Fall-Due Dates. You must meet your deadlines. If you read ahead, be sure to review. Read all of the introductory material in your text, whether about the periods or the authors and their works.

Oct. 7 Final day to take The Ancient World test 

Oct. 26 Final day to submit Assignment 1: Reading Response

Nov. 18 Final day to submit Assignment 2: Don Quixote

Dec. 7 Final day to take Middle Ages and Renaissance test

Weeks 1-3
Read Introduction to the Ancient World and The Odyssey.

Weeks 4-6
Read Oedipus, The Aeneid selections: Books I, II, and IV The Metamorphosis selections up to, (not including), "Jove's Intervention," and Sappho's poems numbered 34, 38, 39, 41.

Weeks 7-9
Read Introduction to The Middle Ages, the Marie de France selections: "Bisclavret" and "Yonec;" from The 1001 Nights, and from The Book of the City of the Ladies.

Weeks 10-12
Read Introduction to The Renaissance, the seven poems of Petrarch listed in Class Notes, the selections from The Decameron: "The First Day" and "Fifth Day, Tenth Tale," and the selection from Don Quixote.

Weeks 13-15
Read  Intro, Carpe diem poems:"While There...", 2209; "To Cassandre,""To Helene," 2212-13; "To the Virgins," 2260; "Verses Against," 2263-4 "Regrets," 2211; "One Dismal Night," 2218; "I Know Full Well," 2222; "A "Rose," 2234; "Life's Greatest Misery,"2236; "Ice and Fires,"2242; "On Her Portrait," 2262; "This Evening When,"2263