English 2235 Schedule

Anoka-Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2235: American Literature II: 1865 to the Present
Spring 2004 / Section 1
Tentative Schedule

M 1/12 -- Syllabus / Schedule / Notecards / A Brief Overview of American History and Literature

American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C)

W 1/14 -- Mark Twain: Introduction (212-215); The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (215-219); The Art of Authorship (407-408); How to Tell a Story (408-411); Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences (412-420)

F 1/16 -- Sarah Orne Jewett: Introduction (595-597); A White Heron (597-604)

M 1/19 -- No Classes (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

W 1/21 -- Henry James: Introduction (465-468); Daisy Miller: A Study, Parts I and II (468-486)

F 1/23 -- Henry James: Daisy Miller: A Study, Parts III and IV (486-506)

M 1/26 -- Kate Chopin: Introduction (620-622); The Awakening, Chapters I-XIII (633-663)

W 1/28 -- Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters XIV-XXV (663-694)

F 1/30 -- Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters XXVI-XXXIX (694-723)

M 2/2 -- Booker T. Washington: Introduction (744-745); Up from Slavery (746-780)

W 2/4 -- W.E.B. Du Bois: Introduction (876-877); The Souls of Black Folk (877-901)

F 2/6 -- Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin): Introduction (1006-1008); Impressions on an Indian Childhood (1008-1019); The School Days of an Indian Girl (1019-1029); An Indian Teacher Among Indians (1029-1035)

M 2/9 -- Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa): Introduction (797); From the Deep Woods to Civilization (798-810)

W 2/11 -- Louise Erdrich Day #1 (Volume E): Introduction (2561-2562); Fleur (2562-2571)

NOTE: Louise Erdrich is our visiting writer this semester, and she will be the subject of our essay as well. You are required to attend one of her presentations today, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. and/or at 2:00 p.m. (locations to be announced). Take good notes during the presentation; your notes will be collected on Friday, Februrary 13, 2004, at the beginning of class.

F 2/13 -- Stephen Crane: Introduction (901-903); The Open Boat (903-919)

M 2/16 -- No Classes (Presidents’ Day)

W 2/18 -- Edith Wharton: Introduction (845-846); Souls Belated (847-865)

F 2/20 -- EXAM #1

American Literature 1914-1945 (Volume D)

M 2/23 -- Willa Cather: Introduction (1111-1113); Neighbor Rosicky (1122-1142)

W 2/25 -- Susan Glaspell: Introduction (1202); Trifles (1203-1212)

F 2/27 -- No Classes (Metro Alliance Day)

M 3/1 -- Robert Frost: Introduction (1174-1175); The Pasture (1175-1176); Mending Wall (1177-1178); The Road Not Taken (1187); Birches (1189-1190)

W 3/3 -- Robert Frost: Out, Out— (1190); Nothing Gold Can Stay (1191); Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (1191); Departmental (1195); The Figure a Poem Makes (1200-1201)

F 3/5 -- William Carlos Williams: Introduction (1263-1265); The Young Housewife (1265); Spring and All (1268); The Red Wheelbarrow (1271); This Is Just to Say (1274); The Dance (1280-1281)

M 3/8 -- No Classes / Spring Break

W 3/10 -- No Classes / Spring Break

F 3/12 -- No Classes / Spring Break

M 3/15 -- Katherine Anne Porter: Introduction (1462-1463); Flowering Judas (1464-1472)

W 3/17 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Introduction (1641-1642); Babylon Revisited (1658-1672)

F 3/19 -- Ernest Hemingway: Introduction (1846-1848); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1848-1864)

M 3/22 -- William Faulkner: Introduction (1693-1695); Barn Burning (1790-1803)

W 3/24 -- Black Elk and John G. Neihardt: Introduction (1087-1088); Black Elk Speaks (1088-1100); D'Arcy McNickle: Introduction (1919); Hard Riding (1920-1925)

F 3/26 -- Louise Erdrich Day #2: Discuss Handouts and Essay Assignment

M 3/29 -- Zora Neale Hurston: Introduction (1506-1507); The Eatonville Anthology (1507-1515); How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1516-1518); The Gilded Six-Bits (1518-1527)

W 3/31 -- Langston Hughes: Introduction (1891-1892); Mother to Son (1893); I, Too (1894); Silhouette (1899); Visitors to the Black Belt (1899); Note on Commercial Theatre (1900)

F 4/2 -- EXAM #2

American Literature 1945-Present (Volume E)

M 4/5 -- Louise Erdrich Day #3: Discuss All Texts and Essay Assignment

W 4/7 -- Writing Day / No Class

F 4/9 -- PEER REVIEW for Louise Erdrich Essay / DUE: Four (4) Copies of a Complete Draft

M 4/12 -- ____________________

W 4/14 -- ____________________

F 4/16 -- ____________________

M 4/19 -- ____________________ / DUE: Louise Erdrich Essay Final Draft

W 4/21 -- ____________________

F 4/23 -- ____________________

M 4/26 -- ____________________

W 4/28 -- ____________________

F 4/30 -- ____________________

M 5/3 -- ____________________

W 5/5 -- ____________________

F 5/7 -- ____________________

Th 5/13 -- EXAM #3 / Final Exam Period / 11:50 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. / B 272

NOTES: Additional reading and writing assignments will be announced in class; you are responsible for any new assignments or schedule changes announced during any class you miss. Bring your textbook and class notebook with you to every class.