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Mr. Robert Comeau

at Another Course to College, a Boston Public School

 

September October November December January February March April May

 

September 2009

   Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

7

 

Labor Day

 

No School

8

 

 

No School

9

 

 

No School

10 Day 1

11 Mythic/Modern

 

Creation 1, Enuma Elish &

Theory 1,

Frazer,

WL1, p. 1-19

 

Creation 2, Theogony &

Theory 2,

Freud,

WL1, p. 20-36

14Mythic/Modern

15Mythic/Modern

16Mythic/Modern

17Mythic/Modern

18Mythic/Modern

 

Creation 3, Genesis &

Theory 3,

Durkheim,

WL1, p. 37-49

 

Creation 4, Nihongi &

Theory 4,

Jung,

WL1, p. 50-64


Creation 5,

Popol Vuh &

Theory 5,

Tillich, part 1

WL1, p. 65-76

 

Section 4:

Instructions,

the Late Period,

Lamentations

WL1, p. 138-148

 

Myth Paper (1)

Due 9/21

21Ancient Egypt

22Ancient Egypt

23Ancient Egypt

24Ancient Egypt

25Mesopotamia

 

Section 1:

The Old Kingdom, Pyramid Texts WL1, p. 94-109

 

Section 2:

Instructions, Spells, Songs &Tales

WL1, p. 110-124

 

Section 3:

Coming Forth into Day, Hymns, Love Poems

WL1, p. 125-137

 

Section 4:

Instructions,

the Late Period,

Lamentations

WL1, p. 138-148

Epic of Gilgamesh,

p. 7-8 in text,

Gilgamesh Supplement in WL1, p. 149-152,

& p. 61-69 in text

28 Mesopotamia

29 Mesopotamia

30 Mesopotamia

10/1 Anc. Greece

10/2 Anc. Greece

 

Epic of Gilgamesh,

p. 70-96,

27 pgs.

 

Epic of Gilgamesh,

p. 97-119,

23 pgs.

 

Prepare for test on Logical Fallacies, Thursday, 10/1

 

Sappho

Fragments, WL1, p. 153-156 &

Pre-Socratics fragments

WL1, p. 157-167

 

Plato, Republic, Note, p. v-vii, &

Book I, p. 1-29

32 pgs.

 

 
October 2009

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

5 Gk Philo.

6 Gk Philo.

7 Gk Philosophy

8 Gk Philosophy

9 Gk Philosophy

 

Plato, Republic, Book II,

p. 30-55,

26 pgs.

 

Plato, Republic, Book III,

p.56-88

33 pgs.

 

Plato, Republic, Book IV,

p. 89-115

27 pgs.

 

Plato, Republic, Book V,

p. 116-148,

31 pgs.

 

 

Plato, Republic,

Book VI,

p. 149-176,

28 pgs.

12

 

Columbus Day

 

No School

 

13GkPhilosophy

14GkPhilosophy

15GkPhilosophy

16GkPhilosophy

 

Plato, Republic, Book VIII,

p. 203-229

27 pgs.

 

Plato, Republic, Book IX,

p. 230-251

22 pgs.

 

Plato, Republic, Book X,

p. 252-277

26 pgs.

 

Republic Paper (2) due 10/19

19 Anc. China

20 Anc. China

21 Anc. China

22 Anc. China

23 Anc. China

 

Tao Te Ching

WL1, p. 168-173

 

 

Li Po

WL1, p. 174-180

 

Confucius

WL1, p. 181-184

 

Tu Fu

WL1, p. 185-191

 

 

Poems & Aphorisms

due 10/26

& Aeneid Intro,

p 1-3, 11-36

26 Anc. Rome

27 Anc. Rome

28 Anc. Rome

29 Anc. Rome

30 Anc. Rome

 

Virgil,

The Aeneid,

Book I

p 47-73, 26 pgs.

 

Virgil,

The Aeneid,

Book II

p 74-102, 28 pgs.

