T

Jan. 10

-Course Introduction
Handsome Lake, “How America Was Discovered” (Handout)

R

Jan. 12

Beginnings to 1700 (pp. 1-16)

Columbus , “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage” (24-26)

F

Jan. 13

Last day to add/drop a class

T

Jan. 17

-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (75-87)

-Edward Taylor “Huswifery” (142)

-Anne Bradstreet, “The Prologue” (98-99), “The Author to Her Book” (106-107)

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” (108), “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House” (109-110)

R

Jan. 19

T

Jan. 24

R

Jan. 26

-Thomas Paine, “The Crisis, No. 1” (332-338), Thomas Jefferson “From “The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson” (340-347), Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (420), “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770” (422-423)              

T

Jan. 31

Test 1

R

Feb. 2

American Literature 1820-1865 (431-452)

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self Reliance” (532-550),  “The American Scholar” (520-532)“Nature”(492-519)

T

Feb. 7

Thoreau from Walden –(844-920)

R

Feb. 9

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (675-678), “Annabel Lee” (678-679), “The Philosophy of Composition” (724-732) “The Purloined Letter”  (711-724)
Digital Humanities Report Due on Poe

T

Feb. 14

-Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (605-614) and “The Birthmark”(631-643)

-Herman Meville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1093-1118)

R

Feb. 16

-Stowe from Uncle Tom’s Cabin “The Mother’s Struggle” (767-776)
-Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (924-988)

T

Feb. 21

Whitman “Song of Myself” (1011-1055)

R

Feb. 23

Dickinson Wild Nights” (1205), “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”

(1212), “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” (1211), “I Heard a

Fly Buzz” (1215), “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (1214), “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” (1220), “Publication—Is the Auction” (1219)
Digital Humanities Report Due on Dickinson

T

Feb. 28

Test 2

R

March 1

 -American Literature 1865-1914 (1255-1269) and Realism and Naturalism 1745-1746
-Twain, “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1273-1277)

T

March 6

Henry James Daisy Miller (1495-1532) 

W

March 7

Last day to withdraw or rescind S/U option. Last day to withdraw from a full spring semester course.  Students may withdraw from a course through Wingspan.  (Automatic N grade is issued.)  Students may not withdraw from a course after this date without documented extenuating circumstances.  

R

March 8

-Kate Chopin “At the `Cadian Ball” (1604-1611) and  “The Storm” (1611-1615)

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1684-1695)

T

March 13

Spring Break

R

March 15

Spring Break

T

March 20

-Edith Wharton, “The Other Two” (1697-1710)

-Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” (1779-1795)

R

March 22

-Washington Up from Slavery 1630-1638
-DuBois The Souls of Black Folk 1729-1744

T

March 27

Test 3

R

March 29

-American Literature 1914-1945 (1881-1896)
-Robert Frost “Mending Wall” (1953-1954), “Out, Out—“ (1962), “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1963), “Desert Places” (1964), “Design” (1964)

T

April 3

-Carl Sandburg, “Chicago” (1988-1989), “Fog” (1989)

-Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” (1994), “The Idea of Order

at Key West” (1999-2000)

-Cummings “somewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyond” (2177-2178)

-Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (2265), “I, Too” (2266), “Theme for English B” (2270-2271)

R

April 5

T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (2039-2042), “The Hollow Men”

(2057-2060)

T

April 10

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (2201-2215)

-Richard Wright “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (2289-2297

Paper Due
 

R

April 12

-William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” (2218-2224)

Ernest Hemingway “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (2243-2259)

T

April 17

American Literature since 1945 (2305-2318)
-Ellison, “Invisible Man—Chapter 1” (2430-2440)
-Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People” (2569-2583)

-Toni Morrison “Recitatif” (2638-2651)

R

April 19

-Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” (2321)

-Bishop, “The Fish” (2399-2401)

-Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (2592-2600)

-Brooks, “We Real Cool”  (2540)

-Rich, “Diving Into the Wreck” (2626-2628)                          

 -Paper Due on Additional Writer for Honors students only

EXAM Thursday, April 26 at 3:00 p.m. Personal conflicts such as travel plans and work schedules do not warrant a change in examination time.