(Office: Allgood Hall, E-238)
(Tel: 667-4431; e-mail: englishprofatasu@aim.com)

(a) When due Assignments are to be read or completed before class meets on the date scheduled. (b) Abbreviations: Roberts or R&J or  RJ8 = Edgar V. Roberts' and Henry Jacobs' Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, 8th ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2007); NMHH = New McGraw-Hill Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2007); SFHW = Hairston's and Ruskiewicz's The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers,  8th ed. (2007); WR = Diane Hacker's A Writer's Reference,  6th ed. (2007); Pep2 = Prinsky's "Engl. 1102 Pamphlet, Ch. 5" (available online in my Engl. 1102 webpage at my ASU website: www.aug.edu/~nprinsky).  (b) Bring the books Bring  RJ8  to class (also, a thick paperback or collegiate dictionary, is generally desirable). (c) Write your name in your textbooks To help prevent the loss of your textbooks, write your name and telephone number in all textbooks (for this and other classes). This information will make retrieving a lost or forgotten book much easier and more likely. Use pencil for books you plan to sell back, though every book for this course is worth keeping permanently, for reasons explained in class and in my English 1102 pamphlet. (d) Be sure to ponder my study questions on the assigned reading, posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage, as well as the study questions in RJ8 on the assigned reading, prior to the class session(s) on the assigned reading. Bring a printout of these study questions (which can be gotten from campus computers, as well as at home) to class.   (e) Don't forget your Scantron form.  Be sure to pick up a Scantron form from me to use for the at-home multiple-choice quiz due on each chapter at the beginning of class when the reading of the chapter material is supposed to be completed, as indicated by the schedule below.  (f) When out-of-class quizzes and papers are due. All out-of-class quizzes and essay assignments are posted online, and are due by the beginning of class on the dates listed below in this schedule. There is a quiz on every chapter assigned in the book; if a chapter is discussed over several sessions, multiple quizzes, one for each session.  (g) Optional, extra-credit out-of-class essay  Follow the directions for  OCE4 in Appendix C of pep2 (posted online with all materials in my "English 1102 Materials"). (OCE3 is not available during summer semester.) OCE4 is a thorough, detailed analysis of song lyrics (plus accompanying audiotape or CD with a track that has the song on it) of all the poetic components and themes of uptempo popular song lyrics (in any kind of popular music--but uptempo) and is due by the end of the course. Follow directions for OCE4 in Appendix C of pep2 (online); all material from Chs. 13-21 and 23 of RJ8 should be used for OCE4.

Don't let the detail of the following class schedule make you uneasy. The purpose of the great detail in the class schedule below is to save you work by indicating small specific portions to read and letting the rest go. You do not have to read every page of each chapter of the textbooks, just the material specified.

The underlined lowercase letters in parentheses (e.g., (a1), (b), and so on) in the assignments below are meant to subdivide the assignment into parts; parts of the assignment very closely related to each other in content are given numbers as well (e.g., a1, a2, and so on)
 

  6/ 25 (Th)    (a) sign roll sheet; (b) go over general course syllabus; (c) go over course requirements; (d) very brief lecture on the professional and personal benefits of Eng. 1102 (and Humanities), including relation to watching film and listening to popular music; (e) viewing of first twenty minutes or so of a film, with discussion of symbolism in film; (f) download my Film Symbolism Challenge from the Prinsky Engl. 1102 webpage

  6/ 26 (F)     (a) listen to Rock concert (on CD), related to personal benefits of Eng. 1102; discussion of Rock lyrics (related to personal benefits of Eng. 1102); (b) read Edward Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory" in RJ8 (look up the author and title in the RJ8 index; also, informally try to answer study questions in RJ8 on the poem); (c) look over Pep2: section (or chapter) 5; (d) from your composition handbook study material on quotation marks or underlining (italics) for titles, and commas or no commas for nonrestrictive or restrictive material

[prose fiction: short stories]

  6/ 29 (M)    (a) first half of Ch. 1 of RJ8 ("Introduction: Reading, Responding, and Writing About Literature"), pp. 1-24 (up through "Use the Plus-Minus . . . Together"); (b) discussion of Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace"; (c) as noted in the overall directions above, as for all assignments, (c1) print out and ponder my Notes and Questions for Ch. 1 (and the Maupassant short story as well as the painting discussed in RJ8), posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage, and (c2) print out and have taken the quiz (on Scantron form, in pencil) on the assigned reading material to be handed in at the beginning of class

