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
  • June 20 Final day to submit Assignment 2
  • 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 the 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