English 210A

Item # 1372

8:30 – 9:20

Room R209

 

 

Books Used:

FALL QUARTER 2006

 

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

Pauline Christiansen

Phone: 425-564-2104

Office: R230H

Mailstop: R230

Office Hours: 9:30 – 10:20 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

SEPT 18

Introduction to Class Handouts

19

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

Russian Names

20

Pushkin (cont.)

Seating Chart

Sample quiz questions

21

Pushkin (cont.)

style

22

Pushkin themes

Quiz Prep

Unfair Advantage Day

2

25 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.”

26

Gogol Background

27

Gogol (cont.)

style

28

Discussion: Moravia’s “The Fall”

29

Sartre’s “The Room”

 

 

Unfair Advantage Day

3

Oct. 2

Kafka Background

Kafka’s “Give it Up” in Powerpoint presentation

3

Kafka’s “The Judgment” in Schocken

4

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

5

Discussion on “Metamorphosis

6

Discussion on “Country Doctor”

 

Unfair Advantage Day

4

9

Discussion on “In the Penal Colony”

10

Discussion on “A Hunger Artist”

11

College Issues Day

NO CLASSES

12

Quiz on Turgenev’s “Father and Sons”

13

Correct Quiz

Choose Groups

5

16

Discussion on “Fathers and Sons,” Group prep

Double Attendance

17

Group Feedback 1,2

18

Group Feedback

3,4

19

Group Feedback 5,6

20

Dostoyevsky

Background

Unfair Advantage Day

6

23

Quiz on 1st half of

Crime and Punishment

24

Correct Quiz

25

Crime and Punishment

(cont) Letter

26

Crime and Punishment (cont) Letter

27

Pre-Mid Term

7

30

Professional Development Day

NO CLASSES

31

Mid-Term

Nov. 1

Philosophies

2

Outside paper topics

Handouts

3

Quiz Prep

Unfair Advantage Day

8

6

Quiz on last half of Crime and Punishment

7

Crime and Punishment

 

8

Crime and Punishment

9

Isak

Dinesen/Handout of Existentialism & Hero

10

Professionl Dev. Day

NO CLASSES

WK

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

9

13

M.T. back

14

Quiz on “Monkey”

15

Group questions

16

“Monkey”

17

“Monkey”

Paper info & Handouts for quiz

10

20

Existentiaism & Hero Quiz

Can’t be dropped

21

Quiz Feedback

22

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

Unfair Advantage Day

23

 

Thanksgiving Holiday

NO CLASSES

24

 

NO CLASSES

11

27

Quiz on “No Exit” and “Dirty Hands”

28

“No Exit”

29

Dirty Hands

30

Gradesheets

Dec. 1

Optional Borderline Exam

12

4

FINALS

Grade Conf.

As needed

5

FINALS

6

FINALS