Presentations

Presentations may be done individually or in pairs. On the first day of class, students will select topics from a list (and partners, if they so choose), which they will then research and present on the corresponding day. Grades will be assigned individually. Each topic will be of some relevance to the material of the course, but it is not, itself, required reading for everyone - hence the presentation project. Individual presenters, of course, will be required to do the extra reading/research in the particular topic they've been assigned. This project is valuable for a few reasons: it enables the class to share the workload while still being able to critically analyze a great amount of material than just one person alone could do; secondly, it is a useful exercise to prepare students to research their annotated bibliographies and final papers as well as a great way to investigate whether or not a particular topic is desirable for the research paper; finally, it forces students to tackle the art of presentation, which is used extensively in the English field and in a great deal of "real world' professions as well - it fosters skills you'll need later! Ain't I a thoughtful guy?

Individual presentations should be at 10-15 minutes. Presentations by two or more students should be 15-20 minutes.

presentation schedule added.

pre-approved topics

author bios

Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Herodotus
Thucydides
Plato
Aristotle
Catullus
Horace
Vergil
Ovid
Dante
Boccaccio
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Flannery O'Connor
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
F. Scott Fitzgerald

character bios

Odysseus
House of Atreus/Tantalus
House of Laius
Zeus (Greek god)
Athena (Greek goddess)
Innana (Sumerian goddess)
Enki (Sumerian god)
Nick Adams (Hemingway short story hero)

present selected works

Genesis (Judeo-Christian literature)
story of Job (Judeo-Christian literature)
Faust, Goethe
Dr. Faustus, Marlowe
Silmarilian, J. R. R. Tolkein
compare the making of the world in Silmarilian to Judeo-Christian myth and Dr. Faust.
compare stories of Faust to Job
compare a cycle from the Silmarilian to Odyssey
Troilus & Cressida by Boccaccio &/or Chaucer
Troilus & Cressida by Shakespeare
2 episodes from Odyssey, Homer
2 different episodes from Odyssey, Homer
2 episodes from Metamorphoses, Ovid
2 different episodes from Metamorphoses, Ovid
yet another 2 different episodes from Metamorphoses, Ovid
still 2 more different episodes from Metamorphoses, Ovid
story of "Pyramis & Thisbe" from Metamorphoses and Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare
Song of Roland - medieval war song/poem
Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
2 short stories that won't be read in class by Hemingway
2 other short stories that won't be read in class by Hemingway
Electra by Sophocles
Electra by Euripides
Libation Bearers & Euminides by Aeschylus
Eaters of the Dead (aka: 13th Warrior), Michael Crichton - present the book, not the movie!

miscellaneous

who were the Trojans?
Race in Elizabethan/Jacobean England
development of English drama
development of the English canon (canonization of Chaucer)
relationship between Egypt and Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE
relationship between Greece and the Near East after the Late Bronze Age
what is 'Magna Graecia'?
relationship between Greek and Roman culture in the Roman World
American South in early 20th Century (1920s to 1950s)
Egypt in the First Intermediate Period
Egypt in the Middle Kingdom
Egypt during the reigns of Merneptah (c. 1220 BCE) and Rameses III (c. 1185)

January
mon	tue	wed	thu	fri
18	19	20	21	22
24	25	26	27 Genesis/Jeudeo-Christian Creation myth(s) - Lewis Hugh	28

February
mon	tue	wed	thu	fri
	1 Job - Janine & Danny	2	3 Faust - Neil S. Odysseus - Abigal	4
7	8 Zeus - Kamini & Kathrynne	9	10	11
14	15 Magna Graecia - Michael D.	16	17 Greg M.	18
21	22	23	24	25

March

mon tue wed thu fri

1
Sophocles - Stephanie

House of Laius - Nathaniel

2 3
~~Medea - Rita P. & Scott L.~~
4

7 8 9 10
Medea - Rita & Scott
11

14 15
Plato - Brittany S. & Kathleen L.

Aristotle - Tanika

16 17
Vergil - Frances S.

Greek in Roman Culture - Jeff D.
18

21 22 23 24 25

28 29
Horace - William A. & Brandan S.
Ovid - Jessica W.

30 31

April

mon tue wed th fri

1

4 5
13th Warrior - Joe C. & Mark W.
6 7
Song of Roland - James F.
8

11 12
Dante - Zach B.

Boccaccio - Kyle F.
13 14
Chaucer - Jessica V.

Dev. of English Drama - Jaclyn S.
15

18 19
Marlowe - Sharon F.
20 21
Race in Elizabethan England - Joseph P.

Shakespeare - Christine C. & Allison R.

22

25 26
Early 20th Cen. Am. South - Cris S.
27 28
Fitzgerald - P. J.

Hemingway - Liz F.
29

May

mon tue wed th fri

2 3
Stein - Richard F.

4 5 6

last updated: 03/10/2005

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