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TENTATIVE LESSON
PLANS
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Novels for Semester One
Class Novels
- 5 Classes
Quarter
One:
Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Quarter
Two:
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Outside
Novels for Reading Groups
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Heart Of Darkness And Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Turn Of The Screw And In The Cage - Henry James
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Four Great Plays - Ibsen
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novels for Semester Two
Class Novels
Quarter
Three:
Beloved - Toni Morrison
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Quarter
Four:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Outside
Novels for Reading Groups
The Shipping News - Marshall Paule
Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1984 - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brian
Light in August - William Faulkner
Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine
Hansberry
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Things Fall Apart - Chinua
Achebe
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac
McCarthy
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
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Romanticism, Light, Dark and Gothic
1785-1830 - 4
Classes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan - BL Text 317
William Wordsworth -
Lines
composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (BL Text 312)
John Keats -
Ode on a Grecian Urn (BL Text 333)
Jane Austin -
Jane Austin Letter to Fanny Knight - POD 22; Optional Novels
Anne Radcliffe -
Description and Narration in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho
(URL Down?)
Lord Byron -
Darkness; She Walks in Beauty - BL Text 321
Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher - AL Text 194
Mary Wollencraft Shelley -
On
Ghosts
Washington Irving - The Devil and Tom Walker - AL Text 174
William Cullen Bryant - Thanatopsis - AL Text 187
Emily Dickinson - Selections - AL Text 332-343; Selections - SOW 39-43
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Victorian Period 1832-1901
- 2 Classes
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Morte D'Arthur
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
How Do I Love Thee? (BL Text 383);
My Letters! all dead paper. . .(BL Text 383)
Charles Dickens -
The Schoolboy's Story; Tale of Two Cities - Novel
Samuel Pepys - Life in London of the 1660's - POD 52
Charlotte Bronte - Optional Novels
Emily Bronte - Selected Poems - BL Text 379-381; Wuthering Heights - Novel
George Eliot - The Lifted Veil - BL Text 409
Thomas Hardy -
Selections from Satires of Circumstance; Selections from Poetry - BL Text
450-453; Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Novel
Gustave Flaubert - A Simple Heart - OTAP 61
Guy de Maupassant - The Devil - OTAP 320
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Close Reading of Hamlet - 10
Classes
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Transcendentalism / New England
Renaissance 1840-1865
- 2 Classes
Henry David Thoreau
- from Walden - AL Text 254; Writers Notebook - POD 83
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Selections - AL Text 240-247
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil - AL Text 268; The Scarlet
Letter - Novel
Herman Melville - from Moby Dick - AL Text 280;
Whiteness - POD 449
Walt Whitman - Selections - AL Text 398-408; Selections AL Text 25Aestheticism and Decadence
1880-1901 - 1
Classes
Oscar
Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest - Play
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Realism 1865-1915
- 2 Classes
Mark Twain - The Notorious
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - AL Text 445; Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court - Novel; Huckleberry Finn - Novel; Roughing It - Novel
Bret Harte - The Outcasts of Poker Flat - AL Text 452
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Novel; The Story of an Hour - AL Text 474
Henrik Ibsen - Four Great Plays - Novel;
Hedda Gabler - OTAP 126
Edith Wharton - Ethan Fromme - Novel
Anton Chekhov - The Darling - OTAP 46
Leo Tolstoy - A Prisoner in the Caucasus - OTAP 178
Luigi Pirandello - The Tight Frock Coat - OTAP 372
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Naturalism, Impressionism, Determinism
1900-1915 - 2
Classes
Ambrose Bierce - An Occurance a Owl Creek Bridge - AL Text 464
Charles Darwin - Tierra del Fuego POD 71
Jack London - To Build a Fire - AL Text 490
Stephen Crane - The Open Boat - AL Text 504
Edgar Lee Masters - Poetry Selections - AL Text 546-548
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Poetry Selections - AL Text
