Term: Winter, 2007 Class: WF 12-2 or 2-4, 10-124 Office: 47-35G, tel. 756-2636  Office Hours: T 2-4, W 4:30-5:30, F 11-12, and by appt.

Dr. Debora B. Schwartz  http://www.calpoly.edu/~dschwart Main English Office:  756-2597 e-mail: dschwart@calpoly.edu

Click on the links below to access Study Guides for each assigned text.  Study Guides should be PRINTED OUT and placed in a binder of course materials that you should bring with you to EACH CLASS MEETING.  Other links provide access to REQUIRED READINGS which I have placed on my website (called "online readings" on course calendar) or which are on E-Reserve through the Kennedy Library.  To access e-reserve readings, click on the link on the course calendar (or on the reserve list for ENGL 203) and type in your last name and library barcode (the 14-digit number beginning 20150 on the front of your PolyCard) at the prompt.  Reminder:  you are expected to PRINT OUT all online and e-reserve readings, place them in your binder, and bring them with you to class.

Unless otherwise noted, page numbers on reading assignments through the current week of class will refer to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th. ed., vol. 1b (2006), the required textbook for this class.  Because the website update is in progress, page numbers for a subsequent week's assignments may not yet have been made, but you can expect that NA page numbers should be correct for the current week of the quarter.  SO: DO NOT PRINT OUT THIS WHOLE CALENDAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE QUARTER; most of the print-out will be inaccurate!!  Instead, get in the habit of consulting your course assignments ONLINE.

For the convenience of those who may wish to use the 7th ed., click HERE for a version of the INITIAL course calendar containing page references geared to the 7th edition.  This version will NOT be corrected or updated in the course of the quarter, so always doublecheck assignment against this page.

Week 2    (January 17-19)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	Introduction to the Renaissance World View: Politics and God. Politics of the Reformation and Renaissance Humanism.	Backgrounds I: Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (485-513); from the Appendices, the British monarchs of the House of Tudor (A73); "Religions in England"  (A75-A78);  "Emergence of the English Language" and "Dictionaries and Rules" (from the NA 7th ed. [2000] xxxviii-xlii; distributed as handout and/or on e-reserve).  Online reading: Humanist Grammar School. Backgrounds II: specific contexts for primary readings as assigned on the Study Guide. Primary Readings: selections by Sir Thomas More, John Foxe, The Book of Homilies, Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Hoby and Sir Walter Ralegh as assigned on Study Guide.	RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT: readings preparing you for the practicumcomponent of the class.  Research groups will be assigned this week. REVIEW (or finish reading!) Preliminaries 1: Types of Sources and Preliminaries II: Modes of Access on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Kennedy Library Research Tools and come to class able to list the 5 kinds of sources, how to find them, and the basic models for documenting them correctly.  Be able to list the 4 modes of access for source materials.  Know what "SFX" and "PolySearch"are (and their limitations). Finally,  SKIM through  MLA HB chapters 1-3 (so you'll know what's there), and read carefully the section on italics (underlining) and on the Titles of Works (in the chapter called the Mechanics of Writing -- you will need to be clear on this information to write the bibliographic citations starting with our next library meeting).
Day 2	As needed: continued discussion of the Politics of the Reformation and Renaissance Humanism New Topic: Vernacular Poetry: Theory and Practice (Sidney's Defense of Poesy and introduction to Sonnets)	Backgrounds I (contexts for Sidney's Defense of Poesy): In the NA introduction to the Sixteenth Century, read/review: NA 489-90 (on the issue of choosing to write in Latin vs. the vernacular); NA 498-506 ("Writers, Printers and Patrons" and "Tudor Style: Ornament, Plainness, and Wonder") Headnotes for  Sidney, NA 947-8, and for his Defense of Poesy, NA 953-4; see also comments NA 504-5 Primary Readings I: excerpts from Sidney's Defense of Poesy, NA 953-74 (skip: all but last paragraph of "The Poetic Kinds," NA 963-6, and "Poetry in England," NA 968-973; pick up with"Now of versifying there are two sorts," NA 973, and read through to end of conclusion, NA 974) Backgrounds II (contexts for the sonnets): Headnotes for all authors and primary readings assigned above:  Sidney, NA 947-8; Astrophil and Stella, NA 975; Wyatt, NA 592-4; Surrey, NA 607; Spenser, NA 705-707; Amoretti, NA 902-3; Shakespeare and his Sonnets, NA 1058-61; Wroth, NA 1451-2 Online reading: An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems Review selection from Hoby's translation of Castiglione's The Courtier, NA 645-7 Primary Readings II:  Sonnets and Sonnet Cycles Wyatt, "Farewell Love" and "My Galley," as well as translation of Petrarch's Rima 189 (NA 596-7); Surrey, "Alas! So all things now do hold their peace," as well as translation of Petrarch's Rima 164 (NA 609-10);  Sidney, Astrophil and Stella # 1, 2, 9, 15, 52, 108 (NA 975-92); also recommended: Fourth Song, NA 987-8 Spenser,  Amoretti # 1, 64, 75, 79 (NA 903-7);  Shakespeare, sonnets # 3, 18, 29, 30, 60, 65, 71, 73, 126, 127, 130, 138, 144, 147, 152 (NA 1062-77) NOTE: discussion of assigned sonnets will carry over to our next class meeting.  It is likely that we will cover Wyatt, Surrey, and Sidney in today's class discussion.	Homework:  Read carefully through the profile of Polycat on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Kennedy Library Research Tools.  Be sure you are clear about what it is, what it contains, when (and why) to use it, its strengths and its limitations. PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to divide up tasks and begin work on the first Group Research Exercise.  If you have any questions about the assignment, come to one of my office hours, or ask about it in class.  Click on the link below to review the detailed instructions for for the first group research assignment: Research Step 1: Kennedy Library Collections via Polycat. You will follow these directions to learn how to locate secondary sources on your topic (i.e. studies ABOUT your author, topic or work, not the text itself)  in the Kennedy Library collections. The directions will also guide your research group  though submitting the first TWO RESEARCH REPORTS to the class research archive, 1) "Searching Polycat" and 2) "Kennedy Library Results." Reminder: the class research archive is located in a Blackboard "Discussion Board."  To access Blackboard, log in at MyCalpoly, go to "Blackboard Access" and select "ENGL 204" from the classes you are taking; then click on "Discussion Board" and enter the "forum" for the topic you researching.  (I will create a separate "forum" for each author/text.)  * - * - * LOOKING AHEAD:  we will discuss Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet cycle, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, as part of our "Women's Voices" unit week 4.

