Unit
In-Class Topics and Reading Homework
Intro Unit
Course Syllabus & Policies
Review Literary Terms Power Points in AML 2020 Files
Mon 8/19
Readings:
Norton Volume C
Introduction: The Transformation of a Nation (3-16)
AML 2020 Requirement: Author Presentation PowerPoint and Oral Presentation of a
novel, short story, poem or monologue from a play (14 lines) can be submitted as a video
to me any time before 12/3. Choose your author in the Author Power Point selection
Forum under “Discussions”.
Post introduction and respond to two students by Sunday 8/25 at midnight.
Also, send me an email before next class indicating that you have read and
understand the Syllabus and Course Calendar.
Unit 1
Mon 8/26
Read the following in Norton Volume C:
(Units
may span
multiple
weeks.)
Kate Chopin: Biography (550-551)
Dèsirèe’s Baby (551-555)
The Story of an Hour (555-557)
Mark Twain: Biography (118-121)
The War Prayer (334-336)
From: Letters from the Earth (336-351)
Essay 1 (Due Oct. 7) will be an analysis of
The Awakening (561-652) by Kate Chopin
Or
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (130-309) by Mark Twain
Critical Articles (310-323)
(Choose one of these novels to read and write your research essay.)
Unit 1
From Norton Volume C:
Mon 9/2
Walt Whitman Biography (20-23)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (79-85)
Emily Dickinson Biography (89-93)
Poems (93-109)
Online: Post Unit 1 discussion and respond to two students per post by
Sunday 9/8 at midnight. Complete Unit 1 quizzes by Sunday 9/8 at
midnight.
*Quizzes can cover any material from the Unit.
Work on Fiction Essay
Unit 2
Mon 9/9
From Norton Volume C:
Ambrose Bierce Biography (398)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (399-405)
Sarah Orne Jewett Biography (525-526)
A White Heron (526-533)
Edith Wharton Biography (813-814)
Roman Fever (828-836)
Work on Fiction Essay
Unit 2
From Norton Volume C:
Mon 9/16
Booker T. Washington Biography (673-675)
From Up from Slavery (675-697)
W.E.B Du Bois Biography (883-885)
From The Souls of Black Folk (885-901)
Paul Laurence Dunbar Biography (1028-1029)
Poems (1029-1036)
Work on Fiction Essay
From Norton Volume C:
Unit 2
Mon 9/23
Stephen Crane Biography (943-946)
From War is Kind (1007-1009)
Jack London Biography (1042-1043)
To Build a Fire (1047-1058)
Upton Sinclair Biography (1108-1110)
From The Jungle (1110-1116)
Online: Post Unit 2 discussions and respond to two students per post by
Sunday 9/29 at midnight. Complete Unit 2 quizzes by Sunday 9/29 at
midnight.
Work on Fiction Essay
Unit 3
Mon 9/30
Norton Volume D
Introduction: The Two Wars as Historical Markers (3-20)
Edward Arlington Robinson biography (40)
Poems (41-44)
Robert Frost Biography (230-231)
Poems (231-250)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Biography (350-351)
Poems (352-357)
T.S. Eliot Biography (365-367)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (368-371)
The Hollow Men (391-394)
Langston Hughes Biography (869-871)
Poems (871-880)
Work on Fiction Essay
Unit 3
DUE 10/7: Essay 1 (The Awakening or Huckleberry Finn) on Blackboard.
Mon 10/7
From Norton Volume D:
Zora Neale Hurston Biography (528-530)
The Gilded Six Bits (541-549)
Edna St. Vincent Millay Biography (633)
Poems (633-636)
Countee Cullen Biography (892-893)
Poems (893-897)
Online: Complete Unit 3 quizzes by Sunday 10/13 at midnight.
Norton Volume E
Unit 4
Mon 10/14
Introduction: The United States and World Power (3-15)
Tennessee Williams Biography (90-93)
Arthur Miller Biography (236-238)
August Wilson Biography (927-928)
Essay 2 (Due Nov. 4) will be an analysis of
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (93-155)
Or
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (238-303)
Or
Fences by August Wilson (929-975)
(Choose one of these plays to read and write your research essay.)
Unit 4
From Norton Volume E:
Mon 10/21
Flannery O’Connor Biography (436-437)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own (437-444)
Good Country People (445-458)
Online: Complete Unit 4 Quiz Sunday 10/27 at midnight.
Work on Drama Essay
Unit 5
From Norton Volume E:
Mon 10/28
Theodore Roethke Biography (37-38)
Poems (38-50)
Gwendolyn Brooks Biography (322-323)
Poems (323-333)
Sylvia Plath Biography (623-624)
Poems (625-635)
Unit 5
Mon 11/4
Billy Collins Biography (829-830)
Poems (830-837)
Work on Drama Essay
DUE 11/4: Final Draft of Drama Essay (Death of a Salesman, A
Streetcar Named Desire, or Fences) on Blackboard
From Norton Volume E:
Randall Jarrell Biography (174-175)
Poems (176-182)
Kurt Vonnegut Biography (372-374)
From Slaughterhouse Five (375-385)
Unit 5
From Norton Volume E:
Mon 11/11
Raymond Carver Biography (736-737)
Cathedral (737-747)
Alice Walker Biography (920-921)
Everyday Use (921-927)
Online: Post Unit 5 discussions and respond to two students per post by
Sunday 11/17 at midnight. Complete Unit 5 quiz by Sunday 11/17 at
midnight.
Unit 6
From Norton Volume E:
Mon 11/18
Jhumpa Lahiri Biography (1222-1223)
Sexy (1223-1239)
Julia Alvarez Biography (1075)
From Yo! (1076-1083)
Sherman Alexie Biography (1207-1208)
Poems (1208-1213)
This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (1213-1222)
Joy Harjo Biography (1094-1096)
Poems (1096-1102)
Online: Complete Unit 6 quizzes by Sunday 11/24 at midnight.
Mon
11/25
*Work on Final Exam.
The Author Presentation and Oral Presentation are due by 12/2 at
Midnight.
Tuesday
12/3
Online
Final Exam to be completed online and submitted to Blackboard by
Midnight on 12/3.
*This course calendar is subject to change at the instructor’s discretion.