J. Roth American Literature 246 October 30, 2006
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18 Sept Syllabus and Introduction |
19 Introduction to the Web |
20 Overview of Preceding Eras |
21 Overview of Preceding Eras Poetry Help |
22 Please have read pp. 1-9 and Whitman poems “I saw in Louisiana,” p. 52; “When I heard,” p. 61; “A Noiseless,” p. 67-8 and This Compost (handout) |
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25 Emily Dickinson, pp. 65-96 Emily Dickinson Reading List (handout) Assign Writing Assignment #1--Dickinson |
26 Emily Dickinson, pp. 68-96 Emily
Dickinson Reading List (handout) |
27 Computer Lab
1220-G Work on Writing Assignment #1--Dickinson and stake our claim to our lab |
28 Writing
Assignment #1--Dickinson due at the beginning of class. Please have read Mark Twain, 144-146; The Notorious . . ., pp. 147-151; from Roughing It, 151-154 |
29 Please have read Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the first five chapters, 172-186 Assign Writing
Assignment #2--Twain |
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2 Begin discussion of Fiction Terms and Definitions |
3 Oct Discuss whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should
be banned in certain venues Writing
Assignment #2--Twain due at the beginning of class. Discuss 144-146; The Notorious . . ., pp. 147-151; from Roughing It, 151-154 |
4 Web Wednesday Computer Lab
1220-G Web Wednesday Please read pp.
543-544--Henry Adams Complete Web Assignment on Henry Adams |
5 Web Assignment due at the beginning of class—we’ll discuss it. Discuss the handout |
6 No Class |
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9 Please have read The Outcasts of Poker Flat, pp. 502-509 and The Boarded Window, pp. 516-520 |
10 Please have read Harris, pp. 685-686; Under the Lion’s Paw, pp. 686-695 |
11 Please have read Wharton, pp. 708-710; Roman Fever, pp. 719-728 |
12 Please have read Stephen Crane, pp. 747-748 and The Open Boat, pp. 793-809 |
13 Please have read Jack London and To Build a Fire, pp. 823-834-764 |
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16 Experience #1—100 points—please see syllabus for make-up guidelines |
17 Please have studied Robinson biography Review Poetry Information in the Buff Packet |
18 Web Wednesday Assignment on Web |
19 Please have studied Robinson Poems, |
20 Please have studied Frost biography
and poems, |
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23 Please have studied Frost, |
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25 Web Wednesday Assignment on Web |
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30 Please have read Amy Lowell,
1014-1015; Patterns, pp. 1015-1018;
A Decade, p. 1018; Meeting-House Hill, p. 1018 |
31 The Poet in Us
All assignment due Please have read p. 971; The Snow Man,--p. 1037 The Plain Sense of Things--pp. 1043-1044 The Young Housewife--p.
1047 Winter Remembered--pp.
1069-1070 The Nature of Sonnets Please have read pp. 1091-1097 |
1 Nov Attend EWU Student Panel Presentation—10:30 to 11:20 Lair Sasquatch-Bigfoot Room |
2 Please have read the
following: Edna Poems I shall—p. 1157 What Lips--p. 1157 Justice--pp.
1158-1159 The Beast—p. 1159 Since of No--p. 1159 Love Is Not All--pp.
1159-1160 |
3 No class—English Department Retreat |
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6 Please have read Even In—p. 1160 Those Hours--p. 1160 I Will Put Chaos--p.
1161 E.E. Cummings--pp. 1161-1162 In Just--pp.
1163-1164 My Sweet--pp.1165-1166 I Sing of Olaf--pp. 1166-1167 |
7 Please have read If There Are Any Heavens--p. 1167 Up into the Silence--pp.
1170-1171 Plato Told--pp.
1171-1172 I Thank You God--p. 1172 Langston Hughes--pp. 1189-1190 The Negro Speaks of Rivers—p. 1191 Song for a Dark Girl—p.
1192 |
8 Complete poems in this section and review for Experience #2 on Monday, 11/13 |
9 A special day |
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13 Experience #2 Robinson through Hughes—100 points |
14 No class— Conference |
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22 No School |
23 Thanksgiving |
24 Thanksgiving |
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1 Dec Experience #3 |
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5 No School |
6 Final Meeting--Conferences |
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