| Unit I: Elements of Fiction
Week 1: Getting Started
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Date
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In-Class
Activities / Focus
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Homework
Due
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M 8/25
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Course
overview, Introductions
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W 8/27
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How to
write about fiction
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-Chopin,
“The Story of an Hour” and related commentary
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F 8/29
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Style,
Perspective
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-Kincaid,
“Girl”
-Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (CP)
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Week 2: Getting Started
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M 9/1
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Labor
Day, no class
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W 9/3
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Allegory,
Perspective
Test 1
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-“Reading
and Writing About Short Stories” (CP)
-Alexie,
“A Drug Called Tradition” (CP)
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F 9/5
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Character
Gothic Handout
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-Puncher,
“Essay #3: Leda and the Swan” (CP)
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Week 3: The Gothic
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M 9/8
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Genre;
Setting; Tone
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*Response
Paper 1 Due
- Poe,
“The Tell-tale Heart” (CP)
-“Writing About Literature” and “Writing About Fiction” (CP)
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W 9/10
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Poe, “The House of Usher” (CP)
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F 9/12
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Allegory;
Symbolism
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-Hawthorne,
“Young Goodman Brown” (CP)
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Week 4: The Gothic
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M 9/15
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Plot
Test 2
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Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I
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W 9/17
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Thesis
Statements
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- Frankenstein,
Vol. II
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F 9/19
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- Frankenstein,
Vol. III
*Response
Paper 2 due
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Week 5: Science Fiction
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M 9/22
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Allegory
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Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark” (CP)
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W 9/24
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Theme;
Satire
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F 9/26
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Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, (p. 1 – 51)
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Week 6: Science Fiction
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M 9/29
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Thesis
workshop
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Cat’s Cradle, (p.
51– 91)
- Bring in potential thesis for Paper 1
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W 10/1
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Cat’s Cradle, (p. 92– 198)
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F 10/3
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Test
3
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Cat’s Cradle, (p. 199– 243)
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Week 7: Writing About Fiction –
Paper 1
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M 10/6
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Cat’s Cradle, (p. 244-end)
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W 10/8
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Paper
Workshop
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Bring in
draft of Paper 1
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F 10/10
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Paper
Workshop
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Bring in
better draft of Paper 1
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Unit II: American Fiction and
Social Problems
Week 8
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M 10/13
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Writing
Day
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W 10/15
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Plot;
Structure
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*Paper
1 due
- Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
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F 10/17
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Imagery
Test 4
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- Crane,
“The Monster”
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Week 9
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M 10/20
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Point of
View
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- Gilman,
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
- Gilman,
“Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper”
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W 10/22
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Utopia
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- Gilman,
“Dr. Clair’s Place”
- Ellison,
“Introduction,” Invisible Man
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F 10/24
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Motifs
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Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 3-34
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Week 10:
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M 10/27
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Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 34 – 97
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W 10/29
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 98 – 135
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F 10/31
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 136 – 171
* Response Paper 4 due
* Final Project Proposal
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Week 11:
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M 11/3
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Class
cancelled – conferences
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 172 – 230
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W 11/5
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Class
cancelled – conferences
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 231 – 295
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F 11/7
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Class
cancelled – conferences
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 296 – 355
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Week 12
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M 11/10
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Test 5
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 356 – 408
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W 11/12
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 409 – 444
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F 11/14
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 445 – 478
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Week 13
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M 11/17
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 478 – 534
* Final
Projects Due
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W 11/19
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- Hand
out short story packet
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Ellison, Invisible Man, 535 – end
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F 11/21
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*
Paper 2 due
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11/22 – 11/30
Thanksgiving Break
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Week 14: Working on Final Project;
Reviewing for Final Exam
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M 12/1
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Short
Stories 1 – 8
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W 12/3
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Short
Stories 8 – 13
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F 12/5
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Short
Stories 13 – 18
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Week 15
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M 12/8
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Test 6
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Short
Stories 19 – 24
* Response Paper 5 due
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W 12/10
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