Syllabus - Proposed Schedule
World Literature 2332 Fall 2014
Instructor: Stacy Short, Argyle HS Room 207
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| Office Hours: 7th Period 2:50 to 3:40 M-
Week 1 - Course Intro / Review Readings: "I is an Other" by James Geary, Fiction Novel /
DATE
Themes / Movie
TEKS/ STANDARDS
25-Aug Course Introduction, Syllabus, Policies/Procedures
HPVA7
Quiz over Chpt 1 of "I is an Other" Oral Discussion over ideology behind chpt 1 & 2
26-Aug (Reminder - timed writing tomorrow)
HPVA2
27-Aug Theme: Fiction Novel and movie review / compare/constrast themes
Create outline for first essay: Similarities/Differences in fiction text versus fiction
28-Aug movie
29-Aug WRITE: Timed writing / Major grade over compare/contrast novel/movie
HPVA2
HW: Read The Earliest Inventions of Writing (3-47) & The Epic of Gilgamesh
Week Two - Akkadian & Egyptian Literature Continued
2-Sep READING QUIZ: The Earliest Inv of Writing, Discuss historical value of Gilgamesh
HPVA1
HPVA7
GROUPS: ASSIGNMENTS EARLY POEMS, read, explicate, produce an analysis of each
3-Sep poem. ALSO historical relevance - paragraph to present
GROUPS: ASSIGNMENTS EARLY POEMS, read, explicate, produce an analysis of each
HPVA2
4-Sep poem. ALSO historical relevance - paragraph to present
Continue Gilgamesh ;(outside reading) PRESENT “Ancient Egyptian Poetry” (41-42),
5-Sep “Akhenaten’s ‘Hymn to the Sun’” (42-46); “The Leiden Hymns” (46-49)
Week Three - Hebrew Literature (ca. 1000-300 B.C.)
ARCHETYPES / TALES / CREATION MYTHS - “The Hebrew Bible" (151-158),
“Genesis” (158-162, Noah and the Flood 163-167, The Tower of Babel 167), “From
8-Sep Job” (193-218), “Psalms” (218-221)
9-Sep
10-Sep
11-Sep
12-Sep
13-Sep
14-Sep
Review Hebrew Bible / Genesis - Creation myths
Review Noah, Babel, Job
Review Psalms
TEST - OBJ over readings
Week Four - Ancient Greek Literature (ca. 700-300 B.C.)
“Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind” “Homer” (222-229), The
Iliad : Book I [The Rage of Achilles] (230-245); The Odyssey : Book I [A Goddess
15-Sep Intervenes] (332-343),
16-Sep
17-Sep
18-Sep
19-Sep
Characteristics of the epic poem / archetypes epic hero, warrior/soldier, siren
Video: Watch clips from Troy | Discuss / review epic traits
Video: Watch clips from Troy | Discuss / review epic traits
Reading / Epic Quiz
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
Week Five
22-Sep
23-Sep
"I is An Other" - read chapters 3-6 as it reates to the earliest writings / philosophers / write
discussion questions
AP OBJ QUESTIONS OVER METAPHOR
"I is An Other" - read chapters 3-6 as it reates to the earliest writings / philosophers / write
discussion questions
AP OBJ QUESTIONS OVER METAPHOR
24-Sep
25-Sep
26-Sep AP TIMED WRITING - SELECTION ON METAPHORIC LANG
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
Week Six - Ancient Greek (cont.) & Early Chinese Literature (ca. 1000-85 B.C.)
29-Sep
30-Sep
1-Oct
2-Oct
3-Oct
4-Oct
“Euripides” (693-694), Medea (695-725); “Plato” (779-780), The Apology of Socrates (780799); “Aristotle” (799), From Poetics (800-803); “Poetry and Thought in Early China” (805809); “Confucius” (820-822), From Analects (823-831)
“Euripides” (693-694), Medea (695-725); “Plato” (779-780), The Apology of Socrates (780799); “Aristotle” (799), From Poetics (800-803); “Poetry and Thought in Early China” (805809); “Confucius” (820-822), From Analects (823-831)
“Euripides” (693-694), Medea (695-725); “Plato” (779-780), The Apology of Socrates (780799); “Aristotle” (799), From Poetics (800-803); “Poetry and Thought in Early China” (805809); “Confucius” (820-822), From Analects (823-831)
“Euripides” (693-694), Medea (695-725); “Plato” (779-780), The Apology of Socrates (780799); “Aristotle” (799), From Poetics (800-803); “Poetry and Thought in Early China” (805809); “Confucius” (820-822), From Analects (823-831)
TEST - OBJ over readings
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
Week Seven - Heroic Age Indian & Roman Imperial Literature (ca. 550 B.C.-A.D.