Week 3    (January 24-26)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	Sonnets, cont.	Background: review specific contexts for sonnets as assigned on Study Guide.  Primary Readings: continued discussion of sonnets assigned for last class  (Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare).  Today's discussion is likely to focus primarily on Spenser and Shakespeare. Written Assignment: Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.  Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems.	Homework:  Read carefully through the description of LINK+ and its profile on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Kennedy Library Research Tools.  Be sure you are clear about what it is, what can be borrowed from it, when (and why) to use it, its strengths and its limitations.  PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to divide up tasks and begin work on the second Group Research Exercise.  If you have any questions about the assignment, come to one of my office hours, or ask about it in class.  Prior to your research group meeting, click on the link below to review the detailed instructions for Research Step 2: Using LINK+.  By following these directions, you will learn how to use LINK+ to order additional secondary sources from cooperating libraries (but you will NOT actually PLACE an order, unless you actually intend to read the book for your own pleasure!). The directions will also guide you though submitting your next TWO RESEARCH REPORTS to the class research archive: 1) LINK+ Search Results"; and 2)"LINK+ Item Citation."  NOTE: LINK+ can be used to order books only -- not journal articles.  It is fast -- books ordered through LINK+ typically arrive within 2-3 days.  * - * - * Begin work on paper 1., due in class on W 2/14  OR to my mailbox in the main English office no later than 4 PM on Th 2/15. * - * - * LOOKING AHEAD: be aware that erotic love poetry akin to Marlowe's, Ralegh's and Campion's pastoral lyrics will be written well into the 17th century:  see e.g. Donne's "The Bait"; Herrick's "To the Virgins"; Suckling's "Song" and "Out Upon It"; and Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" (all of which we will be reading  later this term).
Day 2	As needed: complete discussion of sonnets. New Topic: Other Elizabethan Lyrics I: The Pastoral.	Headnotes to assigned poets: Christopher Marlowe (NA 1002-4); Sir Walter Ralegh (NA 917); Thomas Campion (NA 1228); Edmond Spenser (NA 705-8)  Backgrounds to the Pastoral:  Online reading: Backgrounds to Pastoral Poetry; NA Introduction 500-506 (esp. discussion of the Pastoral mode, NA 505); Sidney's comments on pastoral poetry in his Defense of Poesy (NA 963-4);  Headnote to Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (NA 708). As necessary, Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. Primary Readings: Christopher Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (NA 1022);  Sir Walter Ralegh: "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (NA 917-8);  Thomas Campion: "I care not for these ladies," "There is a garden in her face," and "Fain would I wed" (NA 1228-31).  Also recommended: Campion's "Think'st thou to seduce me then" (VERY BRIEF online reading; NOT required reading for quizzes or exam, but it will be referred to in the lecture, so if you have time, please have a look before class!) Edmund Spenser: using study guide below, skim through selections from The Shepheardes Calender, "To His Booke" and "October" (NA 708-13)

