EN239:
Meeting Times, Location, & Course Delivery Details
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Student goals for this course:
COURSE SCHEDULE
Date | Reading to do BEFORE class | In class topic | Assignments due, quizzes & exams |
M 8/18 | Introductions, the syllabus, annoying name game for Marta’s benefit. Literal and figurative language | ||
W 8/20 | Poetry: “I Wandered…,” “Dog Haiku,” “To Lucasta,” “This Is Just to Say,” “A Glass of Beer,” Monologue for an Onion” | Narrator, persona, point of view, diction, literal meaning | Quiz |
F 8/22
| “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun,” “To see the world in a grain of sand,” “You fit into me” | Metaphor & simile: “The Fish” | Assignment: narrator, p.o.v., metaphors/ similes |
| M 8/25 | “Bright Star,” “I Shall Paint My Nails Red” | Imagery, figurative meaning, numbers: “The Fish” | Quiz |
W 8/27 | “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,” “Break, Break, Break,” “The Silken Tent” | Rhyme (sound & meter), punctuation & movement | Assignment: Poetry analysis, Perusall |
F 8/29 | “Sonnet 116,” “Sonnet 29,” “Sonnet” | Closed & open form: Shakespearean Sonnet |
M 9/1 | Labor Day Holiday | ||
W 9/3 | “What my lips have kissed, and where, and why,” “Leda and the Swan” | Closed & open form, Petrarchan sonnet, Haiku & Limerick | poem titles due for recitation |
F 9/5 | “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Fire & Ice,” “Memento Mori..,” “Musée des Beaux Arts,” “Journey of the Magi” | Biblical & mythical allusion, “The Fish” | Quiz Assignment: Close reading for collage |
M 9/8 | choose any 3 poems by Langston Hughes (Perusall) | Poetry casebook: Langston Hughes | |
W 9/10 | choose any 3 poems by Langston Hughes (Perusall) | Poetry casebook: Langston Hughes | Assignment: Perusall/discussion |
F 9/12 | Poem analysis pre-write, on your recitation poem |
M 9/15 | Poem recitations | Assignment: Poem recitation & analysis | |
W 9/16 | Song lyrics: love or rage; Bring in a song about either love or raging hate! | Song lyric debate | |
F 9/18 | Review | Assignment: Collage due |
M 9/22 | Poetry & terms exam | POETRY EXAM | |
W 9/24 | Introduction to Drama, Introduction to Sophocles | ||
F 9/26 | Tragedy: “Oedipus the King” (beginning to end of scene 1)
| “Oedipus the King;” Literary theory | Quiz |
Date | Reading to do BEFORE class | In class topic | Assignments due, quizzes & exams |
M 9/29 | “Oedipus the King” (scenes 2 & 3) | “Oedipus the King” | Assignment: Dear Diary or family therapy |
W 10/1 | “Oedipus the King” (scene 4, exodos) | “Oedipus the King” | Quiz |
F 10/3 |
| Direction, blocking & an interactive chorus | Assign/discussion: student direction |
M 10/6 | Sophocles casebook, critics: Aristotle, Freud, Haigh, Wiles | Sophocles casebook, Literary theory (schools of thought, literary approaches Introduction to comedy | |
W 10/8 | Comedy: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Acts 1-2) | Comedy: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Acts 1-2 | Quiz |
F 10/10 | “A Midsummer…” (Acts 3-4) | “A Midsummer…” Acts 3-4 |
M 10/13 |
Fall break
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W 10/15 | “A Midsummer…” (Act 5) | “A Midsummer…” Act 5
| Quiz |
F 10/17 | Shakespeare casebook critics Johnson, Asquith, Greer & Bamber | Shakespeare casebook; Literary theory | Assignment: Fake Casting |
M 10/20 | Review & workshop: modern adaptation skit | ||
W 10/22 | Review & workshop | Assignment: Skit | |
F 10/24 |
| Drama & terms exam | DRAMA EXAM |
M 10/27 | Introduction to longer fiction & the absurd | ||
W 10/29 | Kafka: The Metamorphosis (part I) | The Novel, Kafka: The Metamorphosis (part I) | Quiz |
10/31 | The Metamorphosis (part II) | The Metamorphosis (part II) |
M 11/3 | The Metamorphosis (part III) | The Metamorphosis (part III) | Quiz |
W 11/5 | Novella as allegory | Assignment: in-class essay | |
F 11/7 | Kafka critical articles (blackboard) | Kafka critique; Creative assignment prompts |
M 11/10 | Intro short stories: “The North Wind and the Sun,” “Godfather Death,” “Apocalypse” (Blackboard) |
Date | Reading to do BEFORE class | In class topic | Assignments due, quizzes & exams |
W 11/12 | “The Yellow Wallpaper” | “The Yellow Wallpaper” | Quiz |
F 11/14 | “Rapaccini’s daughter”
| “Rapaccini’s daughter” | Quiz |
M 11/17 | “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” (pp.381-386) | “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” | Quiz; Project proposal due |
W 11/19 | “Our Kind of Ridiculous” | “Our Kind of Ridiculous” | Quiz |
F 11/21 |
| Story analysis | Assignment: In-class essay |
M 11/24 | Creative assignment conferences | Project draft due | |
