Julie Chisholm Office: FAC 322
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Welcome to English 2328:
Survey of American Literature II!
Course Outline & Syllabus


This course will present a survey of American literature from the Civil War. Through the presentation of selected readings from the major writers, the student is acquainted with the literary forms, the philosophical attitudes and the political trends of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Required Text


The Norton Anthology of American Literature, volume 2
Bring book to every class. Students without their books may be marked absent.

Grading


Your final grade for this course will be determined as follows:
Out of class essays
(two of 850 words, or 3-5 pages)		 30%
Research essay
(2300 words or 8-10 pages)		 30%
Daily written responses to readings 10%
Midterm exam 10%
Final exam 20%


Final Grade Breakdown


A = 90%-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = 0-59%

Papers


Out of class essays: The essays must be typed, double-spaced, and documented using MLA style. The essays will be primarily based on close readings of particular passages of selected works. Please do not do any research for these papers. I want to know what you think!

Essay 1: Compare and contrast two works by two different authors covered during the first week.

Essay 3: Imagine yourself as the director of "A Streetcar Named Desire." Your job is to direct a particular scene, which you will cast, block and set. You will need to explain your decisions as director.

Research essay: Typed, double-spaced, and documented using MLA style. Compare and contrast two works by two different authors covered during the second week, using at least three sources.

Daily written responses: You will turn in a single-spaced, one page response each day, based on your reaction to one of the stories or poems from the previous night's reading assignment.

Exams: The midterm and final exams are based on readings, discussions and lectures, and will have short paragraph answers, and essay elements.


Support Services


Free tutoring is available in FAC 321B. See the schedule on the door for times.
Students may be required by instructors to work with a tutor.

The library is located in SJAC, second floor. If you haven't done so already, familiarize yourself with it.

Computers are available for word processing in SJAC 204A and in the Macintosh Interdisciplinary Lab in JDB 203-4. Check for open hours.


Plagiarism


You know the rules.


Syllabus

Subject to change...check this weekly!

Date

Assignment
7/6 Welcome to class.
Writing diagnostic.
7/7 Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters I-XI
7/8 "Huck Finn," ch. XV-XIX
7/9 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Mary Austin, "The Walking Woman"
7/10 Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"
Jack London, "To Build a Fire"
7/13 Gertrude Stein, "Tender Buttons"
(For response, pick one section.)
Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
7/14 Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This is Just to Say"
Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
H.D., "Oread"
7/15 William Faulkner, "Barn Burning"
7/16 Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
7/17 Midterm exam.
7/20 Movie: "A Streetcar Named Desire"
7/21 Tennessee Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire"
7/22 John Cheever, "The Swimmer
Bernard Malamud, "The Magic Barrel"
7/23 Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People"
7/24 Toni Morrison, "Recitatif"
7/27 Essay 2 due. Theodore Roethke, "Cuttings," "My Papa's Waltz," "I Knew a Woman,"
Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art"
Robert Hayden, "Elegies for Paradise Valley"
7/28 Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
Gwendolyn Brooks, "the mother," "a song in the front yard"
Richard Wilbur, "The Death of the Toad"
7/29 James Dickey, "Falling"
Allen Ginsburg, "Howl," "A Supermarket in California"
7/30 Frank O'Hara, "Ave Maria"
Galway Kinnell, "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps"
James Wright, "To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota"
7/31 Philip Levine, "They Feed They Lion"
Adrienne Rich, "Diving Into the Wreck"
Gary Snyder, "August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer"
Sylvia Plath, "Daddy"
8/3 Essay 3 due
Audre Lord, "Chain"
Michael S. Harper, "'Bird Lives': Charles Parker in St. Louis"
Alberto Rios, "Seniors"
Li-Young Lee, "The Gift"
8/4 Review for final exam.
8/5 Final exam.