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