  6/ 30 (T)    (a) second half of Ch. 1 of RJ8, pp. 24-49; (b)continued discussion of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace"; (c)  study the explanatory material about symbolism in Ch. 9 ("Symbolism and Allegory") in RJ8; (d) brief discussion of "the intentional fallacy" concept; (e) in-class essay (open book) on Maupassant's short story (done on computer in a computer lab, or some similar arrangement, to be announced); (f) make sure you have found out your password and can log on to a campus computer -- if not, check with campus Computer Services/Information & Technology; (g) study MLA format in your composition handbook; (h) also access and print out my "Using Microsoft Word 2007" on my Engl.1101 or Engl. 1102 webpage; (h1) review relevant material in your composition handbook covering errors you have been alerted you have in past English classes (e.g., spelling, apostrophe, comma splice, fragment); (h2) in RJ8, review from chapter 1 the sections"Using Verb Tenses,", "Always Keep to Your Point," and "Using the Names of Authors"

 7/1 (W)   [the elements of prose fiction -- especially plot and structure]  (a) from Ch. 2 of RJ8 ("Fiction: An Overview"), pp. 53-64, 81-87 (William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and editorial material), 104-111 (material about plot, plus sample essay on Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" plus editorial material); (b) at-home multiple-choice quiz on assigned material from Ch. 2 due at start of class; (c) as noted in the overall directions above, as for all assignments, (c1) print out and ponder my Notes and Questions for Ch. 2 (and the Faulkner short story), posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage, (c2) print out and have taken on Scantron (to be turned in at the beginning of class) the online quiz (from my webpage) on material on Ch. 2

 7/2  (Th)   (a) from Ch. 3 (" Structure: The Organization of Stories") of RJ8, pp. 112-115, 138-143 (Eudora Welty's short story "A Worn Path" and editorial material), and 148-52 (the sample essay on the Welty story plus editorial material); (b)  as noted in the overall directions above, as for all assignments, print out and ponder my Notes and Questions for Ch. 3 (and the Welty short story as well as the painting discussed by R&J), posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage; (c) from Ch. 9 ("Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning"), pp. 380-385  and 424-436 (up to "allegory") (note some comments about the Welty story); (d) discussion of organization and structure in painting, with questions on and analysis of Claude Lorraine's Seaport at Sunset; (e) at-home multiple-choice quiz on assigned material from Chs. 3 and 9 due at start of class

  7/6 (M)    (a) from Ch. 4 ("Characters: The People in Fiction") of RJ8, pp. 153-160, 194-201 (Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds" and editorial material), and 201-07 (sample essay on the Tan story plus editorial material); (b)  as noted in the overall directions above, as for all assignments, print out and ponder my Notes and Questions for Ch. 4 (and the Amy Tan short story as well as the sculpture discussed by R&J), posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage; (c) from Ch. 10 ("Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction"), pp. 436-443 and 493-498; (d) discussion of characterization in the visual arts, especially with reference to portrait sculpture (the sculpture of Lorenzo de Medici, reproduced in Ch. 4 of RJ8);  (e) at-home multiple-choice quiz on assigned material from Chs. 4 and 10 due at start of class; (f) OCE1 due anytime (not necessarily in class; can be turned in to my department mailbox or slid under my office door) 7/10, or postmarked 7/10 or 7/11 (use the address: Prof. Norman Prinsky / Dept. of English and Foreign Languages / Augusta State University / Augusta, GA 30904-2200; use a 4 X 9 regular envelope, one first-class stamp, and fold the paper in thirds to fit in the envelope) -- see the out-of-class essay assignments posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage

 7/7 (T)    (a) from Ch. 5 ("Point of View: The Position and Stance of the Narrator or Speaker") of RJ8, pp. 209-218, 227-233 (Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" plus editorial material), 250-256 (sample essay on the Bierce short story plus editorial material); (b)  as noted in the overall directions above, as for all assignments, print out and ponder my Notes and Questions for Ch. 5 (and the Ambrose Bierce short story, as well as New Testament material);  (c)  from Ch. 7  ("Style: The Words That Tell the Story"), pp. 295-302 and 328-329;  (d) from NMHH, SFHW, or WR, material relevant to prose style (see the Appendix to this Class Schedule for sections or page numbers) ;  (e) from Ch. 8 ("Tone: The Expression of Attitude in Fiction"), pp. 336-341; discussion of point of view in the visual arts, with reference to examples cited in Ch. 5 of RJ8, and tone in the visual arts, with reference to examples cited in Ch. 8 of RJ8;  (f) at-home multiple-choice quiz due at start of class, on assigned material from Chs. 5, 7, and 8, as well as the paintings referred to by R&J as well as in my online Notes and Questions for Ch. 5, posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage

