Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

• 01/26/09
  
  • Topic: Course Overview
    
  • Text: Syllabus
    
  • Text: Frost (selections)
    
  • Topic: The American Dream(s)
    
• 01/30/09
  
  • Due: Online Agenda Items
    
• 02/02/09
  
  • Topic: Tone and Form
    
  • Due: Reflections (Frost, Fitzgerald, Foster)
    
  • Text: Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
    
  • Text: Frost, ''After Apple Picking''
    
  • Text: Frost (selections)
    
  • Text: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    
• 02/06/09
  
  • Due: Online Agenda Items
    
• 02/09/09
  
  • Topic: Setting
    
  • Due: Ex 1: Close Reading Group Exercise
    
  • Due: Reflection
    
  • Due: Portfolio Checkpoint
    
  • Text: Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
    
  • Text: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    
• 02/13/09
  
  • Due: Online Agenda Items
    
• 02/16/09
  
  • Topic: Literary Expressionism
    
  • Due: Reflections
    
  • Text: Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
    
  • Text: Treadwell, Machinal
    
• 02/23/09
  
  • Topic: Psychology and Naturalism
    
  • Due: Ex 2: Close Reading Group Exercise
    
  • Due: Reflections
    
  • Text: Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
    
  • Text: Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    
• 02/27/09
  
  • Due: Ex 3: Close Reading Pair Exercise
    
• 03/02/09
  
  • Topic: Universality and Specificity
    
  • Due: Reflections
    
  • Due: Paper 1 Presubmission
    
  • Due: Portfolio 1
    
  • Text: Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    
• 03/16/09
  
  • Topic: Individual vs. Society
    
  • Due: Reflections
    
  • Text: Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
    
  • Text: Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
    
• 03/23/09
  
  • Topic: Poetry
    
  • Due: Reflections
    
  • Due: Paper 1 Final
    
  • Text: Academic Article (due by noon Monday)
    
  • Text: Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
    
  • Text: Poetry Selections (blog by Monday)
    
  • Text: Poetry Selections: Roethke (blog by Monday)
    
  • Text: Poetry Selections: Plath (blog by Monday)
    
• 03/30/09
  
  • Topic: City, Race, and Technology
    
  • Due: Paper 2 Presubmit
    
  • Text: Ellison, The Invisible Man
    
• 04/06/09
  
  • Topic: Psychology and Gender
    
  • Text: Ellison, The Invisible Man
    
  • Text: Academic Article -- Hanlon
    
• 04/08/09
  
  • Due: Paper 2 Draft (Rescheduled from Apr 6)
    
• 04/20/09
  
  • Topic: Popular Fiction
    
  • Text: Foster, Ch 15-17
    
  • Text: Niffenegger, The Time-Traveler's Wife
    
  • Due: Ex 4: Interpretive Project
    
• 04/24/09
  
  • Due: Ex 5: Paper 2 Peer Review
    
• 04/27/09
  
  • Topic: Globalism and Ethics
    
  • Text: Miller, Resurrection Blues
    
  • Due: Paper 2 Final
    
• 05/04/09
  
  • Due: Portfolio 2
    
  • Final Exam
    
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