Assignments

Critical Response Papers -- Everyone must complete at least 8 of the 11 possible short response papers; response papers for Week 1, Week 4, and Week 7 or 8 are required of all students. All response papers are due on Friday by noon. Papers are submitted electronically via Collect It: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/collectit/dropbox/changed/720.

Readings Presentatin & Critical Questions -- a 3 to 5 minute oral presentation on one of the week's readings. Everyone must sign-up for at least one presentation.

Literatures of the Fantastic Critical Review -- a 500-750 word analytical review of a text you would think could be or should be included in our class. Critical Reviews are to be posted to the class blog.

Mash-Up "Mixed-Paper" Final Project -- a collection where you will 1) identify a critical question, claim, or concept that will frame and organize your project; 2) write a paragraph of introduction, a kind of prologue to the project explaining your overall goals; 3) select and revise and order five of your Critical Response Papers, which fit, explore, or support your organizing analytic; 4) include between each part of the project an image, verse, or quote from the readings or outside research that provides transition and furthers your analytical ‘story’; 5) write a paragraph of conclusion, a kind of epilogue to the project.

Organizing the Mixed Paper -- suggestions and strategies for developing an organizational analytic and making connections in your "mixed-paper" final project.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

ENGL200 Student Info Sheet & Release Form

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Readings

All of the short readings for class are available via the Course Reader (for sale at Ave Copy, 4141 Univ. Way @ 42nd) or through the university’s online course reserves (http://eres.lib.washington.edu), or directly from the web. Consult the course syllabus for the week each reading will be covered in class. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Blake, William. "Introduction to Songs of Experience." Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 24 Sep. 2007. 24 Sep. 2007. http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.b&java=yes.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Blake, William. "Introduction to Songs of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 24 Sep. 2007. 24 Sep. 2007. http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.b&java=yes.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Blake, William. "The Tyger." Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 24 Sep. 2007. 24 Sep. 2007. http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.b&java=yes.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Bradbury, Ray. "2026: There Will Come Soft Rains." The Martian Chronicles. New York: Bantam Books, 1950. 166-172.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." The Atlantic Online. 17 Sep. 2007. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Butler, Octavia E. "Amnesty." The Year's Best SF 9. Eds. David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. New York: Eos Books, 2004. 1-31.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Delany, Samuel R. "Aye, and Gommorah." SciFiction. 15 June 2007. 17 Sep. 2007. http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/delany3/delany31.html.

Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Transl. Robert W. Lawson. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1961. v-vii, 10-12, 19-20, 67-70.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Gibson, William. "Burning Chrome." Burning Chrome. New York: Eos Books, 1986. 179-204.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "If I Were a Man." Landweber's WMST 102 (Women's Worlds) Home Page. Fall 2007. 23 Sep. 2007. http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~landwebj/ww/gilman.htm.

Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Press, 1956.

Homer. The Odyssey. Transl. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. 1-5, 168-187, 236-252.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. London: Everyman, 1994. 3-9.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Le Guin, Ursula K. "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction." The Language of the Night. New York: Perigee, 1979. 73-81.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Le Guin, Ursula K. "Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" The Language of the Night. New York: Perigee, 1979. 39-45.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Lovecraft, H.P. "Pickman's Model." The Best of H.P. Lovecraft. New York: Del Rey, 1963. 42-51.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Lovecraft, H.P. "The Tomb." The Tomb and Other Tales. New York: Del Rey, 1965. 7-17.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

McHugh, Maureen F. "Virtual Love." Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996. 99-110.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Poe, Edgar Allen. "Annabel Lee." E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore. 17 Aug. 1998. 23 Sep. 2007. http://www.eapoe.org/works/POEMS/annabela.htm.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Raven." E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore. 8 Apr. 1998. 23 Sep. 2007. http://www.eapoe.org/works/POEMS/ravena.htm.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Scholastic, 2000.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Folger). Washington Square Press, 2004.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Ed. Johanna M. Smith. Boston: Bedford Books, 1992. 19-25, 52-93.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Transl. Marie Borroff. New York: Norton, 1967. vii-xiii, 1-11.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: The Modern Library, 1992. 166-182, 249-254.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

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