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Weekly Outline

Week 1, 1/14 -- Introductions
Week 2, 1/21 -- What is literature? What is identity?
Week 3, 1/28 -- Narration, paper #1 due
Week 4, 2/4 -- Character, Setting, Symbol, Theme
Week 5, 2/11 -- Quiz #1, film
Week 6, 2/18 -- Poetry
Week 7, 2/25 - - Poetry, paper #2 due
Week 8, 3/4 -- Poetry
Week 9, 3/11 -- Poetry, paper #3 due
Week 10, 3/18 -- (out of class work on blog)
Week 11, 3/25 -- SPRING BREAK
Week 12, 4/1 -- Quiz #2 on poetry, Theory
Week 13, 4/8 -- Poetry paper #4 due, Theory, film
Week 14, 4/15 -- Theory
Week 15, 4/22 -- Theory, quiz #3
Week 16, 4/29 -- Paper #5 due
Week 17, 5/6 - Final Exam PARTY

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HOMEWORK

5/6
FINAL EXAM
I will email you a few questions to answer on the movie for the final exam. Just send me a response in the body of the email. Don't be late! This is an easy A or B grade.

Due 4/29
--final paper, #5: 1000 words, two database sources and one web source, apply ONE critical approach/framework to a selected text, provide clear understanding of how the approach works. See critical frameworks and texts below:
= New Criticism (Shakespeare 1040, 1061, 1091, 1092)
= Biographical " (any 3 poems by Emily Dickinson 1187-)
= Freudian " (Paley 67, Faulkner 188, Oates 314, Lawrence 792)
= Reader-Response " (Byatt 352, Marquez 406, Atwood 765)
= Marxist " ( Baldwin 95, Wharton 118, Chekhov 259, Cheever 296, Fitzgerald 699)
= Feminist " (Paley 67, Munro 144, Kincaid 171, Gilman 655, Faulkner 730, Olsen 814, Welty 835)
= Queer Theory (Carver 32, Atwood 232, Kureishi 326)
= African-American Studies (Baldwin 95, Bambara 139, Morrison 201, Ellison 781)
= Post-Colonial Studies (Vapnyar 72, Tan 271, Mukherjee 434, Lahiri 448, Rushdie 825)

Due 4/22
--Quiz on critical approaches (theory)

Due 4/15
--Answer the two blog posts on the film we watched in class. Theory term quiz is postponed until next week.

Due 4/8
--Paper #4 due: 500-750 words, one database source, one web source, analyze any poem in our textbook that I OK, apply it to your life. Easy! Must use MLA format with Works Cited page.

Due 4/1
--Quiz #2 on poetry terms
--Read "Critical Approaches" pp. 2330-55.

Due 3/25
no class, SPRING BREAK

Due 3/18
--I will be at a conference. Check the blog for an activity to post to during class time roughly, 6:00-9:30.

Due 3/11
--Paper #3 due: 750-900 words, MLA style, at least one database article, choose any poem in our textbook and the lyrics to a favorite song of yours, compare and contrast the poem and lyrics in terms of their themes and questions of identity (gender, race, nationality, sexuality, class, etc.).
[in class: review of papers, lecture on chaps 19-21, group work on poetry analysis]

Due 3/4
--Read chapters 18-21 for ideas and terms.
--Choose a poem to discuss in class.

Due 2/25
--Paper #2 due
--Use "Suggestions for Writing" #1 or #2 or #3 or #4 on p. 914.
--Refer to our class discussion.
--Use strict MLA style, 750-900 words, with at least one database source. The NWFSC database source must be from a peer-reviewed journal.
--Papers not including a NWFSC database source and not in MLA style will not be graded.
[in class: 2 blogs, class in circle, each student explains her paper, group work, midterm-homework next week]

Due 2/18
--Answer homework blog post.
--Read chapters on poetry pp. 887-972 for ideas and terms.
[in class: blog, return quiz, Dead Poets Society vid, poetry ppt, review chapter terms, poetry group work]

Due 2/11
--Read chapter 4 (Setting), 5 (Symbol) and 6 (Theme).
--Read Hawthorne's "The Birth Mark" p. 340.
[in class -- blog -- discuss blog -- quiz -- discuss quiz -- film -- discuss homework]

Due 2/4
--Read chapter 3 (Character) for ideas and terms.
--Read Marquez's "A Very Old Man..." p. 406 and Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game" p. 781.
--There will be a quiz soon on all readings, terms, blogs, and class discussions so far--so read carefully.
--Be sure to ask me in class or via email if you have any questions about homework.

Due 1/28
--Write a 500-750 word paper on your relationship with your body. Use examples from one of the stories we've read. Use one article from a NWFSC database. Make sure the paper is in strict MLA style. Bring an electronic copy of your paper to class for review before submission to D2L.

Due 1/21
-- Read pp. 1-180 for ideas and terms.
-- Read "Cathedral" p. 32 and "Sonny's Blues" p. 95.
--Comment on any blog posts.

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