IV. Academic Schedule for English Literature Honors 2012-2013
August
Creating a Community of Encouragement, Growth and Learning and How We Progress.
Setting our own norms and standards by which to co-exist
Acquiring the Tools for Success
Familiarizing ourselves with the protocols of a successful learning community
Socratic Seminars
Text Renderings
Constructivist Exercises
Acquring listening and speaking tools
Critical Reading Exercises
Annotation/Citation
September /October
Isolation and Alienation: Universal Inflences and Paradigm Shifts:
from “The Allegory of the Cave” Plato
“Treating Others as Persons, Not Things” Immanuel Kant and The Categorical Imperative
The Seeds of Change:
Introduction: Four Twentieth Century Paradigms
Sigmund Freud, Frederich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx
Novels:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Short Stories:
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Flannery O’Connor
“ Miss Brill” Katherine Mansfield
“ The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner
“A Sorrowful Woman” Gail Godwin
“Eveline” James Joyce
Poetry:
“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot
“To Margaruite” Matthew Arnold
“Not Waving But Drowning” Stevie Smith
“Mending Wall” Robert Frost
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth
“I am Nobody. Who Are You?” Emily Dickinson
“Danse Russe” William Carlos Williams
Non-Fiction
“The Disembodiement of Everday Life” Rebecca Solnit
Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln
“On Being” John Paul Sartre
Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech
“Society and Solitude” (Excerpts) Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Origin of the Species” (Excerpts) Charles Darwin
“Consciousness as Social” (Excerpts) Frederich Nietzsche
Hegel and The Dialectics
Philosophical overview
Inference and Analysis
Rhetorical Strategies in Writing
Text Renderings
Vocabulary practice throughout the year: root words and their origins, prefixes, suffixes
The Writing Process from pre-write to revision
Reading Strategies and Protocols: Dialectical Journal/Annotations
Writing Practices: Thesis Statements, Abstracts and Summaries, R to L writing methodology, and beyond
Rhetorical Strategies in Writing: The Persuasive Essay
Research Methodologies and Plagiarism Awareness
Literary Analysis Paper
October/November
Heroes and Villians: How We Define Our Culture, Ourselves and Others
Novel/Drama
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Othello or MacBeth William Shakespeare
Short Stories:
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Ambrose Bierce
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
“Le Morte d’ Arthur” Thomas Malory
“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber “ Ernest Hemingway
“Rappacinni’s Daughter” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Murderer” Raymond Carver
“The Leap” Louise Erdrich
Poetry:
“Porphyria’s Lover” Robert Browning
“My Last Duchess” Robert Browning
“The Knight” Adrienne Rich
“To An Athlete Dying Young” A.E. Houseman
“The Investiture” Sigfried Sassoon
“Not Any Higher Stands the Grave” Emily Dickinson
Non Fiction
“On Civil Disobedience” Henry David Thoreau
“Self-Reliance” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading text as intentional: Literary Analysis: allusion, figurative language,symbolism, characterization, tone, mood, etc.
Reading Strategies: Annotations
Literature as Social Commentary
Identifying allusions, symbolism,connotation vs. denotation
Literary analysis paper
December, January,
Social Justice and The Human Condition, The Fight for Dignity in the Face of Adversity…
By what and how are we governed? What shapes our beliefs?
Novels:
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
12 Angry Men
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansbury
Short Stories:
“Barn Burning” William Faulkner
“The Censors”
“The Story of an Hour “ Kate Chopin
“Faust” Goethe
“The Lottery” Shirley Jackson
“The Lovely House” Shirley Jackson
Poetry:
“The Canterbury Tales” Geoffrey Chaucer
“Let America be America Again” Langston Hughes
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” Countee Cullen
“Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall
“Farewell in Welfare Island” Julia de Burgos
Non Fiction
“God is Beside You on the Picket Line” Cesar Chavez
“A Modest Proposal” Jonathon Swift
“I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King Jr.
“On Racism” Barack Obama
“A Room of One’s Own” Virginia Woolf
Excerpts
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
from “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus
from “Being and Nothingness” Jean Paul Sartre
Siddartha Hermann Hesse
The Old Man and The Sea Ernest Hemingway
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” Ernest Hemingway
“Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway
Reading text as intentional: Literary Analysis: allusion, figurative language,symbolism, characterization, tone, mood, etc.
