Welcome to Czech 105!

Logistics

Time & Place: MW 11-11:50 in Dey 107a

Instructor: Laura A. Janda (janda@unc.edu; 962-7549; Slavic Dept CB # 3165; office in 312A Dey Hall; mailbox in 425 Dey Hall)

Office Hours: Monday 10 & Wednesday 2

Materials

We will read materials from the Brown Cz Anthology
Article on spoken Czech
Válka s mloky by Karel Čapek

Czech conversation and film opportunities!

Please join us THURSDAYS at 7:00. Click here to get the schedule!

Nifty Stuff:

Online access to 19th c Czech poetry and 19th & 20th c periodicals

What we will do every week:

Mondays:

We will discuss Náš Jára Cimrman, from the Brown Cz Anthology

We will do a dictation based on the words from the previous Monday

We will each present 5 new words

Wednesdays:

We will do a reading from Válka s mloky

We will write one NICE paragraph (in Czech of course!) based upon our readings, and bring it to class

Mon Sept 5: vocab

Wed Sept 7: Válka s mloky (VSM) Book I Chapter 1 (9-21); paragraphs

See, at 7pm in Dey Hall 113, Sept 13 A prayer for Katařina Horvitzová, in Czech & subtitled (The story of a beautiful Polish singer. The film is set against the backdrop of a cruel game which involves trading Jewish lives for those of Nazi officers imprisoned in American jails.)

Mon Sept 12: vocab

Wed Sept 14: VSM Book I Ch 2-3 (22-40); paragraphs

Mon Sept 19: vocab; See Limonadový Joe Sept 20 at 7pm!!!! (Dey 113)

Wed Sept 21: VSM Book I Ch 4-6 (41-66); paragraphs

Mon Sept 26: vocab

Wed Sept 28: VSM Book I Ch 7-9 (67-89); paragraphs

Mon Oct 3: vocab

Wed Oct 5: VSM Book I Ch 10-11 (90-109, minus Dodatek o pohlavním životě); paragraphs

Mon Oct 10: vocab

Wed Oct 12: VSM Book I Ch 11 Dodatek, plus Book II Ch 1-part of 2 (110-126)

Mon Oct 17: vocab

Wed Oct 19: VSM Book II more of Ch 2 (127-148); paragraphs

Mon Oct 24: vocab

Wed Oct 26: VSM Book II rest of Ch 2 (149-174); paragraphs

Mon Oct 31: vocab

Wed Nov 2: VSM Book II Ch 3 plus Book III Ch 1-3 (175-195); paragraphs

Mon Nov 7: vocab

Wed Nov 9: VSM Book III Ch 4-6 (196-212); paragraphs

Mon Nov 14: vocab

Wed Nov 16: VSM Book III Ch 7-8 (213-222); paragraphs

Mon Nov 21: vocab

Wed Nov 23: VSM Book III Ch 9-10 (223-240); paragraphs

Mon Nov 28: vocab

Wed Nov 30: VSM Book III CH 11 plus notes (241-252); paragraphs

Wed Dec 7: VSM Doslov (263-273); paragraphs