Fall 06 Schedule and Links

Tentative, Evolving Fall 06 Schedule and Links

Week and Dates	Topic	Reading Assignments	Writing Assignments	Lecture Notes
Week 1 8/21 - 8/25	Introduction: Fact, Fiction, Symbols and History, More, More, More...	Syllabus Kentucky Doctor Story Study Question Guidelines The Power of Icons		Intro to Core Notes Cultural Lens Theory Artistic Representation and Thematic Meaning Little Red Riding Hood Wolf Attack!
Week 2 8/28 - 9/1	Staying On the Path: Mythology, Monsters and Morality	M: Critical Thinking and Monstrosity W: Theseus and The Minotaur Theseus The Minotaur F: Prometheus Prometheus/Pandora Summary	Mon: SQ1: Group Survey	Thinking About Monsters: A Rubric Critical Thinking and Monstrosity Maps and Timelines Etc. How to Analyze Literature
Week 3 9/4 - 9/8 Monday: Labor Day Holiday	Myths, Monsters and War The "Other"	M: Holiday W: Monstrous Women: Medusa and The Odyssey Medusa From Percy Shelley: The Art and Shelley's Poem Click Pictures: French Feminist/Critic Cixous More on Medusa (skim): From Greek Mythology Link From Mythography Site The Odyssey: Circe, Calypso, the Sirens, Scylla "The Real Cyclopes" F: Dionysus Dionysus summary Dionysus With Pan With King Midas	F: SQ Greek	Timeline The Other Maps and Timelines Etc. Who's The Monster? Monster? Odysseus
Week 4 9/11 - 9/15	Mythology: The Origin of Origins, the History of Ideas	Gilgamesh: Complete Summary Sumerian Myth and The Bible	W: SQ Gilgamesh 1	Timeline Gilgamesh Photos, Links,Flood Code of Hammurabi Map of Early Civilizations Regional Atlas Honing Definitions Defining Thru Examples
Week 5 9/18 - 9/22	Gilgamesh Cont., Defining Monstrosity Cont.		M: SQ Gilgamesh 2	Gilgamesh Photos, Links,Flood The Underworld and Grief Definition Paper Outline Developing and Revising Drafts Finding Implicit Reasons Argument Analysis Outline
Week 6 9/25 - 9/29	Definings Concepts: Monsters and Monstrosity	Begin Beowulf	M: MP1 Draft W: Mini Project #1: Monster Concept	Developing and Revising Drafts Refining Analytic Essays Definition Gradesheet Fog Of War Intro Beowulf Beo Map
Week 7 10/2 - 10/6	What Evil Lurks Within?: Generic Monsters as Complex Social Symbols	Beowulf Creating Mythology Creating Media	SQ Beowulf Group Mini Project #2	Creating A Webpage
Week 8 10/9 - 10/13 Midterm Week		FILM NIGHT: Tues 10/10 Renfrew 111 7:00-9:00	Midterm	FILM NIGHT
Week 9 10/16 - 10/20	Modernity: The Monster As Hero, The Hero As Monster?
Week 10 10/23 - 10/27		Creating Mythology Grendel Critical Thinking		Grendel Agenda Existentialism Free Will Dragon Short Story Process
Week 11 10/30 - 11/3	Existential Monstrosity on Trial	Grendel Existentialism: Is Grendel Guilty?	F: SQ Grendel Group Due	Existentialism Is A Humanism Critical Thinking and Grendel's Guilt
Week 12 11/6 - 11/10	Monstrosity on Trial: Critical Thinking, Culpability and the Civilized Response to Evil	Grendel Is Grendel Guilty?	Wed: Draft 2 Due in class F: Monster Myth Final Draft Due in class	Gardner on Grendel Developing and Revising Drafts
Week 13 11/13 - 11/17	Paper Workshops, Group Project Prep	FILM NIGHT: Tues 11/14 Renfrew 111 7:00-9:00	Grendel Argument Outline Typed draft due in Class, typed, two copies	Critical Thinking and Grendel's Guilt Finding Implicit Reasons Double Checking Reasons
Week 14 11/19 - 11/23	Fall Recess	Fall Recess	Fall Recess	Fall Recess
Week 15 11/27 - 12/1	Grendel Trial		Trial and Paper Prep Grendel Trial	Grendel Trial Roles
Week 16 12/4 - 12/8			M: Grendel Trial W: Grendel Argument Analysis Draft Due in Class and Continue Grendel Trial F: Grendel Argument Analysis Essay Due Grendel Gradesheet	Grendel Trial Roles
Week 17 12/11 - 12/15	Finals Week		Monday: Group Member Evaluations and Electronic Portfolio