Reading Schedule: English 110
Summer 2004
note: reading and/or assignments are due on the date listed. All readings refer to An Introduction to Literature unless noted. All page numbers refer to the 13th ed. unless otherwise noted.
*note that longer works are due during weeks 4, 5, & 6--plan ahead--begin reading them asap!
week 1
6/14 first meeting; "The Story of an Hour" Chopin p 23 What is Literature? p 3
6/15 read pp 21-43,”Cat in the Rain” Hemingway pp 55-65 "Desiree’s Baby" Chopin p 76 read pp 85-94 (including "A & P" Updike)
6/16 “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe p 141-150, “The Things They Carried” O’Brien p 462; “The Red Convertible” Erdrich p 526
also read: pages 138-141
6/17 “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman p.360; “Battle Royal” Ellison p 170; “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” Silko p 475 ; “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner p 376
RJ #1 and #2 due
also read pages 168-169
Week 2
6/21 Pick a short story that you would like to write about and answer the following questions in preparation for writing your essay:
p. 138 (13th ed.)
Plot: 1-3
Character: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Point of view: 2, 3
6/22 rough draft due essay 1 (bring 3 copies)
poetry read pp 682-689 and p 682 (tone); read pp 703-711 (including "The Red Wheelbarrow"); “next to of course god America I” p 699; “Barbie Doll” p 700; “Dear John Wayne” p 701, ”Metaphors” p 705
6/23 read p 715-716;”Diving into the Wreck” p 724; “The Master” p 722; “Kubla Khan” p 719; read page 735; “Evolution” 743; "Child of the Americas" p 831; "Ellis Island" p 832; "To the Lady" p 833; "Facing It" p 835; "So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans?" p 839; "Moving Camp Too Far" p 840; "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City" p 841; “At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School” p 862 [find literary devices in poems]
6/24 Read 765-774
Reading journals 3, 4, 5 due on any three poems
final draft due essay 1 (short story
week 3
6/28 due read Fences p 1546
6/29 rough draft essay 2 (bring 3 copies) read 1336-1347; reading journal 6 due (on Fences)
week 4
7/5 midterm
final draft due essay 2 (poetry)
7/6 read intro to Norton edition of HoD and pp 78-99, 142-143, 197-198, 212-217
7/7 finish Heart of Darkness and read Achebe 251, Singh p 268, Wilmington p 285, Dorall p 301McLauchlan p 375 (all from Norton ed.)
reading journal 7 & 8 due (HoD)
week 5
7/12 finish Ceremony
7/14 reading journal 9 & 10 due (Ceremony)
7/15 rough draft essay 3
week 6
7/19 prep for final exam, final draft essay 3
7/22 last meeting/final exam;
On days the rough draft is due, bring 3 typed copies for peer editing