 

Virgil,

The Aeneid,

Book III

p 103-126, 24 pg

 

Virgil,

The Aeneid,

Book IV

p 127-152, 25 pg

 

Virgil,

The Aeneid,

Book V

p 153-181, 29 pg

 

November 2009

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

2 Anc. Rome 3 Abrahamics 4 Abrahamics 5 Abrahamics 6 Abrahamics

 

Virgil,

The Aeneid,

Book VI

p 182-212, 30 pg

 

Genesis,

the story of Abraham,

WL1, p. 192-202

 

Exodus,

WL1, p. 203-214

 

Exodus,

WL1, p. 215-225

 

The Gospel according to Matthew,

WL1, p. 226-237

9 Abrahamics 10 Abrahamics

11

 

Veteran’s Day

 

No School

12 Abrahamics 13 Abrahamics

 

The Gospel according to Matthew,

WL1, p. 238-249

 

 

Sells, Approaching the Qur’an,

p. 1-40

 34 pgs.

 

Sells, Approaching the Qur’an,

p. 42-71

 30 pgs.

& Qur’an Suppl.

WL1, p. 250-253

End Term 1

Sells, Approaching the Qur’an,

p. 72-103

 34 pgs.

16 Abrahamics 17 Medieval Lit 18 Medieval Lit 19 Medieval Lit 20 Medieval Lit

 

Sells, Approaching the Qur’an,

p 104-141

 37 pgs.

 

Dante, Inferno Canto I-II,

(27-40, 14 pgs)

and Introduction,

(xiii-xxvi,13pgs.)

 

Dante, Inferno Canto III-V,

(41-64, 24 pgs)

 

Dante, Inferno
Canto VI-IX,

(65-94, 28 pgs)

 

Dante, Inferno

Canto X -XIII,

(95-126, 31 pgs)

23 Medieval Lit 24 Medieval Lit 25 Medieval Lit

26
 

Thanksgiving

 

27
 

No School

 

 

Dante, Inferno

Canto XIV -XVI,

(127-148, 21 pgs)

 

 

Dante, Inferno

Canto XVII-XIX

 

(149-173, 24 pgs)

 

Early Release

Dante, Inferno

Canto XX-XXII,

(174-196, 22 pgs)

 

 

December 2009

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

11/30Medieval Lit 1 Medieval Lit 2 Medieval Lit 3 Medieval Lit 4 Medieval Lit

 

Dante, Inferno

Canto XXIII-XXV,

(197-219, 22 pgs)

 

Dante, Inferno

C. XXVI-XXVIII

(220-241, 21 pgs)

 

 

Dante, Inferno
C. XXIX-XXXI

(242-265, 23 pgs)

 

 

Dante, Inferno
XXXII-XXXIV

(266-288, 22 pgs)

 

 

Dante, Inferno
Inferno paper (3)

due Mon. 12/7

7 Renaissance

8 Renaissance

9 Renaissance

10 Renaissance

11 Renaissance

 

Cervantes,

Don Quixote

Prologue, Ch 1-3, p 11-17 &

25-41, 27 pgs.

 

Cervantes,

Don Quixote

Ch 4-8,

p 41-70

30 pgs.

 

Cervantes,

Don Quixote

Ch 9-13,

p 73-103,

31 pgs.

 

Cervantes,

Don Quixote

Ch 14-17,

p 103-136,

31 pgs.

 

Cervantes,

Don Quixote

Ch 18-20,

p 137-165,

29 pgs.