538-542
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Edwardian Period
1901-1914 - 2 Classes
H.G. Wells - The Star - BL Text 493;
The
Magic Shop
George Bernard Shaw -
from Major Barbara - BL Text 572; Pygmalion - BL
Text 511
William Butler Yeats - Selections - SOW 71-76;
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (BL Text 457);
When You are Old (BL Text 458)
Joseph Conrad - The Lagoon - BL Text 475; Heart of Darkness/Secret Sharer -
Novel
Rudyard Kipling -
The Wandering Jew; The Miracle of Purun Bhagat - BL Text 466
Henry James -
The Real Thing;
Turn Of The Screw
and In The Cage - Novel
E.M. Forster -
The Machine Stops
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Regionalism - Early 20th
Century - 2 Classes
Katherine Anne Porter -
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall - AL Text 606
William Faulkner - The Bear - AL Text 646; As I Lay Dying - Novel
Eudora Welty - A Worn Path - AL Text 622
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Modernism 1915-1946
Sherwood Anderson -
Sophistication - AL Text 570
John Steinbeck - Flight . AL Text 630
Ernest Hemingway - In Another Country - AL Text 580; Farewell to Arms - Novel;
The Sun Also Rises - Novel
Gertrude Stein - Selections - SOW 82-85
Ezra Pound - Selections - SOW 160-165; In a Station of the Metro - AL Text 700
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock - SOW 169; Preludes - SOW 174
*See Also Conrad Aiken's Book Review An Anatomy of Melancholy
- POD 412
e.e. cummings - Selections - SOW 197-200; Selections - AL Text 760-763
William Carlos Williams - Selections . SOW 137-144
Robert Frost - Selections - AL Text 766-779
James Joyce - Eveline - BL Text 362; Clay;
The Sisters
D.H. Lawrence - Tickets, Please - BL Text 640; The Rocking-Horse Winner; Selections - SOW 150-153
Virginia Woolf - Three Pictures - BL Text 690;
Kew Gardens;
Mary Wollencraft - POD 198
Somerset Maugham -
The Lotus Eater; Of Human Bondage - Novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams - AL Text 588; The Great Gatsby - Novel
Arthur Miller - The Crucible - Play (AL Text 1034)
Elie Wiesel - The Scrolls, Too, Are Mortal - POD 108
Farley Mowat - Battle Tactics - POD 156
Karel Capek - The Last Judgement - OTAP - 28
Carlo Cassola - The Poor - OTAP 252
Alberto Moravia - Anguish - OTAP 332
Eugene Ionesco - Foursome - OTAP 344; The Photgraph of the Colonel - OTAP 485
Par Lagerkvist - The Children's Campaign - OTAP 429
Kume Masao - The Tiger - OTAP 455
Thomas Mann - The Infant Prodigy - OTAP 463
Federico Garcia Lorca - Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias - OTAP 519
Jorge Luis Borges - The Circular Ruins - OTAP 539
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Existentialism
Early 20th Century
Albert Camus - The Stranger - Novel;
The Guest - OTAP 350
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Wall - OTAP 196
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Post Modernism or Contemporary
1946 to Present
Dylan
Thomas - The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - BL Text 604
George Orwell - Why I Write - BL Text 692; 1984 - Novel;
Revenge is Sour - POD 380
John Updike - The Slump - AL Text 854
Kurt Vonnegut -
Harrison Bergeron
Sylvia Plath - Mirror - AL Text 1002
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman - Play
Tennessee Williams - Optional Plays
Ralph Ellison -
From Hidden Name and Complex Fate - AL Text 908;
Invisible Man - Novel
Toni Morrison -
Recitatif; Beloved - Novel
Maya Angelou -
Selections from the Academy of American Poets;
My Name is Margaret - POD 97
Jack Kerouac -
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity; On the Road - Novel
John Barth -
Virtuality
Allen Ginsberg - Selections - SOW 226-234
Theodore Roethke - Selections - AL Text 954-956
James Wright - Lying in a Hammock... - AL Text 1014
Marshall Paule - The Shipping News - Novel
John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy Of Dunces - Novel
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 - Novel
J.D. Salinger -
A Perfect Day for Bananafish; Franny and Zooey - Novel
Tim O'Brien -
The Things They Carried (Short Story & First Chapter of Novel); The Things
They Carried - Novel
*See Also Nicholas Tomalin The General Goes Zapping Charlie
Cong - POD 166
James Baldwin - The Rockpile - AL Text 844; My Dungeon Shook:
Letter to my Nephew - POD 42
*See Also Lerone Bennett, Jr. The Birth of Jim Crowe - POD
227
Annie Dillard - Seeing - POD 396
Franz Kafka - A Hunger Artist - OTAP 337
Ilse Aichinger - The Bound Man - OTAP 362
Top
of Page
- Work on Fallacies - See short story
"Love is a Fallacy" and
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_fallacies.html and
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/logic.html
- Use Aristotle's
definition of tragedy for As I Lay Dying Paideia Seminar.
