English 1101
Schedule
Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| W | September 9 | Introduction | |
| F | September 11 | Epiphany, Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Luminous Things: D. H. Lawrence, "Maximus" Kikaku's Haiku Issa's Haiku Jean Follain, "Music of Spheres" Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "In the Middle of the Road" |
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| M | September 14 | Follain, "Taxidermist" Wislawa Szymborska, "In Praise of Self-Deprecation" |
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| W | September 16 | Robert Morgan, "Bellrope" Wallace Stevens, "A Study of Two Pears" William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
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| F | September 18 | Antonio Machado, "Rainbow at Night" William Stafford, "Vacation" Bronislaw Maj, "Seen Fleetingly from a Train" |
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| M | September 21 | Po Chü-I, "After Collecting the Autumn Taxes" Joseph Brodsky, "Odysseus to Telemachus" |
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| W | September 23 | Tomas Transtršmer, "Outskirts" Walt Whitman, "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Ted Kooser, "Late Lights in Minnesota" |
Web-X 1 on a poem from the Milosz Collection due |
| F | September 25 | David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, Act One, Scene One | |
| M | September 28 | Mamet, Act One, Scenes Two and Three | |
| W | September 30 | Mamet, Act Two | Response to Web-X 1 due |
| F | October 2 | Mamet, Act Two, continued | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Mamet |
| M | October 5 | PART ONE EXAM | |
| W | October 7 | Jane Austen, Persuasion, Volume I, Chapters I-V | |
| F | October 9 | Austen, Volume I, Chapters VI-IX | |
| M | October 12 | Austen, Volume I, Chapters IX-XII | |
| W | October 14 | Austen, Volume II, Chapters I-III | |
| F | October 16 | Austen, Volume II, Chapters IV-IX | |
| M | October 19 | Austen, Volume II, Chapters X-XII | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Austen |
| W | October 21 | Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills" | |
| F | October 23 | Anderson, "Mother," "The Philosopher," "Nobody Knows" | |
| M | October 26 | Anderson, "Godliness, A Tale in Four Parts" | |
| W | October 28 | Anderson, "A Man of Ideas," "Adventure," "Respectability," "The Thinker" | |
| F | October 30 | Anderson, "Tandy," "The Strength of God," "The Teacher," "Loneliness" | |
| M | November 2 | Anderson, "An Awakening," "'Queer,'" "The Untold Lie," "Drink" | |
| W | November 4 | Anderson, "Death," "Sophistication," "Departure" | |
| F | November 6 | Anderson, concluding thoughts | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Hemingway |
| M | November 9 | PART TWO EXAM | |
| W | November 11 | Alice Walker, The Color Purple, pp. 30-38 | |
| F | November 13 | Walker, pp. 39-79 | |
| M | November 16 | Walker, pp. 80-123 | |
| W | November 18 | Walker, pp. 124-167 | |
| F | November 20 | Walker, pp. 168-207 | |
| M | November 23 | Walker, pp. 208-251 | |
| W | November 25 | Walker, pp. 252-end | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Silko |
| F | November 27 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| M | November 30 | Tom McCarthy, Remainder, Chapters 1-2 | |
| W | December 2 | McCarthy, Chapters 3-4 | |
| F | December 4 | McCarthy, Chapters 5-6 | |
| M | December 7 | McCarthy, Chapters 7-8 | |
| W | December 9 | McCarthy, Chapters 9-10 | |
| F | December 11 | McCarthy, Chapters 11-12 | Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on McCarthy |
| M | December 14 | McCarthy, Chapters 13-14 | |
| W | December 15 | McCarthy, Chapters 15-16 | Response to Web-X 2 due |
| Sat | December 19 | FINAL EXAMINATION FROM NOON TO 1:55PM |
18 September 2009