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Readings:
Path I |
Topics |
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| M, 4-3 |
Stress & Mutability
P. B. Shelley's "Mutability" (1814-15; 1816), PDF
W. Wordsworth's "Mutability" (1820), PDF
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guidelines
- theme: apocalypse & dystopia
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| W, 4-5 |
Reality and the Imagination
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), intro (pp.3-7, please read the narrator's intro, not the editor's intro) & chps 1-5
W. Wordsworth's Lucy Poems (1798-1801), PDF
George Gordon, Lord Byron's "She walks in beauty" (June 1814; 1815), PDF |
- key concepts: physiognomy, perfectibility, necessity
- mini-lecture: M. Shelley & her circle / Part 1
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| M, 4-10 |
Sex, Gender, & Sanity
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), chps 6-9
M. Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), PDF of excerpts |
- key concepts: sensibility, madness, virtue, mind & body
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| W, 4-12 |
Nature: Friend or Foe?
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), chps 10-14
S. T. Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" (Feb. 1798; 1798), PDF
W. Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (July 1798; 1798), PDF |
- key concepts: fidelity, Nature, family
- mini-lecture: M. Shelley & her circle / Part 2
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| M, 4-17 |
Apocalypse
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), chps 15-19
George Gordon, Lord Byron's "Darkness" (1816; 1816), PDF
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- key concepts: the Arts, Fate, Nature, morality, family
- format: roundtable discussion
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| W, 4-19 |
A Long Farewell
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), chps 20-23 / student-generated discussion questions (create 1-2 questions for each assigned chp.) will drive discussion
P. B. Shelley's "Ozymandias" (1817; 1818), PDF |
- key concepts: to be determined by students
- format: roundtable discussion
- mini-lecture: M. Shelley & her circle / Part 3
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| M, 4-24 |
The Mind: Powers & Limitations
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), chps 24-27
P. B. Shelley's "Mont Blanc" (1816; 1817), PDF / walk through explication |
- key concepts:
- format: small group argumentation exercise
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| W, 4-26 |
The Meaning of the Enigma
M. Shelley's The Last Man (1826), chps 28-30
EXAM #1 (objective exam): T/F & multiple choice (100-qstn green scantron required) |
- key concepts: the roman à clef
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| M, 5-1 |
Evolution Towards Dystopia or Utopia?
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), chps 1-4
C. Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859), excerpts, PDF
C. Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871), excerpts, PDF
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- key concepts: a 4th dimension; natural selection; anachronism
- group exercise: time-space lesson
- discussion: film adaptation
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| W, 5-3 |
Industrial Revolution: Evolution or Devolution?
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), chps 5-8
E. B. Browning's "The Cry of the Children" (1843), PDF
F. Engels's The Condition of the Working Class (1845), excerpts from chp. "The Great Towns" |
- key concepts: religion, the Press, faith, struggle
- format: small group discuss & report exercise
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| M, 5-8 |
Visions of the Human Condition
DUE by 6 p.m. today: 1-2 minute video of each student providing a text-based answer to a study question (Point for Reflection) concerning chps. 9-epilogue
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), chps 9 - epilogue
R. Browning's “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” (1852; 1855), PDF / video explication |
- key concepts:
- discussion: clips from film adaptation
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| W, 5-10 |
The Sociology of Sex
R. Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), chps 1-15
W. Owen's “Disabled” (Oct. 1917-July 1918), PDF
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- key concepts:
- discussion: clips from film adaptation
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| M, 5-15 |
Extinction Agenda
R. Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), chps 16-21
W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938; 1940), PDF
EXAM #2: closed book essay (blue book required)
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| W, 5-17 |
Aggressive Apathy
P. D. James's The Children of Men (1992), chps. 1-8
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "I, being born a woman and distressed" (1923), PDF
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Love is Not All" (1931), PDF
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| S, 5-20 |
OPTIONAL PLAY: Marisela Traviño Orta's Somewhere: A Primer for the End of Days
Spanos Theater
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| M, 5-22 |
Faith in Free Fall
P. D. James's The Children of Men (1992), chps. 9-26
T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" (1911; 1917), PDF
Philip Larkin's "Church Going" (1955), PDF
assign term paper |
- key concepts:
- roundtable discussion
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| W, 5-24 |
Vulnerable and Inadequate
P. D. James's The Children of Men (1992), chps. 27-33
T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" (1927), PDF |
- key concepts:
- format: discussion of points of reflection; passage analysis w/ use of slideshow
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| M, 5-29 |
Memorial Day: NO CLASS |
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| W, 5-31 |
Student Workday: NO CLASS
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| M, 6-5 |
Unmanned
Brian K. Vaughan's and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man (2003), pp.6-130
Julia Alvarez's "Heroics" (May, 1982), PDF
DUE: complete Term Paper Outline for peer editing
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| W, 6-7 |
An Upturned Sky
Brian K. Vaughan's and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man (2003), pp. 131-246
Fatima Lim-Wilson's "Raising the Dead" (1994), PDF |
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| W, 6-14 |
Final Exam / Term Paper combo: timed essay
sec 01: Wed., June 14, 10:10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
sec 02: Mon., June 12, 1:10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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