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03.19.2004

Please download the template by going to Courses | En 12.

You'll find a copy of the En 12 final instructions at Courses | En 12.

For a copy of the Lit 14 Final Examinations, please go to Courses | Lit 14.

03.08.2004

Faust Notes, Part 02 at Resources | Drama | Goethe.

03.06.2004

Faust Notes, Part 01 at Resources | Drama | Goethe.

02.29.2004

For En 12, "Sources for Statistical Information" at Courses | En 12.

02.26.2004

For En 12, please read "Amendment to Instructions for Writing the Argumentative Paper" at Courses | En 12.

For the announcement regarding the "globalization" paper, please read this handout.

For Lit 14, please read the "Works to Consider in Light of Goethe's Faust" at Courses | Lit 14.

02.18.2004

"Scenes to Consider" in Milton Page.

To En 12, you can find copies of works by Descartes and Thoreau at Project Gutenberg and other sites.

02.15.2004

For Lit 14, Paradise Lost Lecture entry in Milton page. Also, new entries in the Shakespeare page. Try "In Search of Shakespeare" and the Hamlet Adventure Game.

For En 12, do not forget to visit the Plato page. Also, check out "Early Renaissance in Florence" and "The Medicis" in the Machiavelli page.

For both classes, visit Resources | Visual Art 1 and 2 for links to paintings about Symposium and Paradise Lost. Try Art Renewal.

02.07.2004

"A Summary of Guidelines for the Argumentative Paper" at Courses | En 12.

02.03.2004

New entries in the Shakespeare and Milton pages.

01.25.2004

To En 12, please download the second version of the handout "Instructions for Writing the Argumentative Paper" at Courses | En 12.

If you want to speed up the load time of Adobe Acrobat Reader, visit Resources | Software.

01.19.2004

"Bored of the Rings"

Here's an alternative link.

Other film reviews: Master and Command and The Last Samurai.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau web page in Resources | Non-fiction. Take a look at the link to an HTML version of Social Contract (with an alternate text version linked at the end of the Social Contract page.)

Philosophy web page in Resources.

New entry in Resources | Electronic Texts: "Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics".

Don't forget to check Resources | Drama | Shakespeare for Hamlet links, including the new link to the Shakespeare mailing list, "Hamlet E-Notes", T.S. Eliot's essay, "Complete Works", and "Hamlet Teacher's Guide (for Grade 12)".

New Entry in Resources | Literary Movements: "History Guide".

T.S. Eliot on Dante in the Dante page.

01.14.2004

New entries in Resources | Non-fiction | Marx.

01.11.2004

"Guidelines for Using Electronic Mail" at Resources | Writing.

For En 12, we have a Marx page at Resources | Non-fiction | Marx.

For En 12, Communist Manifesto notes at Resources | Non-fiction | Marx.

"He's the Painter of Light"

"That's All, Folks"

"Culture on the Market"

"Culture and the Market"

01.05.2004

For Lit 14, "Points to Consider for the Quarter Examination" at Resources | Reading.

01.04.2004

For En 12, "Additional Notes for the Argumentative Paper" at Courses | En 12.

01.03.2004

New Handouts:

For En 12, The Prince Notes at Resources | Non-fiction | Machiavelli.

For Lit 14, Hamlet Notes at Resources | Drama | Shakespeare.

12.27.2003

The pages have been recoded to make them XHTML-compliant (i.e., readable using different browsers).

New entries:

Resources | Software

Resources | Poetry | Dante

Resources | Literary Movements | Renaissance

Resources | Fiction | Dostoyevsky

Resources | Articles (especially for Lit 14 R31)

Resources | Fiction | Jonathan Swift

Resources | Non-Fiction | Niccolo Machiavelli

Resources | Non-Fiction | Freud

Resources | Non-Fiction | Hobbes

Moved Entries:

Orwell and More to Resources | Fiction

Please check Resources | Software for new entries.

"Spirituality and the Fine-Tuned Cosmos"

"Fear of Book Assassination Haunts Bibliophile's Musings"

"The Landscape" (on string theory)

"The Problem with Self-Esteem"

"The Great American English Class"

"How to Tell the Good Teacher from the Bad"

On Lord of the Rings:

"Wraiths and Race"

"The Return of the King: Tolkien and the New Medievalism"

"The Lord of the Rings : Ethnicity in Your Dreams"

12.16.2003

To all classes, most of the PDFs have been recompiled using Adobe Acrobat Pro CS, and passwords have been removed. You may re-download the handouts but you don't have to reprint them. Also, do not forget to visit the Resources link and check the various on-line sites connected to your readings.

For En 12, please look at the new instructions for writing the argumentative paper. (The file name and link is the same. Please go to Courses | En 12.)

Finally, I've added new information to the About link.

12.11.2003

Here's a web page by Thomas Moore; take a look at some of his writings.

Please download the notes on Bergman's The Seventh Seal . Go to Courses | Lit 14 to retrieve the document.

To all classes, do not forget to visit the pages under "Courses" and "Resources". You will find several pages to on-line study guides and notes.

12.09.2003

Consider the article "The Future of Books" in light of our discussions on liberal education.

In Japan, "Books are Windows to the World."

Check out St. John's College, the "Great Books Program," and the reading list. For other details, check their fact sheet.

12.02.2003

For En 12, please download the Gulliver's Travels notes. Check Courses | En 12 for the link.

12.01.2003

For En 12, please download and check the writing handouts (academic honesty, manuscript format, etc.) under Courses | En 12 against the ones that you received last term. Some changes were made to the handouts.

Also, download and print out a copy of the instructions for writing the argumentative papers (the three En 12 papers) by visiting the same page.

To all classes, feel free to download articles offered to other classes. See the entries below.

11.26.2003

The Animal Farm chart and questions to consider are linked via Resources | Non-fiction | Orwell. (I'll rename the category "Non-fiction" next time.)

To receive announcements containing updates to this page, try Watch That Page .

11.24.2003

Please visit the new link Resources | Electronic Texts. If particular texts are not available locally, you might find it in one of the sites listed.

Please check the new paragraph on endorsement of sites in the "About" page.

Consider the Atlantic Monthly article "Burgher Deluxe" in light of Orwell (for En 12) or Dante (for Lit 14). (Look for the article using their website search engine.)

11.23.2003

Voltaire's Candide:

Literature.org
Alex Catalogue (right-click, then "Save as" or "Save Target As")

For more texts, visit

Alex Catalogue
Links to Electronic Texts

11.19.2003:

En 12: if you do not have a copy of Orwell's Animal Farm, please check the Orwell link under Resources | Non-Fiction.

11.16.2003:

To view these pages properly, please set your monitor resolution to 800 by 600 or higher.

Please go to the "Courses" page and select your subject (En 12 or Lit 14).

1. Download the syllabus and other handouts by right-clicking on the link, selecting "Save Target As," then downloading the file to your hard disk. You can read the file using Adobe Acrobat Reader v5 or v6. Enter the password that was given in class.

If the file is compressed using ZIP, use a decompression program like Zipgenius.

For all classes, please visit the links listed in the "Resources" page.

For En 12, please check the "George Orwell" link ("Resources" | "Non-Fiction").

For Lit 14 R31, please check the new handouts. For both Lit 14 classes, download the Inferno handout.

2. For contact information and other instructions, visit the About page.