All readings and assignments are to be completed on the date given.
| July 7 W | Introduction |
| 8 R | Ch 1 (3-19) (Plot) |
| 12 M | Ch 2 "Point of View" (20-26) "Miss Brill" (49-52) "The Tell-Tale Heart" (33-37) |
| 13 T | Ch 3 "Character" (60-63) "Everyday Use" (71-78) "Cathedral" (38-49) Ch 4 "Setting" (92-99) (includes Chopin's "The Storm") |
| 14 W | Ch 5 "Tone and Style" (137-44) (includes Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place") Ch 6 "Theme" (175-77) "Irony" (158-59) Ch 7 "Symbol" (217-19, 217-19) (includes Jackson's "The Lottery") |
| 15 R | Fowles's The Collector (pp. 1-64) |
| 19 M | The Collector (pp. 64-120) |
| 20 T | The Collector (pp. 123-200) |
| 21 W | The Collector (pp. 201-305) |
| 22 R | Review for Midterm Exam |
| 26 M | Midterm Exam (Bring scantrons, white lined paper, and pencils) |
| 27 T | "Poetry" (647-50)) Ch 13 "Reading a Poem" (651-63) (includes Yeat's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Lawrence's "Piano," and Swanson's "Four-Word Lines," "Sir Patrick Spence," Frost's "Out, Out--," and Browning's "My Last Duchess") |
| 28 W | Ch 14 "Listening to a Voice" (667) Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" (668) "Irony" (680-81) Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" (682-83) Donne's "Song" (704) |
| 29 R | Ch 16 "Saying and Suggesting" (727-31) Blake's "London" (731) Frost's "Fire and Ice" (735) Ch 20 "Sound" (807-10) (Includes Pope's "True Ease in Writing Comes From Art, Not Chance") |
| Aug 2 M | "Alliteration and Assonance" (812-14) Housman's "Eight O'clock" (814) "Rime" (816-19) Yeat's "Leda and the Swan" (821) Hopkins's "God's Grandeur" (822) |
| 3 T | "Meter" ( ) Ch 22 "Closed Form" (854-55) Frost's "Acquainted With the Night" (865-66) Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good night" (872-73) Ch 23 "Open Form" (879-883) Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!" ( ) Cumming's "In Just--" (896-97) |
| 4 W | "Drama" (1195-196) Chapter 34 ( ) (includes Oedipus the King) |
| 5 R | Review for Final Exam Final Exam |