English 210A

Item # 1351

9:30 – 10:20

Room R310

 

 

Books Used:

WINTER QUARTER 2009

 

Selected Short Stories (a module  printing may be purchased at the Bookstore)

Pauline Christiansen

Phone: 425-564-2104

Office: R230H

Mailstop: R230

Office Hours: 1030 – 11:20 Daily

 

Kafka,

Turgenev,

Dinesen,

Dostoyevsky,

Jean-Paul Sartre,

METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES

FATHERS AND SONS

THE MONKEY (Given out in class)

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, W.W. Norton ed.

NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS

 

 

 

WK

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1

Jan. 5

Introduction to Class Handouts

6

Background on Pushkin “Queen of Hearts” (in module)

Russian Names

7

Pushkin (cont.)

Seating Chart

 

8

Pushkin (cont.)

themes

9

Pushkin style

Quiz Prep

Unfair Advantage Day

2

12 Quiz on 5 Short Stories:

Moravia’s “The Fall,” Sartre’s “The Room,” Kafka’s “Give it Up,” & “The Judgment “Gogol’s  Shponka & His Aunt.”

13

Gogol Background

14

Gogol (cont.)

style

15

Discussion: Moravia’s “The Fall”

16

Sartre’s “The Room”

 

 

Unfair Advantage Day

3

19

 

HOLIDAY

NO CLASSES

20

Kafka Background

Kafka’s “Give it Up” in Powerpoint presentation

21

Kafka’s “The Judgment” in Schocken

22

Kafka Quiz on “The Metamorphosis,” The Country Doctor,” “In the Penal Colony,” “A Hunger Artist”

23

Discussion on “Metamorphosis Unfair Advantage Day

4

26

Discussion on “Country Doctor”

 

27

Discussion on “In the Penal Colony”

28

Discussion on “A Hunger Artist”

29

Quiz on Turgenev’s “Father and Sons”

Can’t be dropped

30

Correct Quiz

Choose Groups

5

Feb. 2

Discussion on “Fathers and Sons,” Group prep

Double Attendance

3

Group Feedback 1,2

4

Group Feedback

3,4

5

Group Feedback 5,6

6

Dostoyevsky

Background

Unfair Advantage Day

6

9

Quiz on 1st half of

Crime and Punishment

Can’t be dropped

10

Correct Quiz

11

Crime and Punishment

(cont) Letter

12

Crime and Punishment (cont) Letter

13

Pre-Mid Term

7

16

HOLIDAY

NO CLASSES

17

Mid-Term

18

Philosophies

19

Outside paper topics

Handouts

20

Quiz Prep

Unfair Advantage Day

8

23

Quiz on last half of Crime and Punishment

Can’t be dropped

24

Crime and Punishment

 

25

Crime and Punishment

26

Isak

Dinesen/Handouts on Existentialism & Hero

27

Mid-term back

Unfair advantage on “Monkey”

WK

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

9

March 2

Quiz on “Monkey”

3

Group questions

Double attendance

4

Group questions

answered

5

“Monkey”

Paper info & Handouts for quiz

6

Existentiaism & Hero Quiz

Can’t be dropped

10

9

Quiz Feedback

10

Outside paper due (must have paper for a grade in the class). “A” due date.

Unfair Advantage Day

11

Reading day

12

 

Quiz on “No Exit” and “Dirty Hands”

13

 

“No Exit”

11

16

Dirty Hands

17

Gradesheets and papers back

18

Optional Borderline Exam

19

Finals

(grade conf. as needed)

20

Finals

12

23

Finals