English 1001
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. Page numbers in parentheses locate poems in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry.
| T | August 29 | Introduction |
| Th | August 31 | Kay Ryan, "Paired Things" (530-531), "Mirage Oases" (531), "A Cat/A Future" (531), "The Old Cosmologists" (532), "That Will to Divest" (532-533), "Drops in the Bucket" (533) |
| T | September 5 | Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "The Paperweight" (571-572), "Signs" (572) Rita Dove, "Parsley" (558-560) Charles Simic, "My Shoes" (432) |
| Th | September 7 | QUIZ ON CONTEMPORARY POETRY Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 1-5 |
| T | September 12 | Hurston, Chapters 2-10 |
| Th | September 14 | Hurston, Chapters 11-17 |
| T | September 19 | Hurston, Chapters 18-20 |
| Th | September 21 | PART ONE EXAMINATION |
| T | September 26 | Sandra MacPherson, "Streamers" (513-516) Frank Bidart, "Another Life" (447-450) Audre Lorde, "Afterimages" (404-408) Philip Levine, "The Horse" (311-312) |
| Th | September 28 | Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, Book One, Chapters I-X |
| T | October 3 | Wharton, Book Two, Chapters XI-XV |
| Th | October 5 | Wharton, Book Two, Chapters XVI-XX |
| T | October 10 | QUIZ ON EDITH WHARTON, BOOKS ONE AND TWO Wharton, Book Three, Chapters XXI-XXIV |
| Th | October 12 | Wharton, Book Three, Chapters XXV-XXX |
| T | October 17 | Wharton, Book Four, Chapters XXXI-XXXVI |
| Th | October 19 | Wharton, Book Five, Chapters XXXVII-XLVI |
| T | October 24 | PART TWO EXAMINATION |
| Th | October 26 | FALL BREAK |
| T | October 31 | Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" (128-129) Elizabeth Bishop, "Under the Window: Ouro Prêto" (30-31) David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, Act One |
| Th | November 2 | Mamet, Act Two |
| T | November 7 | Mamet, continued Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Ajarry, Georgia |
| Th | November 9 | Whitehead, Ridgeway, South Carolina |
| T | November 14 | QUIZ ON MAMET, POEMS, WHITEHEAD Whitehead, Stevens, North Carolina |
| Th | November 16 | Whitehead, Ethel, Tennessee, Caesar CHARACTER ANALYSIS DUE |
| T | November 21 | Whitehead, Indiana, Mabel, The North |
| Th | November 23 | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| T | November 28 | May Swenson, "Teleology" (98-99) Howard Moss, "The Wars" (146-147) Sylvia Plath, "The Colossus" (368-369) Cormac McCarthy, The Road, pages 3-72 |
| Th | November 30 | McCarthy, pages 73-137 |
| T | December 5 | McCarthy, pages 138-221 |
| Th | December 7 | McCarthy, pages 222-287 |
| Th | December 14 | FINAL EXAMINATION, 8:00am-9:55am |
29 August 2017