This document provides the class schedule for an English literature course covering British literature from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. It is divided into three parts focusing on different time periods. For each class meeting, it lists the class activity and assigned readings as well as any homework or due dates. The course will involve discussions of literary works from those eras like Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Paradise Lost as well as take-home exams and assignments on writing about literature.

1. Eng 267: Survey of British Literature I
Class Schedule
Part 1: The Middle Ages
Wk. # Date Class Activity Due Dates
Wk. 1 8/26 Introduction to Course
8/28 The Middle Ages
Homework:
Read Beowulf, pgs. 37 – 70 (to “Another
Attack”)
8/30 Discuss Beowulf, pgs. 37 – 70
Homework:
Read Beowulf, pgs. 70 – 89
Wk. 2 9/2 HOLIDAY: Labor Day
9/4 Discuss Beowulf, pgs. 70 - 89
Homework:
Read Beowulf, pgs. 89 – 109
D. S. #1 (Monday &
Wed. groups)
9/6 Discuss Beowulf, pgs. 89 – 109
Homework:
Read Sir Gawain, FITT i and ii, pgs. 201 – 227
D. S. #1 (Friday group)
Wk. 3 9/9 Discuss Sir Gawain, FITT i and ii
Homework:
Read Sir Gawain, FITT iii & iv, pgs. 227 – 256
D. S. #2 (Monday group)
9/11 Discuss Sir Gawain, FITT iii & iv
Homework:
Read The General Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales, pgs. 259 – 281
D. S. #2 (Wed. group)
9/13 Discuss The General Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales
Homework:
Read Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, pgs.
300 – 328
D. S. #2 (Friday group)
Wk. 4 9/16 NO CLASS

2. 2
9/18 Discuss Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
Homework:
Read Morte D’arthur, pgs. 534 – 554
D. S. #3 (Monday &
Wed. groups)
9/20 Discuss Thomas Malory’s Morte D’arthur
Homework:
Read Everyman, pgs. 558 – 580
Read “Essay Writing Chapter” (online) paying
special attention to the sections about
composing a thesis
D. S. #3 (Friday group)
Wk. 5 9/23 Discuss Everyman
Homework:
Draft 3 thesis statements about one or more
texts from the Middle Ages
D. S. #4 (all groups)
9/25 Workshop thesis statements
Homework:
Take Home Exam #1: The Middle Ages – due
Monday, 9/30
3 draft thesis statements
9/27 No Class (Take Home Exam Work Day)
Part 2: 16th and Early 17th Century
Wk. 6 9/30 Introduction to 16th and Early 17th Century
Homework:
Read “Faith in Conflict,” 143 – 171
Take Home Exam #1
due at beginning of class
No D. S. this week
10/2 Discuss “Faith in Conflict” texts
Homework:
Read Faerie Queene, Bk 1, Can. 1–4, 253–302
10/4 Discuss Faerie Queene, Book 1, Cantos 1–4
Homework:
Read Faerie Queene, Bk 1, Can. 5–8, 302–352
Wk. 7 10/7 NO CLASS
10/9 Discuss Faerie Queene, Book 1, Cantos 5–8
Homework:
Read Faerie Queene, Bk 1, Can. 9–12, 352–406
D. S. #5 (Mon. & Wed.
groups)

3. 3
10/11 Discuss Faerie Queene, Book 1, Cantos 9–12
Homework:
Read Dr. Faustus, 679 – 715
D. S. #5 (Friday group)
Wk. 8 10/14 Discuss Dr. Faustus
Homework:
Read Othello, Acts 1 – 2, pgs. 806 – 841
D. S. #6 (Monday group)
10/16 Discuss Othello, Acts 1 – 2
Homework:
Read Othello, Acts 3 – 5, pgs. 841 – 889
D. S. #6 (Wed. group)
10/18 Discuss Othello, Acts 3 – 5
Homework:
Read John Donne’s “The Flea,” “The Good
Morrow,” “The Sun Rising,” “A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning,” “Elegy 19. To His
Mistress Going to Bed,” and “Holy Sonnet 14”
D. S. #6 (Friday group)
Wk. 9 10/21 Discuss John Donne’s poetry
Homework:
Read “Crisis of Authority” (Reporting the News
and Political Writing), pgs. 1384 – 1417
D. S. #7 (Monday group)
10/23 Discuss “Crisis of Authority” texts
Homework:
Review “Essay Writing Chapter” (online)
paying special attention to the sections about
evidence and planning
D. S. #7 (Wed. & Fri.
group)
10/25 Writing About Literature
Homework:
Read Paradise Lost, Books 1, 3
Wk. 10 10/28 Paradise Lost, Books 1 & 3
Homework:
Read Paradise Lost, Books 9, 10
D. S. #8 (Monday group)
10/30 Paradise Lost, Books 9 & 10
Homework:
Take Home Exam #2: 16th & Early 17th Cent.
D. S. #8 (Wed. & Friday
group)
11/1 No Class (Take home exam work day)

4. 4
Part 3: Restoration & 18th Century
Wk. 11 11/4 Introduction to Restoration & 18th Century
Homework:
Read “Annus Mirabilis,” pgs. 36 – 37
Read “The Great Fire,” pgs. 86 – 90
Take Home Exam #2
due at beginning of class
No D. S. this week
11/6 The Miraculous Year
Mini-Lessons:
The Great Fire of London: Harley Swain
The Great Plague: Riley Jensen & Sarah Fischer
Homework:
Read “Essay on Human Understanding” 105 –
109
Read “Letter of Isaac Newton,” 110 – 115
11/8 Changing Epistomology
Mini-Lessons:
John Locke: Christine Pinney
Isaac Newton: Loren Cantrill
Homework:
Read “The Way of the World,” Acts 1-2, 188 –
210
Wk. 12 11/11 Restoration Theater
Homework:
Read “The Way of the World,” Acts 3-5, 210 –
248
D. S. #9 (Monday group)
11/13 “The Way of the World”
Homework:
Read Gulliver’s Travels, Bk 4, pgs. 407 - 454
D. S. #9 (Wed. group)
11/15 Swift and Satire
Mini-Lesson:
Jonathan Swift: Sephen Binni
Homework:
Read “MacFlecknoe,” pgs. 63 – 68
Read “The Dunciad,” pgs. 553 – 560
D. S. #9 (Friday group)
Wk. 13 11/18 The Sting of Satire
Mini-Lessons:
John Dryden: Reilly Rhoades
Alexander Pope: Callen Trapp
D. S. #10 (the whole
class)

5. 5
11/20 Writing About Literature
Mini-Lesson:
The Glorious Revolution: Nathan Johnson
11/22 NO CLASS MEETING
Turn in Literary Analysis to my office (Brink 229)
or English Dept. office (Brink 200) by end of day
Homework:
Read “Debating Women,” pgs. 636 - 657
Literary Analysis due
HOLIDAY – Fall Recess
Wk. 14 12/2 Gender Wars
Homework:
Read “Essay on Criticism,” pgs. 490 – 506
D. S. #11 (Monday
group)
12/4 Pope’s Perspective
Mini-Lesson:
The Birth of the Novel: Nicole Etchemendy
Homework:
Read “Fantomina,” 608 – 628
D. S. #11 (Wednesday
group)
12/6 The Birth of the Novel
Mini-Lesson:
Eliza Haywood: Preston Marisipini
D. S. #11 (Friday group)
Wk. 15 12/9 Sharing of Final Projects
12/11 Sharing of Final Projects
12/13 Sharing of Final Projects