Reading assigments are to be completed before class on the day they are listed in the schedule.
Monday, Aug. 23
Introduction to course; discuss Web Site Evaluation Project; Video 3685, pt. 1: "Romans, Saxons, Vikings"
Wed., Aug. 25
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, Aug. 30
Web Site Evaluation Project
Wed., Sept. 1
The Battle of Maldon (103-109); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (110-112); Geoffrey of Monmouth (115-118); Wace (118-122); Layamon, etc. (122-126)
Friday, Sept. 3, 5PM
Monday, Sept. 6
Finish Web Site Evaluation project (by midnight)
Wed., Sept. 8
Beowulf: pp. 29-32; lines 86-835 Monday, Sept. 13
Work on Small Group Projects
Wed., Sept. 15
Quiz 2 (due today, midnight); Lanval (126-140); Lludd and Lleuelys (150-153); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part 1, 158-168).
Monday, Sept. 20
Work on Small Group Projects
Wed., Sept. 22
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Monday, Sept. 27
Quiz 3 (due before class today); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Wed., Sept. 29
Piers Plowman (317-349)
Monday, Oct. 4
Finish Piers Plowman; Middle English Lyrics (349-355); Ancrene Riwle (153-155)
Wed., Oct. 6
Julian of Norwich (355-366); Margery Kempe (366-379)
Monday, Oct. 11
Quiz 4 (due by midnight today); Video 7952 Mystic Women of the Middle Ages: Margery Kempe (24 minutes); Work on Small Group Projects
Wed., Oct. 13
Noah's Flood (379-391); Second Shepherd's Play (391-419)
Friday, Oct. 15
Quiz 5 (due by midnight today)
Monday, Oct. 18
Finish Small Group Projects (by Midnight)
Wed., Oct. 20
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale (pp. 296-310); Henryson, The Cock and the Fox (439-45)
Monday, Oct. 25
Chaucer:Retraction (313); Truth;To His Scribe Adam; Complaint to His Purse (315-316); Malory, Morte Darthur, pp. 419-439
Wed., Oct. 27
Video 5434, Part 2: James Burke: "Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason"; Troilus & Criseyde, Introduction
Friday, Oct. 29
Quiz 6 (due by midnight today)
Monday, Nov. 1
Work on Individual Projects
Wed., Nov. 3
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 1
Monday, Nov. 8
Small Group Presentations of Projects
Wed., Nov. 10
Quiz 7 (due by start of class today); Troilus & Criseyde, Book 2
Monday, Nov. 15
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 3
Wed., Nov. 17
Quiz 8 (due by midnight; no class); read for discussion Nov. 29: Troilus & Criseyde, Book 4
Nov. 20-Nov. 28 Thanksgiving Break Monday, Nov. 29
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 4; Individual Projects due by Midnight today
Wed., Dec. 2
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 5
Monday, Dec. 6
Quiz 9 (due by midnight); Last day of Classes: final exam info.; evaluations; Robert Henryson, Testament of Cresseid (TEAMS text, available online)
Wed., Dec. 15, 7:45-9:45AM
Final Exam