14 Renaissance 15 Renaissance 16 Renaissance 17 Renaissance 18 Renaissance

 

Don Quixote

In class essay

 

Hamlet

Act 1, scene 1-2, p 6-39, 33 pgs

 

Shakespeare,

Hamlet

Act 1, scene 3-5, p 39-69,

30 pgs

 

Shakespeare,

Hamlet

Act 2,

p 73-119

46 pgs

 

Shakespeare,

Hamlet

Act 3, sc 1-2

p 122-161,

40 pgs

 

Shakespeare,

Hamlet

Act 3, sc 3-

Act 4, sc 3

p 162-199,

36 pgs

21 Renaissance 22 Renaissance 23 Renaissance

24 Winter Break

 

25 Winter Break

 

 

Shakespeare,

Hamlet

Act 4, sc 4-7

p 199-235,

36 pgs

 

Shakespeare,

Hamlet

Act 5, scene 1-2,

p 238-287,

49 pgs

 

Hamlet Paper (4) due

Mon., 1/4/2010

 

 

28 Winter Break

29 Winter Break

30 Winter Break

31 Winter Break

1/1 Winter Break

 

 

January 2010

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

 

Email me song lyrics of your choice by

4 pm Monday.

We’ll analyze them in class Tuesday.
4Enlightenment 5Enlightenment 6Enlightenment 7Enlightenment 8Enlightenment

 

Hollander,

Rhymes’s Reason selection,

WL2 6-15

 

Shakespeare,

Sonnets,

See list in unit overview.

 

Voltaire,

Candide

Ch I-XIII,

p 15-48, 29 pgs

 

Voltaire,

Candide

Ch XIV-XXI

p 48-76, 27 pgs

 

Voltaire,

Candide

Ch XXII-XXX,

p 76-113, 35 pgs

11Enlightenment 12Enlightenment 13Enlightenment 14Enlightenment 15Enlightenment

 

Enlightenment philosophy 1: Rousseau

WL2 p. 20-27

 

Enlightenment philosophy 2:

Bentham

WL2 p. 28-41

 

Enlightenment philosophy 3:

Equiano

WL2 p. 42-56

 

Enlightenment philosophy 4:

Wollstonecraft

WL2 p. 57-67

 

Enlightenment philosophy 5:

Swift / Burke

WL2 p. 68-80

18

 

Martin Luther King Day

 

No School

19Enlightenment 20Enlightenment 21Enlightenment 22Enlightenment

Economics

Smith,       

Wealth of Nations

WL2 p. 81-90

Economics

Smith,

Wealth of Nations

WL2 p. 91-101

Economics

Smith,

Wealth of Nations

WL2 p. 102-112

Economics

Smith,

Wealth of Nations

WL2 p. 113-123

25 Review 26 Midterms 27 Midterms 28 Midterms 29 Midterms

 

No Reading.

Prep for Midterm

 

(classes are

held today)

 

English 12

Midterm

this week,

date TBA

 

 

For 2/1, 

read Rius,

Marx for Beginners

p. 7-35, 28 pgs.

and

End Term 2

 

Marx & Engels,

Communist Manifesto,

WL2 p. 124-128

 

 

February 2010

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1 Modernity

2 Modernity

3 Modernity

4 Modernity

5 Modernity

Marx

Rius,

Marx for Beginners

p. 36-73, 38 pgs.

and

Marx & Engels,

Comm. Manifesto, WL2 p. 129-131

Marx

Rius,

Marx for Beginners

p. 74-112, 39 pgs.

and

Marx & Engels,

Comm. Manifesto, WL2 p. 132-135

Romantics

Blake,

Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience, p 3-48, 42 pgs.

 

Romantics

Wordsworth,

Favorite Poems,

Selected.

(list below)

 

 

Enlightenment Paper (5)

due 2/8

 

8 Modernity

9 Modernity

10 Modernity

11 Modernity

12 Modernity

Woolf,

A Room of

One’s Own,

p. 3-24,

22 pgs.

Modernists

Woolf,

A Room of

One’s Own,

p. 25-57,

32 pgs.

Modernists

Woolf,

A Room of

One’s Own,

p. 58 - top of 86, 28 pgs.

Modernists

Woolf,

A Room of

One’s Own,

p. 86-114,

27 pgs.

