-- Introductions, Syllabus

-- Finish up discussion from Wednesday.

-- Read Chapter One. --Assignment for Poetry Presentations.

-- Poetry Presentations

-- Poetry Presentations
-- 1/2 Journals Due

-- Poetry Presentations

-- Read Chapter 2 (13-25) Bring a journal response to one of the selections to class.

--Read Chapter 2 (26-44)

-- Read "A Rose for Emily"(1120-1129)

-- Read chapter 2 (44-54)

-- Read Hemingway (1093-1099), Levertov (1070-1071), Hardy (1058-1059), Dorfman (1068-1069) and Owen (1061-62)

-- 1/2 Journals Due

-- Labor Day: No Class

-- Read Chapter 3 (55-62)

-- Read O'Brien and Gordon (1033-1050)

-- Read chapter 3 (53-66)

-- Read Marvel (706-707), Frost, overhead sonnets, Bishop (1217), Robinson (1148-49), others?

--1/2 Journals Due

-- Read Chapter 3 (67-74)

-- Read Glaspell (464-476)

-- Read Chapter 3 (74-81)

-- Read Angelou and Hughes (329-343)

**Journal Entry --Find a review of a film you've seen. Write a response to the review. What kind of criticism does the reviewer practice?

-- Skim Chapter 4

-- Read Introduction and "Writing a Response section carefully.

-- Some in-class writing toward the first essay.

--1/2 Journals Due

-- Innocence and Experience

-- Read Joyce (155-159) and Erdrich (167-175)

-- I&E

-- Read Housman, Cullen, Soto, Sellers, Hopkins, Heaney, Stuart

-- Submit draft of first essay

-- Workshop Draft

-- 1/2 Journals Due

-- I & E

-- Read Hamlet (Act I)

-- I & E

-- Read Hamlet (Act II)

-- I & E

-- Read Hamlet (Act III)

-- Essay #1 Due

-- 1/2 Journals Due

--I & E

--Read Hamlet (Act IV)

--I & E

--Finish Hamlet

--I & E

--Read Heilbrun's essay, "The Character of Hamlet's Mother."

-- 1/2 Journal due

-- Review for Midterm

-- Midterm

-- Fall Break

-- Reread section on Comparison and Contrast from Chapter 4

-- In-class writing to get paper 2 off the ground

-- Crime and Punishment

-- Read O'Connor , "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

--C & P

-- Read O'Connor, "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" and "Reading the Map in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find."

-- 1/2 Journal due

--C & P
-- Read Browning, Dawe, Sexton, Knight.

-- Draft of Essay #2 Due

-- Workshop Essay #2

--C & P

-- Read Dolan and Dubus

-- 1/2 Journal Due

-- Reread sections on Analysis and Evaluation in Chapter 4

-- In-class writing to get paper #3 off the ground.

-- Parents and Children

-- Read Kincaid, Olsen

-- Essay #2 Due

-- P & C

-- Read Roethke, Kumin, Olds, and Hall

-- 1/2 Journal due

-- P & C

-- Read Goodwin and Merton

-- Draft of Essay #3 due

Workshop Essay #3

-- P & C

-- Read Yamauchi (Act I)

-- 1/2 Journal Due

-- P & C

-- Finish Yamauchi

--Learning and Teaching

-- Read Baxter and Bambara

-- L & T

-- Read Paley and Santiago

-- Essay #3 Due

--1/2 Journal Due

-- L & T

-- Read Reed, Heitzman, Bowers, Walters, Pastan, and Romano

-- Thanksgiving Break

-- Thanksgiving Break

-- L & T

-- Read Mamet (Act 1)

-- L & T

-- Read Mamet (Act II)

-- L & T

-- Finish Mamet

Summing up. Review for Exam.

-- Final Exam: 8:00-9:50