Day

Date

Topic

Source

Misc

W

1/7/98

Course Introduction

M

1/12/98

Emerson, Self Reliance, Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Minutes: Sandra Willis

I. 982-999; 1474-1489

W

1/14/98

Whitman, Song of Myself

PRELIM. READING LIST DUE 

Minutes: Amber Wheeler

I. 2148 (Sections 1-6, 22, 33-5, 50)

F

1/16/98

Ginsberg, Howl

Minutes: Sandra Willis

II. 1802-10

M

1/19/98

Martin Luther King Birthday

1809: Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston.

W

1/21/98

Bradford Chapters 11, 14, 24; Winthrop, Journal

FINAL READING LIST DUE ON BIBLIOGRAPHY CARDS

Minutes:Josh Stephens

I. 35-50; 72-83

1789: 1st American novel, epistolary romance the Power of Sympathy, is published anonymously in Boston. 

F

1/23/98

Dickinson Poems The Soul Selects, They Shut Me Up in Prose, The Brain is Wider Than the Sky, My Life had Stood a Loaded Gun

Minutes: Aaron Long

I. 2280, 2292, 2298

M

1/26/98

Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter**

Minutes: Chad Sisson

I. 1181-1294

1932: Thomas Wolfe jumps from a moving car onto the Grand Central Station platform, severing a vein in his arm. 

W

1/28/98

Minutes: Lee Scott

F

1/30/98

COUNTRY, CITY, AND TECHNOLOGY:

Melvile, Bartleby the Scrivener; Frost, Mending Wall, Home Burial

THESIS AND FIRST BODY PARAGRAPH FOR PAPER 1 DUE

Minutes: Kevin Phillips

I. 1301+

II. 931-2

(both volumes)

1956: When asked in a Newsweek interview about writing free verse, Frost snaps: I=d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

M

2/2/98

Adams, Education of Henry Adams

Minutes: Jonathan Davis

II. 880-907

1870: Mark Twain marries Olivia Landon in Elmira, NY. 

1923: James Dickey (Deliverance) is born in Atlanta, GA.

W

2/4/98

O=Connor, Good Country People

Minutes: Melissa Most

II. 1958-71

F

2/6/98

Chandler, Red Wind

Minutes: Jemar Mack

II. 1531-64

M

2/9/98

PAPER 1 DUE

Clampitt, The Subway Singer; Brooks, We Real Cool, The Vacant Lot

Minutes: Jaime Hardin

II. 1924; 1691, 1695

W

2/11/98

Brown, Cora Fry=s Pillow Book (Selections)

Minutes: Blain Hyatt

RESERVE

1963: Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at 30. 

F

2/13/98

Mason, Shiloh

Minutes: Jeffrey Huls

II. 2233-42

M

2/16/98

McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Minutes: Crystal Hughes

II. 1490-1529

W

2/18/98

THE FAMILY: 

Bradstreet, Before the Birth, To my Dear ... Husband, Upon the Burning of Our House; Taylor, Upon Wedlock and Death of Children

Minutes: Marie Franks

I. 122,123, 130, 177

1931: Novel prize-winning novelist toni Morrison (Beloved, Song of Solomon) is born in Lorraine, OH. 

F

2/20/98

Williams, The Glass Menagerie**

Minutes:Jason Davies

II. 1587-1631

1852: Emily Dickinson=s mock Valentine Sic transit appears in the Springfield Republican. 

M

2/23/98

Poe, Fall of the House of Usher

Minutes: Jermaine Davidson

I. 860-873

W

2/25/98

Kingston, No Name Woman

Minutes: Thomas Cypress

II. 2082-90

1983: Playwright Tennessee Williams, 71, dies in NYC. 

F

2/27/98

Plath, Daddy, Rich, Mother-in-Law

Minutes: Jason Clark

II. 1864, 1830

M

3/2/98

MIDTERM

W

3/4/98

Brown=s novel, Before and After

Minutes:Rodney Davis

PURCHASE

1942: Novelist John Irving (The World According to Garp) is born in Exeter, NH. 

F

3/6/98

Minutes: Dawn Cantway

M-F

3/9-3/13

SPRING BREAK

M

3/16/98

PAPER 2 DUE; Movie

1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne=s the Scarlet Letter is published. 

W

3/18/98

1932: John Updike is born in Shillington, PA

F

4/24/98

Mather, Wonders, Franklin, Witch Trial

Minutes: Bradley and Bowman

I. 182-9; 323-5

1905: Poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King=s Men) is born in Guthrie, KY. 

1947: Novelist Willa Cather dies in NYC at 73. 

M

4/27/98

Hughes poems

II. 1431-40

W

4/29/87

Silko, Coyote Sends a Full House

II. 2257-62

TH

4/30/97

Paley, Zagrowski Tells

II. 2274-84

University Rules: Special Meeting

Tues

5/5/98

FINAL EXAM for 203.09

3:00 - 5:30