| Sep 4 | Introduction | |
| Sep 6 | Frost, “Mending Wall” (1914)
Frost, “Birches” (1916)
Frost, “For Once, Then, Something” (1920) | |
| Sep 11 | Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” (1913)
Pound, “The Rest” (1913)
cummings, “‘next to of course god america i” (1926)
cummings, “Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal” (1926)
cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (1940) | |
| Sep 13 | Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927)
Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (1933)
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) | |
| Sep 18 | Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) | |
| Sep 20 | Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | |
| Sep 25 | Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949) | |
| Sep 27 | McKay, “If We Must Die” (1919)
McKay, “The Lynching” (1920)
Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921)
Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” (1925)
Hughes, “I, Too, Sing America” (1926)
Hughes, “The Weary Blues” (1926) | |
| Oct 2 | Welty, “Why I Live at the P. O.” (1941)
O’Connor, “Everything That Rises Must Converge” (1961) | |
| Oct 4 |
Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (1917)
Stevens, “The Snow Man” (1921)
Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” (1923)
| first essay due |
| Oct 16 | Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (1923)
Williams, “This Is Just to Say” (1934)
Williams, “The Term” (1937)
Frost, “Take Something Like a Star” (1943)
Frost, “Directive” (1947) | |
| Oct 18 | Mid-term test | |
| Oct 23 | Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959) | |
| Oct 25 | Cheever, “The Swimmer” (1964)
Barth, “Night-Sea Journey” (1966) | |
| Oct 30 | Hughes, “Theme for English B” (1951)
Ginsberg, “America” (1956)
Lowell, “For the Union Dead” (1960)
Wright, “Small Frogs Killed on the Highway” (1969) | |
| Nov 1 | Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” (1981)
Jones, “The First Day” (1992) | |
| Nov 6 | DeLillo, White Noise (1985) | |
| Nov 8 | DeLillo, White Noise | |
| Nov 13 | Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” (1973)
Ortiz, “Vision Shadows” (1977)
Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” (1983)
Ai, “Riot Act, April 29, 1992” (1993) | |
| Nov 15 | Lahiri, “The Third and Final Continent” (1999) | second essay due |
| Nov 20 | Morrison, Home (2012) | |
| Nov 22 | Morrison, Home | |
| Nov 27 | Akhtar, Disgraced (2012) | |
| Nov 29 | Review | |