Week	Day	Date	Subject	Reading	Special Deadlines
1	R	8/21/2003		CP Ch. 1; handout
2	T	8/26/2003	Poems	CP Ch.10; 13Ways Ch.1
	W	8/27/2003			End of Drop-add
	R	8/28/2003	Repetition	CP Ch.11; 13Ways Ch.7
3	T	9/2/2003	""	CP Ch. 3; 13Ways ch. 7
	R	9/4/2003	Sestinas	13Ways Ch. 11 Early double sestina from Sidney's Arcadia
4	T	9/9/2003	Sestinas	CP Ch4; 13Ways Ch.11
	R	9/11/2003	Accentual-Syllabic	13Ways Ch. 2
5	T	9/16/2003		CP Ch. 5
	R	9/18/2003	Accentual-Syllabic	13Ways Ch. 2
6	T	9/23/2003	Baroque Poems	13Ways Ch.5
	R	9/25/2003	Ghazals and Pantoums	CP Ch. 7;13 Ways Ch.5
7	T	9/30/2003	Accentual Syllabic	CP Ch.8; 1handouts
	R	10/2/2003	Accentual Syllabic
8	T	10/7/2003		CP Ch. 9;
	R	10/9/2003		FALL BREAK--NO CLASS
9	T	10/14/2003	Accentual-Syllabic	13Ways Ch.2
	R	10/16/2003	Accentual-Syllabic	MIDTERM	Last day to drop with a W
10	T	10/21/2003	Couplets & Rhyme	13Ways Ch.3
	R	10/23/2003	Couplets & Rhyme	13Ways Ch.3
11	T	10/28/2003	Sonnets	13Ways ch. 12
	R	10/30/2003	Online Class; Ballads	Instructions: Learn as much as you can from the ballad links below. Then post comments for your class about what a ballad is, which you like most and least, and how to write one. Feel free to supplement these links with other research. I'll be grading you on the quality of your contributions as well as your responses to others' comments and questions. You can and should log on several times between October 28 and and November 4. Go to chat room here. Ballad definition (with ballad stanza example) "Classic" heptameron ballads Folk and Literary Ballads (good overview) Another explanation with excerpts Instructions: Writing a period ballad Folk Ballad Examples: A traditional Ballad Creely's Ballad of the Despairing Husband Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham (1969) Ballad of Mae West's Bust (5 line stanzas) Ballad of Richard III Ballad of the Skunk Robert Service's Yukon ballads Ballad of the Iceworm Cocktail Cremation of Sam McGee Bar-room Ballads Literary Ballads Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner Edna St. Vincent Millay's Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Anne Sexton, Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator Langston Hughes's Ballad of Harry Moore Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol Alfred Noyes's The Highwayman
12	T	11/4/2003		In class ballad writing
	R	11/6/2003	Quatrains and Ballads.
13	T	11/11/2003		Found Poems
	R	11/13/2003
14	T	11/18/2003	Villanelles; Modernism	13 Ways Ch. 13 Ballad is due Villanelle is due for next week
	R	11/20/2003
15	T	11/25/2003			Last day for admin or mental health withdrawal
	R	11/27/2003		THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
16	T	12/2/2003
	R	12/4/2003
Exams
191	W	12/10/2003		12-2:30
304	F	12/12/2003		12-2:30
471	T	12/9/2003		12-2:30 PM