Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2202: Introduction to Literature
Summer 2006 / Section 90
Revised Schedule #1

Thursday, July 27, 2006 -- Short Fiction: "Traditional" Storytelling

• Chapter 4 -- “Writing about Stories” (1318-1321)
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- “A White Heron” (50-58)
• Louise Erdrich -- "The Red Convertible" (359-367)

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 -- Short Fiction: Stories Told Mostly Through Dialogue

• FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY AND PORTFOLIO DUE
• Edgar Allan Poe -- “The Cask of Amontillado” (14-19)
• Ernest Hemingway -- “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (176-179)
• Grace Paley -- "A Conversation with My Father" (216-220)

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

• MEET IN HUMANITIES 122
• 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 20 July 2006 by SRS
Please address comments to scott.stankey@anokaramsey.edu