Planning a Class - The Renaissance Calendar

The next step to me is to fit my brainstorming into the actual semester calendar. Here's what I'm coming up with for the Renaissance. Yes, I haven't fit everything in. I find it harder to schedule 2 day a week classes than three day a week classes. But I like the slightly longer class time, usually.

The Renaissance (3) Studies Renaissance English literature emphasizing works by Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Bacon, Jonson, Bunyan, Marvel, Herrick and Donne.

Week 1
8/29 - Mon- Introductions – Welcome to the Renaissance
8/31 - Wed – Intro to 16th century, 485-498; More, Utopia (read the intro, and Bk 1, 518-545)

Week 2
9/5 - Mon – Intro to 16th century, 498-506; More, Utopia, Bk 2 (545-590)
9/7 - Wed – Intro to Sonnets; Wyatt, “The Long Love,” “Whoso List to Hunt,” “They Flee from Me”
9/9 - Fri - Class Day - Wed Schedule – Wyatt, “Mine own John Poins”

Week 3
9/12 - Mon – Locke, Sonnet Sequence (Handout); Howard, “The Soote Season”
9/14 - Wed - No Lit 310 Class

Week 4
9/19 - Mon – Faith in Conflict (616-617); Askew (628-630); Foxe (631-632)
9/21 - Wed – Ascham, 641-645; Hoby (trans. Castiglione), 645-661

Week 5
9/26 - Mon – Women in Power, 662; Mary, Queen of Scots, Letter to E1, 679-681; Narrative of Execution, 681-686
9/28 - Wed - Elizabeth 1, 687-688; Passage, 688-690; Tilbury, 699-700

Week 6
10/3 - Mon – Spenser, The Faerie Queen, Bk I (This will take you a fair bit of time, plan ahead!), 714-856
10/5 - Wed – Spenser, FQ, Bk 1

Week 7
10/10 - Mon – Spenser, Amoretti, #34, #64, #75 (903-905)
10/12 - Wed - Midterm Exam

Week 8
10/17 - Mon – Sidney, “Defense of Poesy,” 953-973

Week 9
10/24 - Mon – Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, #1, #2, #20 (975-979)
10/26 - Wed – Marlowe, “Hero and Leander” (1004-1022)

Week 10
10/31 - Mon – Intro to 16th century (506-511); Marlowe, Faustus (1023-1056)
11/2 - Wed – Marlowe, Faustus;

Week 11
11/7 - Mon – Shakespeare, Sonnets #20, #55, #73, #116
11/9 - Wed - Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 1077-1139

Week 12
11/14 - Mon - Shakespeare, Twelfth Night;
11/16 - Wed – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Week 13
11/21 - Mon – Lanyer, “Cookham,” 1319-1324; Jonson, “Penshurst,” 1434-1436
11/23 - Wed – Donne, “The Flea,” “The Sun Rising”

Week 14
11/28 - Mon – Donne, Holy Sonnets #7, #10; Reflection Paper Due
11/30 - Wed – Finishing Up and Review
12/1 - Thurs - Last Day of Classes

Week 15 - Finals


The next step will be to set out the assignments. I'll post that soon, since I think about assignments as I'm brainstorming and such.