| Jan 21 | Introduction
Kilmer, “Trees”
Barrett Browning, sonnet XXIX | |
| Jan 28 | Genesis 1-3, John 19-21, and Revelation 21-22
R.E.M., “Everybody Hurts” (video) | |
| Feb 4 | Frost, “Birches”
Hopkins, “Spring and Fall” | quiz |
| Feb 11 | Layton, “The Birth of Tragedy”
Page, “Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree”
“Lord Randal”
“Thomas Rhymer” | quiz
in-class analysis |
| Feb 25 | As You Like It | quiz
first essay due |
| Mar 3 | As You Like It
mid-term test (11:00-12:20) | |
| Mar 10 | “Robin Hood and Little John”
Mansfield, “Bliss” | quiz |
| Mar 17 | Emerson, “Nature” (1-11)
Hardy, “A Tragedy of Two Ambitions” | quiz
in-class analysis |
| Mar 24 | Under the Greenwood Tree | quiz |
| Mar 31 | Under the Greenwood Tree | in-class analysis |
| Apr 7 | World of Warcraft
Weisman, “Earth without People” | quiz
second essay due |
| Apr 14 | Review
end-of-term test (11:00-12:20) | |