LIT 3001 Studies in Drama
Tentative Course Schedule
Winter 2010-2011
NOTE: This schedule may change as needed. Your presence in class ensures correct assignments
Week 1
Moon by Lady Augusta Gregory; structure of a story (review)
For Next Time: - Create your account at Engrade.
- Create your account at turnitin.com
- Set up journal using electronic portfolio set-up
instructions; bring web address to class on Monday
- Read pp. 1-29 in text & Everyman, pp. 239-251; quiz next class
- Complete Reading Journal entry #1 by responding to
the following question in a minimum of 300 words: What do you
think the allegory in Everyman is trying to teach its audience?
Support your argument with quotes from the text. This must be
posted to your blog no later than class time on M 12/6.
M 12/6 Collect web addresses for reading journals;
Begin discussion of Everyman; Sign-up for presentations
For Next Time:
- Read "Medieval Drama" pp.205-215 & "Renaissance Drama,"
252-264
Week 2
W 12/8 Everyman (continued); Discuss essay 1
For Next time:
- Read Dr. Faustus, pp. 265-295
- Complete Reading Journal entry #2 by responding in a
minimum of 300 words. Include quotes from text. This must
be posted to your blog no later than class time on M 12/13.
- Topic proposal due for Creative Project
M 12/13 Topic proposal for Creative Project due;
Begin discussion of Dr. Faustus; presentation;
For Next time:
- First Draft of Essay 1 due
Week 3
W 12/15 First Draft of Essay 1 due; Dr. Faustus continued
For Next Time:
- 1st draft of creative project due
- Complete typed peer critique of partner's paper.
- Read "Wiiliam Shakespeare," 296-298 & Othello, 401-446
- Complete Reading Journal entry #3 by responding in a
minimum of 300 words. Include quotes from text. This must
be posted to your blog no later than class time on M 1/13.
M 1/3 1st draft of creative project due;
Peer Critique, essay 1; Discuss Othello; presentation
For Next Time:
Week 4
W 1/5 Film: Othello
HARMON AT MLA CONFERENCE
For Next Time:
- Final Draft of Essay 1 due w/ Reflection
- Complete Reading Journal entry #4 by responding in a
minimum of 300 words. Discuss the director's interpretation of
Shakespeare's orignial text. Include specific examples. This
must be posted to your blog no later than class time on M 1/10.
M 1/10 CLASS CANCELLED: SNOW DAY
For Next Time:
- Study for midterm
Week 5
W 1/12 Final Draft of Essay 1 due w/ Reflection; Othello (continued)
For Next Time:
- Read "Late Seventeenth & Eighteenth-Century Drama,"
496-508 & The Way of the World, 601-643
- Complete Reading Journal entry #5 by responding in a
minimum of 300 words. Include quotes from text. This must
be posted to your blog no later than class time on W 1/17.
F 1/14 Almost Maine, Spirt Square/Duke Energy Theatre, 8pm
performed by Davidson Community Players
M 1/17 NO CLASS!!! MLK, JR. HOLIDAY
Week 6
W 1/19 Midterm
PLAY AT THEATRE CHARLOTTE (THE GRADUATE),
7:30PM (FREE)
For Next Time:
- Read "Nineteeth-Century through the turn of the Tweintieth
Century Drama, pp. 644-657 and Begin reading The
Importance of Being Earnest
R 1/20 Pagent The Musical; 8pm, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte
M 1/24 The Way of the World (continued)
For Next Time:
- Read The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Complete Reading Journal entry #6 by responding in a
minimum of 300 words. Include quotes from text. This must
be posted to your blog no later than class time on W 1/26.
Week 7
W 1/26 Film and Discussion: Doubt
For Next Time:
- Read "Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century, 867-880
and begin Reading Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- If you did not complete Reading Journal 6, please do so by
responding to the film/play, Doubt no later than W 2/2.
M 1/31 Film and Discussion Continued: Doubt
Presentations from Michael and Morgan
For Next Time: - Read Who's Afraid of Virigina Woolf?
- Complete Reading Journal entry #7 by responding in a
minimum of 300 words. Include quotes from text. This must
be posted to your blog no later than class time on W 2/2.
Week 8
W 2/2
HARMON AT AWP CONFERENCE; Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?; Watch Film (Elizabeth Taylor & Richard
Burton) with PROF KENDALL
For Next Time:
- Creative Project Due
- Read "Contemporary Drama," 1235-1253 & Paula Vogel's How
I Learned to Drive
- Complete Reading Journal entry #8 by responding to the
film in a minimum of 300 words. Include quotes from text. This
must be posted to your blog no later than class time on M
2/7.
M 2/7 Creative Project Due; Discuss Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?;
presentation: Stewart
For Next Time:
- First Draft of Essay 2 due
- Complete Reading of How I Learned To Drive
Week 9
W 2/9 First Draft of Essay 2 due; Discuss How I Learned to Drive;
presentation: Frommer; Continue Who's Afraid... if needed
For Next Time: - Complete typed peer critique of partner's paper.
- Read Angels in America by Kushner
M 2/14 Peer Critique, Essay 2;
Angels in America: Team-Based Learning
For Next Time:
- Final Draft of Essay 2 due w/ Reflection;
Week 10
Discuss Angels in America; presentation: Andrew
Distribute Final Exam Study Guide
For Next Time:
R 2/17 Blue Door; Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, 7:30pm
M 2/21 Review for Final Exam: Team-Based Learning
For Next Time:
Study for Final Exam
Week 11
W 2/23 Final Exam
