ENGH202: Literature of War -- Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments

Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments

Week	Date	Reading Assignment Due	Writing Assignment Due
1	8/28	—	—
1	8/30	Homer Iliad Translator’s Preface: page ix to top of xiv only Books 1-4 Review Some Stylistic Conventions in the Humanities (and follow them in your posts)	Reading Post A1
2	9/4	Homer Iliad Books 5-10	Reading Post B1
2	9/6	Homer Iliad Books 11-15	Reading Post C1 Synthesis Post A1 due Sunday, 9/9
3	9/11	Homer Iliad Books 16-20	Reading Post D1
3	9/13	Homer Iliad Books 21-24	Reading Post A2 Synthesis Post B1 due Sunday, 9/16
4	9/18	William Shakespeare Henry V Act 1, Scene 1 through Act 2, Scene 4	Reading Post C2
4	9/20	William Shakespeare Henry V Act 3, Chorus, through Act 4, Scene 1	Reading Post B2 Synthesis Post D1 due Sunday 9/23
5	9/25	Watch Kenneth Branagh’s Film of Henry V	Reading Post D2 Reading Post A3
5	9/27	William Shakespeare Henry V Act 4, Scene 2, through Act 5, Epilogue Special Event: Fall for the Book Wayne Karlin, author of Wandering Souls: Journeys With the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam will speak in Johnson Center, Meeting Room F at 4:30 Extra credit available	Reading Post B3 Synthesis Post C1 due Sunday, 9/30
6	10/2	Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Book One Chapters I-XII	Reading Post D3
6	10/4	Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Book Two Chapters XIV-XXIV	Reading Post C3 Synthesis Post A2 due Sunday, 10/7
7	10/9	No Class — Columbus Day Recess Monday classes meet Tuesday; Tuesday classes do not meet Mid-term grades submitted, based on first three reading posts and first synthesis post, plus quizzes and class participation
7	10/11	Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Book Three Chapters XXV-XXXII Book Four Chapters XXXIII-XXXIV	Reading Post A4 Synthesis Post B2 due Sunday, 10/14
8	10/16	Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Book Four Chapters XXXV-XXXVII Book Five Chapters XXXVIII-XLI	Reading Post C4
8	10/18	Poetry of the Great War John McCrae “In Flanders Fields” Rupert Brooke “Peace” “The Dead” “The Soldier” [Anonymous Student] “Foreign Field, English Heaven: Rupert Brooke Emerges Victorious in ‘The Soldier’” (This short essay will give you a model of how to perform a close reading of a poem) Edward Thomas “This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong” “Adlestrop” “Rain” W.B. Yeats “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”	Reading Post B4 Synthesis Post D2 due Sunday, 10/21
9	10/23	Poetry of the Great War Siegfried Sassoon “They” “Dreamers” “Glory of Women ” “Suicide in the Trenches” “Does it Matter?” Robert Graves “Big Words” “Goliath and David” Ivor Gurney “Pain” Movie Assignment All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Directed by Lewis Milestone Screenplay by Maxwell Anderson, adapted from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque Starring Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, and Slim Summerville	Reading Post A5 Movie Post #1
9	10/25	Poetry of the Great War Isaac Rosenberg “Returning, We Hear the Larks” “The Immortals” “God” “Break of Day in the Trenches” “Dead Man’s Dump”	Reading Post D4 Synthesis Post C2 due Sunday 10/28
10	10/30	Class Canceled Due to Sandy
10	11/1	Poetry of the Great War Wilfred Owen “Anthem for Doomed Youth ” “Dulce et Decorum Est” “Exposure” “Strange Meeting” “Disabled” Movie Assignment Paths of Glory Directed by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson, adapted from the novel by Humphrey Cobb Starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Wayne Morris, and Adolphe Menjou	Reading Post B5 Movie Post #2 Synthesis Post A3 due Sunday 11/4
11	11/6	Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Introduction Part One: Wave, Chapter 1 through Part Two: Argil and Mold, Chapter 4 Movie Assignment The Thin Red Line Directed by Terrence Malick Screenplay by Terrence Malick, adapted from the novel by James Jones Starring Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Sean Penn, Dash Mihok, John Cusack, John C. Reilly, Adrien Brody, Jared Leto, and Woody Harrelson	Reading Post C5 Movie Post #3
11	11/8	Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Part Two: Argil and Mold, Chapters 5-7	Reading Post D5 Synthesis Post B3 due 11/11
12	11/13	Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Part Two: Argil and Mold, “The Time Machine: Red Valsen / The Wandering Minstrel” through “The Time Machine: Robert Hearn / The Addled Womb” Movie Assignment Letters from Iwo Jima Directed by Clint Eastwood Screenplay by Iris Yamashita, based on Gyokusai Soshireikan' no Etegami (in English, Picture Letters from the Commander in Chief) by Tadamichi Kuribayashi Starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Tsuyoshi Ihara	Reading Post B6 Movie Post #4
12	11/15	Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Part Two: Argil and Mold, Chapter 12 through Part Three: Plant and Phantom, Chapter 2	Reading Post A6 Synthesis Post C3 due Sunday 11/18
13	11/20	Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Part Three: Plant and Phantom, “The Time Machine: Joey Goldstein / The Cove of Brooklyn” through Part Three: Plant and Phantom, Chapter 8 Movie Assignment Bridge on the River Kwai Directed by David Lean Screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, adapted from the novel by Pierre Boulle Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, and Jack Hawkins	Reading Post C6 Movie Post #5 Synthesis Post D3 due Sunday 11/25
13	11/22	No Class — Happy Thanksgiving
14	11/27	Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Part Three: Plant and Phantom, “The Time Machine: Polack Czienwicz / Gimme a Gimmick and I’ll Move the World” through Part Four: Wake	Reading Post D6
14	11/29	Joseph Heller Catch-22 Chapters 1-9 Movie Assignment MASH* Directed by Robert Altman Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr., adapted from the novel by Richard Hooker Starring Donald Sutherland, Eliot Gould, Tom Skerrit, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Gary Burghoff, Fred Williamson	Reading Post A7 Movie Post #6 Synthesis Posts B4 and C4 due Sunday 12/2
15	12/4	Joseph Heller Catch-22 Chapters 10-22	Reading Post B7
15	12/6	Joseph Heller Catch-22 Chapters 23-33 Movie Assignment Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Directed by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, based (sort of) on George’s novel Red Alert Starring Peter Sellers (in three different roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, and James Earl Jones	Reading Post C7 Movie Post #7 Synthesis Posts A4 and D4 due Sunday, 12/9
15	12/11	Joseph Heller Catch-22 Chapters 34-42	Reading Post D7

The final examination will take place on Thursday, 12/13, from 1:30-4:15.

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