Modernists

Joyce,
Dubliners

(list below)

 

 

15 Feb. Break

16 Feb. Break

17 Feb. Break

18 Feb. Break

19 Feb. Break

 

22 Modernity 23 Modernity 24 Modernity 25 Modernity 26 Modernity

Existentialists

 

Dostoyevsky,

Notes from the Underground,

p 1-28, 28 pgs

Existentialists

 

Dostoyevsky,

Notes from the Underground,

p 29-60, 31 pgs

Existentialists

 

Dostoyevsky,

Notes from the Underground,

p 60-91, 32 pgs.

Existentialists

 

Camus,

The Stranger,

p 1-39, 39 pgs

Existentialists

 

Camus,

The Stranger,

p 40-123, 77 pgs

 

Wordsworth Selection, from Favorite Poems

p. 1-2            We Are Seven

p. 3-4            Anecdote for Fathers

p. 7-8            Lines Written in Early Spring

p. 8-9            Expostulation and Reply

p. 27-28        She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways

p. 28              I Traveled Among Unknown Men

p. 34              My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold

p. 42              The Solitary Reaper                                      

p. 43-44        I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

p. 50-52        Character of the Happy Warrior

p. 54-60        Intimations of Immortality…

James Joyce, from Dubliners

p. V               Note

p. 1-7            The Sisters

p. 8-14          An Encounter

p. 38-43        The Boarding House

p. 64-69        Clay

p. 119-152    The Dead (see notes, WL2 p. 157-159)

 

 

 

 

March 2010

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1 Modernity 2 Modernity 3 Modernity 4 Modernity 5 Modernity

JLB, 1899 - 1986

Individualism & the Spiritual Quest

 

Hesse,

Siddhartha,

p. 3-42,

37 pgs

Individualism & the Spiritual Quest

                          

Hesse,

Siddhartha,

p. 45-85

37 pgs

Individualism & the Spiritual Quest

 

Hesse,

Siddhartha,

p. 87-115,

28 pgs

Individualism & the Spiritual Quest

 

Hesse,

Siddhartha,

p. 117-152,

32 pgs.

 

Magical Realism

 

 

Borges,

Selected stories,

WL2 p. 142-152

8 Modernity 9 Modernity 10 Modernity 11 Modernity 12 Modernity

Magical Realism

 

Borges,

Selected stories,

WL2 p. 153-161

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 1-36

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 37-78

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 79-120

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 121-159

15 Modernity 16 Modernity
17

 

Evacuation Day

 

No School

 

18 Modernity 19 Modernity

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 161-201

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 203-243

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 245-291

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 293-332

22 Modernity 23 Modernity 24 Modernity 25 Modernity 26 Modernity

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 333-375

Magical Realism

 

Marquez,

100 Years of Solitude,

p 377-417

Magical Realism

 

Esquivel,

Like Water

for Chocolate,

p 1-60,

45 pgs.

Magical Realism

 

Esquivel,

Like Water

for Chocolate,

P 65-118,

42 pgs.

Magical Realism

 

Esquivel,

Like Water

for Chocolate,

p 123-203,

64 pgs.
29 Modernity 30 Modernity 31 Modernity 4/1 Modernity

4/2

 

Good Friday

 

No School

Magical Realism

 

Esquivel,

Like Water

for Chocolate,

p 209-264,

34 pgs.

McOndo
 
Fuguet,

selected stories

WL2, p 162-173

 

McOndo

 

Gutiérrez,

Dirty Havana, selections,

WL2, p 174-183

 

 

Modernity

Paper (6)

due 4/5

 

 

April 2010

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

5 Postmodern 6 Postmodern 7 Postmodern 8 Postmodern 9 Postmodern

“Truth / Authority”

Nietzsche,

“Truth & Lying…”

& Barthes,

“The Death

of the Author”

WL2, p 184-193

Power/Knowledge

 

Foucault,

Discipline & Punish:  Birth

of the Prison, sel.

