Calendar of Events and Tentative Reading Schedule

Assignment Percentages
14 reader responses (50%)
6 Blog Projects (15%)
2 Major essays (20%)
2 Presentations (15%)

Specific Rules for Late Assignments

Late assignments must be e-mailed to me with a coversheet explaining why your assignment is late. You will
only able to receive up to 75% (C) for the project if the project is perfect (fewer points if there are mistakes).
When you email me your late assignment, make sure your subject line reads “Late Homework”. If your e-
mail does not contain “Late Homework” in the subject line, I will not grade your assignment. Assignments
more than a week late will not be accepted. It is the responsibility of the student to keep up with all due dates.

Tentative Reading Schedule

Wed. Dec. 13 – First day of Class
Note: I will not be present the first day of class. I will be out of town. Please begin the reading

assignment below.

Reading assignment: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In American Literature

II Anthology Text Book. Read from page 1 (chapter 1) to page 123 (chapter XXII).

Reading Response: Write a one page response to your reaction to the novel. You can focus on

the author’s voice, the characters, the plot, or the setting. But only focus on one area. Please

bring a print out of your reading response to class on Wed. Dec. 20.

Wed. Dec. 20 – Class discussion on Mark Twain. We will talk about your first reading response

essay.

Reading assignment: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In American Literature

II Anthology Text Book. Read from page 123 (chapter XXII) to end of novel page 243.
Reading Response: Write a two page response to Huckleberry Finn’s moral view point about

Jim. What is Huck’s moral conflict? Point out areas in the novel (marking page numbers) where

Huck has to make moral decisions.

Blog Assignment: Post your response to the Blog site.

Wed. Dec. 27 – Class Discussion on Huck Finn. We will discuss your reader responses and

more!

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby from beginning

to page 97 (chapter VI).

Reading Response: TBA

Wed. Feb. 3 – Class Discussion on The Great Gatsby. We’ll discuss your reading responses.

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby from page 97

(chapter VI) to the end of the book.

Reading Response: TBA

Wed. Feb. 10 -- Class Discussion on The Great Gatsby. We’ll discuss your reading responses.

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by Jack Kerouac On The Road from the beginning to

page 102 (chapter 14)

Reading Response: TBA

Blog Posting: TBA

Wed. Feb. 10 – Class Discussion about On The Road. We’ll discuss your reading responses and

more!

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by Jack Kerouac On The Road from page 102 (chapter

14) to page 206 (chapter 5: part three).

Reading Response: TBA

Wed. Feb. 17 -- Class Discussion about On The Road. We’ll discuss your reading responses and

more!

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by Jack Kerouac On The Road from page 206 (chapter 5:

part three) to the end of the novel.

Reading Response: TBA

Blog Project: TBA

Wed. Feb. 24 – Break from class – Internet Mid-Term Essay

Wed. March 3 – Finish Discussion on Jack Kerouac

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by Alice Walker The Third life of Grange Copeland from

the beginning to page 100?.

Reading Response: TBA

Wed. March 10 – We will discuss Grange Copeland. We’ll discuss your reading response and

more!
Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by Alice Walker The Third life of Grange Copeland from

page 100? To page 200?

Reading Response: TBA

Wed. March 17 -- We will discuss Grange Copeland. We’ll discuss your reading response and

more!

Reading Assignment: Read the Novel by Alice Walker The Third life of Grange Copeland from

page 200? To the end of the novel.

Reading Response: TBA

Blog Project: TBA

Wed. March 24 – We will finish our discussion of Grange Copeland.

Reading Assignment: Read the novel by Lee Smith Fair and Tender Ladies from the beginning

of the novel to page 125 (parts 1&2)

Reader Response: TBA

Wed. March 31 – We will discuss Fair and Tender Ladies. We will discuss your reader

responses and more!

Reading Assignment: Read the novel by Lee Smith Fair and Tender Ladies from page 125 to

the end of book (you have through east break).

Reading Response: TBA

Blog Project: TBA

Wed. April 7 – No Class.

Wed. April 14 – We will finish our discussion of Fair and Tender Ladies. We will discuss your

reader responses and more!

Reading Assignment: Read the novel by Leslie Silko Ceremony from the beginning to page to

page 150?

Reading Response: TBA

Wed. April 21 – We will discuss Ceremony. We will discuss your reader responses and more!

Reading Assignment: Read the novel by Leslie Silko Ceremony from page 150 to the end.

Reading Response: TBA

Blog Project: TBA

Wed. April 28 – We will finish talking about Ceremony. We will discuss your reader responses

and more!

Wed. May 5 – Last day of Class.

Final presentations are on May 5 about an author from the anthology or listed in my Delicious

Bookmarks. Please refer to the Presentation folder in the “ASSIGNMENT” section of Bb for

presentation details.

Theodore Dreiser

Carl Sandburg

Eugene O’Neill
Theodore Roethke

Gary Snyder

Raymond Carver

Sylvia Plath

Gwendolyn Brooks

Amiri Baraka

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

Joyce Carol Oates

Jhumpa Lahiri

From my book marks on Delicious

Emily Dickenson

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12242/12242-h/12242-h.htm

Jack London

“To Build a Fire” http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html

Robert Frost

Bio http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192
Poems http://www.bartleby.com/people/Frost-Ro.html

Bio http://carl-sandburg.com/biography.htm

Carl Sandburg (anthology)

Ezra Pound

Grave http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/pound.htm

Works by http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a2637

Audio poems read by Pound http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Pound.html

T.S. Eliot

Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1567/1567-h/1567-h.htm

Poems http://www.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Th.html

Yale Lecture on Eliot and Pound http://oyc.yale.edu/english/modern-

poetry/content/sessions/lecture10.html

William Carlos Williams

Yale Lecture on Williams http://oyc.yale.edu/english/modern-

poetry/content/sessions/lecture16.html

Bio http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81496

Gertrude Stein

Audio Recording http://www.ubu.com/sound/stein.html

Matisse, Picasso http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15600/15600-h/15600-h.htm

Wallace Stevens

Bio and Poems http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6576

Thomas Wolfe

Story http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300721.txt

Bio and Web site http://library.uncwil.edu/wolfe/wolfe.html

John Updike

New Yorker Submission

http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22John%20Updike%22

Sherman Alexie

New Yorker Submissions

http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=Sherman+Alexie&sub

mit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-

1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=

Bob Dylan

Home Page http://www.bobdylan.com/

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Home Page http://www.tcboyle.com/

New Yorker Submissions

http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=+T.+Coraghessa

n+Boyle&submit.x=48&submit.y=11&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-

1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=

Amy Tan

New Yorker Submissions

http://www.amytan.net/

Sam Shepard

Short Story http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/09/21/090921fi_fiction_shepard

Julian Barnes

Short story http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/10/19/091019fi_fiction_barnes

Paul Theroux

Short story “The Lower River”

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/09/14/090914fi_fiction_theroux

Orhan Pamuk

Short Story “Distant Relations”

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/09/07/090907fi_fiction_pamuk

J.D. Salinger
Dead Caulfields http://www.deadcaulfields.com/DCHome.html

Short story “A Perfect Day For Bananafish” http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/perfectday.html