Course Calendar—American Literature--Williamson
9.19
Intro syllabus
9.20
Intro class
9.21
Huck Finn 1-68
Chpts 1-12
9.24 BC choices due
Huck Finn 68-201
Chpts 13-30
9.25
Huck Finn 201-281
Chpts 31-last
9.26
Twain “Story of a
Speech” & “War
Prayer” (handout)
9.27
Seattle
Winnemucca Hopkins
9.28
Bring BC book to class
Paper Intro
10.1
Eastman
Cherokee Oral Tradition
10.2
Washington “The
Struggle for an
Education
10.3
Washington “The
Atlanta Exposition
Address
10.4
Book club
10.5
Du Bois “Of Mr.
Washington and
Others”
10.8
Chopin “The
Awakening” Chpt 1-20
10.9
Chopin “The
Awakening” Chpts 21end
10.10
Gilman “The Yellow
Wallpaper
10.11
Book club
10.12
Glaspell “Trifles”
10.15
Faulkner “Barn
Burning”
10.16
Robinson “Richard
Cory” and “Miniver
Cheevy”
10.17
Frost, Williams, Pound
*
10.18
Book club
10.19
Eliot “The Love
Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
10.22
Cummings “[i sing of
Olaf],” “[r-p-o-p-h-e-ss-a-g-r],” [l(a],” “[the
Cambridge ladies…]”
10.23
Hughes**
10.24
Cullen “Yet I Do
Marvel,” “To Certain
Critics”
10.25
Book club
10.26
Hughes “Slave on the
Block”
10.29
O’Connor “Everything
That Rises Must
Converge”
10.30
MIDTERM PAPER
DUE
10.31
Roethke, Hayden,
Jarrell***
11.1
Book club
11.2
Ginsberg from “Howl,”
“Supermarket…”
11.5
Plath “Daddy,” “Lady
Lazarus”
11.6
Brooks “Kitchenette
Building,” “The Mother”
11.7
Rich+
11.8
Book club
11.9
Sadoff, Harjo,
Hudgins++
11.12
Holiday—no class
11.13
Kingston “The Woman
Warrior
11.14
O’Brien “The Things
They Carried”
11.15
Book Club
11.16
Morrison 1-“Tell me
your earrings. How
did she know?”
11.19
Morrison “Beloved was
shining and Paul D
didn’t like it”-end of pt1
11.20
Morrison Pt 2-end
11.21
Thanksgiving Holiday
11.22
Thanksgiving Holiday
11.23
Thanksgiving Holiday
11.26
Bc presentation
11.27
Bc presentation
11.28
Bc presentation
11.29
Bc presentation
11.30
Bc presentation
12.3
Bc presentation
12.4
portfolio
12.5
portfolio
12.6
Final Paper Due in my
office by 12 noon
12.7
Dead Day
12.10 final exam
*Frost—“Mending Wall,” “Home Burial,” “The Road Not Taken” Williams—“Red Wheelbarrow,” “This is Just to Say,” Pound—“The
River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
**Hughes—“The Negro Speaks…” “I, Too,” “Dream Boogie,” “Theme for English B,” “Deferred”
***Roethke—“My Papa’s Waltz,” “The Waking” Hayden—“Those Winter Sundays,” “Frederick Douglas,” “Aunt Jemima…” Jarrell—
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
+Rich—“Living in Sin,” “Diving into the Wreck” “Translations”
++Sadoff—“Nazis” Harjo—“For Alva Benson…,” “The Woman Hanging…,” Hudgins—“The Unpromised Land”