Week 16

Read Ch. 6 pp 274-285 as well as Young Goodman Brown and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.

Monday 12/1 - You are going to spend the period with your partner disussing and or editing/revising your Pan papers.

Tuesday 12/2- We will discuss the two stories.

Wednesday 12/3- You have the period to work on Pan papers.

Thursday 12/4 - Annotated drafts of Pan papers due. (5o pts.; you will be graded on your paper and on your commentary/correction on your partner's paper)

Friday 12/5 - Story Quiz #5 on CPS

Final Draft of Pan papers due Monday 12/8.

Week 14 - Pan, by Knut Hamsun

Monday 11/17 - Chapter 4 Wrap-Up; begin Pan.

Tuesday 11/18 - CPS Story Quiz: Theme, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Fragment of Life.

Wednesday 11/19 - Pan reading day.

Thursday 11/20 - Pan discussion day.

Friday 11/21 - CPS Pan Quiz; annotated copy of Pan due.
HW: Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor chs. 12, 14, 16, 17, 19 & 20 and come up with a paper topic for Pan.

Short Fiction Itinerary #2

Week 12 -

Chapter 3 "Characterization"

Stories: Night Roamers, Sin, Everyday Use, Miss Brill

Story Quiz Thursday 11/6

Essay: The definition of art. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 500 words) Friday 11/7

Week 13 -

Vocab Unit 6
Chpater 4 "Theme"

Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path

Story Quiz Thursday 11/13
Vocab Quiz Friday 11/14

The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, and Interpreter of Maladies

Groups 1, 2, and 3, post your responses to the questions about setting, plot, and characterization in the three stories.

Short Fiction Itnerary #1

Week 10 -

The Elements of Fiction Ch. 1
Stories: The Most Dangerous Game & Hunter's in the Snow

Reading quiz Wednesday 10/21
In-class essay Friday 10/23

Week 11 -

The Elements of Fiction Ch. 2
Stories: The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, & Interpreter of Maladies

Reading Quiz Friday 10/30

Poetry Paper #2

Poetry Paper #2 – Using the suggestions on pp 5-7 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper either explicating or analyzing a poem from one of the lists below. This paper should be a minimum of 750 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poem and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Thursday 10/9
Thesis and outline of paper – Friday 10/10
First draft of paper – Tuesday 10/14
Second draft – Thursday 10/16
Final draft – Monday 10/20

Longer poems for analysis:

Wordsworth –
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Prelude
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Coleridge –
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Dejection: An Ode
The Aeloian Harp
Blake –
The Book of Thel
Burns –
Tam O’Shanter
Byron –
Don Juan
Childe Harold
Shelley –
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais
Keats –
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Eve of St. Agnes
Whitman –
Song of Myself
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Shorter poems for explication:

Burns –
To a Mouse
Wordsworth –
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She was a Phantom of Delight
Byron –
Prometheus
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
Blake –
The Little Black Boy
A Poison Tree
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
Poe-
Sonnet – To Science
Annabel Lee

One Page Paper Assignment (Due Monday 10/6)

Research and write a one-page (@300 words) paper on the topic assigned to you below. Title the paper at the center of the top line, but do not change the settings (1” top and bottom margins, 1.25” left and right margins) and be sure to double-space and use size 12 Times New Roman font. Use parenthetical citation and include a Works Cited list that has one book, one encyclopedia entry, and one on-line source. You must also use and cite one quote in your paper.

These papers should contain two paragraphs, one that presents a brief biography of your writer and one that discusses his or her relative position and importance within the Romantic movement. These papers are due on Monday, October 6 and will be worth 50 points, 15 for the list of Works Cited, 10 for accurate citations, and 25 for the appearance, structure, and content. Be sure to refer to the MLA section of the Hacker guide as you construct your paper!


Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Kaitlyn
William Blake – Kyle
William Wordsworth – Sammy
John Keats – Colleen
Percy Bysse Shelley – Emily
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley – Julia
George Gordon, Lord Byron – Luke
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe – Sarah
Novalis – Megan
Walt Whitman – Jessica
Robert Burns – Kelsey
Heinrich Heine – Mary Whit

Sample One Page Paper

The Charles River Bridge Case

In 1835, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall died. Since Marshall had served as Chief Justice for over 30 years and had done much to shape the Judiciary, no one quite knew what to expect when President Andrew Jackson appointed Roger B. Taney to replace him. (Henretta 327) Americans would soon find that Taney would not imitate Marshall’s pro-Federalist decisions. In 1837, the landmark case of Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. was decided by the Supreme Court. In 1785, the Massachusetts legislature had chartered the Charles River Bridge Company to construct a bridge connecting Charlestown to Boston. (Ariens 1) When the legislature allowed a group of merchants from Charlestown to build the Warren Bridge connecting the same areas, the owners of the Charles River Bridge sued to halt its construction. In a reversal of the Marshall Court’s tendency to support the sanctity of contracts and property, Taney ruled in favor of the defendants by maintaining that the Massachusetts legislature retained the power to charter a competing bridge company. (Bailey 253)
The Charles River Bridge Case was groundbreaking in several ways. In his decision, Taney stated that, “While the rights of private property are sacredly guarded, we must not forget that the community also has rights.” (Henretta 327) This appeal to the public exemplified the democratic spirit of the Jacksonian period and the demise of the Hamiltonian protection of individual and corporate wealth characteristic of the Marshall court. In the wake of the case, competitive enterprise grew and charters for railroads to compete with canals and turnpikes proliferated. The decision also reflected Taney’s animosity toward Hamiltonian monopolies like the Bank of the United States and foreshadowed his preference for states rights over federal power. (“Taney” 24)

Works Cited

Ariens, Michael. “Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge.” michaelariens.com.
29 October 2004 <http://michaelariens.com/ConLaw/cases/charlesriver.htm>

Bailey, Thomas A., and David M. Kennedy. The American Spirit. New York:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

Henretta, James A., David Brody, and Lynn Dumeil. America: A Concise History.
New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.

“Taney, Roger Brooke.” The Worldbook Encyclopedia. 2004.

Poetry Paper #1

Poetry Paper #1 – Using the suggestions on page 8 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text. (pp 647-1024) This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced.

We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

- Poems and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Monday 9/14
- Thesis and outline of paper – Thursday 9/17
- First draft of paper – Monday 9/21
- Second draft – Wednesday 9/23
- Final draft – Friday 9/25

Crime and Punishment Assignment

Choose a specific quote (use page numbers and reference to Part I-VI or Epilogue) from the novel and analyze it, using an idea from How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Your analysis should illustrate the way in which your quote conveys a central them from the novel. The paper should be approximately two pages (@500 words) typed and double-spaced. You need not include parenthetical citations or a bibliography but you do need to include page numbers of any quotes you incorporate.

If you have posted this assignment, you will receive significant advice and commentary from me if you have not already. If you do not post you are on your own. This paper is due Friday August 29.