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Priorities for the impending, perennial, protracted pause: Over the break, complete the thesis/outline of your research paper. It is due in class on Monday, March 23 and to turnitin.com by 8am. In anticipation of the next phase of the project, have a look at this document for pointers on how to integrate secondary material. Harvard also has this new website for students such as yourselves. Very handy. Take advantage. Additionally, be sure to read the introduction to Leo Tolstoy as well as the first chapter of The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Norton 1327-1336). Watch this very short lecture. Have a good break. Write well, read well... and live.
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 23 (1) - Drafting the essay; Integrating secondary sources into your own writing; Final research essay due Monday, April 13!
Tuesday, March 24 (2) - Sample research essay 1
Wednesday, March 25 (3) - Sample research essay 2
Thursday, March 26 (4) - Your theses/outlines: 1, 2, 3, 4; Be sure to re-read the first chapter of The Death of Ivan Ilych (there will be an extensive quiz!). And, read "The Secrets of Leo Tolstoy".
Friday, March 27 (5) - One last sample essay; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych; By Monday, read Ivan Ilyich, chapter II (Norton 1336-1341). Also, over the weekend, Read "Tolstoy's Struggle."
Monday, March 30 (6) - What is't to tolstoy?; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapter III (Norton 1341-1346).
Tuesday, March 31 (1) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapter IV (Norton 1346-1350).
Wednesday, April 1 (2) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapters V-VII (Norton 1350-1358).
Thursday, April 2 (3) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych; Over the long weekend, finish Ivan Ilyich (Norton 1358-1368). Additionally, watch Professor Kagan's lectures to the right (from lecture 15, 36:11 to lecture 16, 13:52). Lastly, read "Ivan Ilych Supplementary Readings" to the right by Tuesday.
Tuesday, April 7 (4) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych;
Wednesday, April 8 (5) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych;
Thursday, April 9 (6) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych;
“His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with the lightning which has yet found no conductor.”
Dante in Translation (ITAL 310) Professor Mazzotta introduces students to the general scheme and scope of the Divine Comedy and to the life of its author. Various genres to which the poem belongs (romance, epic, vision) are indicated, and special attention is given to its place within the encyclopedic tradition.
Friday, April 10 (1) - Inferno Introduction and Presentation Guidelines & Schedule; Over the weekend, read Canto 1 of the Inferno in the first volume of the anthology. Watch the 18-minute introduction, to the right, delivered by Professor Mazzotta.
Monday, April 13 (2) - Inferno, Canto 1; The Geographies of Hell: Geocentric Solar System; Milton's Cosmos v. Dante's Cosmos
Tuesday, April 14 (3) - Inferno, Cantos 2-3
Wednesday, April 15 (4) - Inferno, Canto 4; Hopkins, "Spring and Fall"
Dante in Translation (ITAL 310) Professor Mazzotta introduces students to the Divine Comedy, focusing on the first four cantos of Inferno. Stylistic, thematic and formal features of the poem are discussed in the context of its original title, Comedy.
Thursday, April 16 (5) - Inferno Presentations Begin; Inferno, Canto 5 (Miller, Auchter, Burke)
Friday, April 17 (6) - Inferno, Cantos 6-7 (Johnson, Mathew, Fletcher, Garrison); If you'd like, read this article over the weekend.
Monday, April 20 (1) - Inferno, Cantos 8-10 (Bordelon, Brown, Jones, Stockwell, Nwokedi, Mashinski)
Tuesday, April 21 (2) - Inferno, Cantos 11-12 (Saunders, Sammour, Sanders, Russell, Jones, Hibbler)
Wednesday, April 22 (3) - Inferno, Cantos 13-14 (Lubrano, Salinas, Baker, Solntsev, Hull, Hernandez)
Thursday, April 23 (4) - Inferno, Cantos 15-16 (McKean, Mattioli, Walker, Zaghrini, Davidson)
Monday, April 27 (6) - Inferno, Cantos 17-18 (Christman, Price, Weathington, Davidson, Dade, Agee)
Tuesday, April 28 (1) - Inferno, Cantos 19-20 (Baker, Guillen, Sessums, Spencer, Caligur)
Wednesday, April 29 (2) - Inferno, Cantos 21-22 (Gallegos, Castaneda, Breuer, Carey, Aparicio, Corrigan)
Thursday, April 30 (3) - STUDENT PERCEPTION SURVEYS (NO CLASS)
Click the image to read about Dante Alighieri
Friday, May 1 (4) - Inferno, Cantos 23-25 (Irby, Huynh, Hwang, Sivinski, Snell, Sinon-Allas, Macon, Kawar, Nutt)
Monday, May 4 (5) - Inferno, Cantos 26-27 (Bucey, Jimenez, Skoumpourdis, Scott, Schaefer)
Tuesday, May 5 (6) - Inferno, Cantos 28-29 (Uwaezuoke, Reese, Edwards, Elorduy-Sendra, Zelaya, Steele)
Wednesday, May 6 (1) - Inferno, Cantos 30-31 (Lewis, Stewart, Savage, Bakewell, Maurer)
Thursday, May 7 (2) - Inferno, Cantos 32-33 (Saunders, Salinas, Jones)
Friday, May 8 (3) - Inferno, Canto 34 and Course Conclusion
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Due Dates
Monday, March 23 -- Thesis/Outline
Monday, March 23 -- The Queen of Spades EC Assignment
Monday, April 13 -- Final research essay
Sample Research Essays of Mr. Volding's Students of Yesteryears:
“In reading exam papers written by misled students, of both sexes, about this or that author, I have often come across such phrases — probably recollections from more tender years of schooling — as ‘his style is simple’ or ‘his style is clear and simple’ or ‘his style is beautiful and simple’ or ‘his style is quite beautiful and simple.’ But remember that ‘simplicity’ is buncombe. No major writer is simple. The Saturday Evening Post is simple. Journalese is simple. Upton Lewis is simple. Mom is simple. Digests are simple. Damnation is simple. But Tolstoys and Melvilles are not simple... This story is Tolstoy’s most artistic, most perfect, and most sophisticated achievement... Tolstoy’s style is a marvelously complicated, ponderous achievement.”
The Death of Ivan Ilych Study Links
Tolstoy, Lessons of the Artist
Ivan Ilych Supplementary Readings
Helpful Research Links
Research and Documentation Online
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Genealogy of the English Alphabet
Inferno links to aid in your presentations
List of Dante resources on the interwebs
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