|
Date |
Readings and Assignments |
|
T
01/08 |
Introductions and syllabus; what is an American identity? |
|
R
01/10 |
Literature to 1700;
American Puritanism; Anne Bradstreet:
bio (110), “The Prologue” (111-112), “The Author to Her
Book” (119), “To My Dear…” (120), and “Here Follows…”
(122-123);
discussion questions on Bradstreet |
|
T
01/15 |
Age of
Enlightenment;
basics of autobiographies; Benjamin
Franklin: bio (234-236) and Autobiography, part I
(248-292);
notes on Franklin;
discussion questions on Franklin (part I) |
|
R
01/17 |
Autobiography,
part II (293-308); sign for analysis:
the Franklinian Dream
as a cultural phenomenon (in-class);
assign short writing
response #1;
discussion questions on Franklin (part II) |
|
F 01/18 |
Drop period (with refund) ENDS at noon today. No adding or
reinstatement of classes after 01/18/13. No dropping classes
with refund after 01/18/13. |
|
T
01/22 |
Slave narratives and
other
writings; Phyllis Wheatley: bio (401-403), “On Being
Brought…” (403), “To S.M…” (409-410), and “To His Excellency…”
(410-411);
notes on Wheatley;
discussion questions on Wheatley |
|
R
01/24 |
American
Romanticism; Ralph Waldo Emerson: bio (505-508) and
Self-Reliance (549-566);
assign prompt
for
Response Essay #1 |
|
T
01/29 |
American
Transcendentalism;
Walt Whitman: bio (1005-1009) and excerpts from “Song of
Myself” (within 1024-1067), stanzas 1, 48, 51, & 52;
notes on Whitman (with discussion questions);
short writing response (on Franklin) due |
|
R 01/31 |
William Apess: bio (498-499) and “An Indian’s Looking-Glass
for the White Man” (499-504); Fredrick Douglass: bio
(934-938) and “What to the Slave is Fourth of July?”
(1002-1005);
notes on Apess;
notes on Douglass;
Apess and Douglass DQs |
|
T
02/05 |
Edgar Allan
Poe: bio (683-687), “The Raven” (688-691), and “The
Tell-Tale Heart” (714-718);
notes on Poe (with DQs) |
|
R
02/07 |
Emily Dickinson: bio (1189-1193), 236 (1196), 260 (1197), 340
(1199-1200), 359 (1203), 373 (1204-1205), 519 (1207), 598
(1208), & 1263 (1213);
notes on Dickinson (with DQs) |
|
T
02/12 |
Response Essay
#1 due |
|
R
02/14 |
The Rise of
American Realism: Mark Twain: bio (1282-1285) and “The
Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1285-1289);
notes on Twain |
|
T
02/19 |
Kate Chopin:
bio (1604-1605) and “The Story of an Hour” (1609-1611);
notes on Chopin with DQs |
|
R
02/21 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: bio (1668-1669) and “The Yellow
Wall-paper” (1669-1681);
notes on Gilman with DQs;
assign short
writing response #2 |
|
T
02/26 |
Prep. for
mid-term exam (use your class notes, the posted notes, and
NAAL notes as study guides) |
|
R 02/28 |
Mid-Term Exam (bring
a large-sized Blue Book with you). |
|
M 03/04 |
Last day to
withdraw with a W |
|
T
03/05 |
American Modernism and
the Jazz Age; E. E. Cummings: bio
(2135-2136), “Buffalo Bill ’s” (2138), and “'next to of
course god america i” (2138-2139);
notes on Cummings with DQs;
short writing
response #2 due
|
|
R
03/07 |
Tennessee
Williams: bio (2297-2300) and
A Streetcar Named Desire, scenes 1-5 (2300-2333) |
|
T
03/12 |
Conclude
A Streetcar Named Desire, scenes 6-11 (2333-2361);
notes on Williams with DQs |
|
R
03/14 |
Discussion of
A Streetcar Named Desire (cont.); assign topics
for
Response Essay #2 |
|
T 03/19 |
Spring
Break; no classes |
|
R 03/21 |
Spring
Break; no classes |
|
T
03/26 |
The Harlem
Renaissance; Langston Hughes: bio (2221-2222), “The Negro
Speaks of Rivers” (2222-2223), “I, Too” (2223-2224),
“Salvation” (PDF in CourseDen), and “Harlem” (PDF in
CourseDen);
notes on Hughes (with DQs) |
|
R
03/28 |
American Postmodernism; N. Scott Momaday: bio (2647-2648)
and excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain
(2648-2657);
notes on Momaday (with DQs) |
|
T
04/02 |
Art
Spiegelman: bio (2734-2736) and excerpt from Maus
(2736-2752);
notes on Spiegelman (with DQs) |
|
R
04/04 |
Yusef
Komunyakaa: bio (2721-2722), “Facing It” (2722-2723),
“Grenade” (PDF in CourseDen), and “Thanks” (PDF in CourseDen);
notes on Komunyakaa;
critical film viewing
techniques (PDF in CourseDen); preparatory notes
for Response Essay #2 (if needed): Claims
vs. Observations; Thesis
Construction; Thesis
Review; Paragraph
Construction; Content
Characteristics |
|
T 04/09 |
Response Essay #2
due (NOTE: THIS IS A REVISED DUE DATE);
No class in
lieu of Honors Convocation |
|
R
04/11 |
Watch Fight Club by today’s class; discussion of
Fight Club |
|
T
04/16 |
Discussion of Fight Club (cont.) |
|
R
04/18 |
Last day of
class; student evaluations; distribute/discuss
topic for
final exam (REVISED); mini conferences |
|
R 04/25 |
Final exam:
scheduled for 2130-03: 11:00-1:30 p.m. |