Updated April 15

 

 

WEEKLY SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Dates: Objectives: Assignments:
Week 1:  Feb 4 Introductory discussion, terminology, and course plan. • Introduction to class, Definitions, Website

• The Captive; Voyage to the Moon

• Homework: Questionnaire 

• Homework: Read “The Tell Tale Heart” by Poe
Week 2:  Feb 11 Viewing practice, reading practice • Due: Questionnaire 

• Discuss: The Tell Tale Heart and definitions of Film/Narrative. View: Film versions of The Captive and  “Tell Tale Heart” 

• Homework: Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” And  write Film-Lit Coffeehouse post (TBA)

• Homework: Prepare for Quiz 1, which will be over TBA
Week 3:  Feb 18 Definitions

Viewing

Assessment

Discussion of Narrative

 • Due: Film-Lit Coffeehouse post

• View The Yellow Wallpaper

• Review Categories of Analysis handout

• Homework: Prepare for Quiz 1
Week 4:  Feb 25 Translations and Narration • Film-Lit Coffeehouse Post and Quiz 1 Assigned…due Friday.

• Homework: Four term, Quiz 1, and Reread “It Had to Be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich
Week 5: March 4 Compare a modern novel to its films.  

• Discuss and View:  and Midterm Essay Details

• Discuss “It Had to Be Murder,” and begin watching Rear Window

• Discuss adaptation, film techniques

• HW: Favorites review of a film or text (100 words)
Week 6: March 11 Compare modern short stories to their films. • Due: Favorites #1

• Finish Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Introduce Translation Essay and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

• Homework: Prepare for Quiz 2; Begin reading Persepolis and Work on Translation Essay
Week 7: March 18 Compare modern short stories to their films. • Discuss Translation Essay

• Quiz 2–finish by Friday

• Homework: Continue reading Persepolis
Week 8:  March 25 Compare modern short stories to their films. • Homework: Read Persepolis;

•  Homework: complete Coffeehouse # 3 (specific to Translation Essay); Discuss text and Translation Essay
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• Due: draft of Translation Essay-posted to OpenLab

• Discuss and finish Persepolis

• Homework:  revise and edit Translation Essay; Begin reading Othello-Act I
Week 11:  April 15 Compare a classic play to its film. • Due: Final Draft of Translation Essay

• Discuss, read, and view versions of Othello

• Homework: Read Acts II and III; complete Coffeehouse # 2
Week 12:  April 22 Anatomy of a play •  Due: Coffeehouse # 2

• Discuss and view versions of Othello: Acts II and III

• Homework: Read Acts IV and V;  Coffeehouse #3; and Begin reading Life of Pi
Week 13:  April 29 Film techniques, • Due: Coffeehouse #3 over final acts of Othello

• Discuss Final Essay on Ethics

• Finish viewing Othello–Acts IV and V

• Begin Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

• Prepare for: Quiz 3 (Othello and Life of Pi)
Week 14:  May 6 Film techniques, • Due: Quiz 3

• Discuss Final Essay on Ethics

• Discuss Life of Pi

• Homework: tba
Week 16:  May 13 Bringing it all together • Due: tba

• Discuss Life of Pi

• Discuss Essay and Exam

• Homework: Draft Final Essay and prepare for final exam
Week 17:  May 20 Final Exam • Final Exam Due –Posted to Blackboard 

• Final Essay Due –Posted to BlackboardÂ