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Instructor: Ann Warren Office Hours: Via Zoom, by appointment. Email me to make an appointment to meet. E-mail: annw708@gmail.com |
Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5 Course Schedule: Weeks 6-9 Course Schedule: Weeks 10-15 Course Schedule: Final Exam |
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Week 1 Feb. 6-12 INTRODUCTION Themes and issues in American Literature: 1865-1900 Writing About Literature Go to Discussion Questions 1 We will be using the Canvas Discussion Board for this class. Click on the link below to get to the LACCD portal, sign in, and then click on the link for Canvas in the right column. This will take you to the Canvas dashboard. From there, click on the square with the name of our class. Once you've entered the class, you will find the "Discussions" link on the left side of the screen:
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Reading: Lecture 1 |
| Week 2 Feb. 13-19 Late 19th Century Fiction No Discussion Questions due this week |
Reading: Go to Lecture 2 Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Week 3 Feb. 20-26 Late 19th Century Fiction Go to Discussion Questions 2 |
Reading: Lecture 3 James, Daisy Miller The Turn of the Screw |
| Week 4 Mar. Feb. 27-Mar. 5 Late 19th Century Fiction Go to Discussion Questions 3 |
Reading: Lecture 4 Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
| Week 5 Mar. 6-12 Early 20th Century Poetry No Discussion Questions due this week  Paper 1 due
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Reading: Lecture 5 Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy" "Modernities" Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" "Acquainted With the Night" Eliot, "The Burial of the Dead" from The Wasteland Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West" "Sunday Morning" Williams, "A Sort of a Song" "Tract" Hughes, "Let America Be America Again" "Dream Variations" |
| Week 6 Mar. 13-19 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Discussion Questions 4 |
Reading: Lecture 6 Anderson, "The Book of the Grotesque" from Winesburg, Ohio "Mother" from Winesburg, Ohio Faulkner, "Centaur in Brass" Hemingway, "Soldiers Home" Parker, "You Were Perfectly Fine" |
| Week 7 Mar. 20-26 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Discussion Questions 5 |
Reading: Lecture 7 Choose one of the following novels to read; read the entire work: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby OR West, The Day of the Locust |
| Week 8 Mar. 27-30 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Discussion Questions 6 |
Reading: Lecture 8 Hammett, The Thin Man |
| ***************HOLIDAYS/SPRING BREAK March 31-April 9**************** | |
| Week 9 Apr. 10-16 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Discussion Questions 7 |
Reading: Lecture 9 Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely |
| Week 10 Apr. 17-23 Mid to Late 20th Century Poetry No Discussion Questions due this week Paper 2 due
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Reading: Lecture 10 Brooks, "The Bean Eaters" "A Song in the Front Yard" Roethke, "In a Dark Time" "The Geranium" Lowell, "Sailing Home From Rapallo" "Epilogue" Ginsberg, "Howl" Plath, "Lady Lazarus" Baraka, "A New Reality is Better than a New Movie!" |
| Week 11 Apr. 24-30 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No Discussion Questions due this week |
Reading: Lecture 11 Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues" From The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: --Silko, "Tony's Story," 579 --Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter," 321 --Bass, "The Hermit's Story," 22 |
| Week 12 May 1-7 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No new lecture this time Go to Discussion Questions 8 |
Reading: From The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: --Bloom, "Silver Water," 72 --Cisneros, "Never Marry a Mexican," 109 --Desaulniers, "After Rosa Parks," 129 --Doerr, "The Caretaker," 152 --Yarbrough, "The Rest of her Life," 628 |
| Week 13 May 8-14 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No new lecture this time No Discussion Questions due this week |
Reading: Choose one of the following novels to read; read the entire work: Auster, The Book of Illusions Frazier, Thirteen Moons Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Week 14 May 15-21 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No new lecture this time Go to Discussion Questions 9 Paper 3 due
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Reading: Finish the novel you chose (Auster, Frazier, or Wao) |
| Week 15 May 22-28 Catch Your Breath Week | No reading assignment for this week |
| Week 16 FINAL EXAM Final Exam due |
The final exam is due on or before the night of Tuesday, May 30th, by midnight. No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately. |