Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

• 08/25/10
  
  • Topic: Welcome
    
  • Text: Defence of Fort McHenry (Key)
    
  • Text: To a Waterfowl (Bryant)
    
  • Text: The Wife (Irving)
    
• 08/30/10
  
  • Text: Rip Van Winkle (Irving)
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 09/01/10
  
  • Text: Model Essays
    
  • Topic: Romanticism: Class and the Frontier
    
  • Due: Ex 1: Response to Model Essays
    
  • Text: Young Goodman Brown (Hawthorne)
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 09/06/10
  
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
  • Text: The Scarlet Letter (1-6)
    
• 09/08/10
  
  • Topic: Romanticism: Community and Individual
    
  • Text: The Scarlet Letter (7-12)
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 09/13/10
  
  • Text: The Scarlet Letter (13-18)
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 09/15/10
  
  • Topic: Romanticism: Intuition and Nature
    
  • Due: Ex 2: Revision of Model Essays
    
  • Text: The Scarlet Letter (19-24)
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 09/20/10
  
  • Text: Emily Dickinson
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 09/22/10
  
  • Topic: Romanticism: Gender
    
  • Text: Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville)
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 09/27/10
  
  • Text: Emerson (Selections)
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 09/29/10
  
  • Topic: Transcendentalism
    
  • Due: Ex 3: Analytical Essay
    
  • Text: Emerson
    
  • Text: John Henry (Ballad)
    
• 10/04/10
  
  • Text: Uncle Remus Tales
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 10/06/10
  
  • Topic: Realism: Regionalism
    
  • Due: Paper 1: Presubmission
    
  • Text: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    
• 10/11/10
  
  • Text: From Sunup to Sundown
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 10/13/10
  
  • Topic: Realism: Race
    
  • Due: Paper 1: Draft
    
  • Text: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 10/18/10
  
  • Text: William Shakespeare and the American People
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 10/20/10
  
  • Topic: Realism: Characterization
    
  • Due: Paper 1: Peer Review
    
  • Text: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 10/25/10
  
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 10/27/10
  
  • Topic: The Gothic Literary Tradition
    
  • Due: Paper 1: Revision
    
  • Text: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    
  • Text: The Yellow Wallpaper
    
  • Text: The Black Cat
    
• 11/01/10
  
  • Text: Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 11/03/10
  
  • Topic: Poetry Slam
    
  • Due: Paper 2: Annotated Bibliography
    
  • Due: Ex 4: Oral Interpretation
    
• 11/08/10
  
  • Text: TBA
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 11/10/10
  
  • Topic: Melodrama
    
  • Due: Ex 5: Interpretive Podcast
    
  • Text: Uncle Tom's Cabin
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 11/15/10
  
  • Text: TBA
    
  • Due: Online pre-discussion
    
• 11/17/10
  
  • Topic: Paper Workshop & Consultations
    
  • Due: Paper 2: Draft
    
  • Text: How To Read Literature…
    
• 11/22/10
  
  • Due: Paper 2 Peer Review
    
• 12/01/10
  
  • Due: Ex 5: Creative Critical Response
    
  • Topic: Presentations and Exam Review
    
• 12/06/10
  
  • Due: Paper 2 Revision
    
• 12/08/10
  
  • Due: Final Exam
    
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