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Lesson assignments are due at or before 11:59 pm on the date listed. You have until the next day at 11:59 pm to respond to another student's post.
1. Course requirements and first assignments
Access online
classroom for email, story interpretation selection, and discussion
requirements for this lesson
2.
What makes a good short story?
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
(This story is not in the text; read online or print the document to read.)
Post your commentary by 9 am and read other
student posts and respond to one.
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Hawthorne,
The Birth-mark
Freeman, The Revolt of "Mother"
4.
Ambrose Bierce / Charles Chesnutt
Bierce, The Coup de Grâce
Bierce, Parker Adderson, Philosopher (optional;
access this story from the web; it is not in the text)
Chestnutt, The Passing of Grandison
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Kate Chopin
Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Chopin, Désirée's Baby - print from web,
not in text
6. Katherine Anne Porter-
The Grave
*Explication
due
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
8. William Faulkner /
Richard Wright -
Faulkner, Barn Burning
Wright, Big Boy Leaves Home
9.
Flannery O'Connor / Alice Walker -
O'Connor, Revelation
Walker, Nineteen Fifty-five
10. *Critical essay - topic due: -----; final draft due:
11. Jhumpa Lahiri, This Blessed House
12. Final evaluation
Submit no later than 9:00 am
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