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Lesson assignments are due at or before 11:59 pm on the date listed. You have until the next night (24 hours) to respond to another student's post. So each lesson must be completed by 11:59 pm on the night following the date listed. Essays are due on the dates listed.
1. Course requirements and first assignments - Sept. 14
Access online
classroom for email, story interpretation selection, and discussion
requirements for this lesson
2.
What makes a good short story? - Sept. 16
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 11:59 pm and read other
student posts and respond to one.
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Sept
22
Hawthorne,
The Birth-mark
Freeman, The Revolt of "Mother"
4. Ambrose Bierce / Charles Chesnutt - Sept 29
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 - Oct 6
Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Chopin, Désirée's Baby - print from web,
not in text
6.
*Explication
essay due Oct 13
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Oct 20
Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
8. Katherine Anne Porter- Oct 27
The Grave
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
9. William Faulkner /
Richard Wright - Nov 3
Faulkner, Barn Burning
Wright, Big Boy Leaves Home
10. Flannery O'Connor / Alice
Walker - Nov 12
O'Connor, Revelation
Walker, Nineteen Fifty-five
11. *Critical essay - topic due Nov 18; final draft due: Dec 1
12. Jhumpa Lahiri, This Blessed House - Dec 6
13. Final evaluation
Submit no later than 9:00 am on Dec 15
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