EL 206 | American Literature After 1865 (Spring 2011)
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Week 1 (Feb. 1 and 3)
Due Friday: Sign up for research subject (on wiki) before Friday's class.

Day 1: No Class Yet

Day 2: Course Introduction

Day 3: Twain: "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," Huck Finn Chapters 1-2, 31; watch "Wikis in Plain English" (online)
Remember to begin your questions and comments journal!

Week 2 (Feb. 6, 8, and 10)
Due Monday: Self intro on course wiki (link above) before class.

Day 1: Folk Tales: “When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race”; “Who Ate Up the Butter?”; “Malitis”; “The Flying Africans” + Harris (all selections)

Day 2: Howells: “from The Editor’s Study,” “Editha”

Day 3: James: “Daisy Miller” (Parts I and II) + Review "Realism" Handout (Available on Bb)

Optional/Recommended: This week would be a good time to meet with classmates and workshop your reading responses. Or to take a draft of your reading response to the Writing Center for a consultation.

Keep up with your questions and comments journal!

Week 3 (Feb. 13, 15, and 17)
Due Friday at 5:00: Reading Response 1

Day 1: “Daisy Miller” (Parts III and IV)

Day 2: Garland: “Up the Coulé”

Day 3: Crane: “The Open Boat,” “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” selected poems (all) + Review "Naturalism" Handout (Available on Bb)

Week 4 (Feb. 20, 22, and 24)
Monday: Remember that you need to either PRINT online texts or have some way (Kindle? iPad? Laptop?) to view your electronic copy in class.

Day 1: London: “South of the Slot,” “To Build a Fire” (online)

Day 2: Freeman: “A New England Nun”; Jewett: “A White Heron”

Day 3: No Class (Faculty Development Day)

Are you keeping up with your questions and comments journal?

Week 5 (Feb. 27 and 29, Mar. 2)
Friday: Exam 1 is on Friday!

Day 1: Chopin: “Desiree’s Baby”; Wharton: “The Valley of Childish Things”
(Notes: Wharton is in Vol. D! You can also find "The Valley" here, if you'd like a printable/online version. Read only Chapter 1 of "The Valley," if you choose the online version.)

Day 2: Wharton: “The Other Two,” “Roman Fever”

Day 3: EXAM 1

Optional/Recommended: This would be a good week to meet with some of your classmates and study together for the exam.

Week 6 (Mar. 5, 7, and 9)
Due Friday at 5:00: Reading Response 2

Day 1: Oskison: “The Problem of Old Harjo”; Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Bonnin): from The School Days of an Indian Girl

Day 2: Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton): Stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance (TBA)

Day 3: MODERNISM PRIMER: Pound: "A Retrospect," "In a Station of the Metro"; H.D.: "Oread"; Eliot: "Preludes"; Sandburg: "Chicago," "Fog" + Review Modernism Handout (Available on Bb)

Optional/Recommended: Another good week to meet with classmates and workshop your reading responses.

Week 7 (Mar. 12, 14, and 16)
Due Friday at 5:00: Questions and Comments Journal, Part 1

Day 1: Anderson: “Hands”; Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"; Stein: from The Making of Americans

Day 2: Hemingway: “The Killers” (Bb); Cummings: “Buffalo Bill’s,” “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls,” “pity this busy monster, manunkind,” “plato told,” “next to of course god America i” (online)

Day 3: Williams: “The Young Housewife," “Portrait of a Lady,” “The Red Wheelbarrow” (online), "The Great Figure" (online), “This is Just to Say” (online); Stevens: “The Snow Man,” "Anecdote of the Jar," “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (online)

<<SPRING BREAK>>

Week 8 (Mar. 26, 28, and 30)

Day 1: Washington: Up from Slavery Chapters 3 and 14;  Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk Chapters 1 and 3

Day 2: Toomer: “Blood Burning Moon”; Hughes: “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (prose); “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Drum,” “The Same,” “Harlem,” “The Weary Blues” (p. 1931 in 6th ed.)

Day 3: Cullen: “Incident,” “Pagan Prayer,” “Yet Do I Marvel, “Heritage”; Hurston: “Sweat”

Optional/Recommended: Meet with classmates? Workshop your reading response?

Week 9 (Apr. 2, 4, and 6)
NEXT Monday: Notice that Exam 2 will be next week on Monday!
Due Friday at 5:00: Reading Response 3 (But I suggest you do it earlier to give yourself more breathing room before the exam.)

Day 1: Masters: “Petit, the Poet,” “Seth Compton,” “Lucinda Matlock”; Frost: “Mending Wall,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Day 2: Faulkner: "Barn Burning"

Day 3: No Class (Good Friday)

Optional/Recommended: Exam prep with classmates?

Week 10 (Apr. 9, 11, and 13)
Monday: Exam 2 is on MONDAY!

Day 1: EXAM 2

Day 2: Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Day 3: Welty: “The Wide Net”; O’Connor: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Week 11 (Apr. 16, 18, and 20)
Due Friday at 5:00: Reading Response 4

Day 1: Walker: “Laurel," “Everyday Use” (Available on Bb)

Day 2: Baldwin: “Sonny’s Blues”

Day 3: Baraka: “Dutchman”

Optional/Recommended: Reading response workshop? Or meet to discuss the upcoming reflective essay?

Week 12 (Apr. 23, 25, and 27)
Due Friday at 5:00: Questions and Comments Journal, Part 2
Due Friday at 5:00: Any Reading Response Revisions (See Guidelines/Assignment)

Day 1: Barth: “Lost in the Funhouse”

Day 2: Oates: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”

Day 3: Beats: Ginsberg: “A Supermarket in California,” “Howl,” “America”; Kerouac: “The Vanishing American Hobo”

Week 13 (Apr. 30, May 2 and 4)
Due Friday at 5:00: Reading Response Reflective "Meditation" Essay

Day 1: TBA Immigrant Stories

Day 2: Okada: from No-No Boy; Diaz: "Drown" (On Bb)

Day 3: Alexie: “Because My Father . . .”; Cisneros: “Eleven”

Week 14 (May 9 + Exam)

Day 1: TBA

EXAM 3: Weds., May 9, 3:30-5:30 PM

Optional/Recommended: Exam prep with classmates.