Summer-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.

June 9 Final day to take The Ancient World test 

June 14 Final day to submit Assignment 1: Reading Response

June 20 Final day to submit Assignment 2: Don Quixote

June 27 Final day to take Middle Ages and Renaissance test

Week 1
Read Introduction to the Ancient World and The Odyssey.

Week 2
Read Oedipus, The Aeneid selections, The Metamorphosis selections, and Sappho's poems.

Week 3
Read Introduction to The Middle Ages, the Marie de France selections, from The 1001 Nights, and from The Book of the City of the Ladies.

Week 4
Read Introduction to The Renaissance, the poems of Petrarch, the selections from The Decameron, and the selection from Don Quixote.

Week 5
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