DATE LOCATION READING TASKS & ASSIGNMENTS. Thu 8/25 Face-to-face N/A Introduction:

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1 DATE LOCATION READING TASKS & ASSIGNMENTS Thu 8/25 Face-to-face N/A Introduction: - The shape of The Odyssey - odyssey defined By Tues 8/30 Course blog Work on reading The Odyssey, Books 1-4 (Vol. A, pp ) Blog post #1: Daily odyssey, thick with details Thu 9/1 Face-to-face The Odyssey, Books 1-4 Blog post #1: Comment on one other person s post By Tues 9/6 Course blog Work on reading The Odyssey, Books 5-8 Blog post #2: Detail observation + analysis 1 Thu 9/8 Face-to-face The Odyssey, Books 5-8 Blog post #2: Comment on one other person s post By Tues 9/13 Course blog The Odyssey, Books 9-12 Blog post #3: Detail observation + analysis 2 Thu 9/15 Face-to-face The Odyssey, Books 9-12 and Blog post #3: Comment on one other person s post By Tues 9/20 Course blog The Odyssey, Books Blog post #4: Paper planning (topic and potential thesis/main claim; list of relevant passages) Thu 9/22 Face-to-face The Odyssey, Books and A Sad Revelation from The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason (.pdf) Blog post #4: Comment on all posts made by members of your group (follow commenting guidelines)

2 Penelope by Dorothy Parker (.pdf) By Tues 9/27 Course blog Blog post #5: Paper intros and outlines Thu 9/29 at 12:45 pm. NOTE THE UNUSIAL TIME! Theater break! Optional: Classroom We will attend the staged reading of Oedipus Rex on this date at 12:45 pm. For those who want extra hands-on paper help, come to the classroom during our regular time Blog post #5: Comment on all posts made by members of your group (follow commenting guidelines) By Tues 10/4 Course blog No reading Blog post #6: Reflections on Oedipus Thu 10/6 NO CLASS (Monday schedule at CUNY) No reading No mandatory blog comments this week. Read through everyone s Oedipus posts, but focus your writing energies on paper 1. **Friday, 10/7** By Tues, 10/11 Annotation blog Work on reading Antigone (Vol. A, pp ) Thu, 10/13 Face-to-face Antigone (Vol. A, pp ) By Tue 10/10 Course blog Chinese Classic Poetry (Vol. A, pp ) PAPER #1 due by midnight ( to Prof Kolb) Blog post #7: Annotation 1 Blog post #7: Comment on or add to one other person s annotation Blog Post #8: Translation exercise Tang Poetry by Wang Wei (Vol. B, pp ) and others, TBD

3 Eliot Weinberger on Wang Wei (.pdf) NOTE: You may wish to read this.pdf first, in order to do the blog post Thu 10/20 Face-to-face Chinese Classic Poetry (Vol. A, pp ) and Tang Poetry by Wang Wei (Vol. B, pp ) Eliot Weinberger on Wang Wei (.pdf)km By Tues 10/25 Course blog The Thousand and One Nights I (Volume B, pp ) Blog Post #8: Comment on one other person s translation exercise Blog Post #9: Add a tale -Prologue -The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey -The Tale of the Merchant and his wife -The Story of the Merchant and the Demon -The First Old Man s Tale -The Second Old Man s Tale -The Third Old Man s Tale Thu 10/27 Face-to-face The Thousand and One Nights II (Volume B, pp ) -The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon - The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban -The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot -The Tale of the King s Son and the She-Ghoul -The Tale of the Enchanted King Blog Post #9: Add a tale to someone else s tale (in the comments. Feel free to add to more than one!)

4 By Tues 11/1 Course blog Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-17 (Volume B, pp ) Thu 11/3 Face-to-face Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-17 (Volume B, pp ) By Tues 11/8 Course blog Dante, Inferno, Cantos (pp ) Thu 11/10 Face-to-face Dante, Inferno, Cantos (pp ) Blog Post #10: Does the punishment fit the crime? Choose a damned soul, and analyze the relationship of his or her life on earth to his or her fate in the Inferno Blog Post #10: Respond to one other students post Blog post #11: TBD Blog post #11: TBD By Tues 11/15 Course blog Travel and encounter: In Volume B: - Marco Polo (pp ) -Ibn Battuta (pp ) - John Mandeville (pp ) Blog post #12: Studentgenerated Paper 2 paper topics (if your topic is chosen, you ll receive extra credit!) In Volume C -Christopher Columbus, Letter Concerning the First Voyage (pp ) -Pero Vaz de Caminha, from a Letter to King Manuel, pp Hernàn Cortès, from The Second Letter, pp ) -Bartolomé de las Casas, from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (pp )

5 -Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals, pp ) Thu 11/17 Face-to-face Travel and encounter: In Volume B: - Marco Polo (pp ) -Ibn Battuta (pp ) - John Mandeville (pp ) Paper 2 topics announced; do some brainstorming on your papers (feel free to post this, though it s not mandatory this week) By Tues 11/22 THANKSGIVING WEEK In Volume C -Christopher Columbus, Letter Concerning the First Voyage (pp ) -Pero Vaz de Caminha, from a Letter to King Manuel, pp Hernàn Cortès, from The Second Letter, pp ) -Bartolomé de las Casas, from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (pp ) -Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals, pp Work on reading Hamlet, on the OED assignment, and on your paper drafts. Thu 11/24 THANKSGIVING DAY By Tues 11/29 Course blog Hamlet, Acts 1-3 (Vol. C, pp ) Thu 12/1 Face-to-face Hamlet, Act 1-3(Vol. C, pp ) Prof Kolb preliminary drafts/outlines by this date for feedback by the end of break Blog post #13: OED assignment Blog post #13: Comment on someone else s OED assignment

6 By Tues 12/6 Course blog Hamlet, Acts 4-5 (Vol C, pp ) Thu 12/8 Face-to-face Hamlet, Act 4-5 (Vol C, pp ) Blog post #14: Memorization and performance (VOCAT) + Reflection Blog post #14: Comment on someone else s memorization and performance (VOCAT) + Reflection Paper #2 due Friday, 12/9 by midnight Final exam (take-home) due near the end of finals week; exact date TBD