English 2230 Schedule - Fall 2007

Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2230: American Literature I
Fall 2007 / Section 1

Tentative Schedule -- Revision #3 (11-09-07)

FACTS AND FICTIONS

F 11/9 -- Historical Background: "American Facts and American Fiction" (935-943) -- and Writing about Literature Lecture

M 11/12 -- NO CLASSES -- VETERANS' DAY

W 11/14 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Introduction (966-968); My Kinsman, Major Molineux (973-986)

F 11/16 -- Edgar Allan Poe: Introduction (1018-1020); Ligeia (1020-1030)

M 11/19 -- DRAMA ESSAY DUE -- and -- Fanny Fern: Introduction (1062-1063); Read All Journalism (1063-1072)

W 11/21 -- Herman Melville: Introduction (1072-1074); Bartleby, the Scrivener (1074-1101)

F 11/23 -- NO CLASSES -- THANKSGIVING BREAK

M 11/26 -- Rebecca Harding Davis: Introduction (1149-1150); Life in the Iron-Mills (1150-1177)

W 11/28 -- PEER REVIEW DAY -- FOUR (4) COPIES OF A COMPLETE FIRST DRAFT AND ATTENDANCE ARE REQUIRED

POETRY

F 11/30 -- Historical Background: "New Poetic Voices" (1193-1199) and "The American Muse: Poetry at Midcentury" (1200-1201)

M 12/3 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Introduction (1213); A Psalm of Life (HANDOUT); The Jewish Cemetery at Newport (1214-1215); My Lost Youth (1216-1218)

W 12/5 -- CRITICAL ESSAY DUE -- and -- Edgar Allan Poe: Introduction (1222); The Raven (1224-1227); Annabel Lee (1227-1228)

F 12/7 -- Walt Whitman: Introduction (1234-1238); One's-Self I Sing (1238); Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City (1284); I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing (1287); When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1293); Beat! Beat! Drums! (1294); A Noiseless Patient Spider (1306)

M 12/10 -- Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (1288-1292); "Whitman through a Modern Lens" (1309-1311); an Ezra Pound poem (HANDOUT)

W 12/12 -- Emily Dickinson: Introduction (1312-1315); Poems # ______________________________

F 12/14 -- Emily Dickinson: Poems # ______________________________; "Dickinson through a Modern Lens" (1348-1351)

M 12/17 -- EXAM #3 (Scheduled Final Exam Time): 11:50 a.m. - 1:50 p.m.