1/11-Course Introduction
1/13-Introduction to Literature
Analysis/Interpretation Exercise
1/15-What is Short Fiction? 55-60
Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death”
Paper #1 Assignment
1/18-Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
1/20-Imagery 571
Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
Irony and Tone 136
Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
1/22- Joyce, “Counterparts”
Waring, “What Hurts” 975
1/25-Elements of Poetry
Gluck, “Palais des Arts” 785
Harjo, “Santa Fe” 800
Olds, “The One Girl at the Boys Party” 888
1/27-Silko, “Four Mountain Wolves” 940
Peter Blue Cloud, “Wolf” 693
Group Presentation Handouts
Paper #2 Handout
1/29- Paper Due
2/1-GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Allende, “Walimai”
Alurista, “Who Are We? . . . Somos Aztlan: A letter To ‘El Jefe Corky'”
2/3-GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Ellison, “Battle Royal” 257
Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
2/5-GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Marquez, “Eyes of a Blue Dog” 429
Burciaga, “World Premiere” 707
2/8-GROUP PRESENTATIONS
O’Brien, “Sweetheart of the song Tra Bong” 458
McDonald, “The Food Pickers of Saigon” 576
2/10-Group Presentations, con’t
2/12-Research Paper Due
2/15-Freud, Oedipus, and Drama 1434
Hamlet
1438-1443
2/17-Hamlet
1443-1463
2/19-Hamlet
1463-1482
2/22-Hamlet
1482-1499
2/24-Hamlet
1499-1548
Questions for Hamlet due
Class discussion
2/26-Mid-Term Examination
3/1-3/5-Spring Break
3/8-Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 752
3/10-Yeats, “Second Coming” (Handout)
3/12-Milton, “How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth” 882
Paper Handout
3/15-Saenz, “Gloria, Woman Becoming her Name”
–“A Killing” (Handout)
3/17-Cervantes, “Bird Ave” (Handout)
3/19-Sexton, “For my Lover, Returning to His Wife” 925
Paper Due
3/22- Baca, “Imagine My Life” (Handout)
3/24- Viramontes, “Miss Clairol” (Handout)
Paper Handout
3/26- Cisneros, “There Was a Man, There Was a Woman” (Handout)
3/29-Mora, “Tigua Elder” (Handout)
3/31-Tafolla, “Right in One Language” (Handout)
Paper Due
4/5-Types, Stereotypes, and Archetypes 1710
Begin Fences, 1711-1724
Paper Handout
4/7-Fences
1724-1734
4/9-Fences
1734-1743
4/12-Fences
1743-1751
4/14-Fences
1751-1765
4/16-Paper Due
4/19-Walker, “Everyday Use: for your Grandmama”
Brooks, “The Mother”
4/21-Levertov, “Cancion” 596
Paper handout
4/23-Graham, “The Hiding Place” 791
4/26-Erdrich, “Love Medicine” 271
4/28-Akhmatova, “Lot’s Wife” 669
4/30-Sexton, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” 931
5/3-Ginsberg, “Howl” 776
5/5-Paper Due
Last Day of Classes
Final Exam Date: 5/8 Wednesday 9-11 AM
