2328 Tentative Daily Reading Schedule MW
Aug. 27 Introduction to course and each other,
discuss syllabus, explain research paper
and theme essay
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Volume C: American Literature: 1865-1914 pgs. 1-16, Maria Amparo Ruiz De
Burton from The Squatter and the Don:
Chapter V. “The Don in His Broad
Acres” pgs. 93-100; Bret Harte pgs. 324-326
and “Miggles” pgs. 333-340
Sept. 03 Labor Day Holiday—College closed.
05 Ambrose Bierce background pgs.
359-360, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
and “Chickamauga” pgs. 360-370
10 Internet Activity 1 due
Quiz 1 and Written Report 1 Kate Chopin and work
Kate Chopin background pgs. 529-530 and “The Storm” pgs.
531-625
12 Waddell Chestnutt background pgs. 688-689 and “The
Wife of His Youth” pgs.
696-704
17 Internet
Activity 2 due
Quiz 2 and Written Report 2 Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and works
Gilman background pgs. 806-808, works: “The
Yellow Wallpaper” and “Why I
Wrote ‘the Yellow Wall-paper?’” pgs. 808-820
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Quiz 3 and Written Report 3 Edith Wharton and work
Edith Wharton background pgs. 829-830 and “The Other
Two” pgs. 830-843
24 Internet Activity 3 due
Realism and Naturalism pgs. 911-912; Stephen Crane
background pgs. 954-956
and “The Open Boat” pgs. 1000-1016 and Jack London
background pgs. 1051-
1052 and “Moon Face,” located at our class
website. You can click on
Internet Activity 3
and follow the link to the story from there.
26 Volume D: American
Literature 1914—1945 pgs. 1177-1192; Edgar Lee
Masters background pg. 1206; works: “Trainor, the
Druggist,” “Doc Hill,”
“Margaret Fuller Slack,” “Abel Melveny” and “Lucinda
Matlock” pgs. 1207-1209
Oct. 01 Internet Activity 4 due
Quiz 4 and Written Report 4 Upton Sinclair and
work
Upton Sinclair,from The Jungle: Chapters
II, IX, XI, XII, XIV
pgs. 608-621 I will provide the reading for
this assignment.
03 Robert Frost pgs. 1388-1389, works: ”Out, Out—“ pg.
1402, “Fire and Ice” and
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” pg.1403 and “Provide, Provide”
pgs. 1406-1407
08 Quiz 5 and Written Report 5
Sherwood Anderson and work
Sherwood Anderson pgs. 1421-1422, work “Hands” pgs.
1422-1426 and
“Mother” pgs. 1426-1431
10 Wallace Stevens background pgs.
1439-1441, works “Thirteen Ways of Looking
at a Blackbird” and “The Death of a Soldier” pgs.
1448-1450 AND William
Carlos Williams background pgs. 1462-1464; works:
“The Young Housewife” pg.
1464, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “The Dead Baby” pgs.
1469-1470 and “Death”
pgs. 1471-1472
15 Internet Activity 5 due
Modernist Manifestos pgs. 1499-1500; T. S. Eliot
background pgs. 1574-1576,
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” pgs. 1577-1580 and
E. E. Cummings
background pgs. 1807-1808; works: “Thy fingers
make early flowers of,” “in
Just-“ pgs. 1808-1809 and “next to of course god
America I” pg. 1811
17 Exam I
22 Internet
Activity 6 due
Quiz 6 and Written Report 6 F. Scott Fitzgerald and
work
F. Scott Fitzgerald background pgs. 1822-1823; work
“Babylon Revisted” pgs.
1839-1853
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William Faulkner background pgs. 1858-1860 and “Barn Burning” pgs. 1955-
1967
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Langston Hughes background pgs. 2026-2027; works: “Vagabonds,” “Words
Like Freedom,” “Madam and Her Madam” pgs.
2033-2034, “Madam and Her
Madam” pg. 2033 and “Theme for English B” pgs.
2036-2037
31 Internet Activity 7 due
Quiz 7 and Written Report 7 John Steinbeck and work
John Steinbeck background pgs. 2049-2050; “Flight”—website
link located in
the online classroom; NOTE: print from the web for class
discussion AND
read Richard Wright background pgs. 2066-2067 work “The Man
Who Was
Almost A Man” pgs. 2067-2075
Nov. 05 Internet
Activity 8 due
Quiz 8 and Written Report 8 Eudora Welty and work
Volume E: American Literature Since 1945 pgs.
2083-2096; Eudora Welty
background pgs. 2146-2148; work: “Petrified Man” pgs.
2148-2157
07 Internet
Activity 9 due
Quiz 9 and Written Report 9 Kurt Vonnegut and work
Kurt Vonnegut background pgs. 2460-2461; work: from Slaughterhouse-
Five: Chapter One” pgs. 2461-2472
12 Internet
Activity 10 due
Anne Sexton background pgs. 2641-2642; works: “The
Truth the Dead Know,”
“The Starry Night” pgs. 2642-2643, “Little Girl, My
String Bean, My Lovely
Woman” pgs. 2645-2647, From The Death of the Fathers:
2. “How We Danced”
and 3. “The Boat” pgs. 2647-2648; Sylvia Plath
background pgs. 2698-2700;
works: “Lady Lazarus” pgs. 2701-2703, “Words” pgs.
2706-2707, “The
Applicant” and “Child” pgs. 2709-2711
14 Quiz 10 and Written Report 10 Toni Cada Bambara and
work
Toni Cade Bambara background
pg. 2861; work: “Medley” pgs. 2862-2873
19 Research Paper due date
Yusef Komunyakaa background pgs. 3075-3076; work: “Facing
It” pgs. 3076-
3077, “Nude Interrogation” and “When Dusk Weighs
Daybreak” pgs. 3079-3080
and Randall Jarrel background pgs. 2266-2267;
work: “90 North” pgs. 2267-68
and “Thinking of the Cost World” pgs. 2271-73
21 Research paper workday
22—25
Thanksgiving Holiday—College closed.
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Last day to drop class
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