Anoka
Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2202: Introduction to Literature
Summer 2005 /
Section 90
Tentative Schedule
Tuesday, July
5, 2005
-- Poetry about Nature (10 poems)
- Syllabus, Schedule,
Essay Assignment Sheet, Participant
Information Sheet, Introductions, Questions
- Billy Collins,
"Introduction to Poetry" (handout)
- Robert Frost, “Stopping
By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- Robert Frost, “The Road
Not Taken”
- Robert Frost, “Birches”
- Robert Frost, "After
Apple-Picking"
- Walt Whitman, “A
Noiseless Patient Spider”
- Walt Whitman, “When I
Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (handout)
- Langston Hughes, “The
Negro Speaks of Rivers”
- Leslie Marmon Silko,
"Prayer to the Pacific"
- Victor Hernández Cruz,
"Problems with Hurricanes"
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 -- Last Day to Drop
for 100% Refund
Thursday, July
7, 2005 -- Poetry
about Love (10 poems)
- Chapter 1 -- “The Role of
Good Reading” -- pp. 1267-1277
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 18 -- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 73 -- “That time of year
thou mayst in me behold"
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 116 -- "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 130 -- "My mistress' eyes nothing like the sun"
- Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
- Anne Bradstreet, “To My
Dear and Loving Husband”
- Richard Wilbur, "Love
Calls Us to the Things of this World"
- Sharon Olds, "I Go Back
to May 1937"
- Louise Erdrich, “A Love
Medicine”
- Billy Collins, "Sonnet"
(handout)
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
-- Poetry about Death (11 poems)
- John Donne, "Death, be
not proud" (handout)
- Dudley Randall, "Ballad
of Birmingham"
- Dylan Thomas, “Do not go
gentle into that good night”
- Thomas Gray, "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard"
- Emily Dickinson, "I felt a funeral, in my
Brain"
- Emily Dickinson, “I heard
a Fly buzz—when I died”
- Emily Dickinson, “Because
I could not stop for Death”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel
Lee”
- Edwin Arlington Robinson,
“Richard Cory”
- Gwendolyn Brooks, “We
Real Cool”
- Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
Thursday, July 14, 2005 --
Short Fiction about Nature (3 stories)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Young Goodman Brown"
- Sarah Orne Jewett, “A
White Heron”
- Louise Erdrich, "The Red
Convertible"
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 --
Short Fiction about Love (3 stories)
- Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"
- James Baldwin, "Sonny's
Blues"
- Raymond Carver, “What
We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
Thursday, July 21, 2005 --
Short Fiction about Death (3 stories)
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Cask of Amontillado”
- Ernest Hemingway, “A
Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
- Bharati Mukherjee, “The
Management of Grief"
- Skim Chapter 3 -- The
section on "Taking Essay Exams" -- pp. 1314-1317
- Skim Chapter 4 --
“Writing about Stories” -- pp. 1318-1321
- Skim Chapter 5 --
“Writing about Poems” -- pp. 1325-1328
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
-- Writing about Literature
- MIDTERM IN-CLASS ESSAY EXAM ON POETRY AND
SHORT FICTION
- "Writing about Literature" -- pp. 1265-1266
- Chapter 2 -- "The Writing Process" -- pp.
1278-1301
- Chapter 3 -- “Some Common
Writing Assignments” -- pp.
1302-1314
- Brainstorm, Plan, and
Discuss Ideas in Class
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 -- Last Day to
Withdraw
Thursday, July 28, 2005 --
Writing about Literature
- ROUGH DRAFT OF ESSAY DUE
-- Bring four (4) copies for the peer review -- attendance is
required
- Peer Review Groups
- Instructor Feedback
- Q & A Session
Tuesday, August
2, 2005 -- Drama
- As a group, we will choose
one play from the anthology to read, study, and discuss -- see drama choice handout
- Read the entire play
before class
- Chapter 6 -- “Writing about
Plays” -- pp. 1331-1334
Thursday, August
4, 2005 -- Drama
- FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY DUE
- Watch the video of the
play
- Discuss textual vs. visual
versions of the play
Tuesday, August 9, 2005 --
Novel
- Jon Hassler, Staggerford
– have the entire novel read before class
- William Cullen Bryant,
"Thanatopsis" (handout)
Thursday, August 12 –
Final Exam
- FINAL
IN-CLASS ESSAY EXAM ON DRAMA AND NOVEL
- Return essays
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09 May 2006 by SRS
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