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Eng. 1140

Weekly Assignment

(Please note that this web page may have updates during the semester. The most recent date of publication is in the bottom left corner of all of this website's pages.)

This web page provides the following:

1. General Schedule in Brief with Dates

2. Special in-Person Attendance Events Summary

3. Directions to Events Locations

4. Semester's Homework Assignments Summarized Very Briefly (by Week)

5. Weeks 1-17, Detailed Weekly Assignment

Spring 2019

1. GENERAL SCHEDULE IN BRIEF

WITH DATES

Note 1: for Special Attendance "Events," scroll down to immediately below this chart, or click here.

Note 2: The brief chart just below shows only dates and major assignments. It does NOT show all the assignments in detail. Be sure to scroll down or click on the week number to see all of the assignments for any single week!

WEEK ↓

(Su.-Sa.)

Activity

Week 1: 1/13-19

Event #1: Introductions: Summarize website by email homework, OR attend an in-person intro Th., Jan. 17, 6:00-8:00 pm in IHCC computer lab B-114 in "Business" building. (The lab may be small, so you may want to bring your own laptop that you can connect to the Web, or be prepared to double up with someone else.)
- Email "Hello Richard Journal" (300+ w.). Also drop off--or mail by USPO--the "Photo & Info Sheet" due in Wk. 1 or 2. It must be on one sheet that is two-sided, with the photo on the first page!)
- CLICK ON THE WK. # TO LEFT EACH WEEK--OR SCROLL DOWN--TO SEE THE FULL ASSIGNMENT!

Week 2: 1/20-26
No classes Mon. on campus--holiday

Part I, Intro, & Analysis with Lit Elements, Weeks 2-6:
Comments on "What is Lit," "Reading Lit," "Analysis of Lit Elements," and.3+ "Theories" (All due Th. midnight)

Week 3: 1/27-2/2

Basic Analysis of Tatar (due Th. midnight)

Week 4: 2/3-9

Expanded Anal. of Elements in Tatar (due Th. mdnt.)

Week 5: 2/10-16

SSD on Tues.

Expanded Anal. of Elements in Tatar (due Th. mdnt.

(For full extra credit in this class, you can attend the semi-annual Student Success Day Tues. in person or online. Go to: SSD on Campus, SSD Online, or Learning Resources.)

Week 6: 2/17-23
No classes Mon.

Exp. Analysis of Elements in Greek Play (due Th. mdnt.)

Week 7: 2/24-

3/2

Part II, Arguing & Interpreting Literature, Weeks 7-9:

Comments on How to Write an Interpretive Lit Thesis.

Interpretive Thesis on Greek play (due Th. mdnt.)

Week 8: 3/3-9

Interpretive Thesis on Medieval Lit (due Th. mdnt.)

Live play by Shakespeare at Guthrie Theater Fr., Mar. 8
See info below about plays for more about this comedy.

Spring Break
No classes M.-Sat.

Spring Break--no classes at or by IHCC

Week 9: 3/17-23

Interpretive Thesis on Medieval Lit (due Th. mdnt.)

Wk. 10: 3/24-30
Eng. Conf. Th.-F.

Part III, Writing Reviews of Literature, Weeks 10-12:

Comments on How to write a Literary Review.

Literary Rvw. of Legendary Lit (or Medieval) (due Th.
mdnt.)

Visit to Mia--Minneapolis Institute of Arts--Fri., March 29, 6:15-9 pm. See more below for info about this in-person visit, or look in Wk. 10 info.

Week 11: 3/31-4/6

No classes Fri.

Literary Rvw. of Legendary Lit (or Medieval) (due Th. mdnt.) (No IHCC Classes Fri. - a faculty development day)

Week 12: 4/7-13

Literary Review of American Lit (due Thurs. midnight)

Week 13: 4/14-20

Part IV, Creative Writing of Literature, Weeks 13-15:

Comments on "Story Writing." Creative Story.

Personal Response to American Lit. (due Thurs. midnight)

Week 14: 4/21-27
IH Student-Faculty

Conf. Wed.-Thur.

- Story. Personal Response to Fantasy Lit (due Th. mdnt.)

(Th.-Sat. is Thanksgiving Holiday.)

(Monday is last date to WP ["withdraw passing"] from this class.)

- All extra credit due; all make ups from Wks. 1-14 due. All "fixed" papers must be turned in. No more late D2L messages.

(For full extra credit in this class, you can attend the annual IHCC Student-Faculty Conference in person. If you present at it on a literary subject you've researched, I'll give you triple extra credit, and include practice time in it, too!)

