Schedule of Classes, Readings and Assignments

Dates and assignments are subject to change.

DATE

READ FOR CLASS

TODAY’S TOPIC

 DUE

16 Jan

 

Syllabus and Connectweb

 

18 Jan

Thoughts on Literature

Why Literature?

 

21 Jan

Martin Luther King Day

 

 

23 Jan

Harold Bloom, “Dumbing Down the American Reader”

What belongs in the canon?

 

25 Jan

Aldo Leopold, “July”

Essay Vocabulary

 

28 Jan

Writing Exercises 1-5

Writing Exercises 1-5

 

30 Jan

Wendell Berry, “Why I am not going to buy a computer”

 

 

1 Feb

 

4 Feb

Cintra Wilson “Between the Rocks and a Hard Sell”

 What is our culture like?

 

6 Feb

Writing Workshop:  Rough Draft of Paper One

8 Feb

“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”  G. Marquez

How do groups create meaning? Short Story Vocabulary

 Paper 1

11 Feb

“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”  G. Marquez

 

 

13 Feb

“Civil Peace,” C. Achebe 

What does it take to recover from war?

 

15 Feb

“Civil Peace,” C. Achebe 

 

 

18 Feb

Writing Exercises 6-14

Writing Exercises 6-14

 

20 Feb

“The Empty Drum”  L. Tolstoy

 

 

22 Feb

“The Empty Drum”  L. Tolstoy

 

 

25 Feb

“Super Frog Saves Tokyo  H. Murakami

How is a hero created?

 

27 Feb

“Super Frog Saves Tokyo  H. Murakami

 

 

29 Feb

Writing Exercise 15-18

Writing Exercise 15-18

 

3 Mar

“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” F. O’Connor

Is anyone really good?

 

5 Mar

“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” F. O’Connor

 

 

7 Mar

Research Workshop

 

 

10 Mar

Writing Workshop:  Rough Draft of Paper Two

 

 

12 Mar

Review for Midterm

Review of Short Answers and Essays

Paper 2

14 Mar

Midterm

 

Paper 2

17-22 Mar

SPRING BREAK

 

 

24 Mar

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

What is your biggest temptation?

 

26 Mar

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

 

28 Mar

Sonnets, Shakespeare, Milton

Poetry vocabulary

 

31 Mar

“My Last Duchess” Robert Browning

 

 

2 Apr

“Ode To a Nightingale”  Keats

What is truth?

 

4 Apr

“Daddy,” Sylvia Plath, “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou,  “Mending Wall” Robert Frost

 

 

7 Apr

Favorite Poet Day

 

 

9 Apr

Writing Exercises 19-31

Writing Exercises 19-31

 

11 Apr

Writing Workshop

 

 

14 Apr

Oedipus Rex Introduction

Play Vocabulary

Paper 3

16 Apr

Oedipus Rex

Can a man escape his fate?

 

18 Apr

Oedipus Rex

 

 

21 Apr

Oedipus Rex

 

 

23 Apr

Oedipus Rex

 

 

25 Apr

Othello Introduction

 

 

28 Apr

Othello

Can motiveless evil be stopped?

 

30 Apr

Othello

 

 

2 May

Othello

 

 

5 May

Othello

 

 

7 May

Review for Final

Review of Short Answers and Essays

 

14 May

FINAL EXAM

 

Paper 4