Weekly Outline

Note: The following is a general outline. These assignments are subject to change. Please keep up with any changes by paying
attention to the emails I send to you and the week by week instructions on MGS Humanities Online.


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Dates

Readings and Major Assignments

(Does not include participation assignments or quizzes. Look online weekly for those. The
assignments can be done any time during the week before the deadline, which will be Friday
at noon each week.)
1

Th-F
5/29-5/30
Orientation and The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
2
M-F
6/2-6/6
Narrative and Life & Defining Narrative
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot / Seinfeld, Season 9, Episode 8, The Betrayal : Part I, Part II, Part III,
Part IV, Part V / The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Chapters 1 & 2 / Narrative Quiz 1 /
Narrative Forum 1 / Critical Thinking Unit 1 Elements of Critical Thinking (On D2L) / Critical
Thinking Unit 1 Quiz (On D2L)
3
M-F
6/9-6/13
The Borders of Narrative and The Rhetoric of Narrative
Faith by Robert Kendall / The Thousand and One Nights: The Story of King Shahryar and His
Brother , The Tale of the Bull and the Ass, The Fisherman and the Jinni, The Tale of the
Ensorceled Prince, / The Thousand and One Nights Video / Why I Live at the P.O., by Eudora
Welty / The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Chapters 3 & 4 / Narrative Quiz 2 / Narrative
Forum 2 / Critical Thinking Unit 2 Evaluating Arguments (On D2L) / Critical Thinking Unit 2 Quiz
(On D2L)
4
M-F
6/16-6/20
Closure and Narration
Cinderella, by Charles Perrault / King Lear summary, by William Shakespeare / Wuthering Heights,
Chaps. 1-5, by Emily Bronte / The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Chapters 5 & 6 / Narrative
Quiz 3 / Narrative Forum 3 /Critical Thinking Unit 3 Forming Arguments (On D2L) / Critical
Thinking Unit 3 Quiz (On D2L) / Midterm Exam over Narrative Terminology
5
M-F
6/23-27
Interpreting Narrative
Wuthering Heights, Chaps. 6-10, by Emily Bronte / Now I Lay Me, by Ernest Hemingway, from Men
Without Women, pgs. 83-87 /The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Chapters 7 & 8 / Narrative
Quiz 4 / Narrative Forum 4 / Critical Thinking Unit 4 Problem Solving (On D2L) / Critical Thinking
Unit 4 Quiz (On D2L) / Critical Thinking Module Exam (On D2L)
6
M-W
6/30-7/2
Adaptation Across Media & Character and Self in Narrative
Wuthering Heights, 1939 film, (Rent here for $2.99 on Amazon), directed by Wyler / No Name
Woman, by Maxine Hong Kingston / How to Tell a True War Story, by Tim OBrien / The
Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Chapter 9 & 10 / Narrative Quiz 5 / Narrative Forum 5 /Oral
Communication Unit 5 The Foundation (On D2L) / Oral Communication Unit 5 Quiz (On D2L) /
7
M-F
7/7-7/11
Narrative and Truth
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Chapter 11 /Narrative Quiz 6 / Narrative Forum 6 /
Personal Narrative Essay due / Oral Communication Unit 6 Professional Communication (On
D2L) / Oral Communication Unit 6 Quiz (On D2L)
8
M-F
7/14-7/18
Narrative Worlds and Narrative Contestation
The Babysitter by Robert Coover / Film: Stranger Than Fiction / The Cambridge Introduction to
Narrative, Chapter 12 &13 / Narrative Quiz 8 / Narrative Forum 8 /Oral Communication Unit 7
Preparing for the Presentation (On D2L) / Oral Communication Unit 7 Quiz (On D2L) /
9
M-W
7/21-7/23
Narrative Negotiation
The Jazz Singer clip / The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative , Chapter 14 / Oral Communication
Unit 8 Presenting the Speech (On D2L) / Unit 8 Quiz (On D2L) / Oral Communication Module
Exam (On D2L) / Final Narrative Terminology Exam

Final Critical Thinking Oral Presentations on Narrative