Literature as Social Commentary
Objective truth vs. Subjective Truth
Reading Strategies: Annotations/Dialectical Journals
Literature as Social Commentary
connotation vs. denotation
Literary Analysis Paper
March, April
Chaos and Order: A Struggle for Recognition and Understanding in the Survival of the Ordinary: The Modern Dilemma
Novels:
1984 George Orwell
Anthem Ayn Rand
Short Stories:
“Soldier’s Home” Ernest Hemingway
“The War Prayer” Mark Twain
“Killing an Elephant “ George Orwell
“Paul’s Case” Willa Cather
Poetry:
“The Wasteland” T.S. Eliot
“Dead Man’s Dump” Isaac Rosenberg
“Break of Day in the Trenches” Isaac Rosenberg
Paradise Lost John Milton
NonFicton:
“The Speeches “ May 19, 1940 Winston Churchill
“A Hanging” George Orwell
“Learning to Eat Soup” John Nagl
“Night” Elie Wiesel
“A Warning Against Passion” Charlotte Bronte
Excerpts:
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
The Ballad of the Sad Café Carson McCullers
Night Elie Wiesel
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
“In Another Country” Ernest Hemingway
“A Natural History of the Dead” Ernest Hemingway
from The Waste Land T.S. Eliot
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
From Children in the Holocaust and World War II : Their Secret Diaries
May, June: Shades of Truth. A Study in Aesthetic Theory.
How can we ever be truly certain of our reality? What are the potential conflicts that arise when reality conflicts with illusion or others perceptions of us?
Novels/Drama:
Hamlet William Shakespeare
The Stranger Albert Camus
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Short Stories:
“Two Words” Isabel Allende
“The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit” Sloan Wilson
“The Rockinghorse Winner” D.H. Lawrence
“The Metamorphosis “ Franz Kafka
“A Pair of Tickets” Amy Tan
“Good Country People” Flannery O’Conner
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” James Thurber
Poetry:
“Songs of Innocence/Experience “ William Blake
“Do Not Weep Maiden” Stephen Crane
“My Papa’s Waltz” Theodor Roethke
“The World it Too Much With Us” William Wordsworth
“I Hear America Singing” Walt Whitman
“I,Too, Sing America” Langston Hughes
“Tell the Truth but Tell it Slant” Emily Dickinson
“Kubla Kahn” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Excerpts
A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot
from “A Sheaf of Imagist Verse” Lowell, Pound, Williams
Reading text as intentional: Literary Analysis: allusion, figurative language,symbolism, characterization, tone, mood, etc.
Reading Strategies: Annotations/Dialectical Journals
Literature as Social Commentary
Connotation vs. Denotation
Literary Research Project continues
The Writing Process/Practices
Literary Analyisi Paper/ Research Project
Science Fiction:
2001:A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
Film Study: Stanley Kubric’s “2001:A Space Odyssey”
Outside Reading l,ist
During each semester, you will be responsible for reading at least 400 pages. You will be required to keep an outside dialectical reading journal on each book At least two outside reading project/research assignment will be assigned, dates to be announced. You should be reading at least twenty minutes each evening.
Edward Albee--Who's Aftaid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance (drama)
Sherman Alexie—The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues,
The Toughest Indian in the World, Indian Killer
Stephen Ambrose--D-Day, Citizen Soldiers (nonfictionlwar)
Martin Amis—Time’s Arrow
Rudolfo Anaya--Bless Me, Ultima
Isaac Asimov--The Gods Themselves, Foundation
Margaret Atwood--The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eve, Wilderness Tips
James Baldwin--Go Tell it on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room
Russell Banks--Affliction, Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift
Samuel Beckett--Waiting forGodot, Endgame
Saul Bellow--Seize the Day, Humbolt’s Gift
Thomas Berger--Little Big.Man, The Return of Little Big Man
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward--The Final Days, All the President's Men
Harold Bloom--The Western Canon(literary criticism), Shakespeare: The Invention of the
Human(literary criticism)
Paul Bowles--7he Sheltering Sky
Ray Bradbury--Fahrenheit 451, -The,Martian Chronicles
Anthony Burgess--A Clockwork Orange, A Deadman in Deptford, Any Old Iron
Albert Camus--The Stranger, The Plague, The First Man
Truman Capote—In Cold Blood
Orson Scott Card—Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead
Raymond Carver--Where I'm Calling From, Cathedral, Will You Please Be Quiet,
Please?
