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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
Week 1
a. Class Introduction
b. Bio Poem performed
Week 2
a. No class: Labor Day
b. Discuss Chapter 23 (WH), Chapter 1 (PL), and sign up for presentations
Week 3
a. Presentations begin! Discuss Chapter 4 and 6 (PL) “Goner Pillow Company”
b. Introduction to Minority Report--focus on author and what literary critics have
said), and discuss the beginning through page 21 (found in Atlas under “Links”).
Week 4
a. Finish Minority Report and group work. Assign Essay I
b. Begin film
Week 5
a. Continue film
b. Finish film. Rough draft Essay I due (2 copies needed)
OCTOBER
Week 6
a. Essay I due. Discuss Chapter 5 “Snow,” “The Plot,” “Love and Other
Catastrophes,” and “Girl” (PL).
b. Discuss 161-162 and 344-345 (WH) and sample found in Atlas under “Links.”
Discuss Literary Criticism ( found in Atlas under “Files”). Assign Essay/Assignment
II
Week 7
a. Library day
b. Discuss Chapter 10 “The Things They Carried” and Chapter 11 from Fun at Home
and “Cathedral” (PL). Proposal due (you will work on these ideas/topic for the rest
of the semester)
Week 8
a. Discuss Chapter 12 “Doe Season” and Chapter 13 “Sister Godzilla” and “A Very
Old Man…” (PL)
b. Continue discussing Chapter 13 “Two Kinds” (PL) and Chapter 18 (WH)
Week 9
a. Discuss Chapter 8 from Persepolis and 9 (PL) and film viewing; in class writing
b. Creative Positioning and Annotated Bibliography due; discuss Chapter 14 and
Chapter 15 “Negro,” “Suicide Note,” and “The World is Too Much With Us” (PL).
Assign Essay III
NOVEMBER
Week 10
a. Continue Chapter 15 “The Unknown Citizen,” “Fire and Ice,” and “Patterns” and
Chapter 16 “We Real Cool” (PL)
b. Discuss Chapter 17 “Red Wheelbarrow,” “In a Station of the Metro” and Chapter
18 “Similes” and “Metaphors” (PL)
Week 11
a. Discuss Chapter 13; begin Romeo and Juliet
b. Finish film
Week 12
a. Discuss Chapter 18 “Harlem,” “Daddy,” (PL) and recording; in class writing
b. Discuss “To His Coy Mistress,” “Out, Out,” and “Ode to a Nightingale” (PL)
Week 13
a. Essay III Rough Draft due (2 copies needed)
b. Holiday—No class
Week 14
a. Essay III due; Discuss Chapter 19 “As I Walked Out One… and Chapter 20 “One
the Sonnet,” and “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (PL)
b. Discuss “What is an Epigram?,” “Her Whole Life is an Epigram,” “Four Haiku,”
and “American Haiku; in class work
DECEMBER
Week 15
a. CREATIVE PROJECTS
b. CREATIVE PROJECTS
Week 16
a. CREATIVE PROJECTS
b. CREATIVE PROJECTS
Week 17
a. Final exam Essay IV due