  7/8 (W)   (a)  from Ch. 6 ("Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories") of RJ8, pp. 258-262, 269-73 (James Joyce's short story "Araby" plus editorial material, and 288-93 (sample essay on the Joyce short story plus editorial material); (b) from Ch. 7 ("Style: The Words That Tell the Story"), pp. 295-302 and 328-329;  (d) from NMHH, SFHW, or WR, material relevant to prose style (see the Appendix to this Class Schedule for sections or page numbers) ;  (e) discussion of the meaning and symbolism of setting in painting, especially with reference to the examples cited in Ch. 6 of RJ8; (f) as noted in the overall directions above, as for all assignments, print out and ponder my Notes and Questions for Ch. 6 (and the Joyce short story as well as the paintings discussed by R&J), posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage; (g) at-home multiple-choice quiz due at start of class, on assigned material from Ch. 6 as well as the paintings discussed by R&J, posted on my Engl. 1102 webpage )

[drama: plays]

  7/9 (Th)   (a) from Ch. 26 ("The Dramatic Vision: An Overview"), pp. 1265-1276 (up to "Drama from Ancient Times to Our Own"), 1282-83 ("Reading Plays"), 1337-40  ("Writing about the Elements of Drama" to the demonstrative student essay); (b) from Ch. 28 ("The Comic Vision: Restoring the Balance"), pp. 1579-1587 (editorial material, up to material on Shakespeare), 1662-1663 ("Comedy from Moliere to the Present"), and 1663-72 (Anton Chekhov's comedy The Bear, plus editorial material); (c) the sample essay on Chekhov's play The Bear, posted online with my Notes and Questions on the Chekhov play; (d) drama quiz 1 due

  7/10 (F) continued discussion of drama and Chekhov's comedy The Bear; drama quiz 2 due

 7/13 (M)    (a) continued discussion of drama and Chekhov's comedy The Bear; drama quiz 3 due ;  (b) in-class open-book essay on Chekhov's comedy The Bear, in one of the computer labs on campus (to be arranged); prior to class, review your class notes about the Chekhov play (the essay is open book but not open note); also, prior to class review the material about writing about literature, using MLA format, and using Microsoft Word, from previous assignments; prior to class, review material on organization, paragraphs, coherence, transition, editing, grammar, usage, and punctuation in your composition handbook; prior to class, review pep2, 5.3; well before class,  make sure that you have already logged on to a campus computer (if you have problems, check with campus Computer Services/Information & Technology)

[poetry: poems]

  7/14 (T)    (a) from Ch. 13 of RJ8 ("Meeting Poetry: An Overview"), pp. 659-69, 673 (Thomas Hardy's "The Man He Killed" and editorial matter), and 682-87 (from "Writing an Explication of a Poem" through the sample essay on the Hardy poem, plus editorial material); (b) from Ch. 23 ("Meaning: Idea and Theme in Poetry," pp. 1047-1054, 1063-1065 (John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"), and 1073-1079 (editorial material plus illustrative essay on the Keats poem); (c) focus on the poems in Ch. 13 by Billy Collins, Lisel Mueller, and the anonymous ballad "Sir Parick Spens"; (d) relevant quiz on assigned material due at start of class

 7/15 (W)  (a) review of the documented or research paper; review of the final exam; be sure to have printed out (and looked over) from my website (a1) the instructions for doing the documented paper, and (a2) the sample documented paper; (b) from Ch. 14 of RJ8 ("Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry") , pp. 688-96, with focus on Robert Graves' "The Naked and the Nude" (467-68), William Blake's "The Lamb," plus editorial material) [697-98], and Richard Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment," plus editorial material (703-704), and E.A. Robinson's "Richard Cory" plus editorial matter (713-714), and pp. 717-722 (sample essay on the E.A. Robionson poem, plus editorial material); (c) relevant quiz on assigned material due at start of class

  7/16 (Th)   (a)  from Ch 15, just pp. 724-725 (the concept of "speaker" or "persona" of the poem); note: do not do a quiz on Ch. 15; (b) from Ch. 16 (session #1) ("Imagery: The Poem's Link to the Senses"), pp. 758-761 (through editorial material on John Masefield's poem "Cargoes"); discussion of the painting discussed by R&J, as well as Masefield's "Cargoes"; relevant quiz on Ch. 16 due

  7/17 (F)    from Ch. 16 (session #2), (a) pp. 761-762 (through "Olfactory, Gustatory, and Tactile Imagery"); discussion of Wilfred Owen's poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth"; relevant quiz due; (b) pp. 762-765, 770-71 (T.S. Eliot's "Preludes," plus editorial material), and 783-88 (sample essay on the Eliot poem, plus editorial material); (c) from Ch. 21 ("Symbolism and Allusion"), pp. 967-974, 999 (William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming"), and 1000-1005 (sample essay on the Yeats poem, plus editorial material); (d) focus on Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish," T.S. Eliot's poem "Preludes," Virginia Scott's poem "Snow," and Yeats' poem "The Second Coming"; relevant quiz(zes) due