Willa Cather--O Pioneers!, My Antonia
John Cheever--The Complete Stories, Falconer
Arthur C. Clarke--Childhood's End, Rendevous with Rama,
Pat Conroy--The Water is Wide, Beach Music
Don Delillo-- White Noise, Underground, Mao II
Phillip K. Dick-- The Man in the High Castle; Flow My Tears, the Policeition Said, Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
E.L. Doctorow--Ragtime, The Waterworks
Harlan Ellison—The Essential Ellison, Deathbird Stories
Ralph Ellison—Invisible Man, Juneteenth
Louise Erdrich—Love Medicine
William Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury, Absolom, Absolom, Light in August
F. Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, Tender is the Night
Richard Ford--Rock Springs, The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Piece of My Heart
E.M. Forster--A Room with a View, Howard's End, A Passage to India
Pat Frank--Alas, Babylon
Ernest Gaines--A Lesson Before Dying
John Gardner--Grendel, October Light,
William Gibson--Neuromancer
William Golding--Rite of Passage, Darkness Visible
Robert Heinlein--Stranger in a Strange Lqnd, The Moon is a Harsh.Mistress
Joseph Heller--Closing Time, Something Happened, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Emest Hemingway—The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms
Frank Herbert--Dune
Hermann Hesse--Siddhartha
Zora Neale Hurston--Their Eyes Were Watching God,
John Irving—The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, The Hotel New
Hampshire
Kazuo Ishiguro--The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled
Charles Johnson--Middle Passage, Dreamer
James Joyce—Dubliners, Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Nikos Kazanzakis--Zorba the Greek
Jack Kerouac-On the Road
Ken Kesey--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stephen King--Salem's Lot, The Green Mile, Hearts in Atlantis
Jerzey Kosinski-- The Painted Bird, Being There
Ursula K. LeGuin--The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home
C.S. Lewis--Till We IIave Faces, The Dark Tower and other stories
H.P. Lovecraft--Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
Norman Mailer--The Executioner's,Song, Ancient Evenings, Harlot's Ghost
Bernard Malamud--The Natural
Garbiel Garcia Marquez--One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in theTime of Cholera W. Somerset Maugham—Of Human Bondage
Corrnac McCarthy—The Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian
Frank McCort--Angela's Ashes, ‘Tis
Carson McCullers—The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Toni Morrison—Beloved, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Paradise, The Song of Solomon,
Arthur Miller--After the Fall, All My Sons
Viadmir Nabakov--The Defense, Lolita, The Complete Stories
Gloria Naylor--The Women of Brewster Place
Frederick Nietzsche—Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil
Joyce Carol Oates—them, Tales of the Grotesque, Bellefleur
Tiin O'Brien—Going After Cacciato, In the Lake of the Woods, The Things They Carried
Flannery O'Connor--The Complete Stories, The Violent Bear it Away, The Violent Bear it Away, Wise Blood
Eugene O’Neill--The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night
George Orwell--1984
Dorothy Parker—The Complete Stories
Boris Pasteniak—Dr. Zhivago
Alan Paton--Cry the Beloved Country
Katherine Ann Porter—Ship of Fools, The Complete Stories
Chaim Potok--The Chosen
Thomas Pynchon--The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Mason&Dixon
Ayn Rand--Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living
Erik Maria Remarque—All Quiet on the Western Front
Philip Roth--Goodbye Columbus, Sabbath’s Theater, American Pastoral, The Human
Stain
Salmon Rushdie—Midnight’s Children, EastlWest, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground
Beneath Her Feet
J.D. Salinger--.The Catcher in the Rye
Jean Paul Sartre--Being and Nothingness
William Shirer--The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany)
Leslie Marmon Silko--Ceremony
Jane Smiley--A Thousand Acres
Alexander Solzenhenitsyn—A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
John Steinbeck--7he Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden
Bram Stoker--Dracula
Peter Straub—Ghost Story
William Styron--Sophie's Choice
J.R.R. Tolkien--The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King
Dalton Trumbo--Johnny Got His Gun
Barbara Tuchman—The Guns of August
Anne Tyler--Breathing Lessons, Saint Maybe, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the
Homesick Restaurant
John Updike--Rabbit, Run, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, Toward the End of Time
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.—Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Hocus Pocus, Timequake,
Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
Alice Walker--The Color Purple
Thorton Wilder--Our Town, The Skin qf Our Teeth, The Bridges of San Luis Rey
Tennessee Williams-- The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending
Tom Wolfe--The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full
Thomas Wolfe--Look Homeward, Angel, You Can't Go Home Again
Virginia Woolf--To the Lighthouse
Richard Wright--Native Son, Black Boy