Week 4    (January 31 - February 2)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	As needed: complete discussion of Other Elizabethan Lyrics I: The Pastoral.  New Topic: Other Elizabethan Lyrics II: Women's Voices.	Backgrounds for Womens's Voices: NA 500 (on women's access to formal education) Discussion of Queen Elizabeth, NA 493-6, as well as headnotes to "Women in Power" (NA 662) and to Elizabeth I (NA 687-8) headnote to Mary Herbert (NA 993-4) headnote to Lady Mary Wroth (NA 1451-2).  As necessary, Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. Primary Readings: Mary (Sidney)  Herbert: use the study guide to help you skim through "A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds" (on e-reserve -- REQUIRED READING -- print out and bring with you to class!) Also recommended:  have a look at Herbert's settings of Psalms 52 and 139, NA 994-7; these two brief poems are NOT required reading for quizzes or exam, but they will be referred to in the lecture, so if you have time, please have a look before class! Mary Wroth: sonnets and song from the sonnet cycle Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, #1, 16, 39, 40, 74, 77, 103 (NA 1457-61)  Queen Elizabeth: "On Monsieur's Departure" (NA 695-6) and "The Golden Speech" (NA 700-703). Also recommended: Verse exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, NA 698-9; these two brief poems are NOT required reading for quizzes or exam, but they will be referred to in the lecture, so if you have time, please have a look before class!	Homework: Read carefully through the profile of the MLA Bibliography on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Kennedy Library Research Tools .  Be sure you are clear about what it is, when (and why) to use it, its strengths and its limitations. Read information on SFX and its limitations.  (Remember:  the MLA Bibliography is NOT itself a mode of access for secondary sources. . .)  Review information on ILL (Interlibrary Loan) as a mode of access distinct from LINK+. PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to divide up tasks and begin work on the next Group Research Exercise.  If you have any questions about the assignment, come to one of my office hours, or ask about it in class. Prior to your research group meeting, click on the link below to review the detailed instructions for Research Step 3: Using the MLA Bibliography to Identify Additional Sources on Your Topic (and then figuring out how to access them!) By following these directions, you will learn to use the MLA Bibliography to identify additional secondary sources on your topic and Interlibrary Loan to access articles and books which are not available at Cal Poly (or through LINK+) -- but again, you will NOT actually PLACE an order, unless you actually intend to read the article or essay for your own pleasure!  The directions will also help you prepare your next THREE RESEARCH REPORTS for the class research archive: 1) "MLA search results"; 2) "ILL journal article"; and 3) either "LINK+ Edited Essay" OR "ILL Edited Essay," depending on which mode of access you would use to obtain the edited essay (or "book article") you have selected. NOTE:  because the MLA research assignment culminates in three different reports, you may wish to divide reporting responsibility between group members, rather than having one person submit all three reports. * - * - * Continue work on paper 1, due in class on W 2/14  OR to my mailbox in the main English office no later than 4 PM on Th 2/15.
Day 2	Epic I:  Spenser's Faerie Queene	Backgrounds: NA 489-90 (humanist reverence for the classics); 505 (the "heroic mode" and comments on the Faerie Queene); 705-8 (headnote to Spenser and to the Shepheardes Calender); 714-16 (headnote to the Faerie Queene); also review Sidney's comments on "heroical" poetry, NA 966, and comments on Pastoral Poetry guide concerning Renaissance attitudes toward the epic. Read carefully the information on the "epic" genre in your Glossary of Literary Terms, paying particular attention to epic conventions. Primary Readings: Book I of The Faerie Queene: Opening letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, four-stanza prologue, and cantos 1 and 2 (NA 716-742). Also review selections from The Shepheardes Calender, "To His Booke" and "October" (NA 708-13)

