COURSE OUTLINE AND SCHEDULE

Survey of English and American Literature

Week 1 Beginnings to 1700

Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather
Timed Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Week 2 17001820
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano… by Olaudah
Equiano

Week 3 18201865
“SelfReliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Walden Chapter 1 Economy by Henry David Thoreau
Timed Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Week 4 “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving

“The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

Week 5 “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg” by

Abraham Lincoln
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass (with
analysis worksheet and a Timed Rhetorical Analysis Writing)

Week 6 “The Wound Dresser” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by
Walt Whitman
poetry selections from Emily Dickinson: “Success is Counted Sweetest,” “I’m
Nobody! Who Are You?,” and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
Presentations Begin

Week 7 18651914
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“War Is Kind” by Stephen Crane
Presentations Continue As Needed

Week 8 “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Presentations Continue As Needed

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Week 9 19141945
“Mending Wall,” “‘Out, Out’” by Robert Frost
“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Presentations Continue As Needed

Week 10 “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes
Presentations Continue As Needed

Week 11 Since 1945

Acts 1 and 2 of The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Presentations Continue As Needed

Week 12 Acts 3 and 4 of The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Presentations Continue As Needed

Week 13 Multimedia Presentations due Friday

Week 14 “Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman” and “Courage” by Anne
Sexton
“Lady Lazarus” and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath

Week 15 “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr. from

Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
Timed Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Week 16 Final Exam

RECEIPT AND UNDERSTANDING OF SYLLABUS

After our review of the syllabus, you understand the following:

1. You must use your school issued email address. Because of the nature of this course,
communication is essential. If you cannot access your school email address, please see as
soon as possible to rectify the problem.

2. If you are going to be absent for a schoolrelated function (UIL, sports, oneact play, et
cetera), it is up to you to get any notes from that day’s lecture. Do not say, “I was gone
yesterday. Did I miss anything?” The answer is always yes, you missed something. Please
ask your classmates for their notes.

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3. All assignments are due on the due date given on your syllabus. These must be
shared with me in Google Drive (preferred) on the day they’re due.

4. Papers emailed or handed in the next day are considered late. Late papers lose 30%
on the overall grade before scoring. Papers more than one day late will not be accepted.

5. Schoolrelated events are not reasons to turn in papers late. You know about your
events ahead of time; if you know you’re going to be gone on essay day, you are still
responsible the paper.

6. Your high school report card and transcript could possibly reflect a different grade than
the one that you receive on your Ranger College transcript.