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ENGL 191 and 192
Honors English

Description:
This course focuses on a study of diverse literary masterpieces from the Greek and Judeo-Christian world in the light of the theme, “Family Ties.” It introduces the student to the process of writing articulate analysis and doing effective research.

Enabling Activities:
Reading, discussion/analysis, recitation, quizzes, in-class and out of class writing.

Competency Goals:

Writing:
To have students learn how to prepare a coherent, organized analysis of a literary text that demonstrates a command of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and sentence style.

Critical Thinking:
To have students learn how to examine and interpret a literary text using the data of the text as supporting evidence.

Oral Communication:
To have students present their positions persuasively in class discussion; To have students participate in dramatic readings from the text.

Information Literacy:
To facilitate students’ use of traditional and computer research skills, and to enable them to use correct MLA format for the research project.

Texts
These texts are available through MBS online bookstore, Amazon.com, or at a Barnes and Noble bookstore. They are also available in local libraries. For our use of the Biblical texts, you can bring to class whatever Bible you have at home.

  1. Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra, Sophocles, Ed. Edith Hall, Oxford World Classics, Oxford UP, ISBN 0-19-2835882
  2. The Canterbury Tales in Modern English, Chaucer, Ed. N. Coghill, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-044022-4
  3. The Decameron – Selected Tales, Boccaccio, Ed. R. Blaisdell,
    Dover Thrift, ISBN 0-486-4113-3
  4. The Tragedy of King Lear, W. Shakespeare, Eds. Mowat/Werstine New Folger Library Series, Mass Market Paperback, ISBN 067-17- 22727

Assignments:
There will be short analytical papers on each of the works, including a researched paper on King Lear. In addition, there will be a mid-term and final exam.

Attendance and Grading:
Since this is a course that meets once a week, a maximum of two absences is permitted. The mid-term and final exam constitute 40% of the grade; short papers (3) are 30%; the researched paper is 20%; class participation and attendance account for the remaining 10%.

NOTE: ASSIGNMENTS ARE EXPECTED ON DATES DUE. LATENESS INCURS LOWERING OF FINAL GRADE.

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