Week 15: 4/28-5/4

Story. Personal Response to Fantasy Lit. Goodbye" Journal (300+ w.) (all due Th. midnight)

Week 16: 5/5-8

Finals: Th., Sat. and next week.

Part V, Critical Analysis of Literature, Weeks 16/17:

- Comments on "Critical Analysis" chapter. Personal Response to Fantasy Lit. Both MUST be turned in Th. midnight of Wk. 16--no late pprs. this week!

- Critical Anal. of 1-3 pp. of Fantasy Lit due if you want a chance to revise/fix it

- Regular classes end Wed. Finals start Thurs.

Week 17: 5/9 & 5/13-15

(Grds. rprtd.5-21)

- FINALS Thurs., Sat.-Mon.-Wed. Holiday break begins Fri.
Final Exams Sched. (no "final" in this Eng 1140)

- Turn in Critical Analysis by midnight of last Finals day.

2. SPECIAL IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE
EVENTS SUMMARY
(See below, "3.," for directions to events.)

There are five events. The first and last one are meetings with me at school or elsewhere. We're also going to attend two plays and go to the Minneapolis Museum of Art (Mia) for one evening visit:

#1: Computer lab as noted above in Week 1

#2: Mia visit: a Thursday evening, tentatively Feb. 7, 6:15-9 pm

#3: Play A: At the famous Guthrie Theater, Fri., March 8,
7:15-10:15 pm, Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It

#4: Play B: TBA

#5: Consultation: 15 min. with me about your final ppr., your grade,
around Wks. 15-16

Online Options: All five of these events above can be done in person with the class, on your own individually, and/or online with replacement activities on the Web.

INFORMATION:

Note re Attending Plays: What I'm about to say here is so important that I want to start with this.

When you attend or watch the plays (and especially something like an ancient Greek play or a Shakespeare play), be aware that sometimes the spoken lines can be hard to understand when staged. Here are several guidelines:

(1) I strongly recommend you read the Wikipedia summary of the play. I'll give you extra credit for time spent reading the summary and then writing 200+ words about it.

(2) Or you can actually read the play for one or two weekly reading assignments during the semester. If you do this, simply state, at the beginning of the reading assignments each week, five sentences stating clear differences between the reading and the staging of the play. If the reading takes a lot longer than would that week's regular reading, then I'll be glad to give you extra credit for the estimated difference. (If you read the play as an additional activity--beyond that week's regular assignment--I'll give you full extra credit for reading it and then writing 200+ w. about it. Just send me the 200+ w.)

(3) AND, at the play, as you listen, concentrate on the leading edge of the sound. Treat it like you would music, in which case, if you're into it, you would be listening to the leading edge of the sound. Do this on purpose with a play. Even if you try it but don't understand every word, you're more likely to pick up some of it (because you're not trying to remember what was just said and figure it out). And in addition, your brain will start getting used to the sound and the wording, so understanding the words often becomes at least a little bit easier. So, again, listen to the leading edge of the sound.

Here are the five events:

EVENT #1: Week 1. Email me (Richard) 600+ w. summarizing this course's website. OR attend, in person, an introduction to the course from 6:00 to 8:00 pm Thursday evening, Jan. 17, in an IHCC computer lab in the "Business" building, Room 114. (Either option is worth 1-2 X's of attendance.)

