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20th-Century American Fiction (EL 349W, Fall 2010) EL349 Wiki - Author Links - More Am Lit Links - Site Menu - Contact/Home Books to buy are linked to Amazon.com pages. Recommended Book: The MLA Handbook (6th Edition!!) Recommended Book: They Say / I Say What You Can Buy for a Dollar Compute the Relative Historical Value of a US Dollar Week 1 (Sept. 8 and 10) Day 1: No Class Yet Day 2: Discussion of "Oread" (H.D.) & "The Emperor of Ice Cream" (Wallace Stevens) Day 3: Excerpts from Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson). Click here for Anderson e-texts ("Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills," "Godliness" I-IV). Due: Self Intro on Wiki Week 2 (Sept. 13, 15, and 17) Due Friday: 5 Contributions to Timeline of 20th-Century America (at Wiki) Week 3 (Sept. 20, 22, and 24) Due Monday: Claim Author on Wiki Due Friday: Proof of ILL Use Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #1 (Cane or Gatsby) Day 1: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Chapters 1 and 2 Day 2: Gatsby, through mid-Chapter 7, "So we drove on toward death..." Day 3: Gatsby, to the end Week 4 (Sept. 27 and 29, Oct. 1) Day 1: Ernest Hemingway (selections) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" "Indian Camp" "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" "A Clean Well Lighted Place" Day 2: Contexts "The Wonderful Tar Baby Story" (Joel Chandler Harris) "How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox" (Joel Chandler Harris) Up from Slavery, Chapters 1, 3, and 14 (Booker T. Washington) The Souls of Black Folks, Chapters 1 and 3 (W. E. B. Dubois) Day 3: TBA/Catch Up Week 5 (Oct. 4, 6, and 8) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Notes / Research Update (Author Inquiry Project) Day 1: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), Chapters 1-6 Day 2: Their Eyes, Chapters 7-13 Day 3: Their Eyes, To the End Week 6 (Oct. 11, 13, and 15) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #2 (Eyes, Faulkner, O’Connor, or Welty) Day 1: William Faulkner (selections) "Dry September" "Shall Not Perish" "A Rose for Emily" Day 2: Flannery O'Connor (selections) "Greenleaf" "Everything That Rises Must Converge" "Parker's Back" Day 3: Eudora Welty (selections) "A Worn Path" "Why I Live at the P.O." "Petrified Man" Week 7 (Oct. 18, 20, and 22) Day 1: TBA/Catch Up/Midterm Prep Day 2: Inquiry Project Work Day Day 3: MIDTERM Week 8 (Oct. 25, 27, and 29) Due Before You Leave for Break: Author Inquiry Project (Thursday, 5:00 pm, at Latest) Day 1: Author Inquiry Work Day Day 2: Critical Analysis Prewriting Day Day 3: Fall Break Week 9 (Nov. 1, 3, and 5) Due: Five Salient Facts About Your Author on the Wiki Timeline Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Initial Claim for Critical Analysis (Critical Analysis) Week 10 (Nov. 8, 10, and 12) Day 1: Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow), Parts 3 and 4 Day 2: The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston), Chapters 1-2 Day 3: The Woman Warrior, Chapters 3-4 Week 11 (Nov. 15, 17, and 19) Due: Middle Paragraph (Critical Analysis) Due Friday: Middle Paragraph Critique + Middle Paragraph Critiqued Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #3 (Ragtime or Woman Warrior) Day 1: The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston), Chapter 5 Day 2: White Noise (Don Delillo), Part 1, "Waves and Radiation" Day 3: White Noise, Part 2, "The Airborne Toxic Event" Week 12 (Nov. 22, 24, and 26) Due Before You Leave for Break: Critical Analysis (Tuesday, 5:00 pm, at Latest) Week 13 (Nov. 29, Dec. 1 and 3) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Any Short Critical Response REVISIONS (See Revision Guidelines) Day 1: Excerpts (Handout/TBA) from Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud) Day 2: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware), to Here Day 3: Jimmy Corrigan, to the End Week 14 (Dec. 6, 8, and 10) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #4 (White, Jimmy, or Extremely Loud) Day 1: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), to p. 107 Day 2: Extremely Loud, to p. 216 Day 3: Extremely Loud, to the End Week 15 (Dec. 13 + Dec. 17) Day 1: Final Meeting, Reading TBA FINAL: Friday, December 17, 1:00-3:00 pm. Email Dr. Johnson | ||
