| T
3/28 |
Introduction to
the course.
First-day essay.
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| R 3/30 |
What
is reading?
Read: "Jabberwocky"
(handout). |
| T
4/4 |
Read:
Moore, "Poetry" (both versions, CP 61), Rich, "Diving into
the Wreck" (CP 63), Stevens, "The House Was Quiet and the World
Was Calm" (CP 64); WC 31-45.
Receive Essay 1 prompt. |
| R 4/6 |
Read:
Birkerts, from The Gutenberg Elegies (CP 7-11), Douglass, from
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
(CP 34-37); WC 11-21. |
| T
4/11 |
Read:
Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape (CP 1-6); WR C1 and C2.
Post draft of Essay 1 to WBD. |
| R 4/13 |
Read:
WC 23-29.
Peer Response Workshop
(in-class) |
| T
4/18 |
What
is writing?
Read: Blake, "Introduction"
(CP 12), Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book" (CP 32), Pound,
"Salutation the Second" (CP 62), Yeats, "Adam’s Curse"
(CP 65); WR C3.
Turn in second draft
of Essay 1.
Receive Essay 2
prompt. |
| R 4/20 |
Read:
Dickinson, poems 569, 709, 1129, 1545 (CP 33), Herbert, "Jordan (I),"
"Jordan (II)," "A Wreath" (CP 44); WC 47-60. |
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Week
of 4/24-4/28: Individual conferences (out of class).
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| T
4/25 |
Read:
Kafka, "In the Penal Colony" (CP 46-59). |
| R 4/27 |
Read:
Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (CP 13-20). |
| T
5/2 |
Read:
Heaney, "Digging" and "The Digging Skeleton" (CP 43),
Meehan "Caesarian Section in a Belfast Street" (CP 60); WR C4
and C5.
Post draft of Essay 2 to WBD. |
| R 5/4 |
Peer
Response Workshop (in-class). |
| T
5/9 |
Intertexts
and Hypertexts
Read: Borges, "The
Library of Babel" (CP 27-31).
Turn in second draft
of Essay 2.
Receive Essay 3
prompt. |
| R 5/11 |
Read:
Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" (CP 21). |
| T
5/16 |
Read:
Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (CP 38-42); Bush,
"As We May Think" (handout). |
| R 5/18 |
Readings
to be announced.
Post draft of Essay 3 to WBD. |
| T
5/23 |
Peer
Response Workshop (in-class). |
| R 5/25 |
Turn
in second draft of Essay 3.
Receive portfolio instructions. |
| T
5/30 |
Work
on portfolios. |
| R 6/1 |
Work
on portfolios.
Evaluations. |
| M 6/5 |
Extra
office hours for conferences on portfolios. |
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**Final
portfolios due Wed., 6/7 by 4 pm.**
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