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Sophomores - Final Exam Review


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

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