| Jan 10 | Introduction | |
| Jan 12 | Tennyson, “Home they brought her warrior dead”
Harbach, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
Frost, “For Once, Then, Something” | |
| Jan 17 | Grammar and writing | |
| Jan 19 | Eliot, “Preludes” | |
| Jan 24 | Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper”
Browning, “My Star” | |
| Jan 26 | Austen, Emma, volume I | |
| Jan 31 | Austen, Emma, volume II | first essay due: topic 1 |
| Feb 2 | Austen, Emma, volume II | |
| Feb 7 | Grammar test
Austen, Emma, volume III | first essay due: topic 2 |
| Feb 9 | Austen, Emma, volume III | |
| Feb 14 | Livesay, “Bartok and the Geranium”
McKay, “Recipe for Divertimento in D, K: 136” | first essay due: topic 3 |
| Feb 16 | Mid-term test | |
| Feb 28 | Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer | |
| Mar 2 | Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer | |
| Mar 7 | Unknown, “Lady Isabel”
Unknown, “Eppie Morrie” | |
| Mar 9 | Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” | |
| Mar 14 | Grammar test
Ibsen, Hedda Gabler | second essay due: topics 1 and 2 |
| Mar 16 | Ibsen, Hedda Gabler | |
| Mar 21 | Keats, “Bright Star”
Frost, “Choose Something Like a Star” | second essay due: topics 3 and 4 |
| Mar 23 | Wilde, “Symphony in Yellow”
Clampitt, “Fog” | |
| Mar 28 | Hornby, About a Boy | |
| Mar 30 | Hornby, About a Boy | |
| Apr 4 | Hornby, About a Boy | |
| Apr 6 | Review | |