework due:
1. Rough Draft of Literacy Narrative
2. Blog Post #2
3. In Being Human, Tolstoy’s War and Peace (190, 281, and 291), Eliot’s Middlemarch (153) and Silas
Marner (334), Barrie’s Peter Pan (261), Stevenson’s Child’s Play (531), and Swift’s Gulliver’s
Travels (395)
4. In The Little Seagull, S-6, S-9, L-1, L-2, and L-4
May 22—Annotated Bibliography
Homework due:
1. Final Draft of Literacy Narrative
2. In Being Human, Thomas’s The Wonderful Mistake (31), Braun’s The Science of Happiness (67),
Selzer’s The Surgeon as Priest (131), Gladwell’s Drugstore Athlete (555) Mann’s Buddenbrooks
(146), Klass’s Invasions (160), Bukovsky’s Account of Torture (218), and Jonas’s The Burden
and Blessing of Mortality (413)
3. In The Little Seagull, W-10, W-11, R-1, and R-2
May 27—NO CLASSES
May 29—Annotated Bibliography
Homework due:
1. Rough Draft of Annotated Bibliography
2. Blog Post #3
2. In Being Human, Shakespeare’s King Lear (455) and Sonnet 12 (436), Babbit’s Tuck Everlasting (403),
Thomas’s Fern Hill and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (430), Dickenson’s Pain has an
Element of Blank (539), Camus’s The Plague (126), and Cather’s My Antonia (584)
3. In The Little Seagull, R-3 and R-4
June 3—Literature Review
Homework due:
1. Final Draft of Annotated Bibliography
2. Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Chapters 1-8)
3. In Being Human, Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric (207)
3. In The Little Seagull, P-4, P-6, and P-9
June 5—Literature Review
Homework due:
1. Rough Draft of Literature Review
2. Blog Post #4
3. Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Chapters 9-16)
4. In Being Human, Hawthorne’s The Birthmark (5), and Bacon’s On Deformity (476)
5. In The Little Seagull, W-7, W-2b, W-2c, W-3a, W-3b, and W-3e
June 10—Literary Analysis
Homework due:
1. Final draft of Literature Review
2. Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Chapters 17-22)
3. In Being Human, Kaplan’s The Ballad of John Henry and Henry the Accountant (598), and
Shakespeare’s As You Like it (259)
3. In The Little Seagull, W-5, W-9, and W-12
June 12—Literary Analysis
Homework due:
1. Rough Draft of Literary Analysis
2. Blog Post #5
3. In Being Human, Hobbe’s Leviathan and Kant’s Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
(571), Cummings’s Two Poems (410), Bacon’s Of Death (388), O’Flaherty’s Life (314), Cather’s The
Professor’s House (307), and Stevenson’s Ordered South (300)
In The Little Seagull, S-1, S-2, and S-3
June 17—Job Application Package
Homework due:
1. Final Draft of Literary Analysis
2. Lynda.com playlist 1 and 2
3. In Being Human, Longfellow’s The Village Blacksmith (596)
3. In The Little Seagull, W-4, S-5, S-7, and S-8
June 19—Job Application Package
Homework due:
1. Rough Draft of Job Application Package
2. Blog Post #6
3. Lynda.com playlist 3 and 4
4. In Being Human, Ruskin’s The Crown of Wild Olive (603)
4. In The Little Seagull, P-1, P-2, and P-5
June 21—
FINAL DRAFT OF JOB APPLICATION PACKAGE DUE IN MY MAILBOX (139 BURROWES
BLDG) BY 4:00PM.