L105 Reading Assignments
Week
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Assignments
"Understanding Literature" – RRW7, 2-16; RRW8 – same
"Reading and Writing About Literature" – RRW7, 17-26; RRW8 – same
"All About Suicide" – RRW7, 6/7; RR8 – 7
"Hills Like White Elephants" – Hemingway – RRW7 146-49; RRW8 – 129
"Story of an Hour" – Chopin – RRW 197-99; RRW8 – 205
"Cask of Amontillado" – Poe – RRW 331-36; RRW8 – 325
"Battle Royal" – Ellison – RRW 278-88; RRW8 – 284
"I Stand Here Ironing" – Olsen – RRW 290-96; RRW8 – 296
"The Yellow Wallpaper" – Perkin – RRW 394-405; RRW8 – 376
"Miss Brill" – Mansfield – RRW 231-34; RRW8 – 241
"Greasy Lake" – Boyle – RRW 614-22; RRW8 – 573
"A & P" – Updike – RRW 224-29; RRW8 – 234
"Where are you Going, Where have you been?" – Oates – RRW 547-58; RRW8
– 505
"The Lesson" – Bambara
"The Lottery" – Jackson – RRW 443-49; RRW8 – 416
"Everyday Use" – Walker – RRW 451-57; RRW8 – 423
Handout on symbolism and allegory
Chapter 10, RRW 150 - 165; RRW8 – Chapter 10 (especially “Snow” on 135, “A
Mix Tape” on 138, and “Girl” on 139). + Chapter 11 (especially “The Girl” on
145, “A Hunger Artist” on 152 and “Two Questions” on 167).
"Understanding Drama" RRW7 1075 – 1093; RRW8 –
Trifles RRW7 1153 – 64; RRW8 – 1125
Sure Thing -- click on name of play for link to pdf ...
Trying to Find Chinatown RRW7 1557 – 62; RRW8 – 1549
"Elements of Drama" online handout ... click title for link ...
Workout RRW7 1107-08; RRW8 – not avail.
Beauty RRW7 1108-13; RRW8 – 1087
Tape RRW7 1113-16; RRW8 – 1094
Nine Ten RRW7 1148-52; RRW8 – 1119
Asteroid Belt RRW8 – 1082; RRW7 – not avail.
Proof – RRW7 1238-90; RRW8 – 1280 #- or Death of a Salesman RRW 1293-1364; RRW8 – 1262
Poetry
Author
ee cummings
William Carlos Williams
James Wright
Adrienne Rich
ee cummings
Emily Dickinson
Charles Bukowski
ee cummings
Dylan Thomas
Billy Collins
Emily Dickinson
Pablo Neruda
Martin Espada
Adrienne Rich
Matsuo Basho
Dudley Randall
Sylvia Plath
Lewis Carroll
Elizabeth Bishop
ee cummings
May Swenson
HD
John Keats
John Keats
Edward Arlington Robinson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Selection
Week 12
“Understanding Poetry”
“Reading and Writing about Poetry”
“l(a”
“Red Wheelbarrow”
“Autumn Begins …”
“Living in Sin”
“In Just-”
“I Dwell in Possibility”
“Dog Fight”
“anyone lived … ”
“Do Not Go Gentle …”
“Introduction to Poetry”
“After Great Pain … ”
“Tonight I Can Write”
Week 13
“Sound”
“Form”
“Why I went to College”
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
“Four Haiku”
“Ballad of Birmingham”
“Daddy”
“Jabberwocky”
“Sestina”
“the sky was can dy”
“Women”
“Helen”
“La Belle sans Merci …”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Richard Cory”
“Ode to the West Wind”
Week 14
Robert Frost
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Margaret Atwood
Wilfred Owen
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
“Imagery”
“Figures of Speech”
“Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth”
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
“My Mistress’s Eyes”
“Shall I Compare Thee …”
“Harlem”
“Metaphors”
“You Fit Into Me”
“Dulce et Decorum Est”
“The Fish”
“To See a World …”
RRW7
RRW8
709 - PS8
721- 741
718
801
779
780
781-82
1013
790-91
795-96
930
1010-1011
1012
652 – 663
664 - 677
661
744
Not Available
716
718
984
Not Available
736
895
978
982
846-68
869-97
882
853-4
883
769-70
826-28
866
879
888
895
914
1033-35
1035-6
1053
1056-58
796 -818
819 - 857
838
804
841
706
776
816
832
846
852
1001
1005
1007
1027
1029
799-812
813-45
898-922
807
808-9
813
814-15
819
836
942-3
1000-1
1002
741 – 759
760 – 795
858 - 885
753
756
760
762
767
785
909
968
971
Not Available
1019
TS Eliot
Louise Erdrich
Joy Harjo
Robert Frost
Sharon Olds
Sylvia Plath
Carl Sandburg
“Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”*
“Indian Boarding School”
“Perhaps the World Ends Here”
“Road Not Taken”
“The One Girl”
“Mirror”
“Fog”
Maya Angelou
Pat Mora
Thomas Hardy
Amy Lowell
Deborah Garrison
Ariel Dorfman
Marge Piercy
Theodore Roethke
William Stafford
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Nikki Giovanni
Seamus Heaney
Li Young-Lee
WS Merwin
Marge Piercy
Pat Mora
Stevie Smith
“Voice”
“Discovering Themes”
“My Arkansas”
“Immigrants”
“The Man He Killed”
“Patterns”
“Please Fire Me”
“Hope”
“Secretary Chant”
“My Papa’s Waltz”
“Traveling through the Dark”
“Dream Variations”
“Africa” *
“We Wear the Mask”
“Nikki-Rosa”
“Mid-term Break”
“From Blossoms”
“Blueberries after Dark”
“Barbie Doll”
“La Migra”
“Not Waving but Drowning”
Week 15
1017-21
1022
Not available
1024
1047-48
1050
936
989
993
1000
811
1022
Not available
899
742-72
923-50
19,20
892
753-54
754
761-62
766-67
Not available
925
935
Not available
995
1017
1027-8
1030
Not available
1043-4
1048
Not available
1058-9
678 – 710
886 - 917
19
Not available
689
691
Not available
702
771
889
902
924
Not available
988
Not available
1001
1010
Not available
1023
1017
1032