Unit In-Class Topics and Reading Homework Intro Unit Mon 8/19 Course Syllabus & Policies Review Literary Terms Power Points in AML 2020 Files Readings: Norton Volume C Introduction: The Transformation of a Nation (3-16) AML 2020 Requirement: Author Presentation PowerPoint and Oral Presentation of a novel, short story, poem or monologue from a play (14 lines) can be submitted as a video to me any time before 12/3. Choose your author in the Author Power Point selection Forum under Discussions. Post introduction and respond to two students by Sunday 8/25 at midnight. Unit 1 Mon 8/26 (Units may span multiple weeks.) Also, send me an email before next class indicating that you have read and understand the Syllabus and Course Calendar. 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 War Prayer (334-336) From: Letters from the Earth (336-351) Essay 1 (Due Oct. 7) 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 9/2 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 9/8 at midnight. Complete Unit 1 quizzes by Sunday 9/8 at midnight. *Quizzes can cover any material from the Unit. Unit 2 Mon 9/9 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 9/16 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 9/23 Stephen Crane Biography (943-946) From War is Kind (1007-1009) Jack London Biography (1042-1043) 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 9/29 at midnight. Complete Unit 2 quizzes by Sunday 9/29 at midnight. Unit 3 Mon 9/30 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 10/7 DUE 10/7: 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) Online: Complete Unit 3 quizzes by Sunday 10/13 at midnight. Unit 4 Mon 10/14 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 Nov. 4) 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 10/21 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 10/27 at midnight. Work on Drama Essay Unit 5 Mon 10/28 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 11/4 DUE 11/4: 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 11/11 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 11/17 at midnight. Complete Unit 5 quiz by Sunday 11/17 at midnight. Unit 6 Mon 11/18 Jhumpa Lahiri Biography (1222-1223) Sexy (1223-1239) Julia Alvarez Biography (1075) From Yo! (1076-1083) 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 11/24 at midnight. Mon 11/25 Tuesday 12/3 Online *Work on Final Exam. The Author Presentation and Oral Presentation are due by 12/2 at Midnight. Final Exam to be completed online and submitted to Blackboard by Midnight on 12/3. *This course calendar is subject to change at the instructor s discretion.