Freshman
English + Lab Spring 2002: Assignments and links
Please see the Fall 2001
syllabus for basic information about this course.
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Spring
2002 Poetry for memorization and prose for reading aloud handout
Winter
break listening assignment: BBC
Interview with Ray Charles
Listening assignment for 2/21-2/28: A
Moment of Science
Essay:
(2/21) 1. "I Became Her Target", Roger
Wilkins, p. 160. See http://www.gmu.edu/robinson/rw.html
Poetry: Memorize Ding, dong bell
and the English translation of Ladybug for recitation; read up on Mother
Goose; prepare biographical information on James Joyce and vocabulary
for his poem, On the Beach At Fontana.
Performance: Prepare to read aloud your
imitation of a recorded spoken passage in English.
Novel: Choose and hand in about two A4
pages of dialogue from the novel you reported on last semester.
Listening assignment for 2/28-3/7:
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (I
of II)
Poetry: On the
Beach At Fontana by James Joyce; prepare Learning by Judith
Viorst.
Listening assignment for 3/7-3/14:
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (II
of II)
Poetry: Learning
by Judith Viorst; prepare Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath.
Listening assignment for 3/14-3/21:
National
Public Radio Morning Edition: Recycling Computers
Poetry: Sheep in Fog by Sylvia
Plath; prepare To a Friend by Amy Lowell.
Listening assignment for 3/21-3/28:
The Joy of Baking: Making Scones,
with Stephani Jaworski (RealPlayer Video)
Poetry: To a Friend by Amy Lowell.;
prepare Lullaby by Eve Merriam.
Essay: 2.
"First and Last, Do No Harm",
Charles Krauthammer, p. 322. A bit of background on Charles Krauthammer:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/opinions/krauthammer.htm
Listening
assignment for 3/28-4/11:
BBC
Update on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,
Thursday April 4, 2002
Poetry: Lullaby by Eve Merriam;
prepare Sonnet 76 by William Shakespeare.
Listening
assignment for 4/11-18:
Popular Song: Laurie
Poetry: Sonnet 76 by William
Shakespeare; prepare The Cutting Edge by Frances FitzGerald.
Listening
assignment for 4/18-25:
The Sound of Your Voice
by Carol Fleming.
Prose reading: The Cutting Edge
by Frances FitzGerald; prepare Gazing at the Sacred Peak by
Tu Fu; find the original Chinese.
Listening
assignment for 4/25-5/9:
Alice's Restaurant
by Arlo Guthrie
Poetry: Gazing at the Sacred Peak by
Tu Fu; prepare Pine Tree Tops by Gary Snyder
Listening
assignment for 5/9-5/16:
Gunsmoke (I)
Poetry: Pine Tree Tops by Gary Snyder;
prepare Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part by Michael
Drayton
Listening
assignment for 5/16-5/23:
Gunsmoke
(II)
Poetry: Since There's No Help, Come Let Us
Kiss and Part by Michael Drayton; prepare Three Days by
James R. Gilmore
Listening
assignment for 5/23-30:
The Angel
Poetry: Three Days by James R. Gilmore;
prepare Plea for a Captive by William Stanley Merwin
Listening
assignment for 5/30-6/6:
Elder Rage (I)
Poetry: Quotes from: Franz Kafka
and Henry Van Dyke; prepare In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My
Father by Gwendolyn Brooks
Listening
assignment for 6/6-6/12:
Elder Rage (II)
Poetry: In Honor of David Anderson Brooks,
My Father by Gwendolyn Brooks; prepare: Was There a Time
by Dylan Thomas
Essays:
3. "One Man's Kids",
Daniel Meier, p. 8.
4. "Silence", Larry Watson, p. 35.