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Shakespeare Reading and Writing Schedule

Submitted by bradb on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 19:04

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11winterShakespeare

Winter 2012 Introduction to Shakespeare

Preliminary Reading and Writing Calendar

Jan 2	Jan 3	Jan 4	Jan 5	Jan 6
		Why are we here? What Shakespeare have you read? Liked? Disliked?	Historical Overview	Indepednent Sonnet Research. See directions in blog
Jan 9	Jan 10	Jan 11	Jan 12	Jan 13
Sonnet reports and discussion	"Procreation sonnets": 1-17. Read as assigned in class.	Admiring sonnets to a young man: Read 20, 29, 36 and 38.	Admiring sonnets with a thematic focus on time: 55, 60, 64, 73 and 74	Rivalry: 79, 80, 83 and 84;
Jan 16	Jan 17	Jan 18	Jan 19	Jan 20
Martin Luther King, Jr Holiday	"Black" Lady sonnets: 127, 130, 131, 132, 147	Will I am: Sonnets 135, 136, 143	Sex and Desire in the Sonnets: 147-152	Sonnet Readings
Jan 23	Jan 24	Jan 25	Jan 26	Jan 27
Acting Introduction: What ix X	More in the vein of "What is X?"	Twelfth Night	Twelfth Night	Twelfth Night
Jan 30	Jan 31	Feb 1	Feb 2	Feb 3
Merchant of Venice	Merchant of Venice	Merchant of Venice	Merchant of Venice	Drama Club Work Day
Feb 6	Feb 7	Feb 8	Feb 9	Feb 10
Hamlet:	Hamlet	Drama Club Work Day/101 Portfolios	Hamlet	Hamlet
Feb 13	Feb 14	Feb 15	Feb 16	Feb 17
Hamlet/seminar practice, draft overview	Literature Review I Draft Response Day	Independent Work and Conference Day	Seminar I and Drama Club Work Day	Seminar I and Drama Club Work Day
Feb 20	Feb 21	Feb 22	Feb 23	Feb 24
Presidents' Day Holiday	Literature Review I Due	Richard III	Richard III	Drama Club Work Day
Feb 27	Feb 28	Feb 29	Mar 1	Mar 2
Richard III	Richard III	Midsummer Night's Dream	Midsummer Night's Dream	Drama Club Work Day
Mar 5	Mar 6	Mar 7	Mar 8	Mar 9
Midsummer Night's Dream	Midsummer Night's Dream	Drama Club Work Day	Literature Review II Draft Response Day	Drama Club Presentations
Mar 12	Mar 13	Mar 14	Mar 15	Mar 16
Drama Club Presentations	Drama Club Presentations	101 Portfolio Readings	Literature Review II Due	Dead Day: No classes! No tests! No papers due!
Mar 19	Mar 20	Mar 21	Mar 22	Mar 23
Final: 11:30-1:30	Finals	Finals

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Thought for the Term (and maybe forever!)

“It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless” (118). Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran.