English 1 B, Introduction to Literature
Readings, Papers and Tests
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS ARE DOUBLED UP SO YOU CAN FINISH 18 WEEKS OF WORK (ONE COMPLETE SEMESTER) IN 9 WEEKS. FOR MOST LESSONS YOU WILL BE READING ONE MAJOR WORK A WEEK (A PLAY OR NOVEL) PLUS MINOR WORKS (SHORT STORIES AND POEMS).
| Lesson 1 | Fiction -- "The Lesson," Bambara, p. 136 "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," Hemingway, p. 107 "Good Country People," O'Connor, p. 120 Poetry-- "The Chimney Sweeper" and "The Tyger," Blake, p. 152 "My Last Duchess," Browning, p. 155 "Spring and Fall," Hopkins, p. 159 Drama-- Death of a Salesman, Miller, p. 251 |
| Lesson 2 |
Fiction-- "Young Goodman Brown, " Hawthorne, p. 82 "Araby," Joyce, p. 102 "The House on Mango Street," Cisneros, p. 147 Poetry-- "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain," Dickinson, p. 157 "Leda and the Swan," Yeats, p. 163 "Birches" and "The Road Not Taken," Frost, p. 164 "Myth," Rukeyser, p. 491 Drama-- Oedipus Rex, Sophocles, p. 194 Short story paper due |
| Lesson 3 |
Fiction-- "The Lottery," Jackson, p. 416 "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," LeGuin, p. 423 "'Repent, Harlequin,' Said the Ticktockman," Ellison, p. 429 Poetry-- "On Being Brought from Africa to America," Wheatley, p. 473 "The World Is Too Much with Us," Wordsworth, p. 474 "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense," Dickinson, p. 477 "Miniver Cheevy," Robinson, p. 481 "Harlem," Hughes, p. 489 "Ballad of Birmingham," Randall, p. 491 Drama-- A Doll's House, Ibsen, p. 546 |
| Lesson 4 |
Fiction-- "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner, p. 696 "Everyday Use," Walker, p. 742 Poetry-- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot, p. 793 "Naming of Parts," Reed, p. 798 "Cinderella," Sexton, p. 800 "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," Knight, p. 803 "The Stranglehold of English Lit.," Mnthali, p. 980 Drama-- A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry, p. 815 Drama paper due |
| Lesson 5 |
SHAKESPEARE WEEK Poetry-- Sonnets 18, 29, 129, and 130, p. 1095 Sonnet 73, p. 1378 Drama-- Othello, p. 1144 Online Midterm due |
| Lesson 6 |
Fiction-- "The Storm," Chopin, p. 992 "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," Lawrence, p. 1010 Poetry-- "With His Venom," Sappho, p. 1081 "Bonny Barbara Allan," Anonymous, p. 1083 "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Marlowe, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, Ralegh, p. 1087 "Song," Day-Lewis, p. 1088 "To Celia," Jonson, p. 1090 "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time," Herrick, p. 1091 "The Flea" and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," Donne, p. 1098 "Go, Lovely Rose!," Waller, p. 1101 "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell, p. 1102 "A Red, Red Rose," Burns. p. 1105
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| Lesson 7 |
Fiction-- "How I Met My Husband," Munro p. 1023 "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love," Carver, p. 1037 Poetry-- from "Song of Myself," Whitman, p. 1105 "Dover Beach," Arnold, p. 1106 "The Dover Bitch," Hecht, p. 1116 "Fire and Ice," Frost, p. 1109 "Loves Not All," Millay, p. 1110 "My Papa's Waltz," Roethke, p. 1113 "Those Winter Sundays," Hayden, p. 1115 "Bitch," Kizer, p. 1119 "Daddy," Plath, p. 1122 "Sex without Love," Olds, p. 1129 Poetry paper due |
| Lesson 8 |
Fiction-- The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald Poetry-- "Death, Be Not Proud," Donne, p. 1382 "Ozymandias," Shelley, p. 1382 "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats, p. 1383 "I heard a fly buzz--when I died, " Dickinson, p. 1386
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| Lesson 9 | Novel paper due Wednesday. ALL other class work including the final exam is due Friday, December 18 by 12 noon. Take the final exam on campus or at Ft. Irwin. If you live outside the college district, you must have the final exam proctored. REMEMBER: Computer labs close early on Fridays.
Fiction-- "The Cask of Amontillado," Poe, p. 1298 "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," Porter, p. 1346 Poetry-- "After Apple-Picking," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "'Out, Out--,'" "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, " Frost, p. 1391 "Dulce et Decorum Est," Owen, p. 1394 "nobody loses all the time," cummings, p. 1395 "Musée des Beaux Arts," Auden, p. 1399 "The Starry Night," Sexton, p. 1403 "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," Thomas, p. 1408 Drama-- "Death Knocks," Allen, p. 1430
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