Date |
Class Activities |
Homework Due |
R 9/8 online | See
Bb for instructions: Course + stud. intro.; What is the novel? In-class writing on Modernity; Timeline; Close Reading Exercise |
Tuesday's reading assignment is in the cell below |
T 9/13 | Dostoevsky Bio, Discussion Questions, & Close Interpretation; Personae assigned | Dostoevsky 1-64 [through Part 1, Ch. VI] |
R 9/15 online asynchronous | See Bb for instructions: Review; Journals and Def. of Close Reading |
Dostoevsky 65-131 [through Pt. 2, Ch. VI]; DISC. #1: Post 1 or more discussion questions about Dostoevsky on Blackboard/Discussion Forum/Dostoevsky. These questions might include ones you would pose as an instructor of the class, things you are confused about in the reading, or a mix between the two. The purpose of discussion questions is to open a dialogue between you and me; to make this a student-centered classroom; and to help students become better writers by becoming critical thinkers, or people who question what they read. Discussion questions are not evaluated, are not mandatory, but are taken into consideration for your Participation Grade. Please feel free to respond to other students' queries if you feel inspired to answer; I will take such responses as extra credit for your Participation Grade (and enjoy reading them, of course). See other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 9/20 | Review: the Murder; Social Utopianism and Nihilism; Character Sketch; Your journals; Online Meetings | Dostoevsky 131-99 [through Pt. 3, Ch. III]; JOURNAL #1 (Doestoevsky 1): Write 1-2 pages (250-400 words) on a passage from Crime and Punishment (see assignment in Requirements section). You might focus your interpretation of a specific passage by answering one of your own or another student's interpretive questions from a previous class, or reflecting on a broader thematic issue supported by your close analysis of the text. Although each individual journal is not graded, I expect you to complete at least 5 of the 6 assigned journal entries, which will be graded when they are presented in a revised Journal Portfolio. Bring a copy to class (will be collected for instructor's feedback) and post your response to Blackboard/Discussion as well. I will NOT accept emailed journal entries. If you cannot attend class, I suggest you ask a fellow participant to bring your hard copy to class. |
R 9/22 online synchronous |
Review; Crime, and Philosophical Reasons for Murder; Directed Questions | Dostoevsky 199-266 [through Pt. 3, Ch. III]; see other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. Go to Blackboard for instructions on our first live Elluminate session. |
T 9/27 | Review; Party Game; Religion and Women in Crime and Punishment: The Woman Question and Sonya; iTunesU; Journals returned | Dostoevsky 266-330 [through Pt. 5, Ch. II] |
R 9/29 online; asynchronous | See Bb for instructions; Review + Lecture (iTunesU); Student Questions; Dostoevsky as Drama; Crime Character Wiki | Dostoevsky 330-399 [through Pt. 6, Ch. III]; DISC. #2: Write 1 or more orig. discussion ques., and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board; see other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 10/4 |
Review; Keywords in C&P; Vocab. | Dostoevsky 399-465 [through end]; JOURNAL #2 (Dostoevsky 2): Bring a hard copy for instructor and post to Bb |
R 10/6 online; synchronous | See Bb for instructions; Middle Class? Hermann Hesse; Suicide | Hesse 1-56; see other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes for our Elluminate session. |
T 10/11 |
Review; Identities?; Student Ques.; Who is HH? Modernism; Dada, Surrealism, and Existentialism | Hesse 56-102; DISC. #3: Write 1 or more orig. discussion ques.: bring a copy for yourself to discuss in class, and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. |
R 10/13 online; asynchronous | See Bb for instructions; Review; Who are Hermine, Pablo, and Maria? | Hesse 102-58; see other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 10/18 | Review; Group Discussion: Immortals, Mozart, and the Magic Theater; Journals; Close-readingi and Comparative Essay | Hesse 158-end; JOURNAL #3 (Hesse): Write a close analysis in your own voice or that of your persona; bring a hard copy for instructor and post to Bb |
R 10/20 online; synchronous | Review; See Bb for instructions; Kafka's The Trial | Kafka 1-53; see other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. Elluminate discussion starts 11:35. |
T 10/25 | Review; Authority and Gender in Kafka | Kafka 54-131; JOURNAL #4 (Kafka): Write a close analysis in your own voice or that of your persona; bring a hard copy for instructor and post to Bb |
R 10/27 online; synchronous | See Bb for instructions; Parables; Characteristics of Mod. Euro. Novel | Kafka 131-198; DISC. #4: Write 1 or more discussion ques.: bring a copy for yourself to discuss in class, and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. Elluminate discussion starts 11:35. |
T 11/1 | Review; End of Kafka's The Trial; Paper proposals; drafts/4w2 | Kafka 199-266; Post your
paper proposal on Blackboard/Discussion Board; Post a
paper proposal to Blackboard: 5 – 25 sentences
brainstorming about what you want to write about, what
specific questions you want to address, which texts
and which format you will choose. In the subject line
put the prompt number you’re responding to and 4w2 if you want
instructor's feedback. |
R 11/3 online; asynchronous | See Bb for instructions; Peer Review | Post your draft on Blackboard/Discussion Board |
T 11/8 | Surrealist movies |
Close-reading Essay on Two Modern European Novels due as a hard copy and on Bb/Safe Assign |
R 11/10 online asynchronous | See Bb for instructions; Breton Bio; Surrealism and Breton; Surrealist Manifesto; Second Manifesto; Ques. about Manifesto | Read the Surrealist Manifesto and skim the Second Manifesto; read Breton 11-27; see other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 11/15 | Review; Surrealism; Breton's Nadja; Translations | Breton 27-108; JOURNAL #5 (Breton): bring a hard copy for the instructor and post to Blackboard/Journals |
R 11/17 online; synchronous | Review; Breton's
Nadja; Refl.
on the Mod. Euro. Novel |
Breton 108-60; DISC. #5: Write 1 or more discussion ques. on Breton, and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. |
T 11/22 | Kundera and the Novel: Biography and Existential Codes | Kundera 1-82 (Pt I and II); DISC. #6: Write 1 or more discussion ques. on Kundera: bring a copy for yourself to discuss in class, and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. |
R 11/24 | No class |
Happy Thanksgiving! |
T 11/29 | Review; Timeline;
Prague
Spring
Kundera;
Socialist
Realism |
Kundera 85-138 (Pt III) |
R 12/1 online asynchronous |
See Bb for instructions; Unbearable Lightness of Being | Kundera 141- 202 (through Pt V, ch. 5); JOURNAL #6 (Kundera): Post to Blackboard/Discussion Board in your own voice or that of your persona by 1pm |
T 12/6 | Review (Bb); Kitsch; Misogyny; Narrative style | Kundera reading 203-83 (through Pt VI, ch. 16); Optional: Staple/clip old and/or new discussion questions and submit as a Participation Packet |
R 12/8 online synchronous |
See Bb for instructions; Unbearable, Oedipus, and Narration; Free Write: ULB? | Kundera reading 284-end (Pt. VI, ch. 17 to
end) |
T 12/13 |
Final review; Course summation Tips | Journal
Portfolio due as hard copy in class, and upload a copy
to Safe Assign; bring copies of Hesse, Kafka, and
Breton to class for review |
T 12/20 |
Deliver hard copy between
2-3pm in 352 DI, and upload file to Safe Assign |
Take-home Final Exam (Safe Assign submission mandatory): Breton and Other Modernist Influences on Kundera |