W, F | Turkey! |
M 12/1 |
| Creative assignment sharing | Creative Project due |
W 12/3 |
| Review |
See syllabus & Blackboard
GRADES:
Grade Breakdown:
Assignments & discussion boards: 35%
Quizzes: 10%
Final project: 10%
Exams: 45%
A | 93.5 < | B+ | 87 < | C+ | 77 < | D | 60 < |
A- | 90 < | B | 83.5 < | C | 73.5 < | F | > 59.9 |
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| B- | 80 < | C- | 70 < |
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Instructor Course Policies
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory, as is punctuality. We will begin each class promptly and go directly into lecture. You get 4 absence freebie’s – whatever the reason! (illness, death, relationship drama, POS car, alien abduction…). You are responsible for all work missed during your absences. See the current Student Handbook for the college attendance policy especially as it pertains to excused absences.
PLAGIARISM: Don’t do it. Plagiarism is addressed in the Student Handbook (Student Life Policies, Academic Integrity, Plagiarism): “To quote from Practical English Handbook (Watkins, Dillingham and Martin, 1978, 260): ‘Using others’ words and ideas as if they were your own is a form of stealing called plagiarism.’ In academic or scholarly writing, plagiarism offends the community of learning as seriously as does cheating on an examination. Developing the habit of giving appropriate credit to others for their ideas is important not only in school but in all other professional and life situations” (quoted in WC Student Handbook, 21).
If you use someone's else's materials and are unsure of whether or not you are plagiarizing, play it safe and cite it just in case. Information that you find on the Internet must also be cited. For a complete guide on citing sources please see www.dianahacker.com/writersref. If you are still unsure about your usage, please come and see me!
Any plagiarized assignments or papers (in part or in full) will result in an automatic zero in this course. Infractions will also be reported to the office of Academic Affairs and recorded in your student file.
Institutional and Program-Level Policies
All exams will follow the Final Exam Schedule. Students scheduled to take three or more final examinations on one day may request to arrange their examination schedule, so no more than two exams occur on one day.
Requests for early or late exams are considered only under extreme circumstances. Prior to the exam period, the student must file a written request on the Early/Late Exam Form available in the Student One Stop Center, Academic Records, and on the WC portal. The form must be signed by the Instructor and the Academic Dean, approving the alternate exam time. This process must be completed prior to the scheduled exam period.
Undergraduate: SP25 Final Exam Schedule Graduate:
Out-of-class Work Expectation A minimum of 2 hours of out-of-class student work is expected for each hour of in-class time for traditional face-to-face courses. For online and hybrid courses, the combination of face-to-face time and out-of-class work should be equal to 3 hours per credit hour per week. |
Instructional Course Delivery |
Academic Integrity Policy The use of generative AI is prohibited except where expressly allowed in assignment instructions. |
Class Attendance Policy |
Accessibility and Disability Services
Accessibility and Disability Services
Wilmington College provides accommodations and services for student with a variety of disabilities, including chronic illnesses, psychological, physical, medical, learning, and sensory disability amongst others. If you anticipate or experience barriers based on disability and feel you may need a reasonable accommodation to fulfill the essential functions of this course, you are encouraged to contact:
Spencer Izor, Associate Vice President of Compliance - Title IX/ADA Coordinator at spencer.izor@wilmington.edu or 937-481-2365 or Nathan Flack, Academic Resource Manager at 937-481-2208 to learn more about the process and procedures for requesting accommodations, or by visiting College Hall Room 306a or the Robinson Communication Center, Room 103.
Religious Accommodations
Wilmington College strives for an inclusive climate and welcomes students from all backgrounds, faiths, and experiences. If religious observance impedes your ability to participate fully in classroom activities or a principal holiday from your religious tradition occurs during the semester and conflicts with class meetings or activities, please make the professor aware of this immediately to determine if a reasonable accommodation is possible.