Rhetoric I: The First-Year Experience
"The Quest for Knowledge" 
(ENGL 101H) 
Fall 2002 
Time and Place: MWF 10-10:50, Mickle 110

David Havird
http://personal.centenary.edu/~dhavird/
dhavird@centenary.edu
Office: Jackson Hall 311, 869-5085 
Office Hours: M 2-4, W 2-3, and by appointment
 
Calendar of Assignments
Updated 15 November 2002
 
 
Week (Monday's date) Assignment Event (required events in bold)
Week 1 (19 August) Plato, The Republic (171-183) President's Convocation (T, 11 AM, Gold Dome)
Piano recital, Leslie Downs (F, 8 PM, Hurley)
Week 2 (26 August) Homer, The Odyssey 1-2 (M)
Odyssey 3-4 (W)
Odyssey 5-6 (F)		 War Scenes, a suite of songs for voice and piano, by Ned Rorem, presented as a lecture-recital by Dr. Horace English and Professor Gay Grosz (Th, 3:30 PM, Hurley Recital Hall)

Roundtable on The Odyssey (Th, 7 PM, South Dining Hall)
Week 3 (2 September) Labor Day Holiday (M)
Odyssey  7-10 (W)
Essay 1 (W)
Odyssey 11-12 (F)
Week 4 (9 September) Odyssey 13-14 (M)
Odyssey 15-16 (W)
Odyssey 17-18 (F)		 Centenary Film Society Greek Week (Carlile Auditorium, Mickle Hall)
Attend at least one film!
Link to rottentomatoes.com.
Week 5 (16 September) Odyssey 19-20 (M)
Odyssey 21-22 (W)
Odyssey 23-24 (F)		 Centenary Film Society (For fall schedule, click on link.  You may use two T/Th films as events for reflection.)

"Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" (Th, F, Sat, 8 PM, Marjorie Lyons Playhouse)
Week 6 (23 September)
Shakespeare, Macbeth
SSE Workshop (F)
Essay 2 (F)--Note change of date!		 Macbeth (Film, UK, 1971. Dir. Roman Polanski. Cast: Jon Finch, Francesca 
Annis. Color, 140 mins.) (Sun, 22 September, 7 PM, Carlile Auditorium, 114 Mickle Hall)

Shenandoah Shakespeare Express

  •  Merry Wives of Windsor (M, Th, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
  • Macbeth (T, 7 PM; F, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
  • Love's Labour's Lost (W, Sat, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
"Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" (Th, F, Sat, 8 PM and Sun, 2 PM, Marjorie Lyons Playhouse)
Week 7 (30 September) Macbeth (M, W)
Fall Break (F)		 Throne of Blood [Kumonosu Jo] (Film, Japan, 1957.  Dir. Akira Kurosawa. Cast:  Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada.  B/w, 110 mins. In Japanese w/subtitles) (Sun, 29 September, Carlile Auditorium, 114 Mickle Hall)
Week 8 (7 October) Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (pages 1-87 for Monday; 88-153 for Wednesday; 154-193 for Friday) Friends of Music Concert (3 PM, Sun, 13 October, Hurley Auditorium)
Week 9 (14 October) Hurston, Their Eyes . . . (M)

Boland, Outside History

  • "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me" (19), "Object Lessons" (22), "The Game" (25), "Mountain Time" (28), "We Were Neutral in the War" (30) (W)
  • "The Achill Woman" (35), "The Making of an Irish Goddess" (38), "Daphne Heard with Horror the Addresses of the God" (41), "What We Lost" (48), "Outside History" (50) (F)
Essay 3 (F)--date changed to M, 28 October!
Week 10 (21 October) Boland, Outside History
  • "The Latin Lesson" (53), "Nights of Childhood" (55), "The Carousel in the Park" (56), "Contingencies" (58), "Our Origins Are in the Sea" (60), "Midnight Flowers" (61) (M)
  • "The Oral Tradition" (75), "The Women" (84), "Fever" (87), "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951" (106) (W)
  • "The Journey" (93) (F)
 Presentation of Corrington Award to Eavan Boland (Th, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
Week 11 (28 October) Essay 3 (M)
Outside History Reprise
  • "The Women" (84), "Fever" (87), "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951" (106), "The Journey" (93) (W)
Boland, "The Pomegranate", "That the Science of Cartography Is Limited" (two different links to outside sites) (F)		 The Southern Jewish Experience: Celebrating a Century in Shreveport with Agudath Achim and The Shekhina Project, A Selection of Photographs by Leonard Nimoy (Meadows Museum of Art)
Week 12 (4 November) Essay 4 (M)--Date changed to M, 18 November!
Spiegelman, Maus I		 Rose Van Thyn on the Holocaust (Th, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)

The Shape of Things (W, Th, F, Sat, 8 PM, MLP)
Week 13 (11 November) Maus II The Shape of Things (Th, F, Sat, 8 PM; Sun, 2 PM, MLP)

DeRousse Piano Recital (Th, 7:30 PM, Anderson Auditorium, Hurley School of Music)
Week 14 (18 November) Essay 4 (M)

MacLaverty, Cal

 Hurley Symphony Orchestra (Monday, 8 PM, Anderson Auditorium, Hurley School of Music)
Week 15 (25 November) Thanksgiving Break
Week 16 (2 December)
Preparation Week		 MacLaverty, Cal
Final Exams (9 December) Final Exam (Th, 1-4 PM)
 
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