Week 1

Wednesday (1/4): Welcome to English 15B.  Read Introduction to The Romantic Period.  Examine pictures on center pages from Romantic Period.  Read William Wordsworth: "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "Nutting," "Resolution and Independence," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Elegaic Stanzas."  Read Jane Austen: Persuasion.

Thursday (1/5): Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Eolian Harp," "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," "Dejection: An Ode," "Frost at Midnight."  Read Jane Austen: Persuasion.  

Friday (1/6): Hand out questions for Socratic #1. Read George Gordon, Lord Byron: "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos," "She Walks in Beauty," "Darkness," "So, We'll Go No More a Roving," "When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home," "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [Sin's Long Labyrinth]."  Read Jane Austen: Persuasion.

Week 2

Monday (1/9): Read Percy Shelley: "Mutability," "Mont Blanc," "Ozymandias," "A Song: 'Men of England,'" "England in 1819," "Sidmouth and Castlereagh," "Ode to the West Wind."  Read Jane Austen: Persuasion.

Tuesday (1/10): Read Keats: "Sleep and Poetry [O for Ten Years]," "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,"  "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad," "Ode on a Grecian Urn."  

Tuesday, January 10, is the last day to add classes.  Tuesday, January 10, is the last day to drop and be eligible for a refund.

Wednesday (1/11): Review for Socratic #1.

Thursday (1/12): Socratic #1.  Read Introduction to The Victorian Age.  Examine pictures on center pages from Victorian Period.  Read Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Cry of the Children," "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," Aurora Leigh.        

Thursday, January 12, is the last day to drop without a "W" on your transcript. 

Friday (1/13): Read Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Ulysses," "Charge of the Light Brigade."   

Week 3

Monday (1/16): Martin Luther King Holiday.  

Tuesday (1/17): Hand out questions for Socratic #2.  Read Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "My Last Duchess," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.'"  Read Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 

Wednesday (1/18): Research Paper on Persuasion Due.  Read Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life," "Dover Beach."  Read Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market."  Read Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.   

Thursday (1/19): Read Gerard Manley Hopkins: "God's Grandeur," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," "[Carrion Comfort]," "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day," "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord."  Read Oscar Wilde: "The Critic as Artist," "Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray," The Importance of Being Earnest.  

Friday (1/20): Read Rudyard Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King, "The White Man's Burden" "If."   Read Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest.  

Week 4

Monday (1/23): Review for Socratic #2.  

Tuesday (1/24): Socratic #2.  Read Introduction to The Twentieth Century.  Examine Pictures on center pages from Modern Period.  Read Thomas Hardy: "Hap," "The Ruined Maid," "Channel Firing," "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" 

Wednesday (1/25): Read William Butler Yeats: "The Stolen Child," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," When You Are Old," "No Second Troy," "The Fascination of What's Difficult," "A Coat," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "Byzantium," "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop," "The Circus Animals' Desertion."

Thursday (1/26):  Read T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Hollow Men," "Journey of the Magi," "Tradition and the Individual Talent."  

Friday (1/27): Read T.S. Eliot: "The Waste Land."  Read James Joyce: Dubliners.

Week 5

Monday (1/30): Hand out Questions for Socratic #3.  Read James Joyce: Dubliners.   

Monday, January 30, is the last day to drop with a "W" on your transcript.  

IF YOU DO NOT DROP BY THIS DATE, YOU WILL DEFINITELY GET A GRADE FOR THIS CLASS.

Tuesday (1/31): Read James Joyce: Dubliners.

Wednesday (2/1): Read James Joyce: Dubliners.

Thursday (2/2): Read James Joyce: Dubliners.

Friday (2/3): Research Paper on Dubliners Due.

Week 6

Monday (2/6): Review for Socratic #3.

Tuesday (2/7): Socratic #3.