SJA Course Material: Schedule & Links to Readings
WK1 Review of the syllabus Introduction to the course’s main questions
WK2 Labor Day Holiday-no classes M & T (St. Joe’s Teacher Inservice Day)
WK3 HW reading: Sophocles’s Play Antigone on YouTube (BBC) and read Antigone full play
WK4 HW: Shakespeare’s Play Hamlet on YouTube (Lawrence Olivier) and read Hamlet full play
WK5 HW: Watch The Seagull by Anton Chekov on YouTube and read The Seagull full play (NOTE: There is another version of the movie on Amazon.)
WK6 Test #1 M-9/30; T-10/01. HW due for W/TH Read Shakespeare’s Sonnets #18 and #60 (You will have to memorize one sonnet for test #2.)
WK7 HW reading: Charles Baudelaire’s “Invitation to a Voyage” and “The Enemy” (You might need to scroll down for the English versions on pages.)
WK8 HW reading: Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace”
WK9 HW reading: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
WK10 Test #2 M-10/28; T-10/29; W & Th: Discussions about final project
WK11 HW reading: “A Shinagawa Monkey” by Haruki Murakami
WK12 HW reading: “Grief” by Scholastique Mukasonga
(PDF version.)
WK13 HW reading: “The Elephant” by Aravind Adiga
(PDF version.)
WK14 M/T: Discussions and workshops on final project (no reading this week)
Thanksgiving Holiday Break W11/27; Th 11/28; Fr 11/29
WK15 Discussions and workshops on final project (no reading this week)
Test #3-W-12/04; Th 12/05
WK16 Final Projects Due and Class Presentation of your Projects on 12/11-W-8:00-9:45a.m. 12/12-R-8:00-9:45a.m.
