English 246/ J. Roth March
7, 2006, 2006
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4 Syllabus and Introduction |
5 More Specifics—poetry help |
6 Please have read pp. 1-9 and Whitman
poems “I saw in Louisiana,” p. 49; “When I heard,” p. 58; “A Noiseless,” p.
64 and This Compost (handout) |
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9 Emily Dickinson, pp. 65-99 Emily Dickinson
Reading List (handout) Assign Writing
Assignment #1--Dickinson |
10 Emily Dickinson, pp. 65-99 Emily Dickinson
Reading List (handout) |
11 Computer Lab 1220-G Work on Writing
Assignment #1--Dickinson and
stake our claim to our lab |
12 Writing
Assignment #1--Dickinson due at the beginning of class. Please have read Mark Twain, 135-138; The Notorious . . ., pp. 138-141; from Roughing It, 141-144 |
13 Please have read Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the first five chapters, 162-176 Assign Writing
Assignment #2--Twain Begin discussion of Fiction
Terms and Definitions |
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17 Discuss whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should
be banned in certain venues |
18 Computer Lab 1220-G Web Wednesday Please read pp.
491-496; Henry Adams, pp. 497-506 Complete Web Assignment on
Henry Adams |
19 Please have read The Outcasts of Poker Flat, pp.
456-464 and The Boarded Window, pp.
469-473 |
20 Please have read Harris, pp.
484-489; Under the Lion’s Paw, pp.
623-633 |
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23 Please have read Wharton, pp.
646-648; Roman Fever, pp. 657-666 |
24 Please have read Stephen
Crane, pp. 678-679 and The Open Boat, pp. 723-739 |
25 Jack |
26 Review for Experience #1 |
27 No Class--English Department
Retreat |
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30 Experience #1—100 points—please see syllabus for make-up
guidelines |
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1 Feb Web Wednesday |
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6 Web Assignment #2 Due Please have studied Robinson Poems,
Group 2 Poetry Information in the Buff
Packet |
7 Please have studied Frost Poems, Group 1 |
8 Computer Lab 1220-G Work on Web Assignment #3—Robert Frost Art |
9 Robert Frost Art due
Please have studied Frost Poems, Group 2 |
10 Writing
Assignment #3 Robinson or Frost Poem due T.S. Eliot, pp. 924-927; The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock, pp. 933-936; Gerontion, pp. 937-939; The Hollow Men, pp. 954-957 |
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13 T.S. Eliot, pp. 924-927; The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock, pp. 933-936; Gerontion, pp. 937-939; The Hollow Men, pp. 954-957 |
14 Amy Lowell, 957-958; Patterns, pp. 958-960; A Decade, p. 960; Meeting-House Hill, pp. 960-961 |
15 Computer Lab 1220-G Work on Web Assignment--The Poet in Us
All |
16 The Poet in Us
All assignment due Please have read p. 971; The Snow Man, p. 979; The Plain Sense of Things, pp.
985-986; The Young Housewife, p.
988; Winter Remembered, pp.
1010-1011 |
17 Please have read pp.
1037-1044 Edna Poems, pp. 1101, “I shall” and “What
Lips”; pp. 1102, “Justice”; pp. 1103-1104, “The Beast,” “Since of No”; p. 1104, “Love Is,” “Even In,”
and “Those Hours” |
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21 A special day |
22 Please have read E.E.
Cummings, pp. 1105-1106; p. 1108, “In Just” and “Buffalo Bill’s”; p. 1109,
“My Sweet”; pp. 1110-11, “I Sing”; p. 1115 “Plato”; p. 1116, “I Thank” |
23 Langston Hughes, pp.
1124-1125; all poems, pp. 1125-1129 |
24 Experience #2 Robinson through Cummings—100 points |
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27 F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp.
1137-1139 |
28 William Faulkner, pp.
1168-1171; Barn Burning, pp. 1182-1194 |
1 March Ernest Hemingway, pp. 1194-1196;
The Big |
2 Katherine Anne Porter, pp.
1216-1217; The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, pp. 1217-1223 |
3 John Steinbeck, pp. 1231-1232;
The Chrysanthemums, pp. 1232-1239 |
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6 Flannery O’Connor, pp. 1483; Good Country People, pp. 1484-1496 |
7 No class—Literature Conference |
8 Selected Poetry Please see Poetry List—Final
Section |
9 Selected Poetry Please see Poetry List—Final
Section |
10 John Updike, pp. 1740-1741; Separating, pp. 1742-1749 |
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13 Joyce Carol Oates, pp.
1814-1815; Where Are You Going, Where
Have You Been?, pp. 1815-1826 |
14 Alice Walker, pp. 1842-1843; Everyday Use, pp. 1844-1849 and Amy Tan, pp. 1871; Half and Half, pp. 1872-1881 |
15 Isaac Bashevis
Singer, pp. 1917-1918 ; Gimpel the Fool,
pp. 1918-1927 |
16 Experience #3 |
17 No classes |
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