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Assignment One : The Natural World
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Aug 20
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Read: Introduction to Assignment One
Literature reading assignment one:
Philip Freneau "On the Religion of Nature" pp. 418-419; William Cullen Bryant, "To A Waterfowl" and "The Prairies" pp. 479-482; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" Introduction and chapter 1, pp. 492-495; Henry David Thoreau, chapters 2 and 18 from Walden pp. 886-896 and pp. 912-920; Walt Whitman "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" and "The Dalliance of Eagles" p. 1067; Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron" pp. 1591-1598.
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Assignment Two : The Natural World
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Aug 25 |
Read: Introduction
to Assignment 2
Literature reading assignment two:
Emily
Dickinson "I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died" and "The Brain
is wider than the Sky" pp. 1215-1216; "Apparently with no surprise" p.
1221; Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" pp. 1779-1795; Jack London, "To
Build a Fire" pp. 1826-1836; Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken," pp.1960; "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Desert Places," and "Design"
pp. 1963-1964; William Carlos Williams "Spring and All" p. 2012.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, September 2.
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Assignment Three : The Urban Environment
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Sep 2 |
Read: Introduction
to Assignment 3
Literature reading assignment three:
Walt Whitman "Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry" pp. 1057-1062; Herman Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener"
pp. 1093-1118; Carl Sandburg "Chicago" pp. 1988-1989; Gwendolyn
Brooks "kitchenette building"
pp. 2538-2539, "We Real Cool" p. 2540; Allen Ginsberg "A Supermarket
in California" p. 2601.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, September 9. |
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Assignment Four : The Urban Environment
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Sep 8 |
Read: Introduction
to Assignment 4
Literature reading assignment four:
Rebecca Harding Davis "Life in the Iron Mills" pp. 1227-1253;
Allen Ginsberg "Howl" pp. 2592-2600.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, September 16.
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Fri
Sep 12 |
Click here to access Examination # 1. This examination covers Assignments One through Four and is due Friday, September 19. |
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Assignment Five : Maturation
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Mon
Sep 15 |
Read: Introduction
to Assignment 5
Literature reading assignment five:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux" pp. 592-605
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"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" pp. 615-622; William Faulkner "Barn Burning"
pp. 2224-2236; Richard Wright "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" pp. 2289-2297.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, September 23.
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Fri
Sep 19 |
Examination # 1 is due today. |
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Assignment Six : Maturation
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Sep 22
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Read: Introduction
to Assignment 6
Literature reading assignment six:
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl pp.
805-825; Countee Cullen "Incident" p. 2284; James Baldwin "Going
to Meet the Man" pp. 2557-2568.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, September 30.
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Assignment Seven : Parents and Children
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Sep 29
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Read: Introduction
to Assignment 7
Literature reading assignment seven:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Mother's Struggle" from Uncle Tom's
Cabin, pp. 767-776; Langston Hughes "Mother to Son" pp. 2265; Gwendolyn Brooks
"The Mother" p. 2539; Galway Kinnell "After Making Love We Hear
Footsteps" pp., 2605-2606;
Lucille Clifton "wishes for sons" p. 2716; Alice Walker "Everyday
Use" pp. 2771-2778.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, October 7.
Read: Click here to view topics and instructions for the analytic essay that will be due Wednesday, November 12.
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Wed
Oct 1 |
Research Report is due today |
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Assignment Eight : Parents and Children
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Oct 6
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Read: Introduction
to Assignment 8
Literature reading assignment eight:
Edward Taylor "Upon Wedlock, and the Death of Children" pp. 140-141; F. Scott Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" pp. 2201-2215; Theodore Roethke "My Papa's
Waltz" p. 2321; Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays p. 2424;
Anne Sexton "little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman" pp. 2617-2619; Sylvia Plath "Daddy" pp. 2656-2658.
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Post a 150+ word response to one of the questions by Tuesday, October 14.
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Assignment Nine : Marriage
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Oct 13
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Read: Introduction to Assignment 9
Literature reading assignment nine:
Washington Irving "Rip Van Winkle" pp. 448-460; Kate Chopin "At the 'Cadian Ball" and "The Storm" pp. 1604-1615; Mary Wilkins Freeman "A New England Nun" pp. 1620-1628; Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" pp. 1684-1695; Susan Glaspell "Trifles" pp. 1968-1977; Zora Neale Hurston "The Gilded Six-Bits" pp. 2161-2169.
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Fri
Oct 17 |
Click here to access Examination # 2. This exam covers material in Assignments Five through Nine and is due Friday, October 24. |
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Assignment Ten : Love is Strange
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Oct 20 |
Read: Introduction to Assignment 10
Literature reading assignment ten:
Kate Chopin "Desiree's Baby" pp. 1615-1619; William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" pp. 2218-2224; Flannery O'Connor "Good Country People" pp. 2569-2583; Eudora Welty "Petrified Man" pp. 2325-2336; Maxine Hong Kingston "No Name Woman" pp. 2744-2753.
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Fri
Oct 24
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Examination # 2 is due today |
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Assignment Eleven: Love is Gone
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Oct 27 |
Read: Introduction to Assignment 11
Literature reading assignment eleven:
T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" pp. 2039-2042; E. E. Cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town pp 2178-2179; John Cheever "The Swimmer" pp. 2409-2417; John Updike "Separating" pp. 2661-2670; Yusef Komunyakaa "My Father's Love Letters" pp. 2780-2781.
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Assignment Twelve: Love Is All
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Nov 3 |
Read: Introduction to Assignment 12
Literature reading assignment twelve:
Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children," "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment" pp. 107-109; Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee" and "Ligeia" pp. 678-688; Walt Whitman "Live Oak, with Moss" pp. 1084-1088; Edna St. Vincent Millay "Recuerdo" p. 2170; Li-Young Lee "This Room and Everything in It" pp. 2849-2850.
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Assignment Thirteen: Conflict and War
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Mon
Nov 10 |
Read: Introduction to Assignment 13
Literature reading assignment thirteen:
Walt Whitman from Drum-Taps pp. 1067-1070; Herman Melville "A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight" p. 1175; William Dean Howells "Editha" pp. 1463-1475; Ambrose Bierce "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" pp. 1476-1482; Stephen Crane from "War Is Kind " pp. 1815-1817.
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Wed
Nov 12 |
Analytic Essay is due today |
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Assignment Fourteen: Conflict and War
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Nov 17 |
Read: Introduction to Assignment 14
Literature reading assignment thirteen:
Claude McKay, "The Lynching," "If We Must Die," and "America," pp. 2146-2147; Carl Sandburg, "Grass" p. 1990; E. E. Cummings "next to of course god america i" and "i sing of Olaf glad and big" pp. 2176-2177; Randall Jarrell "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and "Second Air Force" pp. 2425-2427; Robert Lowell "For the Union Dead" pp. 2535-2537.
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Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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Review Week |
Mon
Dec 1 |
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Wed
Dec 3 |
Exam 3: Click here to access Examination # 3. This exam covers material from Assignments Ten through Fifteen and is due Wednesday, December 10. |
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Finals Week |
Wed
Dec 10
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Examination # 3 is due today. |
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