Syllabus for Heroism, Humanism & Hijinks: Literature in Action
Syllabus for Heroism, Humanism & Hijinks: Literature in Action
Teacher: Thursday Next
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00am - 2:00pm
Phone: 555-DODO
TA: Hamlet Dane Jr.
Class Information: This course will cover various aspects of fiction. Students will learn how to understand and appreciate fiction, and will discover that there is more to a book than simply text on a page. Students will engage with the texts and there will be guest experts available for discussion on certain books.
Weekly Schedule (subject to change)
Week 1 (Sep 5): Getting to Know You, Getting to Know Them
Week 2 (Sep 12): Nursery Rhymes
Week 3 (Sep 19): Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Week 4 (Sep 26): Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Week 5 (Oct 3): Scottish Play by William Shakespeare
Week 6 (Oct 10): To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Week 7 (Oct 17): Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Week 8 (Oct 24): Romance Novels - Demenses, Farquitt, Mills & Boon
MID-TERM BREAK (Oct 28 - Nov 5)
Week 9 (Nov 7): Field Trip - "Practical" (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Week 10 (Nov 14): The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Week 11 (Nov 21): Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Week 12 (Nov 28): Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Week 13 (Dec 5): A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Week 14 (Dec 12): Field Trip - Final Field Project (location TBA)
Week 15: Exam Week
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OOC Information:
The final project will be a version of the Jurisfiction agent practical exam. Students will be read into a piece of fiction and have to deal with the fictional world around them. Thursday may be looking for potential Jurisfiction agents. More details further in the semester.
Players are in no way expected to have read or even know the books. A passing knowledge would be good, but I will provide a synopsis of each book with a character list for each class so you can wing it. Knowing the books is really not important. I do, however, personally recommend all of the books on this list at some point in your life (except the romance novels) as they are excellent books!