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1/14/16 |
1: Introdution, aftermath of Civil War |
Twain short stories, reading packet |
Sign up for presentations |
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1/19/16 |
2: Realism |
AHF, Mark Twain Ch 1-12 |
A Call for a National Literature |
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1/21/16 |
2: Realism |
AHF, Mark Twain Ch 13-25 |
Regionalism and "A White Heron," Sarah Orne Jewett |
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1/26/16 |
2: Realism |
AHF, Mark Twain, Ch. 26-35. |
Race and "The Goophered Grapevine," Charles Chesnutt |
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1/28/16 |
3: Realism |
AHF, Mark Twain, Ch. 36-The Last. Quiz. |
Race and "The Goophered Grapevine," Charles Chesnutt |
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2/2/16 |
3: Realism |
Awakening Ch 1-20 |
The Women's Rights Movement |
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2/4/16 |
3: Realism |
Awakening Ch 21-39. Quiz. |
"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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2/9/16 |
3: Realism |
Test 1 |
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2/11/16 |
4: Realism and Naturalism |
"The Open Boat," Stephen Crane |
Naturalism in literature |
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2/16/16 |
4: Realism and Naturalism |
"A Deal in Wheat" (Norris), "We Wear the Mask" (Dunbar), "Up from Slavery" (Washington) and "The Souls of Black Folk" (W. E. B. Du Bois) |
The Signifying Monkey and the "establishment" of African-American literature |
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2/18/16 |
5: The Great War and Rise of Modernism |
Introduction, 488-503, "Make It New": Theories of Modern Poetry (pick three). Quiz. |
The Harlem Renaissance |
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2/23/16 |
5: The Great War and Rise of Modernism |
"Big Two-Hearted River," Ernest Hemingway and "Hemingway and the Natural World," Terry Tempest Williams |
The Lost Generation and Americans in Paris (A Moveable Feast) |
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2/25/16 |
5: The Great War and Rise of Modernism |
"Big Two-Hearted River," and "Hemingway and the Natural World." Review for Test 2. |
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3/1/16 |
6: Modernism: Poetry |
Test 2 |
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3/3/16 |
6: Modernism: Poetry |
Poems assigned in class 3/3/2016 |
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3/8/16 |
6: Modernism: Poetry |
"The Wasteland," T. S. Eliot |
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3/10/16 |
7: Modernism: Prose |
"The Waste Land," cont'd. |
Southern Literary Renaissance |
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3/15/16 |
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No class |
Spring break |
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3/17/16 |
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No class |
Spring break |
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3/22/16 |
7: Modernism: Prose |
"Barn Burning," William Faulkner, and "Faulkner and Women," Toni Morrison. Quiz. Research paper topic and argument due (email) |
Yoknapatawpha County |
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3/24/16 |
7: Modernism: Prose |
"A Worn Path" and "Why I Live at the P.O.," Eudora Welty |
Eudora Welty, photographer |
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3/29/16 |
7: Modernism: Prose |
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3/31/16 |
No Class |
Test 3 online |
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4/5/16 |
8: From Modernism to Postmodernism |
"Spunk," Zora Neale Hurston |
JOEs begin! |
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4/7/16 |
8: From Modernism to Postmodernism |
"A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor. Quiz. |
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4/12/16 |
8: From Modernism to Postmodernism |
Ginsberg, Rich, Snyder, Plath poems assigned 4/9/2016. Annotated Bibliography due (hard copy and turnitin.com) |
The Beat Generation |
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4/14/16 |
8: From Modernism to Postmodernism (AED; class from 10:40-11:10) |
"She Unnames Them," Ursula K. Le Guin; "The School," Donald Barthelme; "A&P," John Updike |
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4/19/16 |
8: From Modernism to Postmodernism |
Continue Le Guin and Barthelme; Review/ Catch-up |
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4/21/16 |
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1:10-3:10. Research paper due (hard copy and turnitin.com) |
Test 4
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