Week 5    (February 7-9)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	Epic I:  Spenser's Faerie Queene, continued	Book I of The Faerie Queene: cantos 4 and 5 (NA 742-75) and cantos  7 and 8 (NA 786-808).	PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to finish up remaining pieces of the first three Research Exercises and/or to review for the Midterm Exam.  MATERIAL COVERED IN THE FIRST THREE RESEARCH EXERCISES WILL BE INCLUDED ON THE EXAM!
Day 2:	Epic I:  Spenser's Faerie Queene, continued	Book I of The Faerie Queene: cantos 9 and 10 (NA 808-835).	Continue work on paper 1 (due in class on W 2/14  OR to my mailbox in the main English office no later than 4 PM on Th 2/15).  Begin review for Midterm.

Week 6    (February 14-16)

PAPER 1 is due at our class meeting on W 2/14.  However, upon request (and only with prior approval), I will grant any student an extension until 4 PM on Thursday 2/15 at the latest.  In that case, please turn in your paper to one of the secretaries in the main English office.
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	Epic I:  Spenser's Faerie Queene, conclusion New Readings: Backgrounds to William Shakespeare's The Tempest	1st hour (or as needed):  Book I of The Faerie Queene: cantos and 11 and 12 (750-72). 2nd hour: Backgrounds to William Shakespeare's The Tempest "The Romances" (online reading)  "Blackfriars Theater and Audience Expectations" (online reading) "Problems With Shakespeare's Texts" (online reading) In the Signet Classics Tempest): "Textual Note" and "The Sources of The Tempest (89-93).  Also review previously assigned background readings: "The Elizabethan Theater" (NA 490-5); the William Shakespeare headnote (NA 1026-7); "Shakespearean Verse and Prose" (online reading); theater diagrams (1st page of previously assigned e-reserve handout, "Images of Renaissance Theaters," showing a theater cross-section called "At Rehearsal"; theater diagram found at NA A-62).  As usual, all online and e-reserve readings should be printed out and put in your binder.	PAPER 1 DUE (or may be turned into my mailbox in the main English office by 4 PM on Monday 2/12 at the latest.) * - * - * NOTE:  The MIDTERM EXAM will cover all assigned readings UP TO AND INCLUSIVE OF SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE ONLY.  The midterm exam will NOT include questions on today's assigned background readings on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,  but we WILL be discussing them in class. . .  so be sure to print-out the online readings and bring them with you to class!
Day 2:	NO CLASS MEETING -- George Washington's Birthday observed.  Continue review for Midterm.  NOTE:  As you plan your time, keep in mind that you must have read Shakespeare's The Tempest for our first class meeting after the midterm exam.  (And yes, a Reading Quiz IS possible!!)

Week 7    (February 21-23)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	MIDTERM EXAM		Homework: Read about electronic modes of access and the profiles of the four full-text journal databases we will be using on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Kennedy Library Research Tools.  Be clear about what each database includes, what to use them for, and their advantages and disadvantages.  Carefully read information on SFX and on Polysearch (and their limitations).    Know what to add to the citation of a journal article citation accessed electronically  through a subscription database.  PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to divide up tasks and begin work on the next Group Research Exercise.  If you have any questions about the assignment, come to one of my office hours, or ask about it in class. Prior to your research group meeting, click on the link below to review the detailed instructions for Research Step 4: Using Full-Text Subscription Databases. This exercise will guide you as you learn to search for full-text journal articles on your topic in four of Cal Poly's subscription journal databases.  The directions will also help you prepare your next four research reports for the class research archive: "Muse Results," "EAI Results," ASE Results" and "JSTOR Results."  FYI: Paper 2 will be a revision of Paper 1.  It will be due the last week of classes; details TBA.
Day 2	Shakespeare's The Tempest	Tempest Backgrounds II (in the Signet Classics Tempest):  SOURCES printed in the Signet Classics text, pp. 91-105; pay particular attention to the selection from Montaigne's essay "On the Cannibals" and Medea's speech from Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Also review previously assigned Tempest background readings (from last class meeting). Recommended (but not required): read or skim the Signet Classics Introduction, lxiii-lxxvii. Shakespeare's The Tempest: Print out study guide and read whole play before our class meeting.

