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ON-LINE INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Dr. David B. Axelrod

Suffolk County Poet Laureate

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ENG102, Introduction to Literature.

SCHEDULE  

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Opening Week: Read introduction and opening lessons on line for course procedures, approaches to literature, deadlines, requirements, etc. Obtain any required books. Begin reading.

Section One:  Poetry weeks. Read all poetry lessons and notes on line. Go to my website of www.poetrydoctor.org/freelessons.htm and read essays and material on poetry. Read all poems listed. Search for two poems, as per assignment, to compare. Complete and submit your first essay.  

WRITE YOUR FIRST ESSAY

Section Two: Read Oedipus the King. Read both versions--Sophocles' and Anouilh's play entitled, Antigone. The Grand Inquisitor and the chapter that precedes it, "The Rebellion." Read on-line commentary. Select a question to construct and complete your second essay.

WRITE YOUR SECOND ESSAY, 

Section Three: Read Born of the Fourth of July, and all the short stories listed at the readings link.  Read on-line commentary. Select question to construct and complete your third and final essay.

WRITE YOUR THIRD ESSAY, 

QUIZZES:  Stand by for quizzes to be emailed to you while you are reading your work. Complete and email your answer within a week of receiving each quiz. 

Final grades issued. No incompletes. No extensions. Please!