Unit In-Class Topics and Reading Homework Intro Unit Mon 1/7 Course Syllabus & Policies Review Literary Terms Power Points in AML 2020 Files Readings: Norton Volume C Introduction: The Transformation of a Nation (3-16) Post introduction and respond to two students by Sunday 1/13 at midnight. Unit 1 Also, send me an email before next class indicating that you have read and understand the syllabus. Mon 1/14 Read the following in Norton Volume C: Kate Chopin: Biography (550-551) Dèsirèe s Baby (551-555) The Story of an Hour (555-557) Mark Twain: Biography (118-121) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (121-125) From: Roughing It (125-129) The War Prayer (334-336) From: Letter from the Earth (336-351) Essay 1 (Due Feb. 25) will be an analysis of The Awakening (561-652) by Kate Chopin Or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (130-309) by Mark Twain Critical Articles (310-323) (Choose one of these novels to read and write your research essay.)
Unit 1 Mon 1/21 Walt Whitman Biography (20-23) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d (79-85) Emily Dickinson Biography (89-93) Poems (93-109) Online: Post Unit 1 discussion and respond to two students per post by Sunday 1/27 at midnight. Complete Unit 1 quizzes by Sunday 1/27 at midnight. *Quizzes can cover any material from the Unit. Unit 2 Mon 1/28 Ambrose Bierce Biography (398) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (399-405) Sarah Orne Jewett Biography (525-526) A White Heron (526-533) Edith Wharton Biography (813-814) Roman Fever (828-836) Unit 2 Mon 2/4 Booker T. Washington Biography (673-675) From Up from Slavery (675-697) W.E.B Du Bois Biography (883-885) From The Souls of Black Folk (885-901) Paul Laurence Dunbar Biography (1028-1029) Poems (1029-1036)
Unit 2 Mon 2/11 Stephen Crane Biography (943-946) The Open Boat (990-1006) From War is Kind (1007-1009) Jack London Biography (1042-1043) The Law of Life (1043-1047) To Build a Fire (1047-1058) Upton Sinclair Biography (1108-1110) From The Jungle (1110-1116) Online: Post Unit 2 discussions and respond to two students per post by Sunday 2/17 at midnight. Complete Unit 2 quizzes by Sunday 2/17 at midnight. Unit 3 Mon 2/18 Norton Volume D Introduction: The Two Wars as Historical Markers (3-20) Edward Arlington Robinson biography (40) Poems (41-44) Robert Frost Biography (230-231) Poems (231-250) H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Biography (350-351) Poems (352-357) T.S. Eliot Biography (365-367) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (368-371) The Hollow Men (391-394) Langston Hughes Biography (869-871) Poems (871-880)
Unit 3 Mon 2/25 DUE 2/25: Essay 1 (The Awakening or Huckleberry Finn) on Blackboard. From Norton Volume D: Zora Neale Hurston Biography (528-530) The Gilded Six Bits (541-549) Edna St. Vincent Millay Biography (633) Poems (633-636) Countee Cullen Biography (892-893) Poems (893-897) Ernest Hemingway Biography (824-826) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (826-842) Online: Complete Unit 3 quizzes by Sunday 3/3 at midnight. *Spring Break March 3-10 Unit 4 Mon 3/11 Norton Volume E Introduction: The United States and World Power (3-15) Tennessee Williams Biography (90-93) Arthur Miller Biography (236-238) August Wilson Biography (927-928) Essay 2 (Due April 1) will be an analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (93-155) Or Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (238-303) Or Fences by August Wilson (929-975) (Choose one of these plays to read and write your research essay.)
Unit 4 Mon 3/18 Eudora Welty Biography (50-52) Petrified Man (52-61) James Baldwin Biography (423-424) Going to Meet the Man (424-436) Flannery O Connor Biography (436-437) The Life You Save May Be Your Own (437-444) Good Country People (445-458) Online: Complete Unit 4 Quiz Sunday 3/24 at midnight. Work on Drama Essay Unit 5 Mon 3/25 Theodore Roethke Biography (37-38) Poems (38-50) Gwendolyn Brooks Biography (322-323) Poems (323-333) Sylvia Plath Biography (623-624) Poems (625-635) Billy Collins Biography (829-830) Poems (830-837) Work on Drama Essay Unit 5 Mon 4/1 DUE 4/1: Final Draft of Drama Essay (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, or Fences) on Blackboard Randall Jarrell Biography (174-175) Poems (176-182) Kurt Vonnegut Biography (372-374) From Slaughterhouse Five (375-385)
Unit 5 Mon 4/8 Raymond Carver Biography (736-737) Cathedral (737-747) Alice Walker Biography (920-921) Everyday Use (921-927) Online: Post Unit 5 discussions and respond to two students per post by Sunday 4/14 at midnight. Complete Unit 5 quiz by Sunday 4/14 at midnight. Unit 6 Mon 4/15 Jhumpa Lahiri Biography (1222-1223) Sexy (1223-1239) Julia Alvarez Biography (1075) From Yo! (1076-1083) Alberto Rios Biography (1113-1114) Poems (1114-1120) Sherman Alexie Biography (1207-1208) Poems (1208-1213) This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (1213-1222) Joy Harjo Biography (1094-1096) Poems (1096-1102) Online: Complete Unit 6 quizzes by Sunday 4/21 at midnight. Mon 4/22 Tuesday 4/23 Online *Work on Final Exam Final Exam to be completed online and submitted to Blackboard. *This course calendar is subject to change at the instructor s discretion.