Schedule of Events
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Week 1
August 27

Introductions and Lottery

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
and
Footprints by Margaret Fishback Powers, Mary Stevenson, or Anonymous

  
August 29

20th C. Ameri#can Literary Movements
Pre-Modernist Poets

 Edgar Lee Masters, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Robert Frost, & Carl Sandberg

 

Week 2
September 3

Early Modernism

Wallace Stevens and
&
Ezra Pound
September 5

Early Modernism

 William Carlos Williams & Marianne Moore
[Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Peter Bruegel]

 

Week 3
September 10

The Harlem Renaissance

Descendants of the Harlem Renaissance

Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, & Countee Cullen

Gwendolyn Brooks, & Robert Hayden
September 12

Mainstream Poetry at Midcentury

The Beat Generation

 James Dickey, & James Wright

Allen Ginsberg

 

Week 4
September 17

Confessional poets
Black Arts Movement

Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, & Sylvia Plath

Ethelridge Knight & Amiri Baraka
September 19

Women's Movement Poets Contemporary Poetry
Rap and Slams

 Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, & Judy Grahn

Ray A. Young Bear, Carolyn Forche, Rita Dove, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdich, Sandra Cisneros, Marilyn Chin, Martin Espada, & Sherman Alexie
[Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians by Paul Kane]

 

Week 5
September 24
Test
  
September 26
    

 

Week 6
October 1
    
October 3
    

 

Week 7
October 8
    
October 10
    

 

Week 8
October 15
Fall Break
  
October 17
    

 

Week 9
October 22

Test

  
October 24

As I Lay Dying

to page 99

 

Week 10
October 29

As I Lay Dying

to 193
Halloween

As I Lay Dying

to end

 

Week 11
November 5

Slaughterhouse-Five

to 136 (Ch.6)
November 7

Slaughterhouse-Five

to end

 

Week 12
November 12
Small Group Conferences
November 14

Beloved
to 113

 

Week 13
November 19

Beloved
to 200
November 21

Beloved
to end

 

Week 14
November 26

Small group presentations
November 28

Thanksgiving

 

Week 15
December 3

Popular novel debates
December 5

Conclusions and Review


Final: