E 137 CLASS PRESENTATIONS Each student will share smething interesting related t the day s reading fr abut 5-7 minutes. Presentatins are graded nly insfar as they are factred int a student s verall curse participatin grade (which is 5% fr the semester). Students d nt receive an individual, separate grade fr their presentatin, just as they d nt receive a separate grade fr each cmment they share in class. Students receive an verall participatin grade fr their class invlvement ver the entire semester, and presentatins are the mst memrable example f that invlvement. Presentatins make the class and the material memrable and engaging. We re glad t listen t yu and hpe yu enjy sharing what yu ve learned. Feel free t make yur presentatin casual and brief. It can be a little under 5-7 minutes r a little ver n big deal. When students g ver 10 minutes, I encurage them t wrap it up. If yu want t use the cmputer (t shw vide clips, PwerPint slides, etc.) yu can, but yu aren t bligated t. Yu re in charge. Fr each class sessin, I ve listed tpics fr presentatins. Belw are sme typical nes: An authr s bigraphy (by the way, ur bk has bigraphical infrmatin n all assigned authrs) A histrical event r petic mvement Brief summary and pints f interest f a given wrk Smething else related t an authr r era I ve learned that mst students actually prefer t be given a tpic than t create ne, but if yu d like t create yur wn presentatin tpic, please feel welcme t d s just check with me first. There are ther presentatin pssibilities: yu culd fill in sme gaps in ur curriculum r make sme cnnectins. Here are sme ideas: T fill gaps, yu culd: Tell us abut a text we re nt reading that is by an authr we are discussing. Perhaps read a little and explain what yu like abut it r think is interesting. Tell us a little abut an authr we re nt reading that is in the perid we are discussing. Shw us an interesting website related t an authr, text, r perid (yu can use the cmputer). Critique an authr r text we re reading, listing what yu dislike. T make cnnectins, yu culd: Explain why an authr we re studying reminds yu f smene else. Perhaps cnnect the authr with anther artist r thinker in histry a cmpser, painter, sculptr, philspher, scientist, etc. Explain why the wrk f an authr reminds yu f anther wrk f art (past r present). Perhaps cnnect the wrk with a mvie, televisin shw, sng, painting, etc. Share cnnectins yu might have made in yur respnse t a reading respnse questin. Share yur wn pem imitating an authr we re discussing. Share yur wn artwrk inspired by an authr r text we re discussing. Or cme up with smething else. * The Presentatin Sign-Up Sheet Fllws n the Next Page *
E 137 CLASS PRESENTATIONS Ntes Each bx begins with a list a reminder f all the reading assigned fr that class date but that list desn t mean yu have t cver it all; yu ll address whatever specific tpic yu chse. Under the heading f tpics, in places where page numbers appear in parenthesis, it means the pages shuld be useful t yu, nt limit r burden yu; yu may likely want t get mre infrmatin nline. Week 5 Mn, Sept. 21 Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, The Wife f Bath s Prlgue (282-301) Chaucer s bigraphy (238-241) Brief summary and pints f interest The Wife f Bath s Prlgue Wed, Sept. 23 Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, The Wife f Bath s Tale (301-310) PRESENTERS Brief summary and pints f interest The Wife f Bath s Tale Illuminated manuscripts and the printing press Week 6 Mn, Sept. 28 The Sixteenth Century (531-563); Sir Thmas Wyatt (646-648): The lng lve and Petrarch s Rima 140 (648-649), Whs list and Petrarch s Rima 190 (649-650), Farewell, Lve (650), I find n peace and Petrarch s Rima (650-651); H. Henry, Earl f Surrey (661-662): Lve, that dth reign (663) The curt & the art f curtly lve (532-533, 704) The snnet Wed, Sept. 30 Faith in Cnflict (671-672); Queen Elizabeth I (749-750): The dubt f future fes (758); Sir Walter Ralegh (1023-1024): Methught I saw (1028-1029), The discvery... f El Drad (1030-1033) Martin Luther, the Refrmatin, & Henry VIII (671-762, 537-541) Queen Elizabeth s bigraphy
Week 7 Mn, Oct. 5 Edmund Spenser (776-778); Renaissance Lve and Desire (1000-1003); Sir Philip Sidney (1037-1039): The Defense f Pesy (1044-1045): The Pet as Prphet and Creatr (1048-1051), Answer t the Charges against Petry (1068-1074); Astrphil and Stella, snnets 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 15 (1084-1087) Spenser s bigraphy Sidney s bigraphy Week 8 Wed, Oct. 14 William Shakespeare (pp. 1166-70) Snnets 18, 55, 60, 73, 87, 116, 128, 130, 138 (pp. 1170-85) PRESENTER: Shakespeare s bigraphy Week 9 Mn, Oct. 19 Snnets and Shakespeare cntinued PRESENTER: Shakespeare and his impact n the English language Wed, Oct. 21 Shakespeare s King Lear pp. 1251-1285 Brief summary and pints f interest King Lear (1.1-2.4) Shakespeare in ppular culture (e.g. films, etc.) Week 10 Mn, Oct. 26 Shakespeare s King Lear pp. 1285-1309 Brief summary and pints f interest King Lear (2.4-3.7) Smething else related t Shakespeare, maybe fashin arund the time f the late Renaissance Wed, Oct. 28 Shakespeare s King Lear pp. 1309-1339 Brief summary and pints f interest King Lear (4.1-end) Experiencing Shakespeare (Tragedy as catharsis, rle-playing as therapy, Shakespeare at San Quentin, and nearby Shakespeare cmpanies such as Cal Shakes and the Marin Shakespeare C.)
