English 1907
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. Numbers in parentheses after titles of Dickinson poems indicate page numbers in Final Harvest.
| W | September 7 | Introduction | |
| F | September 9 | Emily Dickinson, "The Feet of People Walking Home" (1), "I Never Told the Buried Gold" (2), "The Morns Are Meeker Than They Were" (2) | |
| M | September 12 | Dickinson, "I Never Lost As Much But Twice" (5), "Success Is Counted Sweetest" (7), "To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave" (12) | |
| W | September 14 | Dickinson, "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed" (25), "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" [both versions] (26) | |
| F | September 16 | Dickinson, "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" (34-35), "There's a Certain Slant of Light" (36), "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" (47) | |
| M | September 19 | Dickinson, "A Bird Came down the Walk" (69), "There's Been a Death in the Opposite House" (89), "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense" (101) | |
| W | September 21 | Dickinson, "I Died for Beauty—but Was Scarce" (107), "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" (111-112), "I've Seen a Dying Eye" (137) | |
| Discussion Forum Posting for a Poem by Dickinson Due | |||
| F | September 23 | Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Act One | |
| M | September 26 | Chekhov, Act Two | |
| W | September 28 | Chekhov, Act Three | |
| Response to Dickinson Discussion due | |||
| F | September 30 | Chekhov, Act Four | |
| Discussion Forum Deadline for Chekhov | |||
| M | October 3 | PART ONE EXAM | |
| W | October 5 | Tom McCarthy, Remainder, Chapters 1-2 | |
| F | October 7 | McCarthy, Chapters 3-4 | |
| M | October 10 | McCarthy, Chapters 5-6 | |
| W | October 12 | McCarthy, Chapters 7-8 | |
| F | October 14 | McCarthy, Chapters 9-10 | |
| M | October 17 | McCarthy, Chapters 11-12 | |
| W | October 19 | McCarthy, Chapters 13-14 | |
| F | October 21 | McCarthy, Chapters 15-16 | |
| Discussion Forum Deadline for McCarthy | |||
| M | October 24 | Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | |
| W | October 26 | O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," continued | |
| F | October 28 | O'Connor, "The River" | |
| M | October 31 | O'Connor, "The River," continued | |
| W | November 2 | O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" | |
| F | November 4 | O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," continued | |
| M | November 7 | O'Connor, "Good Country People" | |
| W | November 9 | O'Connor, "Good Country People," continued | |
| Discussion Forum Deadline for O'Connor | |||
| F | November 11 | PART TWO EXAM | |
| M | November 14 | Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Vol. I, Chs. I-VIII | |
| W | November 16 | Austen, Vol. I, Chs. IX-XVI | |
| F | November 18 | Austen, Vol. I, Chs. XVII-XXIII | |
| M | November 21 | Austen, Vol. II, Chs. I-VI | |
| W | November 23 | Austen, Vol. II, Chs. VII-XIII | |
| F | November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| M | November 28 | Austen, Vol. II, Chs. XIV-XIX | |
| W | November 30 | Austen, Vol. III, Chs. I-V | |
| F | December 2 | Austen, Vol. III, Chs. VI-X | |
| M | December 5 | Austen, Vol. III, Chs. XI-XIX | |
| Discussion Forum Deadline for Austen | |||
| W | December 7 | Kay Ryan, "Stations" (12), "Bitter Pill" (18), "Shift" (23), "Spiderweb" (26) | |
| F | December 9 | Ryan, "The Mock Ruin" (40), "Slant" (44), "Les Natures Profondément Bonnes Sont Toujours Indécises" (56), "Force" (67) | |
| Discussion Forum Deadline for Ryan | |||
| M | December 12 | Ryan, "How a Thought Thinks" (101), "To a Young Anglerfish" (107), "Part Midas" (135), "The Excluded Animals" (157) | |
| W | December 15 | Ryan, "Composition" (159), "Grazing Horses" (166), "Waste" (167), "Lime Light" (190) | |
| Discussion Forum Response 2 due | |||
| F | December 17 | Ryan, "Drops in the Bucket" (192), "Dutch" (194-5), "Home to Roost" (210), "The Other Shoe" (219) | |
| T | December 20 | FINAL EXAMINATION FROM NOON TO 1:55PM | |
16 September 2011