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AP "Boot
Camp" - Literary Terms through Short Stories:>
Use Figurative Language Assignments from 2003-2004 for Examples and Reference
Interlace Figurative Language Assignments with Allusions, Book/Movie Reviews,
etc.
See College Literary Terms
Quiz
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Character:
Where
Are You Going? Where Have You Been?, Oates (also great for symbolism);
Enough, Mc Dermott; "Everyday Use" and "The Swimmer"
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Symbolism: A Secret
Lion, Rios; The Lottery, Jackson: Everyday Use, Walker; Janus, Beatty; 15
Minutes in the Life of Larry Weller, Shields; "I Stand Here Ironing" and
"The Guest";
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Plot: A Rose for
Emily, Faulkner; Battle Royal, Ellis; A Worn Path, Welty; "The Destructors"
and "The Lottery
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Setting: Greasy
Lake, Boyle; The Storm; Chopin; IndAff, Weldon; Shiloh, Mason; "A
Wedge of Shade" and "The Track"
PofView: any by Poe; Big Black Good Man, Wright; Teenage Wasteland,
Tyler; Amish Farmer, Bourjaily; Who's Irish, Jen; A White Heron; "A Rose for
Emily" and "Hills Like White Elephants"
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Tone: Story of an
Hour; Roman Fever
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Theme: Flight; "A
Worn Path" and "Defender of the Faith"
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"A Rose
for Emily" (POV, characterization, theme, irony)
"Paul's Case" (POV, characterization, theme, symbolism, setting [places--contrast],
irony)
"The Story of an Hour" (irony, diction)
"Desiree's Baby" (irony, theme)
"Hunters in the Snow" (characterization, irony, plot)
"I Stand Here Ironing" (characterization, POV, theme, setting [time])
"Everyday Use" (characterization, contrast,theme, irony)
"Life After High School?" (setting [time], irony, theme, characterization)
"How I Met My Husband" (humor, plot, characterization, POV)
"You're Ugly, Too" (characterization--much detail and debate!, irony, wit
vs. sarcasm)
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Poetry Terminology
Sylvia Plath's "The Sow"
Randall Jerrel's "Camp in a Prussian Forest."
Keats' "Bright Star"
"Poetry" by Nikki Giovanni
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Class
Comments
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Things not to change...
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Paideia
Seminars
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Group presentations
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Keep giving help
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Nice comfortable environment, great class dynamic
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Allusions and Figurative Language assignments
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Reading Groups
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10
Late Days
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Keep the book reviews in class
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The
website helps but make the assignments easier to find
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The
Listserv was also helpful
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Thing
to change...
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Work on the Figurative Language assignments, alternate with the allusions
and keep them weekly
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Make the teaching groups more dynamic, could be monotonous
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More time for the outside reading
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Break up the teaching groups with my own teaching
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More Rompf Teaching
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More movies
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More work on the multiple choice - less figurative language?
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Content not to change
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As
I Lay Dying
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Scarlet Letter
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Shakespeare (Hamlet)
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Hamlet Movies
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World Authors
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Modest Proposal
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Beloved?
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Content to change...
- Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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