Week 11 Mn, Nv. 2 The Early Seventeenth Century (pp. 1341-1370); Jhn Dnne (pp. 1370-72): The Flea (p. 1373), The Gd Mrrw (pp. 1373-1374), The Sun Rising (pp. 1376), The Cannizatin (pp. 1377-1378), A Valedictin: Frbidding Murning (pp. 1385-1386), Hly Snnets 10, 14 (pp. 1412-1414), Meditatin 17 (pp. 1420-1421); Ben Jnsn (pp. 1441-1443): T Penshurst (pp. 1546-1548) Dnne s bigraphy and metaphysical petry Jnsn s bigraphy Wed, Nv. 4 Rbert Herrick (pp. 1756): The Vine (p. 1758), Delight in Disrder (pp. 1758-1759), Crinna s Ging A-Maying (pp. 1760-1762), T the Virgins (pp. 1762); Andrew Marvell (pp. 1789-1790): T His Cy Mistress (pp. 1796-1797) Herrick s bigraphy and Cavalier petry (1364-1365) Charles I, Crmwell, the Interregnum, and the Restratin (1341-1343, 1347-1348, 1360-1364) Week 12 Mn, Nv. 9 Jhn Miltn (pp. 1897-1901): When I Cnsider Hw My Light Is Spent (p. 1942), Paradise Lst, Bk 1 (pp. 1943-1964) Miltn s bigraphy Brief summary and pints f interest Paradise Lst, Bk 1 Week 13 Mn, Nv. 16 The Restratin (pp. 2177-2208); Jhn Dryden (pp. 2208-09): Mac Fleckne (pp. 2236-42) Dryden s bigraphy Satire, a brief histry f the genre, past and present Wed, Nv. 18 Jnathan Swift (pp. 2464): A Mdest Prpsal (pp. 2633-2639), The Lady s Dressing Rm (pp. 2767-2270); Debating Wmen: Arguments in Verse (pp. 2766-2767); Lady Mary Wrtley Mntagu (pp. 2770): The Reasns That Induced Dr. Swift... (pp. 2770-2772) Swift s bigraphy Lady Mary Wrtley Mntagu s bigraphy
Week 14 Mn, Nv. 23 Alexander Ppe (pp. 2665-2669): The Rape f the Lck (pp. 2685-2704), Epistle 2. T a Lady (pp. 2772-2779); Anne Ingram, Viscuntess Irwin (pp. 2780): An Epistle t Mr. Ppe (pp. 2780-2783) Ppe s bigraphy Irwin s bigraphy and highlights frm her An Epistle t Mr. Ppe Wed, Nv. 25 Samuel Jhnsn (pp. 2841-2843): Rambler N. 5 (pp. 2852-2854), Rasselas (p. 2856-2857) Ch. 10 (pp. 2870-2872), Ch. 22 (pp. 2886-2887) Jhnsn s bigraphy England and the Age f Enlightenment (brief verview) Week 15 Mn, Nv 30 Thmas Gray (p. 3047): Ode n a Distant Prspect f Etn Cllege (pp. 3047-3050), Elegy Written in a Cuntry Churchyard (pp. 3051-3054) Gray s bigraphy and highlights frm his Elegy Written in... Basic characteristics f English Rmanticism Wed, Dec. 2 Oliver Gldsmith (pp. 3061-3062): The Deserted Village (pp. 3062-3071) The industrial revlutin in England Gldsmith s bigraphy and highlights frm his The Deserted Village