Literature I        Fall 2007     SYLLABUS

Reading Schedule (subject to change)

Class 1 (Aug. 31)

Go over syllabus

Introduction

“The Power of Stories” (handout)

"The School" (handout)

 “Snow” (handout)

Class 2 (Sept. 7)

 “Get Well Soon” (handout)
                sample opening paragraph for essay
                sample thesis and topic sentence ideas

Paper 1:  Guidelines/suggestions for opening paragraph

“Strays” (Best American Short Stories 1989 or online electronic reserve)
                sample paragraph
                paper ideas for "Strays"
             SAMPLE PARAGRAPHS SUMMER 2006

Class 3 (Sept. 14)    

“Everyday Use”
            sample paragraph 1 
          sample paragraph 2
          paper idea and sample paragraph

"Miss Brill," p. 317

Class 4 (Sept. 21)

"Young Goodman Brown," p. 398

"Truants,"

Class 5 (Sept. 28)

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” p. 445

"Flannery O'Connor:  On Faith," p. 485

"Flannery O'Connor: On the Use of Exaggeration and Distortion," p. 486

"Flannery O'Connor:  On O'Connor's Refusal to 'Do Pretty'" p. 488

"Flannery O'Connor:  The Function of Violence in O'Connor's Fiction," p. 489

Notes on the use of setting in three authors' works

“Battle Royal,” p. 285

Class 6 (Oct. 5)

The Palace Thief

Class 7 (Oct. 12)    

What is poetry?
Introduction to Best American Poetry 1991, Mark Strand
"Introduction to Poetry," by Billy Collins, p. 722
"Living Poets," by Jeffrey Skinner (handout)
“Why I Write Poetry," by Stuart Bloodworth(handout)
”View,” by Rolf Leeman (handout)
“Detail,” by Eamon Grennan (handout)
“Some Like Poetry,” by Wislawa Szymborska (handout)
"Triplet," by Yannis Ritsos (handout)




 

Class 8 (Oct. 19)

midterm

Class 9 (Oct. 26)

talk about explication
"Newlyweds," by Malcolm Glass (handout)
                  sample explication paper on "Newlyweds"
"Late Poem to My Father," by Sharon Olds (handout)
                                sample paper
                                "Legacy of Abuse," student example, fall 2003
                                "Remembrance of Corrupted Childhood," student example, fall 2003
"Manners," by Elizabeth Bishop, p. 750
"Wild Geese," by Mary Oliver 
          sample opening paragraphs of an explication of "Wild Geese"
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," by John Keats, p. 916
         Paper Assignment
         Opening Paragraph guidelines for poetry explication

Class 10 (Nov. 2)

" Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley, p. 1224
                                Shelley's use of diction
"Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden, p. 671
"My Papa's Waltz," by Theodore Roethke, p. 680
"My Father's Love Letters," Yusef Komunyakaa
"The God Who Loves You," by Carl Dennis (handout)
sample beginning paragraphs of an explication of Scruton's "Another Farm"
 

Class 11 (Nov. 9)

 "Miniver Cheevy," by E. A. Robinson
"Richard Cory," by E. A. Robinson, p. 842
"anyone lived in a pretty how town," by e. e. cummings
                         read comments about the poem
”Eve," by Gary Soto
"The Ex-Basketball Player," by John Updike
"The Unknown Citizen," by W. H. Auden
”Acquainted with the Night,” p. 383
”We Real Cool,” p. 782

Class 12 (Nov. 16)

Before Breakfast, Eugene O'Neill (handout)

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, p. 1867

Class 13 (Nov. 23)

 Thanksgiving holiday (no class)

Class 14 (Nov. 30)

The Glass Menagerie continued

Begin Death of a Salesman, p. 1798 

Class 15 (Dec. 7)

continued

class wrap-up

Class 16 (Dec. 14)

Final exam