Classic Works

of the Imagination, Symbol and Allegory

The Classic Works learning objectives may be found on the Course Description page.

Speech Night will be on
Friday, May 24 at 6:30 p.m.

Assignments

The activated dates listed below will take you to the assignments. Please remember that the dates of the hyperlinks indicate when the assignment has been given, not when it is due.

September
8 15 22 29

October
8 13 20 27

November
3 10 17 (24)

December
1 8 15 (22) (29)

January
5 12 19 26

February
1 9 16 23

March
1 8 15 22 (29)

April
5 12 19 26

May
3 10 17 24 31

Materials Needed

Syllabus

Specific assignments will be posted week to week on the assignment page. If the assignment page and the syllabus disagree, please follow the assignment page. The assignments are numbered according to weeks. There will be no classes on November 24, December 22, December 29, and March 29, and no assignments will be given for those dates. The tentative Speech Night date is Friday, May 22 at 6:30.

Speech Night Speech

For Speech Night you will be relating an experience and telling its significance. Read this speech, written several years ago, as an example for your own.

Book Report Format Sheet 1

You will be reading at least one book listed in the appendix of your book. Book Report Format Sheet 2, the alternate book report format sheet, is posted here.

Online Reading Materials

• Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

• H. G. Wells Story for Assignment 15

• Franz Kafka’s “The Hunger Artist”

• George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

• Alfred Tennyson’s Gareth and Lynette

• R. F. Starzl, “If the Sun Died”

• H. G. Wells, “The Magic Shop”

• Science Fiction Story for Assignment 34

• Comic Strip for Assignment 15

• Short Story for Last Class

• Christopher Morley, "A Letter to Father Time"