Kent-Drury
English 311
Fall 2002

Final Schedule of Assignments*


 
Date
Topic/Reading Assignment
(Note:  Students are responsible for both primary and secondary materials)
Work Due/Deadlines
Week 1 Introductions/Tragedy of Classical Greece/Tragedy of Aeschylus  
   8/19 Intro to course: Classical Greece
Background:
Trojan War Summary
Images of the Trojan War Myth
Mythology (also see this link)
Greek Theatre
Greek Tragedy
Key terms		  
   8/21 Background: (continued) 
Read: Pomeroy 1-16
Read: Aristotle, Poetics
Read: Perseus terms (look at definitions & art)
   Aeschylus
   Oresteia
   Also: Look up Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, Orestes,
   Priam, Helen, Atreus, Menelaus, Iphiginia, Apollo, Electra, Perseus,
   Aegisthus, Athena 		  
   8/23 Agamemnon
Read: Pomeroy 16-32		  
Week 2    
   8/26 Agamemnon  
   8/28 Agamemnon  
   8/30 Reading Day--Read remainder of Pomeroy for 9/4  
Week 3    
   9/2 Labor Day--No Class--Have fun!  
   9/4 Libation Bearers  
   9/6** Libation Bearers  
Week 4    
  9/9 Libation Bearers/Eumenides  
   9/11 Eumenides  
   9/13 Eumenides  
Week 5  Greek Tragedy: Sophocles  
   9/16 Perseus articles: 
   Background to Sophocles
   Tiresias, Oedipus, Laius, Jocasta, Creon, Polyneices, Eteocles,
   Antigone, Haemon
 Sophocles, Oedipus the King
       Study Questions		  
   9/18 OtK  
   9/20 OtK  
Week 6    
   9/23 OtK
 		  
   9/25 Sophocles, Antigone
Study Questions
Background:  Greek Familes and Women 
   (link 1 and link 2) 
Background:  Funerary Practices
Perseus articles:		  
   9/27 Sophocles, Antigone  
Week 7 Greek Tragedy: Euripides  
   9/30 Sophocles, Antigone  
   10/2 Midterm  
   10/4 Euripides, Medea
   Background to Euripides
   Background to Medea
   Study Questions		  
Week 8    
   10/7 Euripides, Medea  
   10/9 Discussion  
   10/11 Discussion  
Week 9    
   10/14 Fall Break--Have Fun!  
  10/16*** Euripides, Andromache  
   10/18 Euripides, Andromache  
Week 10    
   10/21 Euripides, Hecabe  
   10/23 Euripides, Hecabe  
   10/25**** Euripides, Electra  
Week 11    
   10/28 Euripides, Electra  
   10/30 Euripides, Trojan Women  
   11/1 Euripides, Trojan Women  
Week 12  Renaissance Tragedy: Marlowe and Shakespeare  
   11/4 Intro: Medieval/Renaissance Worldview  
   11/6 Marlowe, Dr. Faustus  
   11/8 Marlowe, Dr. Faustus  
Week 13    
   11/11 Marlowe, Dr. Faustus  
   11/13 Shakespeare, Othello, Acts I 
  Background to Renaissance Period
  Study Questions		  
   11/15 Shakespeare, Othello, Act II  
Week 14    
   11/18 Shakespeare, Othello, Act III  
   11/20 Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV   
   11/22 Shakespeare, Othello, Act V  
Week 15    
   11/25 Carmen (film)  
   11/27 Thanksgiving--No classes  
   11/29 Thanksgiving--Have fun!  
Week 16    
   12/2 Carmen (film)  
   12/4 Miller, The Crucible (film)  
   12/6 Miller, The Crucible (film)  
Week 17--Finals Monday, 12/9 1-3 pm  Paper Due / Final Quotations
*Any of the above is subject to change at the instructor's discretion.
**9/6 Last Day to Drop w/o course on permanent record; last day to drop course with 50% refund.
***10/16 is deadline for filing application for degree candidacy for spring graduation with the Office of the Registrar.
****10/25 is last day to drop full term course with a grade of W.
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Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury