Reading Schedule

The following is a list of dates by which you should have completed the reading for the following works within our textbooks (keep in mind, most of the works listed are lengthy; the textbook offers only brief excerpts from the larger works--if you are presenting on a work of literature, you should find the work in its entirety and read it before presenting.  All other students only need to read the excerpts from the textbook for the given date).

2-5-08  John Milton/Sonnets

2-7-08 John Milton/Paradise Lost

2-12-08 Amelia Lanier/Eve's Apology

2-14-08 Richard Lovelace/To Lucasta

2-19-08 Samuel Pepys/The Diary

2-21-08 Danile Dafoe/Journal of Plague Year

2-26-08 Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Travels   (Tommy Lamb Presenting)

2-28-08 Jonathan Swift/A Modest Proposal

3-4-08 Alexander Pope/Essay on Man   (Karen Campos Presenting)

3-6-08 Alexander Pope/The Rape of the Lock  (Joel Norberg Presenting)

3-11-08 Samuel Johnson/Dictionary of English Language

3-13-08 Thomas Gray/Elgy Written in a County Churchyard (Cecilia Duran Presenting)

3-18-08 Robert Burns/To a Mouse/To a Louse (Eddy Fuentes Presenting)

3-20-08 William Blake/The Lamb/Chimney Sweep (Jordan Delgado Presenting)

3-25-08 Mary Shelley/Frankenstein  (Ean Francoeur Presenting)

3-27-08 William Wordsworth/London  (Bo Biggs Presenting)

4-1-08 William Wordsworth/The World is Too Much with Us  (Erick Hustad Presenting)

4-3-08 Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Rime of the Ancient Mariner  (Jordan Judd Presenting)

4-8-08 George Gordon, Lord Byron/She Walks in Beauty  (Cori Banks Presenting)

4-10-08 Percy Byshee Shelley/Ozymandius (Cory Caruso Presenting)

4-15-08 John Keats/Ode to a Grecian Urn  (Matt English Presenting)

4-17-08 John Keats/When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be (Sully Aguilar Presenting)

4-22-08 Alfred, Lord Tennyson/the Lady of Shalott  (Danyell Allen Presenting)

4-24-08 Robert Browning/My Last Duchess (Roberto Quintero Presenting)

4-29-08 Elizabeth Barret Browning/Sonnet 43  (Megan Green Presenting)

5-1-08 Charles Dickens/Hard Times (Jennifer Adams Presenting)

5-6-08 Charlotte Brontë/Jane Eyre  (Amanda Moore Presenting)

5-8-08 Emily Brontë/Rememberance  (Kristina King Presenting)

5-13-08 Thomas Hardy/Ah, You are Digging on My Grave (Marco Koke Presenting)

5-15-08 A.E. Houseman/To an Athlete Dying Young  (Lia Kate Mcnaughton Presenting)

5-20-08 William Butler Yates/Sailing to Byzantium  (Alan Valencia Presenting)

5-22-08 T.S. Eliot/The Hollow Men  (Michael Pannone Presenting)

5-27-08 W.H. Auden/Musee des Beaux Arts  (Anthony Sanchez Presenting)

5-29-08 Virginia Woolf/The Lady in the Looking Glass  (Cynthia Aguilera Presenting)

6-3-08 D.H. Lawrence/The Rocking Horse Winner  (Natalie Lester Presenting)

6-5-08 George Orwell/Animal Farm  (A. J. Almeida Presenting)

*Dates of presentations are subject to change.