Week 8    (February 28 - March 2)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	First hour (as needed): complete discussion of Shakespeare's The Tempest New Readings: Early Seventeenth-Century Lyrics I: John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry.	Background: Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century (NA 1235-59) and headnote to Donne (NA 1260-62). Donne:  "The Flea," "Song" ("Go and Catch a Falling Star"), "The Sun Rising," "The Indifferent," "The Canonization" (NA 1263-68); "The Bait," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (NA 1274-6); Elegy 19, "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Satire 3" (NA 1283-87); Holy Sonnets 1, 10, 17 (NA 1295-8); "Meditation 17" (NA 1305-6).  We may also BEGIN discussion of "metaphysical" poets (George) Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell and Edwards in the second hour of class (discussion to be continued into our next class meeting).  Metaphysical Poets Background:  review Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century, esp. NA 1242-50, and read headnotes to the assigned Metaphysical poets:  (George) Herbert (NA 1605-6); Crashaw (NA 1639-40); Marvell (NA 1695-7); and the American Edward Taylor (headnote and selections on e-reserve; be sure to PRINT OUT these selections and bring them with you to class).  As needed, review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. For specific poems assigned, follow links above or see primary readings checklist on study guide.	Homework: Review information on electronic modes of access and read carefully through the profile of NetLibrary on Dr. Schwartz's Guide to Kennedy Library Research Tools.  Be clear about what it is, when and how to use it, its strengths and its limitations.  Know what to add to the bibliographic citation of an ebook accessed through a subscription database like NetLibrary.  PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to divide up tasks and begin work on the last Group Research Exercise.  If you have any questions about the assignment, come to one of my office hours, or ask about it in class. Prior to your research group meeting, click on the link below to review the detailed instructions for Research Step 5: Searching the E-books in NetLibrary This exercise will guide you as you learn to search directly in the ebooks found in NetLibrary, another of Cal Poly's subscription databases. The directions will also help you prepare your last research report for the class research archive, "NetLibrary Results."
Day 2	Metaphysical Poets, cont.; Early Seventeenth-Century Lyrics II: Ben Jonson and the "Cavalier" Poets / "Sons of Ben"	1) As needed, continue discussion of Metaphysical poets assigned for last class meeting. Background:  review Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century, esp. NA 1242-50, and read headnotes to the assigned Metaphysical poets:  (George) Herbert (NA 1605-6); Crashaw (NA 1639-40); Marvell (NA 1695-7); and the American Edward Taylor (headnote and selections on e-reserve; be sure to PRINT OUT these selections and bring them with you to class).  Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. For specific poems assigned, follow links above or see primary readings checklist on study guide. 2) Ben Jonson and the "Sons of Ben" / "Cavalier" poets  Background: review Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century, esp. NA 1242-50 and 1254-6; read headnotes to assigned poets: Jonson (NA 1324-6); Herrick (NA 1653-4); Carew (NA 1666); Suckling (NA 1676); Lovelace (NA 1681-2); Marvell (NA 1695-7).  For specific poems assigned, follow links above or see primary readings checklist on study guide.	Begin work on your individual Composite Bibliography of works on your topic found using the tools covered in the five group research assignments.  NOTE:  As necessary, you will need to add or substitute items so that your composite Bibliography 1) does NOT include the same secondary sources used by any other members of your research group (no credit for duplicated items!); and 2) DOES include each of the required types of sources and modes of access. REMEMBER -- the Composite Bibliography is an INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT worth 10% of your course grade, so complete it with care! NOTE: Paper 2 will be a revision of Paper 1.  It will be due the last week of class; details TBA.

