WEEK TWO
Categories: Course Calendar
Sunday Sept. 9 – NO CLASS MEETING
*DUE* – STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET [UPLOADED TO MOODLE] + DIGITAL CLASSROOM QUESTIONNAIRE [COMPLETED]
Tuesday Sept. 11 What is Media?
* MEET IN COMPUTER LAB * – Fir Building Room 210
DISCUSS M. McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, 26-51 and L. Grossman, “From Scroll to Screen,” from NYTimes [CR]; C. Vandendorpe, “Reading on Screen: The New Media Sphere” [Part One Only – Stop right before you come to ‘The Advent of Hypertext’ section] [CB]
WORKSHOP Using NB [Nota Bene] on W. Blake “The Sick Rose”
Friday Sept. 14 What is Romanticism?
DISCUSS J. Roberts, Chapter 1 from William Blake’s Poetry [CR]
REVIEW IN CLASS W. Harmon and H. Holman, “Romanticism” and “Romantic Period in English Literature, 1798-1870” from A Handbook to Literature [CR]
BROWSE BEFORE CLASS “William Blake and the Illuminated Book” [CB]
BROWSE BEFORE CLASS “Romanticism” – Introduction and ‘Key Events’ Timeline at the Keats-Shelley House and “The Royal Wedding – Jerusalem”
[CB]
CROWDSOURCE W. Blake, “And did those feet in ancient time [aka Jerusalem]” [NB] [make AT LEAST one comment/question, drawing attention to any key Romanticist themes, biographical links to the life of Blake, or lines/phrases that might explain why the famous musical version of this poem may have been sung at the “Royal Wedding” of 2011] [NB]