Second Year Novel Course

Second Year Novel Course

Course Objectives:

Students should be able to

Recognize the novel genre and literary terms.

Understand the social political and cultural background of eighteenth century England.

Acquire critical and analytical insight into the novels under study.

Express themselves orally and in written form.

Course Description:

Students study three novels to be equally divided into 12-14 classes; each class will last for four hours. The novels suggested are Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

Week	topic	objectives	activities	resources
One	18^th century England. Life and literary style of Jonathan Swift. New literary terms such as satire, irony and allegory.	Familiarize students with the topic to facilitate their understanding of the novel.	Read and collect information on the topic to be discussed. Two groups of students will be assigned to cover the first two topics orally and in written form.	The net: http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/sources/crit.html http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/bib/index.html Software: Encarta
Two	Analyzing the first voyage to Lilliput.	Help students acquire an analytical insight into the first voyage and to discuss the literary terms that have been introduced in the first class.	Students should read this voyage at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on this voyage. At the end of the class they will submit written assignments.	A useful web site on the first voyage is to be searched for by the assigned groups. Software: Inspiration.
Three	Analyzing the second voyage to Brobdingnag	Help students acquire an analytical insight into the second voyage and to discuss the literary terms that have been introduced in the first class.	Students should read this voyage at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on this voyage. At the end of the class they will submit a written assignment.	The net: http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/dashkenas/GULLIVER.htm as well as Software: Inspiration.
Four	Analyzing the third voyage to Houyhnhnms. A quick revision of the whole novel.	Help students acquire an analytical insight into the chapters of the third voyage and to discuss the literary terms that have been introduced in the first class.	Students should read this voyage at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on this voyage. At the end of the class they will submit a written assignment. In an extra class, students will be divided into three or four groups depending on their number. They will listen to an audio file with a passage from the novel. They are expected to answer some questions in an electronic form and submit their answers on diskette.	Certain books and articles such as Misanthropology< by Gary Saul Morson. New Literary History 27.1 (1996) 57-72 Software: Hyper Studio for a review of the whole novel.

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Week	topic	objectives	activities	resources
Five	Life and literary style of Daniel Defoe. New literary terms such as post colonialism and individualism.	Familiarize students with the topic to facilitate their understanding of the novel.	Read and collect information on the topic to be discussed. Two groups of students will be assigned to cover the first two topics orally and in written form.	The net:www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Defoe/ And certain books and articles, namely Edward Said’s Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Software: Encarta.
Six	Analyzing the first part of the novel.	Help students acquire an analytical insight into the first part and to discuss the literary terms that have been introduced at the beginning of the course and in the first class of this novel.	Students should read this part at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on this part. At the end of the class they will submit written assignments.	A useful web site on this part is to be searched for by the assigned groups. Software: Inspiration.
Seven	Analyzing the last part of the novel. A quick revision of the whole novel.	Help students acquire an analytical insight into the last part from the perspective of the literary terms that have been discussed earlier.	Students should read this part at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on this voyage. At the end of the class they will submit written assignments. In an extra class, students will be divided into three or four groups depending on their number. They will listen to an audio file with a passage from the novel. They are expected to answer some questions in an electronic form and submit their answers on diskette.	The net: http://mural.uv.es/ yororo/Criticalanalisy.htm as well as. Software: Inspiration.
Eight	Reviewing the first two novels	Help students acquire an analytical as well as comparative insight into the first two novels as representing 18^th century England. They will also hold a comparison between the two writers’ attitudes towards certain elements such as post-colonialism.	Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on the two novels in general. At the end of the class they will submit written assignments. The last forty-five minutes of the class, the students will have a written mid- term exam.

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Week	Topic	Objectives	Activities	Resources
Nine	Last quarter of the 18^th century and early 19^th century England. Life and literary style of Jane Austen. New literary terms such as parody and new forms like the gothic novel.	Familiarize students with the topic to facilitate their understanding of the novel; particularly that Austen lived in a different period of time and her life differed quite a lot from that of Swift and Defoe.	Read and collect information on the topic to be discussed. Two groups of students will be assigned to cover the first two topics orally and in written form.	The net as well as certain books and articles. http://www.blueroomtheatre.com/Spring2003/ NorthangerAbbey.htm http://www.accd.edu/sac /english/bailey/gothic. Htm Software: Encarta.
Ten	Analyzing chapters 1-12	Help students acquire an analytical insight into these chapters from the perspective of the literary terms that have been discussed earlier.	Students should read these chapters at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral presentations on these chapters. At the end of the class they will submit written assignments.	A useful web site on this part is to be searched for by the assigned groups.
Eleven	Analyzing chapters 13-23	Help students acquire an analytical insight into these chapters from the perspective of the literary terms that have been discussed earlier.	Students should read these chapters at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral and written presentations on these chapters.	The net http://www.ashton-dennis.org/year00/ passionna.html as well as Inspiration software
Twelve	Analyzing chapters 24 until the end.	Help students acquire an analytical insight into these chapters from the perspective of the literary terms that have been discussed earlier.	Students should read these chapters at home from the perspective of certain literary elements while taking notes. Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral and written presentations on these chapters.	The net as well as certain books and articles. Software: Inspiration and Hyper Studio for a review of the whole novel.
Thirteen	Revision of the whole novel. Pointing out any points in common or contrast with the previous two novels.	Help students acquire an analytical and comparative insight into the three novels as representing 18^{th and 19th} century England.	Two groups of students will be assigned to give oral and written presentations on different aspects of Austen’s novel.	Students will be divided into three or four groups depending on their number. They will listen to an audio file with a passage from the novel. They are expected to answer some questions in an electronic form and submit their answers on diskette.