Week 9    (March 7 - 9)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	"Cavalier" Poets / "Sons of Ben", cont.; Women's Voices II: Poetry and Politics in the 17th Century	1) As needed, continue discussion of Cavalier Poets / "Sons of Ben" assigned for last class meeting. 2) Women's Voices: 17th-Century Poetry and Politics. Backgrounds: In the NA Introduction, review 1249- 57 (discussion of women writers in the final paragraph of "Jacobean Writers and Genres";"The Caroline Era"; "The Revolutionary Era, 1640-60"; and "Literature and Culture, 1640-60";  see also the Timeline, NA 1258-9); AND Read section headnotes entitled "The Gender Wars" (NA 1543-4); "Crisis of Authority"(NA 1737); "Writing the Self" (NA 1757-8); AND Read headnotes to assigned 17th-century women writers: Aemilia Lanyer (NA 1313-4); Rachel Speght (NA 1543-4); Katherine Philips (NA 1690); Lady Anne Halkett (NA 1764); Margaret Cavendish (NA 1773-4, as well as headnote to her The Blazing World, NA 1780);  Anne Bradstreet (background info on this British-born, Puritan immigrant to America is online; PRINT IT OUT and bring to class!)  For specific poems assigned, follow links above or see primary readings checklist on study guide. Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems.	PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to wrap up work on any remaining research exercises and/or reports to the Research Archive, as well as to decide who gets to use which specific works on your individually submitted Composite Bibliographies.  (You can also use this time to begin review for the Final Exam.)  NOTE:  the LAST DAY TO POST TO THE CLASS RESEARCH ARCHIVE is Sunday, 3/11.  Any postings made after that date will not be counted. Individually, continue work on your Composite Bibliography, due at our last class meeting (F 3/16).  Citations should be alphabetized and presented in the appropriate formats for a list of  Works Cited entry (consult your MLA Handbook!).  Your grade will be reduced for:  each required TYPE OF SOURCE and MODE OF ACCESS that is NOT on the bibliography (or not eligible to be counted because another group member used the same source or because you did not attach all required print-outs); each error in the bibliographic citations;  any required print-outs that are not appended.  Reminder:  for each SECONDARY source on the Composite Bibliography, you must include (stapled to the back of the bibliography, in the order in which the items appear) a PRINT-OUT (from Polycat, NetLibrary, Link+, the MLA Bibliography, and/or the title page from NetLibrary or one of the full-text journal Databases) of the ITEM LISTING with bibliographic information for that secondary source (print-outs similar to those which were submitted with your five group research reports).  You will receive NO CREDIT for a secondary source on your composite bibliography unless a PRINT-OUT with bibliographic information for that item is submitted STAPLED TO THE COMPOSITE BIBLIOGRAPHY. *  *  * "Paper 2," a revision of Paper 1, is due at or before the time of your final exam. NOTE: Be sure to staple the original, marked up Paper 1 AND the Grading Checklist  returned to you with Paper 1 to the back of "Paper 2," OR YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE REVISION. You may bring the revised paper, along with the original, marked up draft and checklist, with you to the final exam; OR, you may turn them in to me in person, either at our last class meeting or during an office hour; OR, you may turn them in to my mailbox in the main English office.  DO NOT PUT PAPERS UNDER MY DOOR OR LEAVE THEM TACKED TO MY BULLETIN BOARD!.  Upon advance request, I will grant any student an extension until 4 PM on Wednesday 3/21 at the latest.  Students who have requested and received an extension in advance should turn in their revised paper (stapled to the original,marked up draft and checklist) to one of the secretaries (or the box with my name) in the main English office, by 4 PM on Wednesday, 3/21. DO NOT PUT PAPERS UNDER MY DOOR OR LEAVE THEM TACKED TO MY BULLETIN BOARD!
Day 2	"Cavalier" Poets / "Sons of Ben", cont.; Women's Voices II: Poetry and Politics in the 17th Century, cont.; Backgrounds to Milton.	1) As needed, continue discussion of Cavalier Poets / "Sons of Ben" and Women's Voices assigned for last class meetings. 2) As time permits, we may begin discussing the Backgrounds to Milton's Paradise Lost. BACKGROUND READINGS: Headnotes to Milton (NA 1785-9), Lycidas (NA 1805-6), Areopagitica (NA 1816), Sonnets (NA 1825-6), Paradise Lost (NA 1830-31), and comments on Milton in headnote to NA section "Political Writings" (NA 1744-6).   Also review previously assigned background readings "The Revolutionary Era, 1640-60" and "Literature and Culture, 1640-60" (NA 1251-7), the timeline NA 1258-9, the chart NA A73 (House of Stuart, Commonwealth and Protectorate, House of Stuart [Restored]), and the headnote to "Crisis of Authority" (NA 1737-8). PRIMARY READINGS:Sonnets: "How Soon Hath Time"; "To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652"; "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"; "Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint" (NA 1826-9; you can read through these assigned sonnets quickly, but don't omit the explanatory notes!) Also recommended (but NOT assigned reading): "Plans and Projects"excerpt from The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty (NA 1811-16); Lycidas (NA 1805-11).

LAST DATE TO POST REPORTS TO THE CLASS RESEARCH ARCHIVE is SUNDAY, MARCH 11.

