English 202

English 202.01 & .02 Spring 2003

Instructor: Mr. Rosenblum

Office: 224-D McIver

Hours: By appointment

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Attendance: Attendance is expected and required. Any student missing more than three classes FOR ANY REASON will be dropped. There are no excused absences. Please schedule medical appointments, interviews, nervous breakdowns, bouts of pneumonia, etc., so that these do not conflict with this class. If your extra-curricular or other activities will not allow you to have almost perfect attendance, you should not take this class. (Ask your coach whether she’ll let you miss four meets/games.)

Class begins at the top of the hour: 10:00 AM for section 01, 11:00 AM for section 02. Students who arrive after the class has begun will not be admitted. Please do not enter the classroom once the door has been closed. Class ends when I dismiss you. Please do not begin packing your belongings until I have dismissed you. Students who leave before class is dismissed will be counted as absent. I will take attendance at the end of the period. If you take a quiz and then leave, you will receive a zero for that quiz and will be counted absent for that class.

Students who engage in activities inappropriate for the class will be asked to leave and will be counted absent. If such behavior is repeated, the student will be dropped from the course. Inappropriate behavior includes but is not limited to sleeping, reading a newspaper, doing work for another class, talking with neighbors or otherwise disturbing the class. The instructor is the arbiter of inappropriate behavior.

Grading: Your grade is based on quizzes, mostly unannounced, which will be given at the beginning of classes. Quizzes consist of objective, short-answer questions based on the readings since the previous quiz. The instructor is the final judge as to the correct answers to the questions on the quizzes. There are no make-up quizzes, and you cannot take quizzes early. You must take the quiz in class on the day it is given. (Ask your coach about playing your rounds of golf before or after the tournament.)

Each quiz will be worth four points. There will be twenty-five quizzes. Please save your quizzes in case we differ as to your final score.

Grading is on a ten-point scale, with very limited use of plus and minus. Thus,

90-100=A

89= A-

88= B+

80-87= B

79= B-

78= C+

and so forth.

Students who cheat will receive an F for the course and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the provisions of the UNCG Honor Code.

Class Format. The format is discussion. I don’t lecture. I ask questions, which you answer or don’t answer. I don’t answer my own questions. The class will be boring or exciting depending on your participation. I’m dull, so if you want excitement, you’re going to have to provide it.

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Learning Goals:

At the completion of this course students will be able to

· Identify and understand varied characteristics of literature

· Apply techniques of literary analysis to texts

· Use literary study to develop skills in careful reading and writing

· Demonstrate understanding of the diverse social and historical contexts in which literary texts have been written and interpreted.

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Texts: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, The Karamazov Brothers (KB)

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard

NB: You may use any version you wish. I have asked the UNCG bookstore and Addams to order Oxford World Classics editions of the two novels and Dover editions of the two plays. You are responsible for securing copies of the texts. You also are responsible for reading and understanding the texts. That understanding includes knowing meanings of what may be unfamiliar words and concepts. If you are confused, bring questions to class. You will have the opportunity to ask questions before the quizzes, though I reserve the right not to answer questions to which you should have found the answers on your own, such as the meaning of strange words.

You should read the following FOR the date of the listing.

1/13. Introduction

1/15. Fathers and Sons, chs. 1-6

1/17. Fathers and Sons, chs. 7-10

1/20. No class. Martin Luther King’s Birthday celebrated

1/22. Fathers and Sons, chs. 11-16

1/24. Fathers and Sons, chs. 17-20

1/27. Fathers and Sons, chs. 21-23

1/29. Fathers and Sons, chs. 24-25

1/31. Fathers and Sons, chs. 26-28

2/3. KB, “From the Author,” and Book I, chs. 1-4

2/5. KB, I. 5, Book II. 1-3

2/7. KB, II. 4-6

2/10. KB, II. 7-8, Book III. 1-3

2/12. KB, III. 4-7

2/14. KB, III. 8-11

2/17. KB, Book IV. 1-5

2/19. KB, IV. 6-7, Book V., ch. 1

2/21. KB, V. 2-4

2/24. KB, V. 5-7

2/26. KB, Book VI, chs. 1-2c

2/28. KB, VI. 2c-3

3/3. KB, Book VII, chs. 1- 3

3/5. KB, VII. 4, VIII. 1-2

3/7. KB, VIII. 3-5

3/17. KB, VIII. 6-8

3/19. KB, IX. 1-3

3/21. KB, IX. 4-6

3/24. KB, IX. 7-9

3/26. KB, X. 1-4

3/28. KB, X. 5

3/31. KB, X. 6-7, XI. 1-2

4/2. KB, XI. 3-5

4/4. KB, XI. 6-8

4/7. KB, XI. 9-10, XII. 1

4/9. KB, XII. 2-5

4/11. KB, XII. 6-8

4/14. KB, XII. 9-13

4/16. KB, XII, 14, Epilogue

4/18. No class.

4/21-4/25 Video of KB

4/28. Uncle Vanya, Acts I-II

4/30. Uncle Vanya, Acts III-IV

5/2. The Cherry Orchard, Acts I-II

5/5. The Cherry Orchard, Acts III-IV