AMERICAN LITERATURE (1^st Period)

Modernism: Poetry, Short Stories, and Of Mice and Men

Wed 1/13 (A): NO CLASS

Thu 1/14 (B): Review midterm and class discussion TBA
HW: Read W.C. Williams' “Waiting” (162) and "Red Wheelbarrow" from Spring and All (165) and Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar" (122), “The Brave Man” (131), and “The Reader” (132)

Fri 1/15 (C): William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens
HW: Read Stevens’ “The Emperor of Ice Cream”, Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Sandberg's "Fog" and "Chicago"

Mon 1/18: NO SCHOOL

Tue 1/19 (D): T.S. Eliot and Carl Sandberg
HW: Read assigned Frost poetry (“Mending Wall”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, and “Design”)
Extra Credit opportunity: Re-read the Nikki Giovanni poem we read at the end of class today (linked here) and type up a list of all the references/allusions to other texts/names/places/etc. You’ll need to get most of them to get credit, not just a few easy ones.

Wed 1/20 (E): The Poetry of Robert Frost
HW: 1 1/2--2 page response/analysis of "Design" by Robert Frost for double HW grade

Thu 1/21 (F): More with Frost
HW: Read "A Rose for Emily" (Faulkner) and "Hills Like White Elephants" (Hemingway)

Fri 1/22 (G): William Faulkner
HW: Read Hemingway's "The Killers" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

Mon 1/25 (A): NO CLASS

Tue 1/26 (B): Begin Hemingway
HW: 2 things--1) write 1-page assignment using at least 5 vocab words--either a) expanding one of the very short stories, or b) arguing whether or not you think the very short stories are actually short stories AND 2) write your own short story of 10 words or less

Wed 1/27 (C): Finish Hemingway
HW: Read pp. 1-16 of Of Mice and Men

Thu 1/28 (D): Introduction to Of Mice and Men
HW: Read pp. 17-37

Fri 1/29 (E): Of Mice and Men
HW: Read pp. 38-65

Mon 2/1 (F): NO CLASS—DELAY

Tue 2/2 (G): Of Mice and Men
HW: Read pp. 66-83

Wed 2/3 (A): NO CLASS

Thu 2/4 (B): Of Mice and Men
HW: Finish the book; Papers due Monday

Fri 2/5—Thu 2/11: LOTS OF SNOW

Tue 2/16 (A): NO CLASS

Wed 2/17 (B): Come to class ready to turn in both your paper on Modernism and your one-page response to Hemingway’s “…Francis Macomber”; we will finish up with Of Mice and Men
HW: Study for test

Thu 2/18 (C): Review for test
HW: Study for test

Fri 2/19 (D): Test on Modernism (including vocab list)
HW: TBA