EVENT #2: Week 4 (confirmed), Fri., March 29, 6:15-9 pm, Mia (Minneapolis Museum of Arts) Visit. This event will be worth 3 X's of attendance ("Option C" below.)
You may satisfy this requirement by attending in person with the group ("Option C"), by yourself ("Option B"), or in online museum pages ("Option A").
- Option A: For 200+ min., go on a "stories-in-art" tour of any online museums to find and describe stories in art--what stories might you know or can quickly look up (w/Google) that are based on several works of art pieces, and/or how do the works of art reflect the stories and/or improve your understanding or appreciation of it? While you are examining the art, write 400+ w. about it as if you were writing several "BA's" or Basic Analyses—about the plot elements (plot/tension/problem/solution), characters, settings, symbols, themes, et al.—that you see in the works of art. You should write these while you are looking at the works (and count your time of 200+ min. to include the writing time, as well). Do at least four or five works of art, or more, and you should spend just as much time, or more, in looking/examining visually as in writing.
- OR Option B: Do the above in a major live art museum in the city nearest you on your own for 200+ min. (including travel time to and from). While you are examining the art, write 400+ w. about it as if you were writing several "BA's" or Basic Analyses—about the plot elements (plot/tension/problem/solution), characters, settings, symbols, themes, et al.—that you see in the works of art. You should write these while you are looking at the works (and count your time of 200+ min. to include the writing time, as well). Do at least four or five works of art, or more, and you should spend just as much time, or more, in looking/examining visually as in writing. When you send me your 400+ w., also tell me whether you went alone or on the official docent tour scheduled for the class.
- OR Option C: Take a free group visit with me to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Fri., March 29. 6:15-9 pm. Directions that you should print out (even if you have GPS--there are freeways, one-way streets, and rush hour traffic!) are on this website at MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts) .
        Please show up in the lobby (by the main desk) of the museum by 6:15 pm and look for me, Richard. The first tour will start at about 6:30.
        We will meet again after the first tour, and before the second tour. You'll get directions for the second tour, an independent one, when we meet between the two tours. At the end of the second tour, we'll meet once more.
        Bring a few people with you, if you'd like--family or friends. Entrance is free. But parking will cost $5 in the MIA parking ramp just to the south of the museum (unless you choose to park on the street--street parking is safe day and evening).
        As you write during (or after) the two tours, you should write 400+ w. about it as if you were writing several "BA's" or Basic Analyses—about the plot elements (plot/tension/problem/solution), characters, settings, symbols, themes, et al.—that you see in the works of art. You should write these while you are looking at the works (and count your time of 200+ min. to include the writing time, as well). Do at least four or five works of art, or more, and you should spend just as much time, or more, in looking/examining visually as in writing. You can give me your 400+ w. at the end of the museum trip, or you can send it to me later, but if you give it to me later, please also tell me whether you went alone or on this official docent.

EVENTS #3 and #4, Seeing Plays: See the graph and two plays below for the announcements.
- Spend 600 minutes watching videos based on literary plays.
- OR attend two literary plays at a professional or college theater on your own.
- OR attend two plays: one at a professional or college Twin Cities theater, and another full-length, adult play at another theater, professional or amateur. (Musicals count, too.) Details are below.
- WRITE 400+ w. per play -- a total of 800 w. for both together (if it's videos, be sure to write 400+ w. about the two videos that count as one play) and email them at "1140 Play Attendance Event #3" or "#4" with the name of the play.
-FOR MORE DETAILS on extra options, see the longer description in the "Attendance" web page.

A Guthrie Theater Play:
As You Like It
(Shakespeare Comedy and Love Story, Event #3)

Play: As You Like It

Date: March 8 (a Fri. evening)

Time: Arrive 7 to 7:25; find me, Richard, in the lobby to get your ticket; play starts at 7:30.

Reservations--YES: Reserve your ticket by sending money to me, Richard, by Tues., Feb. 5 by mail or 3 pm Thurs., Feb. 7 under my B-136 office door. Bring anyone you want and as many as you want for the same low student rate, about half the usual cost.

Location: Guthrie Theater, downtown Minneapolis, one of the top regional theaters in the U.S. The new Guthrie is, all by itself as a building, worth a visit. Come 30-45 minutes early just to look around!

Cost: Two levels of ticket prices, depending on where you choose to sit: $16 and $23, with a few $5 tickets available if you can't afford these prices).

Parking: At the Guthrie and one or two others, up to $8. Lock your car.

What to Wear: A few come in old shorts and sandals, a few others in tuxedos and fancy dresses. Most people wear "school nice" to "casual dress up." For evening arts events, some people wear darker clothes (though this is not required).

Description of play: As You LIke It is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. It is a comedy, with four couples working their way through obstacles to love, both silly and serious, until, in the end, all is resolved. Read about it ahead of time to enjoy it the most (and to help you with the plot because Shakespearean language can be difficult to get used to, at first): find As You Like It in www.Wikipedia.com.

A Play Somewhere: TBA (Event #4)

Play: TBA

Date: TBA (a Fri. evening)

Time: TBA, around 7 or 8 pm; find me, Richard, in the lobby to get your ticket.

Reservations--YES: Reserve your ticket by sending money to me, Richard, by ______. Bring anyone you want.

Location: TBA

Cost: Prices may vary for non-students. There may be two levels of ticket prices, depending on where you choose to sit. Typically, the two price levels are about $16 and $22 (or less for college productions).

Parking: At the Guthrie and one or two others, up to $7. At colleges, free. Lock your car and cover anything valuable.

Description of play: TBA. We have some very top-notch, high- quality literary plays available to us this spring of 2019.

To get credit, send 400+ words about each play--and please include something about the actors' real names and how they did, so that I know you attended the IHCC play rather than watched the movie. (This event may be replaced by any live play at a college or professional theater elsewhere this semester, or by doing an equivalent amount of extra credit.)

3. DIRECTIONS TO EVENT LOCATIONS
(See above, "2.," for event descriptions.)

MUSEUMS

Directions To Print for MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

Re MIA directions: Print and carry these directions with you so you
won't get lost! Online and/or GPS directions may help, but take a copy of this
set of directions, too, as there are one-way streets, blocked streets (because of the freeway), and rush hour at 3-7 pm.
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THEATERS

Link to Guthrie Theater

Link to Park Square Theatre, St. Paul

Link to Hamline University Theater

Link to Macalester University Theater

4. SEMESTER'S
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
SUMMARIZED VERY BRIEFLY
(Numbered by Week. Not all reading options are represented here.)

You may want to copy this and paste it onto an MS Word
sheet to create your own check-off list for doing your assignments.

1. Hello Journal = X

Photo+Info Sheet = X

(If you haven't attended the first computer-lab night, then also write 300-
600+ w. summarizing the website.)

2. Comments #1, Writing to Lit, 150+ w. = X

Comments #2, Reading Lit, 150+ w. = X

Comments #3, Analysis of Lit, 100+ w. on ch. and 50+ w. on sample = X

List of Theories = X

3. Personal Response-PR-on Tatar, 300+ w. = X

Basic Analysis-BA-of all 8 Red Riding Hood stories= X

4. BA of 9-12 Beauty; + Snowor Cinder. stories = X

Expanded Analysis-EA-300+ w. on 1 story = XX

5. BA of 10-11 Bluebeard & Hansel-Gretel stories = X

EA, 300+, on 1 story = XX

6. EA, 300+, on 1^st half of Oedipus or Lysistrata = XX

7. Cmnts., 150+ w., Interp. Thes. ch. & sample = X

BA of Oed. or Lysis. = X

Interpr. Thesis-IT-300+ on 2^ndhalf Oed. or Lys. = XX

8. BA of each Medieval Lit story you chose = X

IT, 300+, on 1 story = XX

9. BA of each Medieval Lit story you chose = X

IT, 300+, on 1 story = XX

10. Cmnts., 150+ w., Lit Review ch. & sample = X

Lit Review-LR-300+ on 1^st half of Legend. Lit = XX

11. PR, 300+ w., on 2^nd half of Legendary Lit = X

LR, 300+ w. on 2^nd half of Legendary Lit = XX

12. PR, 300+ w., on 1^st half of American Lit = X

LR, 300+ w., on 1^st half of American Lit = XX

13. Cmnts., 150+, on Story Writ. ch. & 2 samples = X

PR, 300+ w., on 2^nd half of American Lit = X

Story-ST-600+ w. = XX

14. BA, 150+ w., on 1^st third of Fantasy Lit = X

PR, 300+ w., on 1^st third of Fantasy Lit = X

ST, 2^nd 600+ w. = XX

15. BA, 150+ w., on 2^nd third of Fantasy Lit = X

PR, 300+ w., on 2^nd third of Fantasy Lit = X

ST, 3^rd 600+ w. = XX

15./16. Goodbye Jrnl. = XX

16. Cmnts., 150+, on Critical Analysis ch. = X

BA, 150+ w., on 3^rd third of Fantasy Lit = X

PR, 300+ w., on 3^rd third of Fantasy Lit = X

Critical Anal., 600+ w., of Fantasy Lit = XXX XXX XXX

5. Weeks 1-17

Detailed Weekly Assignment

SAVING ONLINE MESSAGES: This applies to most or all of you. (1) Are you sending homework by email? Always keep a copy in case your email is lost. Keep it until the end of the term when you have already seen your grade. If your email system has a "sent mail" folder, you may want to not delete items from the folder until after you have received your final grade. (2) Are you using a discussion board ? Be careful to wait until you see your message appear on the discussion board, like other messages already there, before doing anything else on your computer. If you still have trouble losing discussion messages, write and save them in MS Word first; then copy them to the discussion and load them.

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Week 1: Introduction to the Class (See dates.)