Week 10    (March 14 - 16)
 

	Topic	Reading	Notes
Day 1	Epic II: Milton's Paradise Lost	BACKGROUNDS: Headnotes to Milton (NA 1785-9), Lycidas (NA 1805-6), Areopagitica (NA 1816), Sonnets (NA 1825-6), Paradise Lost (NA 1830-31), and headnote to NA section "Political Writings" (NA 1744-6, information on Milton only).  Also review previously assigned background readings "The Revolutionary Era, 1640-60" and "Literature and Culture, 1640-60" (NA 1251-7), the timeline NA 1258-9, the chart NA A73 (House of Stuart, Commonwealth and Protectorate, House of Stuart [Restored]), and the headnote to "Crisis of Authority" (NA 1737-8). PRIMARY READINGS 1:Sonnets:"How Soon Hath Time"; "To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652"; "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"; "Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint" (NA 1826-9; you can read through these assigned sonnets quickly, but don't omit the explanatory notes!) PRIMARY READINGS 2: selections from Paradise Lost (unless otherwise indicated, referred to by book number followed by specific line numbers, not page numbers). Preface to the Second Edition (1674): The Verse and Book 1: The Argument  (NA pp. 1831-2). The four-part Invocation of the Muse: beginnings of bk. 1 (and thus of the poem as a whole), at 1.1-26 (= Book 1, lines 1-26); bk. 3, 3.1-55; bk. 7 (and thus the second half of the poem), 7.1-39; bk. 9, 9.13-47. On Milton's Satan: 1.27-270; 1.587-662; 2.1-42; 2.345-487; 4.32-113. On the "Felix Culpa" (= "Happy Guilt," more commonly known as the "Fortunate Fall"): 3.56-415. On Eve (as presented prior to the account of the Fall): 4.287-324; 4.408-535; 4.610-775; 5.1-135; 8.283-596. ALL of Book 9 (the account of the Fall). the consequences of the Fall: 10.97-208; 10.845-1104. the end of the work, 12.466-649. Please make and effort to have read through ALL assigned Paradise Lost selections prior to class on Wednesday.  Lecture and discussion at both class meetings this week will range among this set of selections., not necessarily in the order in which they are listed above.	PRACTICUM:  you should meet with your research group this week at your assigned time to doublecheck each other's Composite Bibliographies to ensure that no sources (other than your primary text) appear on more than one bibliography.  You are also encouraged to use your regular meeting time to review for the Final Exam. *  *  * Individually, continue work on your Composite Bibliography, which is due at our last class meeting (F 3/16).  *  *  * REMINDER:  "Paper 2," a revision of Paper 1, is due at (or before) the time of your final exam. Be sure to staple the original, marked up Paper 1 AND the Grading Checklist  returned to you with Paper 1 to the back of "Paper 2," OR YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE REVISION. You may bring the revised paper, along with the original, marked up draft and checklist, with you to your final exam; OR, you may turn them in to me in person, either at our last class meeting or during an office hour; OR, you may turn them in in advance of your final exam to the secretaries in the main English office.  DO NOT PUT PAPERS UNDER MY OFFICE DOOR OR LEAVE THEM TACKED TO MY BULLETIN BOARD! Upon advance request, I will grant any student an extension until 4 PM on Wednesday 3/21 at the latest.  Students who have requested (via email) and received an extension in advance should turn in their revised paper (stapled to the original,marked up draft and checklist) to one of the secretaries (or the box with my name) in the main English office, by 4 PM on Wednesday, 3/21. DO NOT PUT PAPERS UNDER MY DOOR OR LEAVE THEM TACKED TO MY BULLETIN BOARD!
Day 2	Epic II: Milton's Paradise Lost, conclusion

Final Exams: section 01, M 3/19, 10:10 AM - 1:00 PM; section 02, T 3/20, 1:10-4:00 PM.  (NOTE CHANGE IN SECTION TWO EXAM DATE!!)

PAPER 2 (a revision of Paper 1) is normally due at the time of your final exam (M 3/19 or T 3/20).  However, upon emailed request (and only with prior approval), I will grant any student an extension until 4 PM on Wednesday 3/21 at the latest.  Students who have requested and received an extension in advance should turn in their revised paper (stapled to the original, marked up draft and checklist) to one of the secretaries (or the box with my name) in the main English office, by 4 PM on Wednesday, 3/21. DO NOT PUT PAPERS UNDER MY DOOR OR LEAVE THEM TACKED TO MY BULLETIN BOARD!

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