English 206 Class
Schedule
Spring 2001
Dr. T. Hanlon
Dates |
Assignments |
| T 1/16 | Introduction to Course and Realism |
| Th 1/18 | Sarah O. Jewett, “A White Heron” |
| T 1/23 | Emily Dickinson: Poems 67, 214, 303, 401, 435 |
| Th 1/25 | Dickinson: Poems 280, 324, 328, 341, 465, 585, 640, 712, 732, 754, 986, 1732 |
| T-Th 1/30-2/1 | Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| F 2/2 | First Paper Due |
| T 2/6 | Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat” |
| Th-T 2/8-13 | Kate Chopin, The Awakening |
| Sat. 1/10 | Performance of An Evening with Mark Twain and Friends, Sale Theatre, 7:30 p.m. |
| Th 2/15 | TEST I |
| T 2/20 | F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” |
| Th 2/22 | T. S. Eliot: “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “The Hippopotamus” (handouts), “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Preludes” (“Sweeney Among the Nightingales” isn't in our textbook—not required) |
| T 2/27 | T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land I. “The
Burial of the Dead” REVISIONS OF PAPER I DUE |
| Th 3/1 | Carl Sandburg:
“Chicago,” The Harbor,”
“Happiness,” “Graceland,”
“Fog,” “Cool Tombs,”
“Grass” Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” “Design,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” |
| 3/5-9 | SPRING BREAK |
| T 3/13 | William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” |
| Th 3/15 | ee cummings: “in
just—,” “o sweet spontaneous,”
“Buffalo Bill’s defunct,”
“l(a),” “the Cambridge ladies,”
“next to of course god america i,” “my
sweet old etcetera,” “i sing of Olaf,”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town” Final deadline for approval of project topics and dates for all reports |
| T 3/20 | Alan Ginsberg: “Howl,” “A Supermarket in California,” “America” |
| Th 3/22 | TEST II |
| T 3/27 | James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” |
| Th 3/29 | Gwendolyn Brooks:
“Kitchenette Building,” “The Vacant
Lot,” “Sadie and Maud,” “The Mother,” “We Real Cool,” “The Lovers of the Poor” |
| T 4/3 | Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”; Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh” |
| Th 4/5 | Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” |
| T 4/10 | Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie |
| Th 4/12 | EASTER BREAK |
| T 4/17 | The Glass Menagerie—continued |
| Th 4/19 | Edward Albee, Zoo Story Donald Barthelme, “The School” |
| T-Th 4/24-26 | Group work on American picture books |
| T 5/1 | Catch up, review for final exam |
| Mon. 5/7 | FINAL EXAM 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
NOTES:
Readings are from Anthology of American Literature, Vol. II: Realism to the Present, Macmillan, 7th ed.
Exact dates and assignments may be changed by the professor. You are responsible for reading each assignment by the first day it is listed, unless changes have been announced in class.
You should read the introductions to literary periods and authors, and it is better to read more than the assigned selections by individual authors, but only material discussed in class will be required on test questions.
Oral reports (5 minutes each) on the novel or play you read for your third paper will be scheduled after the second test. Your second paper is due with your oral report.