 7/17 (F) - anytime on 7/17 (not necessarily in class) turn into my mailbox or slide under my office door or mail (as per OCE1)  your preliminary documented (research) paper Works Cited page due (in MLA format, with your surname and the page number 8 in the upper righthand corner); see the Works Cited page on the sample MLA format research papers in your composition handbook -- the function of (c) is to make sure you have chosen a poem for the documented paper and have gathered some secondary, critical sources about the author's poetry, as explained in the directions for the documented paper to be downloaded from my English 1102 webpage; (d) your Works Cited page should look like the Works Cited page on the sample documented (research) paper posted on the Prinsky Engl. 1102 webpage (including the primary source [the poem you've chosen] as well as the secondary sources [material you've found, which has been written about your poet or poet's poetry -- though not about the particular poem you've chosen]) 

  7/20 (M)    (a) from Ch. 17 (session #1) ("Figures of Speech"), pp. 790-94 (up to "Other Figures of Speech"); focus on John Keats' poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; relevant quiz due;  (b) from Ch. 17, pp. 794-798; (c) focus on John Keats' poem "Bright Star";  (d) relevant quiz(zes) due

  7/21 (T)   from Ch. 17 (session #2), pp. 802-804 (Thomas Hardy's poem "The Convergence of the Twain"), pp. 817-18 (William Wordsworth's "London, 1802," plus editorial material, and 818-826 (sample paragraph on Wordsworth's poem "London, 1802"; sample essay on the Hardy poem; plus editorial material); focus on the poems by Hardy and Wordsworth; relevant quiz due

  7/21 (T)  Out-of-class essay #2 due anytime on 7/21; see appendix C of pep2

  7/22 (W)   from RJ8 Ch. 18 ("Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry"), pp. 828-37 and 861-66; study for class discussion the poems by Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, and Langston Hughes ("Theme for English B"); relevant quiz due

  7/23 (Th)   from RJ8 Ch. 19 ("Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry"), pp. 868-883 and 912-921; study for discussion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Sound of the Sea," Robert Herrick's "Upon Julia's Voice," and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"; relevant quiz due

 7/24 (F)    (a) from RJ8 Ch. 20 ("Form: The Shape of the Poem"), pp. 923-31 (up to "Open-Form Poetry"), including Tennyson's "The Eagle," "Spun in high, dark clouds," and Shakespeare's Sonnet 116; (b) pp. 960-965 (material about George Herbert's poem "Virtue"); (c) study for discussion Jean Toomer's "Reapers," Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," and Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle"; (d) relevant quiz due

  7/27 (M)   from RJ8 Ch. 20, "Open-Form Poetry" through the comment on Herbert's "Easter Wings" in "Visual and Concrete Poetry" (pp. 931-35); study for discussion the Walt Whitman's poem "Reconciliation," George Herbert's "Easter Wings," and e.e. cummings' "Buffalo Bill's/defunct"
 

final exam

[for Section A3]   7/31 (F)    Final exam,   7 a.m. - 9 a.m..   , in a place with computers for word processing;

[for Section ]        Final exam,      , in a place with computers for word processing;

[for Section ] __________ Final exam, ______________, in a place with computers for word processing;
 

(a) The final exam topic Open book: essay analyzing themes, ideas, characterization or depiction or definition of human nature or behavior or life, conveyed by literary components in a poem, chosen by the instructor from RJ8, along with suggestive questions about the poem, identifying, among other things, its main subjects or topics. (b) What to bring for the final exam Be sure to bring RJ8 and collegiate dictionary. (c) What to study for the final exam In addition to doing the documented (library) paper analyzing your poem, review (c1) chs. 13-21 and 23 of RJ8, (c2) the sections on literary analysis, impromptu essays, and in-class essays in Pep2, and (c3) material on grammar, usage, and punctuation problems in your composition handbook  (especially areas that have consistently cropped up in your preceding essays).
 
 
Appendix: Sections or Page Numbers in NMHH, SFHW, or WR That Are Relevant to Prose Style

NMHH, Chs. 30 ("Parts of Speech"), 31 ("Sentence Basics"), 42 (Parallelism), 44 (Coordination and Subordination), 45 (Sentence Variety), 49 (Exact Language)

SFHW8, Chs. 15 ("What Kinds of Language Can You Use?"); 16 ("How Do You Construct Effective Sentences?"); 17 ("How Do You Write Stylish Sentences?")

WR6, Basic Grammar (B1-B4), Word Choice (W3, W4, W5), Sentence Style (S1, S6, S7)