Weekly Calendar

Week 1 (1/27, 29)

Day 1: Introduction to course

Day 2: Start Prose/Fiction Unit
Read: p. 1-10, Introduction to book
p. 12-21, fiction, Brewer’s “20/20”

Week 2 (2/3, 5)

Day 1: Read: p. 21-36, 

Carver’s “Cathedral” and Paley’s “A Conversation With My Father”
Due: Response Paper #1


Day 2: Read p. 37-51, Alexie’s “Flight Pattern”

Week 3 (2/10, 12)

focus on Plot:
Day 1: Read: p. 57-81, Cheever
Day 2: Read p. 81-106, Baldwin

Week 4 (2/17, 19)

Day 1: focus on character
Read: p. 119-133, Welty
Due: Response Paper #2

Day 2: focus on narration/p.o.v.
Read p. 106-118, Hemingway and Poe

Week 5 (2/24, 26)

Day 1: focus on setting
Read: p. 165-194, Amy Tan, Anton Chekhov

Day 2: focus on Symbol
Read p. 207-214, Kafka
Due: Response Paper #3

Week 6 (3/3, 5)

Day 1: Read p. 224-236, Mukherjee; p. 332-347,
DH Lawrence
Due: Mimicking the Artist (Fiction)

Day 2: Read p. 356-363, Faulkner; p. 369-380, O’Connor

Week 7 (3/10, 12)

Day 1: Read p. 363-369, 

WC Williams and Kawabata; p. 385-386, Kincaid

Day 2: Reading: TBA
Due: Lit Crit Essay 1: Prose/Fiction

Week 8 (3/17, 19)

Day 1: Drama
Read: p. 676, Sophocles Oedipus the King

Day 2: Midterm Exam (150 points), In-class

Spring Break (3/24, 26)

Happy Week Off! 

Make sure to read, as the plays are thicker, and take longer . . .

Week 9 (3/31, 4/2)

Day 1: Read: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Act I
Day 2: Read: The Piano Lesson, Act II
Due: Response Paper #4

Week 10 (4/7, 9)

Day 1: Read: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House, Act I and II
Day 2: Read: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House, Act III
Recommended: Read: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Act I, page 923-955

Week 11 (4/14, 16)

Day 1: Poetry
Read: 398-415
Lecture: Cultural history and Poetry
Due: Mimicking the Artist (Drama)

Day 2: Listening to Poetry – the various rhythms
Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” (p. 470), 

ee cummings, Christina Rossetti, Yusef Komunyakaa

Week 12 (4/21, 23)

Day 1: Dickinson and Whitman – American Poetry!
(Their affect on ‘The line’)
Due: Response Paper #5

Day 2: Tone in Poetry: Kinnell, Ali, 

Atwood, Browning, etc.

Week 13 (4/28, 30)

Day 1: Form and Poetry
Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Haney, 

Richard Siken, Nick Flynn, Juliana Spahr, etc.

Day 2: Focused Metaphor: 

Keats, Yeats and Wordsworth; James Wright, Joe Bolton,

Week 14 (5/5, 7)

Day 1: Precision v. Ambiguity; p.o.v.
Due: Mimicking the Artist (Poetry)

Day 2: Further Readings, TBA
Presentations of Final Creative Project

Week 15 (5/12, 14)

Day 1: Presentations of Final Creative Project

Day 2: Presentations
Due: Lit Crit Essay 2: Drama/Poetry