WL2, p 194-203

Power/Knowledge

 

Foucault,

Discipline & Punish:  Birth

of the Prison, sel.

WL2, p 204-215

Po-Mo & P-colonial

 

Said,

Orientalism, sel.

WL2, p 216-228

Multiplicities over Binaries

Deleuze & Guattari,

A Thousand Plateaus, sel.

WL2, p 229-242

12 Postmodern 13 Postcolonial 14 Postcolonial 15 Postcolonial 16 Postcolonial

“Reality”

 

Baudrillard,

Simulacra & Simulations, sel.
WL2, p 243-255

Modernism

Revisited

Conrad,

Heart of Darkness,

Part I, p. 1-27,

27 pgs.

Modernism

Revisited

Conrad,

Heart of Darkness,

Part II, p. 28-50,

21 pgs.

Conrad,

Heart of Darkness,

Part III, p. 50-72,

22 pgs.& Achebe,

 “An Image of Africa: Racism in Heart of Darkness”

WL2, p 257-262

End Term 3

Sallih,

Season of Migration to the North, p. 1-60, 60 pgs.

19 Spring Break
20 Spring Break
21 Spring Break
22 Spring Break
23 Spring Break

26 Postcolonial 27 Postcolonial 28 Postcolonial 29 Postcolonial 30 Postcolonial

 

Sallih,

Season of Migration to the North, p. 61-87, 27 pgs.

 

Sallih,

Season of Migration to the North, p. 88-115, 28 pgs.

 

Sallih,

Season of Migration to the North, p. 116-141, 26 pgs.

 

Sallih,

Season of Migration to the North, p. 142-169, 28 pgs.

 

Memmi,

The Colonizer & the Colonized

Preface, vii-xviii & 3-44

54 (short) pgs.

  

May 2010

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

3 Postcolonial 4 Postcolonial 5 Postcolonial 6 Postcolonial 7 Postcolonial

 

Memmi,

The Colonizer & the Colonized

p 45-96

50 (short) pgs.

 

Memmi,

The Colonizer & the Colonized

p. 97-153

51(short) pgs.

 

Fanon,

Selection

WL2, p 263-281

 

Macauley vs. Freire, Colonial Education / Ped.

of the Oppressed

WL2, p 282-290

 

Dangarembga,

Nervous Conditions,

p. 1-34, 34 pgs

10 Postcolonial 11 Postcolonial 12 Postcolonial 13 Postcolonial 14 Postcolonial

 

Dangarembga,

Nervous Conditions,

p. 35-76, 41 pgs

 

 

Dangarembga,

Nervous Conditions,

p. 77-119, 42 pgs

 

 

Dangarembga,

Nervous Conditions,

p.120-165, 45pgs

 

 

Dangarembga,

Nervous Conditions,

p.166-204,38 pgs

 

 

Final Paper

Due Monday,

May 17

 

17 Postcolonial

18 Postcolonial

19 Postcolonial

20 Postcolonial

21 Postcolonial

 

Dabydeen,

The Intended,

p. 7-43, 36 pgs.

 

Dabydeen,

The Intended,

p. 44-76 bottom, 32 pgs.

 

Dabydeen,

The Intended,

p. 76 bottom-114, 37 pgs

 

Dabydeen,

The Intended,

p. 115-146,

31 pgs

 

Dabydeen,

The Intended,

p. 149-173,

24 pgs

24 Postcolonial

25 Postcolonial

26 Postcolonial

27 Postcolonial

28 Postcolonial

 

Kincaid,

Lucy,

p. 3-41,

38 pgs

 

Kincaid,

Lucy,

p. 43-83,

41 pgs

 

Kincaid,

Lucy,

p. 84-132,

48 pgs

 

Kincaid,

Lucy,

p.133-164,

31pgs

 

Final Exam

Next Week,

Date TBA

 

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