Composition I Calendar Loibner-Waitkus August 23– • Introduction to Class August 28 • Complete course agreement. August 29– • Read “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest September 4 Hemingway (570). September 4– • Read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (542). September 11 • Read “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (618). September 12– • Read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by September 18 Gabriel García Márquez (629). • Read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor (580). September 19– • Read “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (637). September 25 September 26– • ESSAY #1 (on short fiction) DUE October 2 October 3– • MIDTERM EXAM October 9 • Read “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost (690). • Read “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (Instructor-provided Reading). October 10– • Read “Harlem” by Langston Hughes (698). October 16 • Read “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke (710).
October 17– • Read “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily October 23 Dickinson (713). • Read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe (Instructorprovided Reading). October 24– • Read “cream of wheat” by Lucille Clifton (720). October 30 • Read “The Leap” by James Dickey (Instructor-provided Reading). • Read “Adultery” by James Dickey (Instructor-provided Reading). October 31– • ESSAY #2 (on poetry) DUE November 6 November 7– • Read “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell (728). November 13 November 14– • Essay Workshop & Conferences November 20 November 21– • FALL BREAK November 27 November 28– • ESSAY #3 (on drama) DUE December 4
December 5– • FINAL EXAM December 11 • PORTFOLIOS DUE