Weekly Schedule 

(Classes Begin Wednesday 1/25)

Mondays:

Open Lab posts due by the end of the day

Tuesdays:    

Office Hours (4-5 pm)  Attendance optional

I will post your weekly assignment (and will have responded to your previous week’s posts)

Academic Calendar Spring 2023 (including withdrawal deadlines) 

 

Weekly Calendar of Topics and Assignments  

Course Schedule

Week 1 Post Self-Introductions

Post Civil War Literature (“American Literary Realism”), 1865-1900

Week 2  Abraham Lincoln “The Gettysburg Address”; 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments; 1619 Project

Week 3 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Week 4 Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Week 5  African Americans Write Back: Paul Laurence Dunbar “We Wear the Mask”; Charles Chestnutt “The Passing of Granderson”

Week 6   The Rights of Women, Native Americans, and Immigrants: Kate Chopin “Story of an Hour”; Charlotte Perkins Gilman “If I Were a Man”

Week 7  Zitkala-Sa “School Days of an Indian Girl” (1924); Sui Sin Far “In the Land of the Free”

American Literary Modernism: 1920-1950

Week 8 Literature in the “Little” Magazines: Margaret Anderson’s The Little Review, Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine, Marianne Moore’s The Dial; Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”; “Brooklyn Bridge” Hart Crane; T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Week 9  The Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston “What It Means to be Colored Me”; WEB Dubois “The Souls of Black Folk”; Poetry by Langston Hughes

Weeks 10-11 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925), the poetry of Jay-Z, and Film

Contemporary Authors

Week 12  *****Literary Arts Festival  featuring Akwaeke Emezi :

                      April 27. 2023 4 to 6 pm in the New Academic Complex Theater!*****

Weeks 13-14 Ha Jin, Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat

Week 15: Final Essay Due

 

 

 

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