Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2235: American Literature II: 1865 to the Present
Spring 2005 / Section 1
Tentative Schedule #2

 

M 3/14 -- Discuss Volume E Selections and Rationale / Determine Schedule for Part Two of the Course

W 3/16 -- Volume E Discussion (continued)

F 3/18 -- PEER REVIEW DAY -- Bring four (4) copies of a complete rough draft of your essay

 

American Literature 1945-Present (Volume E)

 

M 3/21 -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- pages 2778-2789 -- Read the Introduction, "kitchenette building," "the mother," "a song in the front yard," "The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men," "We Real Cool," "The Bean Eaters," and "The Blackstone Rangers"

W 3/23 -- Flannery O'Connor -- pages 2203-2225 -- Read the Introduction, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," and "Good Country People"

F 3/25 -- Allen Ginsberg -- pages 2863-2877 -- Read the Introduction, "Howl," "A Supermarket in California," and "Ego Confession"

 

M 3/28 -- Ralph Ellison -- pages 2064-2093 -- Read the Introduction, "Cadillac Flambé," and the Prologue and Chapter 1 from Invisible Man

W 3/30 -- Elizabeth Bishop -- pages 2713-2731 -- Read the Introduction, "The Fish," "The Bight," "The Armadillo," "Sestina," "In the Waiting Room," and "One Art"

F 4/1 -- John Cheever -- pages 2041-2051 -- Read the Introduction and "The Swimmer"

 

M 4/4 -- James Wright -- pages 2921-2927 -- Read the Introduction, "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," "To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota," "A Blessing," "A Centenary Ode," and "The Journey"

W 4/6 -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- pages 2299-2320 -- Read the Introduction, Dutchman, "An Agony. As Now," "A Poem for Willie Best," and "Will They Cry When You're Gone, You Bet"

F 4/8 -- Baraka (continued)

 

M 4/11 -- EXAM #3

W 4/13 -- Kurt Vonnegut -- pages 2181-2190 -- Read the Introduction and "Fates Worse Than Death" -- AND -- Ursula K. LeGuin -- pages 2225-2233 -- Read the Introduction, "Schrödinger's Cat," and "She Unnames Them"

F 4/15 -- NO CLASS -- Professor at a Conference

 

M 4/18 -- David Mamet -- pages 2508-2542 -- Read the Introduction and Glengarry Glen Ross

W 4/20 -- Mamet (continued)

F 4/22 -- Toni Morrison -- pages 2252-2266 -- Read the Introduction and "Recitatif"

 

M 4/25 -- Thomas Pynchon -- pages 2355-2367 -- Read the Introduction and "Entropy"

W 4/27 -- Li-Young Lee -- pages 3094-3100 -- Read the Introduction, "The Gift," "Persimmons," "Eating Alone," "Eating Together," "Mnemonic," "This Room and Everything in It"

F 4/29 -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- pages 2434-2459 -- Read the Introduction, "Towards a New Consciousness," "How to Tame a Wild Tongue," and "El sonavabitche"

 

M 5/2 -- Richard Powers -- pages 2572-2606 -- Read the Introduction and "From Galatea 2.2"

W 5/4 -- Charles Wright -- pages 2983-2991 -- Read the Introduction, "Him," "Two Stories," "From A Journal of the Year of the Ox," "Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho," "The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI," "Star Turn II," "North American Bear"

F 5/6 -- OPEN DAY (to be used as needed)

 

T 5/10 -- FINAL EXAM / Final Exam Period: 11:50 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. / H 221

 


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Last revised on 08 January 2007 by SRS
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