Schedule for English 203 -- Van Noy

Date	Readings and Events
31	Introduction to each other, to course and course policies. Historical timeline.
Sep 2	Rita Dove, "Mississippi" (2681). Robert Frost, “The Gift Outright." What is literature?
4	Awakening to the The Literature of the New World. Jonathan Edwards, "From Personal Narrative" (177 - 181).
Awakening to the New World: Formation of a National Consciousness
7	Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography" (184 - 198, 214 - 222). See also, this page from The Great Gatsby.
9	William Apess, "A Son of the Forest" (358 - 361); St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, "Letters from an American Farmer" (Letter IX, 339 - 342; "Letter III," 402 - 405); See this weekly response sample.
11	Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle," (367-378).
14	Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (487-489, 490-498 "Introduction," "Beauty," "Language."). Intro to the American Renaissance.
16	Henry David Thoreau, Walden. "Economy" (602-643), "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" (643-652).
18	"Conclusion" (689 - 697), "Resistance to Civil Government" (697 - 711).
Doubts about this Awakening
21	Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (792-804), "Young Goodman Brown" (804-813).
23	Edgar Allen Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado" (763 - 765). Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street" (853-879). Outline.
25	Rebecca Harding Davis, "Life in the Iron Mills" (1118 - 1146 w/ related voices).
Awakening to an American Poetry
28	Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing," (1165), "Song of Myself" (1166-1209)
30	"I Sing the Body Electric" (1209 - 1215), "The Wound Dresser," (1230 - 1232). "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" (1232- 1239); "The Sleepers" (1247-1254), "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1254).
Oct 2	Emily Dickinson, poetry selections: #216 (both drafts), 258, 324, 338, 341, 441, 585, 712, 986, 1052, 1129, 1540,1624, 1670
Rude Awakenings
5	Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1339-1343), "Corn-Pone Opinions" (1351-1354).
7	Selections from "Huckleberry Finn," Chapters I, VIII, XI, XV and XVI, XXXI and Realism.
9	Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1733-1747). Questions for Discussion.
12	Chief Seattle, "Our People Are Ebbing Away’ Like a Rapidly Receding Tide" (1362-1329); Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, "Life Among the Piutes" (1329-1332);
14	Booker T. Washington, "The Struggle for an Education" (1764-1778), "The Awakening of the Negro." W.E.B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk (1779-1801).
16	Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat," (1814 - 1830); Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron" (1640-1646).
19	Kate Chopin, "The Awakening" (1648-1733).
21	"The Awakening" cont'd
23	"The Awakening" cont'd
Awakening to Modernity
26	F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams" (2129-2143); Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier’s Home" (2218 - 2223).
28	William Faulkner, "That Evening Sun" (2159 - 2170). Willa Cather, "Neighbor Rosicky" (1880 - 1900). Evening Sun discussion questions.
30	Robert Frost, "The Mending Wall," The Road Not Taken," "After Apple Picking," Birches," "Design," "Directive" (1900 - 1911).
Nov 2	William Carlos Williams, selections (1959 - 1965); Elizabeth Bishop, (2278 - 2289); Wallace Stevens, " Anecdote of the Jar," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (1938 - 1948).
4	Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Dream Boogie," Theme for English B" (223 - 2228). Ralph Ellison, "The Battle Royal (2352-2361). Group discussion questions.
6	Theodore Roethke, "The Waking" (2278); Mary Oliver, selections.
9	Tennessee Williams, "The Glass Menagerie" (2292 - 2338)
11	"The Glass Menagerie" cont'd
13	"The Glass Menagerie" cont'd
Awakening to Postwar America
16	Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing (2345-2350); Flannery O’Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (2434 - 2444).
18	Tim O’Brien, "The Things They Carried" (2640-2652; Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (2590 - 2603).
20	Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh” (2613-2623). Raymond Carver, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (2604 - 2612). See also this unedited version, “Beginnings.”
23 - 27	Thanksgiving Break
30	James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (2409-2430). Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (2634-2639)
2	Leslie Marmon Silko, "Storyteller" (2653 - 2663). Erdrich, “Lulu’s Boys” (2701-2709).
4	Show and tell: read one thing (we haven't already read) from "Literature Since Mid-century" to write a response on and discuss in class.
7	Exam Review
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