Schedule of Classes: English 1320

Week One:

: Introductions, explanations, etc  .Writing responses to "The Story of an Hour"  Read for next class: Stanford, Chapter 2, pages 13-39; do exercises 1 & 2 on pages 30-31 and 1 & 2 on 39.

 Discuss exercises.  Read for next class: Stanford, Chapter 2, pp. 39-54; do #3, p. 44 and #2 or 3, p. 50  , write either 1, 2, or 3 on pp. 53-54 and bring draft to class; read Chapter 3 (55-81).

Week Two:

Discussion, peer-assessment (using Daedalus) of writing assignment (20 minutes). exercise over types of literature and approaches to it (30 minutes). For next class, read Stanford, Chapter 4, (83-107: Writing to Respond and Writing to Compare). Do Exercise on p. 96.

Hand in and compare p. 96 Exercise responses (15 minutes).  ;.  Read Stanford, Chapter 4, (107-135; 149-151). .  For next class: , Read pp. 153-54 and Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible," (167-175)


Week Three:

 Discussion of explication assignments  and discuss and Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break," (209)
Discuss "The Red Convertible"
Read  May Swenson, "The Centaur," (205-206); Muriel Stuart, "In the Orchard," (209-210); and  read Angelou, "Graduation in Stamps," (332-342) and read through topics 2-5 on pp. 342-343..

Discuss "The Centaur" and "In the Orchard." Write explication essay

 Week Four: Revise Explication essays.  Read and Discuss "A Good Man is Hard to Find,"  (354-366) and O'Connor's commentary on "A Good Man," (367-370).

Discuss definitions of "Crime and Punishment," (345).  Read Allende,  "The Judge's Wife," (396-402) and Susan Glaspell, "Trifles," (464-476).  Answer considerations 3-5 for "The Judge's Wife" (402) and 1-3 for "Trifles."

 Week Five:


Week Six:

Read  Anne Sexton, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," (410-414),  Begin working on Crime and Punshiment Essays (see p. 491 for topics).

Read "Roots, Identity, Culture," (493) and James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues," (494-518).  Prepare considerations 1-4 on p. 518.

Week Seven Crime and Punishment essay due.  Read Raymond Carver, "Cathedral,"  (527-538) and Martin Espada, "Coca-Cola and Coco Frio,"  (566).

Read  Bharati Mukherjee,  "Orbiting,"  (546-559) and Jose Armas  "El Tonto del Barrio," (539-545)
 
 

 Week Eight:
Read Athol Fugard, "Master Harold and the Boys," (602-638: considerations 2, 6).  Read "Connections: Roots, Identity, and Culture," (650-651); choose a topic or two for a draft.
 
 
Week Nine: Read "Men and Women," (653);  Tobias Wolff, "Lady's Dream," (685-690) .Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," (691-704)

Read Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," (706-707); Aphra Behn, "The Willing Mistress," (708) and Kate Chopin, "The Storm," (665-669).
 

 Week Ten:  Read Joyce Carol Oates, "Shopping," (833-843);

Tillie Olson, I Stand Here Ironing," (815-821) and Sharon Olds, "Possessive," (846-847).  Prepare considerations 1,3,4 for "Possessive," 5 for "Shopping," and 3 for "I Stand Here Ironing."

 Week Eleven: Read Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path" and "Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?" (822-832) and  Maxine Kumin, "Making the Jam Without You," (844-846); Sylvia Plath, "Metaphors," (851); and Connections: Parents and Children, (905).  Prepare an essay that fulfills one of  the topics described on p. 905.2 April:  . Week Twelve:
 Read "War and Power," (1013) Read Ariel Dorfman, "Hope," (1068-1069); Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried," (1036-1050); and Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It," (1071-72)

."Writing A Research Paper," (136-151).

 Week Thirteen: In-class exercise and conferencing. Week Fourteen:  Annotated bibliographies (10 entries) due.

 Hand in Researched essays.

 Week Fifteen:  

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 Finals tba.