Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2202: Introduction to Literature
Summer 2006 / Section 90
Tentative Schedule

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 -- NO CLASSES -- Independence Day

Thursday, July 6, 2006 -- Poetry: The Sounds of Words (9 poems)

• Syllabus, Schedule, Participant Information Sheet, Introductions, Questions
• Billy Collins -- "Introduction to Poetry"
• Walt Whitman -- "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
• Jim Krusoe -- "Duck Love"
• Edgar Allan Poe -- “Annabel Lee” (458-459)
• Robert Frost -- “The Road Not Taken” (509)
• Robert Frost -- “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” (511-512)
• Theodore Roethke -- "My Papa's Waltz" (547)
• Gwendolyn Brooks -- “We Real Cool” (559)
• Sylvia Plath -- “Daddy” (602-604)

Friday, July 7, 2006 -- Last Day to Drop for 100% Refund

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 -- Poetry: The Meanings of Words (12 poems)

• Chapter 1 -- “The Role of Good Reading” (1267-1277)
• Chapter 5 -- “Writing about Poems” (1325-1330)
• Emily Dickinson -- “I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died” (489)
• Emily Dickinson -- “Because I could not stop for Death” (490)
• Edwin Arlington Robinson -- "Richard Cory" (505-506) -- and Simon and Garfunkel's Version
• Robert Frost -- “Birches” (510-511)
• William Carlos Williams -- "Spring and All" (518)
• Marianne Moore -- "Poetry" (521-522)
• Langston Hughes -- “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (538)
• Sylvia Plath -- "Metaphors" (602)
• Larry Levis -- "The Poem You Asked For" (653)
• Yusef Komunyakaa -- "Facing It" (657-658)
• Victor Hernández Cruz -- "Problems with Hurricanes" (664-665)
• Wang Ping -- "Syntax" (707)

Thursday, July 13, 2006 -- Poetry: The Forms of Poetry (12 poems)

The Sonnet:

• William Shakespeare -- Sonnet 73 -- “That time of year thou mayst in me behold" (379-380)
• John Donne -- "Batter my heart, three-personed God" (384)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” (457)
• Billy Collins -- "Sonnet"

The Villanelle:

• Elizabeth Bishop -- "One Art" (550)
• Dylan Thomas -- “Do not go gentle into that good night” (556-557)

The Ballad:

• Dudley Randall -- "Ballad of Birmingham" (552-553)

Open Forms:

• E.E. Cummings -- "In Just--" (533-534)
• Charles Bukowski -- "my old man" (563-565)
• James Wright -- "A Blessing" (585-586)
• Nancy Willard -- "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him" (617-618)
• Louise Erdrich -- “A Love Medicine” (698-699)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 -- 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
• We will discuss the play, then watch the video of the play, then discuss textual vs. visual versions of the play
• Chapter 6 -- “Writing about Plays” (1331-1334)
• Chapter 3 -- The section on "Taking Essay Exams" (1314-1317)

Thursday, July 20, 2006 -- Midterm Exam / Writing About Literature

• MIDTERM IN-CLASS EXAM ON POETRY AND DRAMA (one hour)
• "Writing about Literature" (1265-1266)
• Chapter 2 -- "The Writing Process" (1278-1301)
• Chapter 3 -- The section on “Some Common Writing Assignments” (1302-1304)
• Handout and Discuss the Essay Assignment
• Brainstorm, Plan, and Discuss Essay Ideas in Class

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 -- Peer Review / 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

Wednesday, July 26, 2006 -- Last Day to Withdraw

Thursday, July 27, 2006 -- Short Fiction: Third-Person Narration

• Chapter 4 -- “Writing about Stories” (1318-1321)
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- “A White Heron” (50-58)
• Ernest Hemingway -- “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (176-179)
• Chinua Achebe -- "Civil Peace" (266-270)

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 -- Short Fiction: First-Person Narration

• FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY AND PORTFOLIO DUE
• Edgar Allan Poe -- “The Cask of Amontillado” (14-19)
• Grace Paley -- "A Conversation with My Father" (216-220)
• Alice Walker -- "Everyday Use" (324-331)

Thursday, August 3, 2006 -- Short Fiction: Very Short Fiction / Unusual Forms

• Chapter 3 -- The section on "Literary Criticism and Literary Theory" (1304-1314)
• Kate Chopin -- "The Story of an Hour" (66-68)
• Margaret Atwood -- "Happy Endings" (300-303)
• Jamaica Kincaid -- "Girl" (347-348)
• Sandra Cisneros -- "The House on Mango Street" (358-359)

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 -- Long Fiction: The Novel

• Sheila O'Connor -- Where No Gods Came – have the entire novel read before class (196 pages)

Thursday, August 10 -- Final Exam

• FINAL IN-CLASS EXAM ON SHORT FICTION AND NOVEL (one hour)
• Return Essays
• Course Evaluations

Copyright © 2006 Scott R. Stankey / All Rights Reserved
Last revised on 10 December 2007 by SRS
Please address comments to scott.stankey@anokaramsey.edu