Prof. Perret's English II

READING ASSIGNMENTS (NB: Always read the introduction to each work assigned.)
	1	Introduction to the course, period, & sonnet form
	2	Norton Anthology 469-496 (the Sixteenth Century)
		Shakespeare's sonnets: all the selections
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	3	Shakespeare's sonnets: reread 29, 73, 116, 129, 130, 138
		The Faerie Queene: Letter to Ralegh & Canto I.1-28
	4	FQ Cantos I & II
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	5	FQ Cantos IV & V (skip lines 318-96)
	6	FQ Cantos VII & VIII
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	7	FQ Cantos IX (skip 15-158) & X (skip 318-96, 451-86)
	8	FQ Cantos XI (skip 43-63) & XII
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	9	Marlowe's Doctor Faustus to Chorus 2 (p. 1009)
	10	DF to the end
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	11	Shakespeare's Macbeth (whole play), out-of-class quiz
	12	Macbeth, Acts I & II
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	13	Macbeth, Acts III & IV
	14	Macbeth, Act V
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		SPRING BREAK!
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	15	Norton Anthology 1209-1230 (the Early Seventeenth Century)
		Poems of Sense: Donne, "The Flea"; Marvell, "To HIs Coy Mistress"; Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
	16	Othello (whole play), instructions for group project
	17 &18	Poems of Spirit: Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "Holy Sonnet 14: 'Batter My Heart...'"; Herbert, "Love" Donne, "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward"; Marvell, "A Dialogue Between the Soul & Body"
	19	(group project) Othello
	20	(group project) Desdemona
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	21	(group project) Iago
	22	(group project) other characters
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	23	How to Read Milton; Paradise Lost Book I
	24	PL Books I & II
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	25	PL Books IV (read 1-775), V (1-35), & VII (1-39)
	26	PL Books VIII (249-653), & !X (1-938a)
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	27	PL Books IX (938b-1189) & X (414-584)
	28	PL Books X (966-1104) & XII (522-649)
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	TBA	FINAL EXAM

TEXTS	Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. 1): 7th. edition Shakespeare Four Tragedies (Bantam)
GRADING The semester grade will be determined thus:
15% class preparation exercises & quizzes 15% class discussion (including group project) 15% group Othello or Paradise Lost project 15% working paper 40% final exam
ATTENDANCE Class attendance is required. More than three absences will lower your grade, so save these for illnesses. Lateness of more than ten minutes counts as half an absence. ...
STANDARDS You are expected to read the assignments before class, so you will be able to discuss the reading--part of your grade is based upon the quality of your class discussion. What I look for is evidence that you have understood and thought about what you have read, not just for evidence that you have read.
WRITTEN WORK There is no mid-term exam or research paper, but there is a final exam. Exercises other than those to be e-mailed or posted on the Discussion Board are to be put on the teacher's desk as you come to class. Papers will not be accepted after their content has been discussed in class, so lateness may result in a lowered grade. OFFICE HOURS My office is Dammann 4. You may drop in during my posted office hours or make an appointment. My voicemail extension is 5106; my e-mail is perretm@mville.edu; my home answering machine is (914) 694-5787. Please come see me if you feel the need of reassurance or help.



		In an age of discovery, Renaissance writers explored the rewards and dangers of reaching into new areas of experience, of questioning the accepted social and moral order, of concentrating more on their desires than on God's. In this course we will look at the possibilities and problems considered by these writers, their visions and revisions of ways of working with these, and the imagination and skill with which they express these.
		GOALS acquaintance with some great works of English literature appreciation of the richness of Elizabethan & Jacobean language understanding of the values of this time insight into how powerful assumptions about human nature & man's relation to his rapidly changing world were explored & expanded, questioned & challenged