Start looking at this and ask questions next week. We will also read one or two more (recent) short stories, and I will post those as soon as I decide. I highly recommend you get started this weekend - for the finals in ALL of your classes. Finals count as 20% of your semester average.
Mark Twain
- Life and Times
- From The Autobiography of Mark Twain (658)
- From Life on the Mississippi (669)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Study Guide)
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives
- Introduction to Unit (742-44)
- Willa Cather “A Wagner Matinee” (688)
- Emily Dickinson Author Study, including all poems (746-759)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (765)
- Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour” (783)
- Tillie Olsen “I Stand Here Ironing” (806)
The American Dream
- Historical Background (820)
- Carl Sandburg “Chicago”
- Edgar Lee Masters “Lucinda Matlock”
- Edwin Arlington Robinson “Richard Cory” & “Miniver Cheevy”
- Paul Laurence Dunbar “We Wear the Mask” & “Sympathy”
The Harlem
Renaissance
- Introduction to the period (916)
- Langston Hughes – Life and Times, “I, Too,” “Harlem” & “The Weary Blues”
- “When the Negro Was in Vogue” (932)
- James Weldon Johnson “My City”
- Countee Cullen “Any Human to Another”
- Zora Neale Hurston “How it Feels to be Colored Me” (and Alice Walker’s comments)
Modernism &
Post-War
- Introduction to the period (992)
- Robert Frost – Life and Times, “Acquainted With the Night,” “Mending Wall,” “Out, Out—“
- T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1025)
- Ernest Hemingway “The End of Something” (1018) and Old Man and the Sea (Study Guide)
- Randall Jarrell “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (1088)
- John Steinbeck “Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” (1090)
- John Hersey “A Noiseless Flash” (Handout)
- Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (Study Guide)
- Short Story TBA