BEGINNING NOTES

Note 1--Method of Delivery of Assignments:

All assignments (except as otherwise noted) may be delivered by the following methods:

Delivery by email by Thurs. midnight: please write the subject title of the email as follows:
- Start with the phrase "Lit 1140."
- Add the Wk. # the paper is due.
- State the type of paper.
- Example: Lit 1140 Wk. 10 Comments

Other delivery (on campus, by mail, or at my home address): See "Due Dates, & Emailing or Dropping Papers Off" in How To Do Homework.

Note 2--DON'T Use Attachments:

Please write your assignment in the text of the email, and not as an attachment. This is because it is a lot faster for me to look in your email itself (and a lot longer to process dozens of attachments from students). If you prefer to write your homework in MS Word or a similar form, that's fine: just copy it into the text of your email to me.

Note 3--Due Dates:

All homework and D2L attendance in Wks. 1-16 are due Thurs. midnight of the week the assignment is given. However, because this is an online class, you may be up to one week late with no penalty.

In addition, I don't record homework or attendance until the weekend. The earliest I do this is Friday noon. So, if you have your work to me by Fri. noon--or whenever I look at it on the weekend--it will be considered on time.

ADDITIONAL NOTES ABOUT EACH WEEK'S HOMEWORK:

NOTE 1: Each week's homework is due on Thurs. at midnight of this week.

NOTE 2: Read your assignments below. If you have questions:

- Questions about what books to buy? Go to this website's web page called "Txtbks."--click on it at the top of this page, or click here on "Txtbks."

- Questions about how to email homework? See the gold box immediately above, or go to this website's web page called "HowToDoHmwrk"--click on it at the top of this page, or click here on "HowToDoHmwrk."

- Questions about how to do each type of paper? Go to this website's web page called "HowToDoHmwrk."--click on it at the top of this page, or click here on web page by clicking here on "HowToDoHmwrk."

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LIST OF HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK 1:

READ: (a) Read this course website.
ATTEND 1ST WEEK BY WRITING, OR ATTEND IN PERSON ON CAMPUS: Then EITHER (a) attend an introductory class Th., 6:00-8:00 pm in IHCC computer lab B-114 in "Business" building. (There may be as few as 18 computers, so you may want to bring your own laptop that you are able to connect to the Web, or be prepared to double up with someone else.)
OR
write 600+ w. on this course website with eight subtitles as follows, and, after each subtitle, 75+ words showing you read--or well skimmed--each page by summarizing that web page:
     Home
     Weekly Assignment
     Books & Webs
     How To Do Homework
     Grading
     Attendance & Extra Credit
     FAQs
     D2L
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BUY/BORROW/FIND: Get your books and find the websites you'll want to use. Do NOT just go to the Bookstore and buy everything on the shelf under Eng 1140. In most weeks, you will read only one of several possible choices, and some of them may be online, so you do NOT need to buy most of the books in the Bookstore. Instead, you must carefully choose what you will buy. How do you know what to buy? Carefully study the Textbooks web page. To get to it, click on Txtbks. here or at the top of this web page or any web page in this website.
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WRITE: Email a "Hello Richard" Journal (300+ w.). Tell me about your experience with and/or interest in literature, whether you've had the required first-year composition course (Eng 1108) yet, your education/schools, and your life for at least 300 words.
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FILL OUT & TURN IN: "Photo & Info" sheet. You may print out the form from the "Photo+Info Sheet" page. Deliver it physically under my B-136 office door or by mail to me at school or at home (Richard Jewell, 410 Groveland Ave., #401, Mpls., MN 55403).
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ASSIGNMENT:
  Why a "Photo & Info" sheet? The info you provide is kept entirely private, and it helps me find you and know how to serve you better. The first 8 items are already available to me through school records, but having it in one place makes things easier for me. Items 1-8 are required. (Items 9-17 are not required, but filling them out would be helpful in my serving you.)
  Why deliver it physically? I get 200+ of these sheets per year. Email attachments take too long to download and print--especially because the majority of people create two sheets instead of one or attach the photo separately, both of which require me to cut and paste and/or use staples and awkward filing of the sheets as a result. I'd rather spend the several extra hours it takes fixing such things in helping you with what you are learning, instead.
IN A FEW WEEKS: Event #2, TBA. We will meet on a Thurs. at 6:15 in person for two tours of MIA--the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. See details, directions, and alternatives above under
2. Special Attendance Events Summary.

D2L ATTENDANCE: Go directly to IHCC D2L to see what attendance is due on the Eng 1140 Discussion Boards. (Directions for using D2L in Eng 1140: "click here.")