Reading assigments are to be completed before class on the day they are listed in the schedule.
Monday, Aug. 26
Introduction to course; discuss Web Site Evaluation Project; Video 3685, pt. 1: "Romans, Saxons, Vikings"
Wednesday, Aug. 28
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages (hereafter "NAEL"): Read the introduction, pp. 1-22 for discussion; Cædmon's Hymn (23-26); Dream of the Rood (26-28); The Wanderer (99-102)
Monday, Sept. 2
Web Site Evaluation Project
Wednesday, Sept. 4
The Battle of Maldon (103-109); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (110-112); Geoffrey of Monmouth (115-118); Wace (118-122); Layamon, etc. (122-126)
Thursday, Sept. 5, 5PM
Monday, Sept. 9
Finish Web Site Evaluation project
Wednesday, Sept. 11
Lanval (126-140); Lludd and Lleuelys (150-153); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part 1, 158-168).
Monday, Sept. 16
Work on Small Group Projects
Quiz 2 (due today, midnight); Finish Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Monday, Sept. 23
Work on Small Group Projects
Wednesday, Sept. 25
Piers Plowman (317-349)
Monday, Sept. 30
Quiz 3 (due before class today); Middle English Lyrics (349-355)
Wednesday, Oct. 2
Ancrene Riwle (153-155); Julian of Norwich (355-366); Margery Kempe (366-379)
Monday, Oct. 7
Video 7952 Mystic Women of the Middle Ages: Margery Kempe (24 minutes); Work on Small Group Projects
Wednesday, Oct. 9
Quiz 4 (due before class today); Noah's Flood (379-391)
Monday, Oct. 14
Video 1416: The Second Shepherd's Play; Second Shepherd's Play (391-419)
Wednesday, Oct. 16
Quiz 5; Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale; Henryson, The Cock and the Fox
Monday, Oct. 21
Finish Small Group Projects (by Midnight)
Wednesday, Oct. 23
Chaucer, Retraction, Truth, To His Scribe Adam, Complaint to His Purse; Malory, Morte Darthur, pp. 419-426
Monday, Oct. 28
Video 5434, Part 2: James Burke: "Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason"
Wednesday, Oct. 30
Quiz 6; Troilus & Criseyde, Introduction (read for today and for Quiz; no class today)
Monday, Nov. 4
Work on Individual Projects
Wednesday, Nov. 6
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 1
Monday, Nov. 11
Small Group Presentations of Projects
Wednesday, Nov. 13
Quiz 7 (due by start of class today); Troilus & Criseyde, Book 2
Monday, Nov. 18
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 3
Wednesday, Nov. 20
Quiz 8 (due by start of class today); Troilus & Criseyde, Book 4
Nov. 23-Dec. 1 Thanksgiving Break Monday, Dec. 2
Individual Projects due by Midnight today
Wednesday, Dec. 4
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 5
Monday, Dec. 9
Quiz 9 (due by midnight); Robert Henryson, Testament of Cresseid (TEAMS text, available online); Evaluations
Wednesday, Dec. 10
Last day of Classes: final exam info.
Monday, Dec. 16, 1:05PM- 3:05PM
Final Exam