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Outline and Assignment Schedule ~ Spring 2001
Week 1 January 17-19
Introduction, goals, terms
John Collier, "The Chaser"; Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" (244-245);
Theodore Roethke, "The Waking" (793)
Week 2 January 22-26
Guy de Maupassant, "The Necklace" (3-10); Chapter 2 Fiction: An Overview; Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"
(166-180)
Week 3 January 29- February 2
Chapter 3 Plot
Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" (97-115); Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path" (116-121);
Tom Whitecloud, "Blue Winds Dancing" (111-126)
James Wright, "A Blessing" (488)
Week 4 February 5-9
Chapter 4 Characters
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning" (154-165); Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
(72-78); Tillie Olson, "I Stand Here Ironing" (224-229)
Week 5 February 12-16
Chapter 5 Point of View; Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home" (294-299); John Updike, "A & P"
(229-234)
*Character analysis due February 20
Week 6 February 20-23
Chapter 6 Setting; Frank O'Connor, "First Confession" (307-312);
Jackson, "The Lottery"
(209-215)
Week 7 Feb. 26-March 2
Chapter 8 Symbolism; Chapter 9 Idea or Theme
John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums" (387-395); Flannery O'Connor, "A Good
Man Is Hard to Find" (426-436)
*Midterm essay due March 7
Week 8 March 5-9
William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark" (804); Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
(735); Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" (586); William Blake,
"The Lamb" (477) "The Tyger" (501);
March 12-16 Spring Break
Week 9 March 19-23
Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (455); "I'm
Nobody" (723); "Mending
Wall" (733); "Out, Out" (736); Thomas Hardy, "The Workbox" (548) Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
(454)
Begin poetry project (reading and commentary); see Favorite Poems Project
http://www.favoritepoem.org/archive/index.html
Week 10 March 26-30
Connotation/Denotation E. A. Robinson, "Richard Cory" (484); Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed" (457); Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for a Doomed Youth"
(497); "Dulce et Decorum Est" (546)
Week 11 April 2-6
Metaphor and Simile (516-518); Symbols 660-661
Langston Hughes, "Harlem" (527); Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" (562); Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
(767); W.H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen" (742)
*Topic for comparison essay due April 12
Week 12 April 9-13
Reading Plays 832;
Chapter 23 Tragic Vision: Affirmation Through Loss (895-901-Aristotle's
definition)
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1222-1287)
* Bibliography and thesis for comparison essay due April 18
Week 13 April 17-20
* Comparison essay due April 24
Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man"
Glaspell, Trifles 832-845; Hughes Mulatto (848-871) or Ibsen, A
Dollhouse (1168-1217)
Week 14 April 23-27
Student-teacher conferences
Oral presentations
Week 15 April 30-May 1
Review for exam
Final Evaluations