English 2235 Schedule

Anoka-Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2235: American Literature Since 1865
Spring 2007 / Section 1

Tentative Schedule

American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C)

M 1/15 -- NO CLASSES -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

W 1/17 -- Introduction to the Course / Syllabus / Schedule / Participant Introductions

F 1/19 -- Due: American Literature 1865-1914 (3-16) / Look for These Terms: Realists, Realism, Naturalism, Determinism, Regionalism, Local Color Writing

M 1/22 -- 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)

W 1/24 -- Sarah Orne Jewett: Introduction (595-597); A White Heron (597-604)

F 1/26 -- Stephen Crane: Introduction (901-903); The Open Boat (903-919)

M 1/29 -- Charles W. Chesnutt: Introduction (780-781); The Wife of His Youth (789-797)

W 1/31 -- Abraham Cahan: Introduction (820-822); A Sweat-Shop Romance (822-830)

F 2/2 -- John M. Oskison: Introduction (965); The Problem of Old Harjo (966-970)

M 2/5 -- Sui Sin Far: Introduction (866-867); Mrs. Spring Fragrance (867-875)

W 2/7 -- Discussion of a Selection by ARCC Visiting Writer Nicole Helget (excerpt) / NOTE: set your printer margins to 0.5" on all four sides (in page setup), or print it "landscape" (also in page setup) so that the right edge does not cut off / Extra Credit for attending the 1:00 p.m. or the 2:00 p.m. presentation in B 235 and doing a short paper (more details later)

F 2/9 -- Henry James: Introduction (465-468); Daisy Miller: A Study, Parts I and II (468-486)

M 2/12 -- Henry James: Daisy Miller: A Study, Parts III and IV (486-506)

W 2/14 -- Kate Chopin: Introduction (620-622); The Awakening, Chapters I-XIII (633-663)

F 2/16 -- Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters XIV-XXV (663-694)

M 2/19 -- NO CLASSES -- Presidents’ Day

W 2/21 -- Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters XXVI-XXXIX (694-723)

F 2/23 -- EXAM #1

American Literature 1914-1945 (Volume D)

M 2/26 -- Due: "American Literature Between the Wars" (1071-1086) / Look for These Terms: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, Communism, Psychoanalysis, Harlem, Expatriates / Assign Essay #1

W 2/28 -- Robert Frost: Introduction (1174-1175); Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (1191); Mending Wall (1177-1178); Birches (1189-1190)

F 3/2 -- NO CLASSES -- Metro Alliance Faculty Conference

M 3/5 -- DUE: COMPLETE DRAFT (at least 3 full pages) of Essay #1 -- Bring 4 Copies / PEER REVIEW for Essay #1

W 3/7 -- Robert Frost: _____________________

F 3/9 -- William Carlos Williams: Introduction (1263-1265); The Young Housewife (1265); Spring and All (1268); The Red Wheelbarrow (1271); This Is Just to Say (1274)

M 3/12 -- DUE: ESSAY #1 -- 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)

W 3/14 -- Marianne Moore: Introduction (1325-1326); Poetry (1327); T. S. Eliot: Introduction (1417-1420); The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1420-1423)

F 3/16 -- TBA -- Catch-Up / Other Poets and Poems

M 3/19 -- NO CLASSES -- Spring Break

W 3/21 -- NO CLASSES -- Spring Break

F 3/23 -- NO CLASSES -- Spring Break

M 3/26 -- Susan Glaspell: Introduction (1202); Trifles (1203-1212)

W 3/28 -- Willa Cather: Introduction (1111-1113); Neighbor Rosicky (1122-1142)

F 3/30 -- 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)

M 4/2 -- Katherine Anne Porter: Introduction (1462-1463); Flowering Judas (1464-1472)

W 4/4 -- Ernest Hemingway: Introduction (1846-1848); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1848-1864)

F 4/6 -- TBA -- One Other Fiction Writer

M 4/9 -- EXAM #2

American Literature 1945-Present (Volume E)

W 4/11 -- Gwendolyn Brooks: Introduction (2778-2779); kitchenette building (2779); the mother (2780); a song in the front yard (2780-2781); The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men (2781); We Real Cool (2782); The Bean Eaters (2782); The Blackstone Rangers (2786-2788)

F 4/13-- Allen Ginsberg: Introduction (2863-2865); Howl (2865-2872); A Supermarket in California (2872-2873)

M 4/16 -- Sylvia Plath: Introduction (2967-2968); Morning Song (2968-2969); Lady Lazarus (2969-2971); Daddy (2972-2974); The Applicant (2978)

W 4/18 -- Ed-Bok Lee: Real Karaoke People, sections I and II (9-56) -- also read the acknowledgements and biography -- see also his website at http://www.edboklee.com

F 4/20 -- TBA -- Catch-Up / Other Poets and Poems

M 4/23 -- Ed-Bok Lee: Real Karaoke People, sections III and IV (57-99)

W 4/25 -- Presentations by Ed-Bok Lee at 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. in B 235 -- Attendance is Required at the 11:00 a.m. Presentation -- Extra Credit for attending the 12:00 p.m. presentation (more details later)

F 4/27 -- Discussion of Ed-Bok Lee and His Book / Assign Essay #2

M 4/30 -- David Mamet: Introduction (2508-2509); Glengarry Glen Ross, Act One (2509-2523)

W 5/2 -- David Mamet: Glengarry Glen Ross, Act Two (2523-2542)

F 5/4 -- Kurt Vonnegut: Introduction (2181-2183); Fates Worse Than Death (2183-2190)

M 5/7 -- DUE: ESSAY #2 -- Ursula K. Le Guin: Introduction (2225-2226); Schrodinger's Cat (2226-2232); She Unnames Them (2232-2233)

W 5/9 -- Toni Morrison: Introduction (2252-2253); Recitatif (2253-2266)

F 5/11 -- Louise Erdrich: Introduction (2561-2562); Fleur (2562-2571)

W 5/16 -- EXAM #3 / Final Exam Period / 11:50 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. / H 121