Schedule


This schedule is subject to change because it is a living document. Changes will be announced in class. 
Course Readings assigned in the schedule will be linked in the schedule as much as possible. Password-protected readings will be found in the Classroom site (via Writing Assignments) and individual assignment handouts will be posted within the assignments.
Class agendas and content for class is located in posts linked to the dates in this schedule. 

The schedule of assignments and lessons will be posted here.

March 8, Week 1: See post here. 

  • Topics: course basics, poetry basics, creating a graphic organizer. 
  • Readings: 2 poems in class, 5 homework poems to read. See post linked above to access texts. 
  • Asynchronous material: Literary Terms 1: Poetry

March 15, Week 2

March 22, Week 3

Thesis statements: Handout from the UNC Writing Center

Readings for Class: 

Homework: 

  • Read Chapter 8 of the course textbook, on writing the literary analysis.
  • Complete this week’s close reading worksheet on one of the poems listed for this week. Draft a 700-word essay explaining how the poem’s ( Enter the Dragon , a song in the front yard, Those Winter Sundays)allusion(s) and (insert one more literary key term from the vocabulary list we have built in class) establish the poem’s idea(s). Due: March 29 

March 29, Week 4: SPRING RECESS 

Read: 

  • Mariana Enriquez, “The Dirty Kid.” 
  • Chapter 3, on effective argumentation, in course textbook

April 5: Week 5 

Click here to review slides on the lecture on “The Dirty Kid“

We will discuss “The Dirty Kid” and outline its story elements, and we will

discuss feminist criticism

Elements of Story 

Homework: 

Read The Dunwich Horror

You can also listen to it here

Watch: Short video introducing the theory of The Uncanny

April 12, Week 6

Discussion: The Dunwich Horror

Asynchronous: Presentation on Monsters (Seven Theses)

Homework: Thesis I and Thesis II in Jeremy Cohen’s “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”

April 19, Week 7: Review Here

April 26, Week 8

  • Discuss Creative Analysis assignment and examples
  • Discuss Macbeth
  • Completed during synchronous portion of class: Creative Analysis, Part I
  • Due by the end of the day: Creative Analysis, Part II. Upload in Blackboard.
  • Activity: Writing with sources
  • Asynchronous Watch: Videos posted here
  • Homework: Read Theses III and IV of “Monster Culture” (linked in Blackboard in “Session Materials” tab) and watch presentation posted in link above

May 3, Week 9

Use the link

Lesson: Claims and structure: effective paragraphing

Watch: TBA

Due: exercise on “Monsters: Seven Theses” after watching/reading presentation

May 10, Week 10

Drafts due for Creative Analysis

Reminder: The Creative Analysis is the research assignment of the semester. Your creative perspective must be informed by your research and your reflective statement or annotations must outline how it is informed by your research.

Asynchronous peer review using worksheet

May 17th, Week 11

Revised creative analysis due for feedback

Lesson: organizing your argument and revising your claims.

May 24, Week 12

Artist’s Statement drafts due: upload to Blackboard

Lesson: Exam preparation review on analyzing poetry and writing an explication of the text

May 31st

Creative Analysis and Statement due by end of day

NO CLASS

June 7, Week 14

Last day of class: project presentations

June 9: Final Exam released

June 13th: Final Exam due

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