5-Oct 100) Group Seminar
6-Oct
7-Oct
8-Oct
9-Oct
10-Oct
“India’s Heroic Age” (881-886); “The Bhagavad Gita” (1010-1013), The Bhagavad
Gita (1014-1028); “Virgil” (1052-1054), The Aeneid (1055-1134)
“India’s Heroic Age” (881-886); “The Bhagavad Gita” (1010-1013), The Bhagavad
Gita (1014-1028); “Virgil” (1052-1054), The Aeneid (1055-1134)
“India’s Heroic Age” (881-886); “The Bhagavad Gita” (1010-1013), The Bhagavad
Gita (1014-1028); “Virgil” (1052-1054), The Aeneid (1055-1134)
“India’s Heroic Age” (881-886); “The Bhagavad Gita” (1010-1013), The Bhagavad
Gita (1014-1028); “Virgil” (1052-1054), The Aeneid (1055-1134)
PRESENTATIONS OVER SELECTIONS / OR TIMED WRITING
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
Week Eight / NINE (END 9 WEEKS)
13-Oct
14-Oct
15-Oct
16-Oct
17-Oct
20-Oct
21-Oct
22-Oct
23-Oct
24-Oct
Student/Teacher Holiday - Staff Development Day
HPVA1
FINISH "I IS AN OTHER" - EXAM ON FRIDAY OVER BOOK
HPVA7
"I is an Other" - Finish reading - Respond to blog questions - apply in discussion
"I is an Other" - Finish reading - Respond to blog questions - apply in discussion
"I is an Other" - Finish reading - Respond to blog questions - apply in discussion
HPVA2
Week Ten - Islamic Literature (ca. 600-1300) Group Seminar
“The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature” (1419-23); “The Koran” (1426-28), “Jonah”
(1441-46); “Jalaloddin Rumi” and writings (1541-49); “The Thousand and One
Nights” (1566-69), From The Thousand and One Nights (1569-1618)
“The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature” (1419-23); “The Koran” (1426-28), “Jonah”
(1441-46); “Jalaloddin Rumi” and writings (1541-49); “The Thousand and One
Nights” (1566-69), From The Thousand and One Nights (1569-1618)
“The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature” (1419-23); “The Koran” (1426-28), “Jonah”
(1441-46); “Jalaloddin Rumi” and writings (1541-49); “The Thousand and One
Nights” (1566-69), From The Thousand and One Nights (1569-1618)
“The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature” (1419-23); “The Koran” (1426-28), “Jonah”
(1441-46); “Jalaloddin Rumi” and writings (1541-49); “The Thousand and One
Nights” (1566-69), From The Thousand and One Nights (1569-1618)
Presentations / AP Timed Writing
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
27-Oct
28-Oct
29-Oct
30-Oct
31-Oct
Week Eleven - Early Western Literature (ca. 800-1500)
“The Formation of a Western Literature” (1621-23); “Beowulf” (1626-30),
From Beowulf [Prologue: The Rise of the Danish Nation] (1632-34), [The Fight with
Grendel] (1646-50), [Beowulf Fight’s Grendel’s Mother] (1663-69), [Beowulf Attacks
the Dragon] (1688-94); “Dante Alighieri” (1826-36), Inferno : Cantos I-X (1836-66),
Cantos XXXI-XXXIV (1929-42)
hero Archetype storyboards
hero Archetype storyboards
hero Archetype storyboards
Presentations / AP Timed Writing
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
Week Thirteen - Early Western continued (ca. 700-1400)
HPVA1
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (1991-93), Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight (1993-2045); “Geoffrey Chaucer” (2045-2050), From The Canterbury
3-Nov Tales [General Prologue] (2051-2067), [Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale] (2106-2119)
4-Nov the knights tale
5-Nov the knights tale
HPVA7
HPVA2
6-Nov Read silently / annotate selections
7-Nov Timed Writing
Week Fourteen - Eurpean Renaissance
10-Nov
11-Nov
12-Nov
13-Nov
14-Nov
“The Renaissance in Europe” (2465-72); “Francis Petrarch” (2476-79), “Sonnets”
(2485-90); “Desiderius Erasmus” (2490-94), The Praise of Folly (2494-2517); “Niccolo
Machiavelli” (2517-20), From The Prince (2521-34); “Marguerite de Navarre” (256468), The Heptameron (2568-2591)
“The Renaissance in Europe” (2465-72); “Francis Petrarch” (2476-79), “Sonnets”
(2485-90); “Desiderius Erasmus” (2490-94), The Praise of Folly (2494-2517); “Niccolo
Machiavelli” (2517-20), From The Prince (2521-34); “Marguerite de Navarre” (256468), The Heptameron (2568-2591)
“John Milton” (2996-3000), From Paradise Lost (3001-60)
Trace themes throughout play Macbeth / Hamlet
reading quiz selections and act 1 of play
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2
Week Fifteen - European Renaissance Literature
(cont.)
17-Nov
18-Nov
19-Nov
20-Nov
21-Nov
22-Nov
23-Nov
24-Nov
25-Nov
26-Nov
27-Nov
28-Nov
Play cont
HPVA1
Quiz Act 2, read acts 3-4
Discuss / themes / essay
HPVA7
HPVA2
Finish Play
Outline for essay / themes
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Renaissance Drama
30-Nov Watch Play in class
1-Dec Watch Play in class
2-Dec Turn in Essay / tracing themes throughout play
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA1
“Native America and Europe in the New World” (3063-67); “Popol Vuh” (3076-79),
3-Dec From the “Popol Vuh” (3079-92); Course evaluation
“Native America and Europe in the New World” (3063-67); “Popol Vuh” (3076-79),
4-Dec From the “Popol Vuh” (3079-92); Course evaluation
“Native America and Europe in the New World” (3063-67); “Popol Vuh” (3076-79),
5-Dec From the “Popol Vuh” (3079-92); Course evaluation
HPVA7
HPVA2
FINALS WEEK / FINISH NCTC PORTION OF CLASS
8-Dec
9-Dec
10-Dec
11-Dec
12-Dec
13-Dec
14-Dec
15-Dec
16-Dec
17-Dec
18-Dec
19-Dec
Finals Week NCTC - Review Day
Finals Week NCTC - Review Day
HPVA1
COMPLETE FINAL EXAM IN CLASS
COMPLETE FINAL EXAM IN CLASS
GRADES DUE FOR NCTC / CLASS WATCH PLAY
HPVA2
HPVA7
FINALS WEEK AHS - AP OBJ QUESTIONS
AP OBJ QUESTIONS
AP TIMED WRITING
AP PEER EDIT / REVIEW
WATCH MOSES / OR OTHER CLASSIC TALE
WATCH MOSES OR OTHER CLASSIC TALE
HPVA1
HPVA7
HPVA2