1. Reading
2. Notetaking
3. Teaching
4. Writing
5. Researching
   Critical Thinking

Before you begin this class, fill our a form identifying your cultural heritage and possible biases.

Reading

You are expected to have the assignment read before you come to class

1. Read all introductory material for short stories:
2.  

pp 1-21 Fiction

pp 21-26 Plot

pp 72-75 Point of View

pp 103-7 Characterization

                            pp 149-51 Setting

                            pp 188-90 Symbols

                            pp 209-12 Theme

                            pp 226 Whole Text

3. Read the following short stories

pp 47-71 "Sonny Blues" by James Baldwin

pp 75-80 "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

pp 80-87 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce

pp 190-00 "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

pp 226-55 "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad

pp 304-15 "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O’Connor

pp 377-79 "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

pp 379-84 "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

pp 431-38 "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

pp 541-53 "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3. Read all introductory material for poetry

pp 596-611 Poetry

pp 620 Tone

pp 639 Speaker

pp 660-61 Situation and Setting

pp 696 Language, precision and ambiguity

pp 713 Metaphor and Simile

pp 726 Symbol

pp 768 Structure

pp 782-85 Form: The Sonnet

pp 796 Stanza form

pp 801 The Look of a Poem

pp 807 The Whole Text

4) Read the following poems:

p 597 "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

p 612 "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?" by William Shakespeare

p 614 "Stop all the Clocks, cut off the telephone" by W. H. Auden

p 618 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by William Shakespeare

p 655 "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" by Walt Whitman

p 664 "The Flea" by John Donne

p 671 "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

p 674 "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell

p 706 "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes" by Emily Dickinson

p 713 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" by William Shakespeare

p 724 "Batter my Heart, Three-person God" by John Donne

p 723 "The Twenty-third Psalm"

p 791 "Ozymandius" by Percy Bysshe Shelly

p 797 "Do not go gentle into that goo night" by Dylan Thomas

p 876 "Harlem (a Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes

p 879 "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

p 883 "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning

p 947 "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne

p 953 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

p 953 "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

p 958 "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats

p 960 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

p 986 "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats

p 986 "Leda and the Swan" by W. B. Yeats

p 987 "Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats

More poems by an author of your choice

5) Read all introductory material on drama

pp 992-995 Drama

pp 1019-28 Understanding the Text

pp 1317-22 Contexts: the Canon

pp 1377-81 Contexts: Culture

pp 1521-24 Contexts: Critical

pp 1578-84 Evaluating

6. Read pp 1214-1312 Hamlet by William Shakespeare

7) Read students’ choice of novel.

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Notetaking

Evaluation forms:
1) Before turning in your essay
2) After getting your graded essay back
3) from yellow book

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Teaching

           1. Term Paper Assignments
                   

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Writing

1. Choose from the possible topics for short stories and either analyze one aspect of one short story or compare any two stories on the same issue. This paper should be approximately 5 pages, typed, double-spaced.
2. Choose from the possible topics for poetry and either analyze one aspect of one poem or compare any two to three poems on the same issue. This paper should be approximately 5 pages, typed, double-spaced.
3. Choose from the possible topics for the novel or for films and either analyze one aspect of the novel or a film or compare any two films on the same issue. This paper should be approximately 5 pages, typed, double-spaced.

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Researching

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Chris Barkley.
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