English 2235 Schedule - Spring 2005

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

M 1/10 -- Syllabus / Schedule / Questionnaire / A Brief Overview of American History and Literature

American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C)

W 1/12 -- Sarah Orne Jewett: Introduction (595-597); A White Heron (597-604)

F 1/14 -- Charles W. Chesnutt: Introduction (780-781); The Wife of His Youth (789-797)

M 1/17 -- NO CLASSES -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

W 1/19 -- Henry James: Introduction (465-468); Daisy Miller: A Study, Parts I and II (468-486)

F 1/21 -- Henry James: Daisy Miller: A Study, Parts III and IV (486-506)

M 1/24 -- Kate Chopin: Introduction (620-622); The Awakening, Chapters I-XIII (633-663)

W 1/26 -- Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Chapters XIV-XXV (663-694)

F 1/28 -- Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Chapters XXVI-XXXIX (694-723)

M 1/31 -- John M. Oskison: Introduction (965); The Problem of Old Harjo (966-970)

W 2/2 -- Jack London: Introduction (971-972); The Law of Life (972-976); To Build a Fire (977-987)

F 2/4 -- MIDTERM EXAM #1

American Literature 1914-1945 (Volume D)

M 2/7 -- Willa Cather: Introduction (1111-1113); The Sculptor's Funeral (1113-1122)

W 2/9 -- Robert Frost: Introduction (1174-1175); Mending Wall (1177-1178); The Road Not Taken (1187); Birches (1189-1190); Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (1191)

F 2/11 -- William Faulkner: Introduction (1693-1695); Barn Burning (1790-1803)

M 2/14 -- William Carlos Williams: Introduction (1263-1265); The Young Housewife (1265); Spring and All (1268); The Red Wheelbarrow (1271); This Is Just to Say (1274)

W 2/16 -- Katherine Anne Porter: Introduction (1462-1463); Flowering Judas (1464-1472)

F 2/18 -- Muriel Rukeyser: Introduction (1946-1947); Effort at Speech Between Two People (1947-1948); Movie (1948-1949); Suicide Blues (1950); Long Enough (1950-1951)

M 2/21 -- NO CLASSES -- Presidents’ Day

W 2/23 -- 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)

F 2/25 -- 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)

M 2/28 -- D'Arcy McNickle: Introduction (1919); Hard Riding (1920-1925)

W 3/2 -- MIDTERM EXAM #2

F 3/4 -- NO CLASSES -- Metro Alliance Faculty Development Day

M 3/7 -- NO CLASSES -- Spring Break

W 3/9 -- NO CLASSES -- Spring Break

F 3/11 -- NO CLASSES -- Spring Break

American Literature 1945-Present (Volume E)

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