Planning a Class - The Seventeenth Century Calendar

Obviously, I should start on March 25th!

As with the Renaissance class, this one's feeling a bit crowded. I changed up a few things after the brainstorming. For one thing, I added Jonson. How I forgot Jonson the first time around, I do not know. But I'm glad you folks are on the ball.

This one has a sort of weird one hour three times a week calendar:

17th Century (3) Covers prose, poetry and drama of the post-Renaissance period through the Restoration with special focus on works of John Milton.

Week 1
8/29 - Mon- Introduction to the 17th century
8/30 - Tues - The Early 17th Century (1235-1251); James I, selections (handout)
9/1 - Thurs - Shakespeare, King Lear (1139-1223)

Week 2
9/5 - Mon - Shakespeare, King Lear
9/6 - Tues - Shakespeare, King Lear
9/8 - Thurs - Bacon, "Of Truth," "Of Marriage and Single Life"

Week 3
9/12 - Mon - Bacon, "Of Superstition," "Of Plantation"
9/13 - Tues - Donne, "The Flea," "The Sun Rising," "The Relic"
9/15 - Thurs - Donne, Holy Sonnets #7, 10, 14

Week 4
9/19 - Mon - Donne, "Meditation 17"
9/20 - Tues - Jonson, "On my First Daughter," "On my First Son"
9/22 - Thurs - Jonson, "Inviting a Friend to Supper"
9/23 - Fri - Class Day - for 9/29 courses - Hobbes, Leviathan (1594-1605)

Week 5
9/26 - Mon - Hobbes, Leviathan (1594-1605)
9/27 - Tues - Herrick, "The Vine," "Delight in Disorder," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

Week 6
10/3 - Mon - Herbert, "Redemption," "Easter Wings"
10/4 - Tues - Herbert, "Jordan (I)," "Jordan (II)"
10/6 - Thurs - Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Week 7
10/10 - Mon - Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
10/11 - Tues - Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
10/13 - Thurs - Midterm Exam

Week 8
10/17 - Mon - The Early 17th Century (1251-1257); Charles I trial and execution (1737-1743)
10/19 - Wed - Tuesday Schedule - Views on the Civil War: Hutchinson (1758-1760), Hyde (1761-1764), Halkett (1764-1767)
10/20 - Thurs - Behn, The Rover

Week 9
10/24 - Mon - Behn, The Rover
10/25 - Tues - Behn, The Rover
10/27 - Thurs - Behn, Oroonoko

Week 10
10/31 - Mon - Behn, Oroonoko
11/1 - Tues - Behn, Oroonoko
11/3 - Thurs - Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

Week 11
11/7 - Mon - Marvell, "The Mower Against Gardens," "Damon, the Mower"
11/8 - Tues - Milton, from Areopagitica (1816-1825)

Week 12
11/14 - Mon - Milton, "How Soon Hath Time," "To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652"
11/15 - Tues - Milton, "When I Consider How my Light is Spent," "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"
11/17 - Thurs - Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 1 (1830-1850) - Read through line 191 for today
11/18 - Class day, Thurs schedule (for 11/10); Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 1 (finish Bk 1)

Week 13
11/21 - Mon - Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 1
11/22 - Tues - Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 1
11/24 - Thurs - Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 2 (1850-1871) (read all of Bk 2)

Week 14
11/28 - Mon - Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 2
11/29 - Tues - Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk 2
12/1 - Thurs - Last Day of Classes - Finishing Up

Week 15 - Finals

What do you think? Will it work? Can it work?