Week 1
Tuesday (8/26):
Welcome to English 1B! Read John Updike, "A&P" 220-24; Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
413-19.
Thursday (8/28): Read T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Greasy
Lake" 582-89; Tim
O'Brien, “The Things They Carried” 380-92.
Week 2
Tuesday (9/2): Read Kate
Chopin, "The Storm" 255-59; William Faulkner, "A Rose
for Emily" 206-12.Thursday
(9/4): Read John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” 632-39; James Joyce,
“Araby” 348-52.
Friday,
September 5, is the last day to drop and be eligible for a refund.
Week 3
Tuesday (9/9): Read Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 717; Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” 783-84;
Robert
Browning, “My Last Duchess” 702-04 and "Porphyria's Lover" 719-20.
Thursday (9/11): Draft of Essay #1 Due.
Read William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us” 715 and
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" 878-79; Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias”
721 and "Ode to the West Wind" 999-1001; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla
Khan” 949-95; John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
978-80.
Week 4
Tuesday (9/16): Read
Raymond Carver “Cathedral” 420-31.Thursday
(9/18): Essay #1 Due.
Read Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
144-47.
Friday,
September 19, is the last day to drop without a "W" on your
transcript.
Week 5
Tuesday (9/23): Read T.S.
Eliot, “Journey of the Magi” 686-69; T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock” 960-64.
Thursday
(9/25): Read William Butler Yeats, “Leda and the
Swan” 864; William
Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” 1020; William Butler Yeats “Sailing to
Byzantium” 1019; William Butler Yeats “Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop”
1018.
Week 6
Tuesday (9/30): Read Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” 193-94; Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” 1109-20.
Thursday (10/2):
Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow
Wallpaper” 366-78.
Week 7
Tuesday (10/7): Read Margaret Atwood, “You fit into me”
787; Carole Satyamurti “I Shall Paint my
Nails” 845; Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” 772; Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” 993; Sylvia
Plath, “Daddy” 778-80.
Thursday (10/9): Rough Draft of Essay #2 Due.
Read Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” 802;
Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” 856-58.
Week 8
Tuesday (10/14): Read Jorge Luis Borges, “The Book of Sand” 400-03;
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” 433-42.
Thursday (10/16): Essay #2 Due.
Read D.H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
469-81; Joyce Carol Oates, “Where
Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” 509-21.
Week 9
Tuesday (10/21): Review for Midterm Socratic.
Thursday
(10/23): Midterm Socratic.
Read Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” 863-64; Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
746; Gwendolyn Brooks, “Sadie and Maud” 795; Lucille Clifton, “Praise Song”
949; Langston Hughes, Selected Poems 894-928.
Week 10
Tuesday (10/28): Read
Read James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” 554-76.Thursday
(10/30): Read Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
271-81.
Week 11
Tuesday (11/4): Read William Carlos Williams,
“The Red Wheelbarrow” 755; Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro” 756;
e.e. cummings, “in Just-” 737; e.e. cummings, “anyone lived
in a pretty how town” 749-50; Dorothy Parker, “General Review of the Sex
Situation” 885; Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” 760; Robert
Frost, “The Road Not Taken” 967-68; Robert Frost, “Out, Out—”
785.
Thursday (11/6): Rough Draft of Essay Essay #3 Due. Read
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard
Cory” 997; Carl Sandburg,
“Fog” 998; Carl Sandburg,
“Chicago”; Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
774; Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” 1005-06; Theodore Roethke, “The
Waking” 829-30; Elizabeth Bishop,
“Sestina” 828-829.
Week 12
Tuesday (11/11): Read Edgar Allan Poe
“The Cask of Amontillado” 312-17.
Thursday (11/13): Essay #3 Due. Read Edgar Allan Poe
“The Tell-Tale Heart” 622-25; Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven” 851-54.
Friday, November 14, is the last day to drop with a
"W" on your transcript.
IF YOU DO NOT DROP BY THIS DATE, YOU WILL DEFINITELY
GET A GRADE FOR THIS CLASS.
Week 13
Tuesday (11/18): Read Flannery O’Connor
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” 354-65.
Thursday (11/20): Read Flannery O'Connor “Everything that
Rises Must Converge” 611-622.
Week 14
Tuesday (11/25): Read Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” 887; A.E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young”
750-51; W.H. Auden, “Musée
des Beaux Arts” 866-67. Thursday
(11/27): Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15
Tuesday (12/2): Rough Draft of Essay #4 Due. Read Charles Bernstein,
“this poem intentionally left blank” 673; Ian Hamilton Finlay,
“Acrobats”. Thursday
(12/4): Read Reed Altemus and Jim Leftwich,
“Flake upper phase”; Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel” 843.
Week 16
Tuesday (12/9): Essay #4 Due.
Review
for Final Examination.
Thursday (12/11): Final Examination
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