Office: l29 Cherry Hall or l34A Cherry Hall
Phone: 745-3634, 745-5720
E-mail: elizabeth.oakes@wku.edu
Web page: http://www.wku.edu/~oakeset
Office hours: immediately before class any day, immediately after class on TRF, and by appointment

Required text: Discovering Literature, 2nd edition, editors, Guth and Rico

Grading:
Four in-class essay exams -- 70%
Quizzes and exercises -- 20% (Note: quizzes on the plays will count 3 quiz grades.)
Creative project -- l0%

Policies: Quizzes--There will be a quiz on all readings the first day of discussion, unless otherwise indicated. I allow only one make-up on these without a verifiable excuse, and it must be done before you sit through a class on the work. A make-up quiz will be harder. If you are tardy, I may not take up class time to let you take the quiz. If you take a quiz and then leave for an appointment, I will not count it. I drop one quiz at the end of the semester. Exams--You are allowed one make-up on the exams if you have a verifiable excuse. You are responsible for seeing me to arrrange the time, and you may expect a harder test on a make-up. Any make-up must be done within a week. Absences--After four unexcused absences, I may drop your grade, discuss the problem with you, ask you to withdraw, or a combination of the above. However, if you are having an unusually traumatic time in your personal life, and it is something I can verify (I will not ask for personal details), I will work with you to help you. Just let me know. A Bonus-- Excellent participation can "bump you up" to the higher grade if you are really close.

The last day to drop without a grade is July 6, and the last day to drop with a W is July l9.

7/3
Introductions
7/4
NO CLASS
7/5
Mason, "Shiloh," p. 45, O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," p. 33l, and Morrison, "l920," p. 4l4
7/6
Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants," p. 22, Walker, "Everyday Use," p. 236, and Carver, "The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off," p. 72
7/7
Munro, "Boys and Girls," p. 8l, LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," p. 4l0 and Atwood, "Bread," p. 284

7/l0
EXAM
7/ll
Begin film of Hamlet--meet in Cherry Hall l25 (bring a jacket, as the room is sometimes cold.)
7/12
Continue Hamlet in Cherry Hall l25
7/13
Quiz and discussion, Hamlet
7/l4
Begin Oedipus

7/l7
Quiz and discussion, Oedipus; begin Death of a Salesman
7/l8
Quiz and discussion, Death of a Salesman; begin Getting Out
7/l9
Quiz and discussion, Getting Out; discussion, all plays
7/20
EXAM
7/2l
Begin poetry
Marlowe, 9l0
Raleigh, 9l7
Shakespeare, 570
Shakespeare, 925
Marvell, 729
Keats, 904
Keats, 906

7/24
Quiz on poems of 7/2l
Arnold, 597
Whitman, 744
Browning, 689
Pound ("In a Station of the Metro"), 9l6
Williams, 6l4
Eliot, 890
Thomas, 626
Thomas, 7l3
Bishop, 6l5
7/25
Quiz on poems of 7/24
Plath, 9l4
Stafford, 7l2
Rich, 9l9
Lorde, illustration in middle of book
Dickinson, 798
Dickinson, ("There's a certain slant of light"), 804
Dickinson, ("After great pain"), 804
Frost, 8l7
Frost ("The Road Not Taken"), 8l9
Frost, 82l
Brooks, 825
Brooks, 833
Brooks ("The Boy Died in My Alley"), 835
7/26
EXAM
7/27
Begin film of Much Ado about Nothing
7/28
Film and discussion, Much Ado about Nothing

7/3l
Begin film of Romeo and Juliet
8/l
Film and discussion, Romeo and Juliet
8/2
Creative Projects Day
8/3
Catch up day
8/4
EXAM on Shakespeare