Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2202: Introduction to Literature
Summer 2004 / Section 55
Tentative Schedule

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 – 17^th Century Poetry:

• Syllabus, Schedule, Short Paper Assignment Sheet, Participant Information Sheet, Introductions, Questions
   
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 -- “That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 -- “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
   
• John Donne, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”
• John Milton, “When I consider how my light is spent”
   
• Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
• Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
   
• George Herbert, “Easter Wings”
• Anne Finch, “From The Introduction”
• Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”

Thursday, July 8, 2004 – 19^th Century Poetry:

• Chapter 1, “The Role of Good Reading,” pp. 1267-1277
   
• William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us”
• John Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
   
• Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Tears, idle tears”
• Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
• Emily Dickinson, “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”
• Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death”
• Christina Rossetti, “Song”
   
• Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
• Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (HANDOUT)
   
• QUIZ #1

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 – Early 20^th Century Poetry:

• Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”
• Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
• Robert Frost, “Birches”
• Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
   
• Marianne Moore, “Poetry”
• T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
   
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
• Langston Hughes, “Harlem”
   
• Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
• Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Bean Eaters”
   
• QUIZ #2
• PAPER #1 DUE

Thursday, July 15, 2004 – Later 20^th Century Poetry:

• Chapter 5, “Writing about Poems,” pp. 1325-1330
   
• Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
• Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”
   
• Elizabeth Bishop, “The Armadillo” (HANDOUT)
• Robert Lowell, “Skunk Hour”
• James Wright, “A Blessing”
   
• Adrienne Rich, “Diving Into the Wreck”
• Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
   
• Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It”
• Carolyn Forche, “The Colonel”
   
• Louise Erdrich, “A Love Medicine”
• Sherman Alexie, “Postcards from Columbus”
   
• QUIZ #3

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 – 19^th Century Short Fiction:

• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
• Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron”
• Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
   
• QUIZ #4
• PAPER #2 DUE

Thursday, July 22, 2004 – Early 20^th Century Short Fiction:

• D. H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
• Katherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
• Ernest Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
   
• Chapter 4, “Writing about Stories,” pp. 1318-1324
   
• QUIZ #5

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 – Later 20^th Century Short Fiction:

• Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
• Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
• Bharati Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief”
   
• QUIZ #6
• PAPER #3 DUE

Thursday, July 29, 2004 – Later 20^th Century Short Fiction:

• Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
• Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
• Amy Tan, “Two Kinds”
   
• Chapter 3, “Some Common Writing Assignments” (only the section on Literary Criticism and Theory), pp. 1304-1314
   
• QUIZ #7

Tuesday, August 3, 2004 – Drama:

• Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie – have entire play read before class, pages 956-1011 (56 pages)
   
• QUIZ #8
• PAPER #4 DUE

Thursday, August 5, 2004 – Drama:

• Chapter 6, “Writing about Plays,” pp. 1331-1337
   
• Tennessee Williams, “Portrait of a Girl in Glass” (HANDOUT)
   
• VIDEO – The Glass Menagerie
   
• QUIZ #9

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 – Novel:

• Jon Hassler, Staggerford – have entire novel read before class, pages 1-294 (294 pages)
   
• QUIZ #10
• PAPER #5 DUE

Thursday, August 12 – Final Exam:

• FINAL EXAM – QUIZ #11 / PAPER #6 – written in class

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Last revised on 09 May 2006 by SRS
Please address comments to scott.stankey@anokaramsey.edu