Schedule: Section B

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All readings listed below (with the exception of Week 1), should be completed before class on the date listed on the schedule. Changes to this schedule may be made during the term, but any alterations will be announced in class in advance.

Class

Assignments

1
1/12/10

Introduction
"One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker (722-3)
"In the Park" by Gwen Harwood (788)
"Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (449-51)

Unit 1: Analyzing Plot, Setting, Character, and Point of View

2
1/19/10

Fiction
"A Pair of Tickets" Amy Tan (204-17)
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (232-41)
"Scarlet Ibis" by Margaret Atwood (553-63)
"Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (513-24)
In-Class Exercise #1

3
1/26/10

Poetry
"Mid-Term Break" by Seamus Heaney (604)
"On Her Loving Two Equally " by Aphra Behn (612-3)
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich (628)
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (633)
"The Ruined Maid" by Thomas Hardy (639)
"A Certain Lady" by Dorothy Parker (647)
"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" by William Wordsworth (649)
"Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall (824)

4
2/2/10

Drama: A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen (1508-56)

5
2/9/10

Snow Day -- No Class

Unit 2: Analyzing Theme, Tone, Symbol, and Language

6
2/16/10

Test #1
Unit 2: definitions
Poetry
"The Tally Stick" by Jarold Ramsey (596)
"love poem" by Linda Pastan (597)
"To the Ladies" by Mary, Lady Chudleigh (613)
"London" by William Blake (625)
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, (671-2)
[When our two souls stand up] by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (786)
[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] by William Shakespeare (788)
"Harlem" by Langston Hughes (820)
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen (823)
"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (827-8)
"What's That Smell in the Kitchen" by Marge Piercy (830)
[Because I could not stop for death] by Emily Dickinson (980)

7
2/23/10

College In-Service Day -- No Class

8
3/2/10

Exercise #2 Due
Fiction
"Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton (110-19)
"Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe (123-28)
"Janus" by Ann Beattie (248-51)
"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (507-13)

9
3/9/10

Spring Break -- No Class

10
3/16/10

Test #2

Unit 3: Literature in Critical Contexts

11
3/23/10

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1140-1203)

12
3/30/10

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1623-81)

13
4/6/10

Critical Readings (available on eReserve)
"The Derailment of A Streetcar Named Desire" By: Dowling, Ellen; Literature Film Quarterly, 1981; 9 (4): 233-40. Download from Sakai.

Lipari, Lisbeth. "Fearful of the written word: white fear, black writing, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun screenplay." Quarterly Journal of Speech, Feb2004, Vol. 90 Issue 1, p81-102. Dowload from Sakai.

To download copies of these articles from the Sakai course website "Resources" section, follow the link above and login using your Lourdes email ID and password.

Unit 4: Final Essay

14
4/13/10

Critical Context Essay due
Final Essay tips and writing guidelines
Sign-up for individual meetings
In-Class Exercise #3: Analytical Topic Workshop

15
4/20/10

Individual meetings with instructor -- bring paper draft

16
4/27/10

Writing day -- optional meeting with instructor

Exam Week

Final Essay due 5/4 by 8pm
*see the assignments section for more information about turning in your final paper.



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