SCHEDULE

Posted Dec. 16, 2015 (subject to change without notice. Check homepage for last minute changes to the schedule)

Jan 11            Introduction. Register for class website. Make sure that you have the textbooks and composition notebook.

Jan 13            Read Chapter 1 & 2 of “A Study in Scarlet.” Complete the 5-step commonplace book exercise for the novel segment (outlined in class and on the homepage in the "commonplace book" section). In addition, construct a 1 page bio or case-file on Sherlock Holmes in your common-place book. In class, we will also review plagiarism and summary, paraphrazing, and quoting.

Jan 15            Peruse Chapter 5 “The Victorian Background” from A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. In common-place book, record at least 1 thing that you learned through your reading (though feel free to elaborate more). Explanation of Project 1.

Jan 18            MLK Day: No Class

Jan 20            LIBRARY DAY: Alden 323. Begin Case of the Mutilated Middlemarch. By this class, complete and bring me a hard copy of your certificate for passing Indiana University's online plagiarism tutorial and test. Here is the link: https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/test.html. You may take the test as many times as you need to pass.

Jan 22             LIBRARY DAY: Alden 323. Continue to work on case. You should be answering your research questions.

Jan 25            LIBRARY DAY: Alden 323. Step 4 is due at the beginning of class. Bring a hard copy to class and have an electronic copy accessable for your group. Work day. Explanation of group report. Short activity. Team should spend remainder of class constructing report.

Jan 27            LIBRARY DAY: Alden 323. Groups should be finishing their group reports and preparing for their presentation.

Jan 29           Team Reports due. Class presentations on your suspect. (Look ahead to reading for next class.)

Feb 1           Read “The Musgrave Ritual.” Remember to complete the exercise in your commonplace book. Then, read Todorov's essay on typology of detective fiction. Explanation of Project 2.  Class discussion on text and creation of creative texts.  

Feb 3           Read “The Speckled Band.” Be thinking about the "story" of your creative project. Class discussion and activity on creative writing.

Feb 5           Finish answering the questions we began in class and bring your commonplace book to class. I have repeated the questions on the homepage and on the community page.  

Feb 8           Draft of Project 2 due in class. Bring a hard copy to share. In-class peer review. Read Hodgson essay “The Recoil of ‘The Speckled Band’: Detective Story and Detective Discourse” page 335 in Sherlock Holmes. Collect commonplace books.

Feb 10           Read Hennessy and Mohan essay “’The Speckled Band’: The Construction of Woman in a Popular Text of Empire” page 389 in Sherlock Holmes.

Feb 12           No Class. Creative “Case of the Mutilated Middlemarch” due. Place a stapled hard copy in my mailbox by class time. Watch sections of “A Study in Pink” on your own.  You will need to log in with your OU ID: https://www.ohio.edu/media/loggedinaccess.cfm?videoid=F744DBBF5056A8741D72417589785DEA.  The DVD of these episodes is also available in the library. 

Feb 15           Read Chapters 1-5 in The Sign of Four (complete a commonplace book exercise for the entire 5 chapters, not each one individually)

Feb 17           Read Chapters 6-8 in The Sign of Four. Explanation of 1st Monograph Assignment. 

F​eb 19          FinishThe Sign of Four .

Feb 22           Continue discussion of The Sign of Four. Close reading exercises.

Feb 24               LAB DAY Alden 323. Select a topic for your monograph essay. The topics/themes we discussed in class are posted on the community page. (If you think of one that is not listed there, just email me to make sure that it is valid.) Then, start gathering textual evidence for your topic. Try to figure out what the text is saying about this particular topic. Try to observe first, but keep in mind that your observations should lead you to a deduction. Draft 1 full page (2ish good-sized paragraphs) about what you are thinking about your topic and potential thesis. Post this on the class website communty page. In class I will discuss the assignment in much more detail and we will spend some time discussing how to move from observation to deduction, and how to move from deduction to a monograph. 

Feb 26             Peer Review of complete rough draft of Monograph. Bring hard copy to class.  Optional Revision of Creative Essay due. 

Feb 28-Mar 5 SPRING BREAK. No class.

Mar 7             Continue in-class exercises improving monograph and close-reading exercises. MAke sure to bring your text The Sign of Four. Collect commonplace books.

Mar 9              First Monograph Due. We will watch “The Great Game” in class.

Mar 11            No Class. Finish watshing The Great Game. https://www.ohio.edu/media/loggedinaccess.cfm?videoid=630646025056A8741DFC91FE162FA174

Mar 14            Read “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Remember to complete a commonplace book exercise for this story.

Mar 16            Read Stephen Knight's "The Case of the Great Detective” page 368 in Sherlock Holmes.  Select one claim or point from the essay and write a few sentences responding to it in your commonplace book.

Mar 18             Before class, watch “A Scandal in Belgravia” Sherlock episode using this link: https://www.ohio.edu/media/loggedinaccess.cfm?videoid=8C9B30C15056A81E8DFFBF06D4161826  You will need your OU ID to watch.  In your commonplace book, identify at least two ways that the adaptation varies from the original story. Then, for one of these observations, write a few sentences about why you think the writers/producers changed that element and how it affects the meaning of the story or character.

Mar 21             Read “The Man with the Twisted Lip.” See homepage for commonplace book exercise guidelines. Collect commonplace books.

Mar 23             Read Jaffe’s “Detecting the Beggar: Authur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’” page 402 in Sherlock Holmes. Even though you don't have  your commonplace books, select a specific claim that Jaffe makes and be prepared to talk about it.

Mar 25             Peer Review of complete draft of Second Monograph.  Explanation of Extended Monograph.

Mar 28              Second Monograph due. LIBRARY DAY: Alden 323. Begin research for Extended Monograph.

Mar 30           Using sources in academic monographs. Have at least two of your three secondary sources. Bring material for in-class work time. Optional revision of Monograph 1 due.

Apr 1              Read all of your secondary sources and bring them to class (either hard copy or on your own device). Synthesis exercises.

Apr 4              Peer Review of draft of Extended Monograph.

Apr 6            Extended Monograph due. We will watch clips from Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes in class and discuss the varying adaptations.

Apr 8            Read “The Final Problem.” Complete a commonplace book exercise. Additionally, think about Moriarty as a villain and what makes him so villianous. Final Project explained. Optional Revisions of Monograph 2 due.

Apr 11            Before class, watch episode “The Reichenback Fall” from Sherlock. https://www.ohio.edu/media/loggedinaccess.cfm?videoid=8E0F2F925056A81E8D4A8B1EF6273839.   In your commonplace book, 1) select at least one difference in the adaptation and write a few sentences discussing the implications of this change and 2) write a paragraph or so brainstorming ideas for your final project. 

Apr 13            Conferences on final project. No class. Proposal for final project due at time of conference.

Apr 15            Conferences on final project. No class. Proposal for final project due at time of conference.

Apr 18           Expanded proposal with Annotated Bibliography of final project due in class. Read “The Empty House” and complete a commonplace book exercise.

Apr 20             Collect commonplace books. Before class, watch “The Empty Hearse” episode of Sherlock. https://www.ohio.edu/media/loggedinaccess.cfm?videoid=2BF6B7465056A81E8D5E9274DFC44629.  In your commonplace book, select one variation in the adaptation that interested you and write a paragraph on why it interests you and how this affects the story.

Apr 22              Relaxed peer-sharing of final project. Last day festivities. 

              Final Project due in my office by Wednesday, April 27, at 12:20 p.m.