Schedule

Course Schedule

Week 1. Jan 28 Robert Frost, Mending Wall, Design p. 824, The Most of It, p.823

 

Week 2. Feb 4 Junot Diaz, “How to Date a …” p.100. “Homecoming, With Turtle.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/14/homecoming-with-turtle Emily Dickinson, “I’m Nobody… p. 766; Wild Nights, p. 768, A Narrow Fellow 856; ,.

 

Week 3. Feb 11 Junot Diaz, William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily,” 451 “Barn Burning,” 1267.  Flannery O’Connor, “Good Man is Hard To Find.”

 

Week 4. Feb 18 William Faulkner, Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 1.

 

Week 5. Feb 25 Paper 1. HamletAct 1, Barton “Promulgation of Confusion,” secondary source on Hamlet, p. 756

 

Week 6. March 4 Hamlet Act 2, Wells, “On the First Soliloquy,” secondary source on Hamlet, p. 759. Group presentations.

 

Week 7. March 11, Hamlet Act 2. Showalter, “Representing Ophelia,” secondary source on Hamlet. P761. Group presentations.

 

Week 8. March 18, Hamlet Act 3. Group presentations.

 

Week 9. March 25, Hamlet Act 4 Midterm in class essay

 

Week 10. April 1, Hamlet Act 5. Group presentations.

 

Week 11. April 8 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall Paper,” 991. Previous readings, revisions, methods of composition. Group presentations.

 

Week 12. April 15 Grimm, Mother Holle, 1031. Research Paper 9-10 pages with works cited page. Group presentations.

 

Spring Break April 19-28

 

Week 13. April 29 Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Previous readings, revisions, methods of composition. Group presentations.

Week 14. May 6 Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant.” Previous readings, revisions, methods of composition. Group presentations.

 

Week 15. May 13. Group presentations. ( Finals May 16-22)

 

Week 16. May 20 Finals

 

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