Spring 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.
  • February 28 Final day to take The Ancient World test (Intro through Sappho: see below)
  • March 28Final day to submit Assignment 1: Reading Response
  • April 18Final day to submit Assignment 2: Don Quixote
  • May 13 Final day to take Middle Ages and Renaissance test
SUGGESTED READING SCHEDULE

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

  • Weeks 4-6 Read Oedipus, The Aeneid selections, The Metamorphosis selectionsup 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 the Introduction to The Renaissance, the seven poems of Petrarch listed in Class Notes the poems of Petrarch, 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