This is our general weekly schedule for the authors and graded assignments.

You should plan to do work for this class each week, but you do have choices within this complete schedule -- you're expected to participate in 12 of the 14 literature discussions, and some of those discussions ask you to pick one of the listed texts for that week.

Each student needs to submit a "guided reading notes" assignment and one 3-page paper, so you might work on those assignments during a week that you skip the discussion (regardless of when they are due). All of the quizzes and video quizzes should be submitted in order to keep yourself up to speed for the exam.

Three notes to help you stay on track:

Some items in the general calendar below include direct links to the material, but most of what you need is in the author "pages."

Each student's "guided reading notes" will be scheduled to coordinate with the readings after topics are selected. Check your email and the topic selection page to make sure you know your general due date!

To complete this class in 12 weeks, there are two deadlines every week: Thursdays and Sundays. The reading & thinking for this type of class should not be forced into the same day you post a response, so please pace yourself. Some weeks have a lot more pages to cover than others, depending on the nature of the material. Do not hesitate to use the audiobooks I will provide for the two longer texts, though I encourage you to read along with those recordings.

Some quizzes include "short answer" questions that ask you to look into the text, so you should always have your book available while taking a quiz.

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Week 1 (Sept 20-Sept. 26): course & student introductions; required orientation tasks, context for the Romantics (videos and PPT); William Blake, Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience [Blake discussion by Sunday]

Week 2 (Sept. 27 - Oct 3) / Romantics: William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads and short poems [Wordsworth discussion by Thursday]; finish Wordsworth with "Tintern Abbey" [Wordsworth quiz by Sunday]

COURSE CALENDAR: topic choices for the guided reading notes are due by Tuesday, October 5th (those who do not send two choices this week will be assigned to a topic so we can get organized)

Week 3 (Oct 4-10) / Romantics: Burns, P. Shelley, & Coleridge: Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland [Burns quiz by Thursday]; Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" & selections from "Defence of Poetry" [Shelley quiz by Sunday]; Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" listening assignment [Coleridge discussion by Sunday]

Week 4 (Oct 11-17/ Romantics: John Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; " Ode to a Nightingale"; short poems & excerpts from letters [Keats quiz by Thursday and Keats discussion by Sunday]

Week 5 (Oct. 18-24) / Romantics & the Gothic Novel: excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Ch 3-6 in the 1831 edition [discussion by Thursday]; watch PBS film of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey [Austen discussion by Sunday] [Gothic novels reading notes]

Week 6 (Oct. 25-31) / Victorian Immersion: Essays & Poets

the Victorian social essay: selections from John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens ("A Visit to Newgate"), Annie Besant, & Cardinal Newman; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's activist poem "The Cry of the Children," & something entirely different: Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" [reading notes on the Industrial Revolution and the Evolution Controversy]

[video quiz on Dickens due Thursday] [video quiz & reading quiz on Robert Browning due Thursday] ["pick one" discussion on an essay due Sunday]

Week 7 (Nov. 1-7) / Victorian Drama: George Bernard Shaw, from intro to Plays Unpleasant and Mrs. Warren's Profession [quiz on introductory Shaw materials & Acts 1-2 due Thursday / also looks back to Annie Besant's essay] [Shaw discussion due Sunday]

Week 8 (Nov. 8-14) / Fin-de-Siecle & Victorian Decadence.: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; [Robert Louis Stevenson presentation] [Victorian education presentation] [quiz on introductory Wilde materials & Acts 1-2 due Thursday; quiz also looks back to J.S. Mill] [Wilde discussion due Sunday]

COLLEGE CALENDAR: the last day to withdraw ("W") from B12 session classes is November 12, 2021

EXTRA CREDIT: participate in a discussion on the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in November, TBA

Week 9 (Nov. 15-21) / Into the 20^th Century; Imperialism Rudyard Kipling ("If" and "The White Man's Burden"); George Orwell ("Politics and the English Language," "Shooting an Elephant," & 1984 excerpt, Chapter 5) [+ Rudyard Kipling slideshow] [notes on 20th C introduction materials] [quiz due Thursday] [Orwell & Kipling discussion -- Thursday deadline extended through Friday if needed]

COURSE CALENDAR: ESSAY DUE SUNDAY NOV. 21

Week 10: (Nov 22-28) / Modernism & Irish Nationalism Virginia Woolf and James Joyce* [video quizzes on each author & discussion due by Tuesday or by Saturday] William Butler Yeats (selected poems); [Yeats quiz & "pick a poem " discussion on Yeats both due SUNDAY* 11/28 -- extended through Monday].

*COLLEGE CALENDAR: Thanksgiving Holiday Wed-Fri Nov 24-26
*these are technically "due" Tuesday b/c of the holiday, but I will take them through Saturday, also b/c of the holiday !

Week 11 Postcolonialism (Nov. 29 - Dec. 5): Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman; [quiz due Thursday] [discussion due Sunday] [Nation, Race & Language notes]

Week 12a: (Dec. 6-Dec. 9): Postcolonial Poetry Louise Bennett, Wole Soyinka, John Agard, Claude McKay, Linton Kwesi Johnson [final discussion due Thursday] [exam preparation assignment in the DB due by Friday, but before you take the exam.]

*UPDATE :: you can use this week to take any reading quizzes missed during the semester. Due by Friday 12/10.

Week 12b: (Dec. 10-Dec. 13): Final Exam: a 2-hour, closed-book exam administered through SmarterProctoring; Friday, Dec. 10 - Monday, Dec. 13