English 4470 schedule, fall 2011
Updated 12/3/11
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Monday, August 15 | Introduction to course Simple Stuff |
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Wednesday, August 17 | Student info (online) | Golden rules |
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Thursday, August 18 | Drop/add ends |
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Monday, August 22 | Nuggets Ecco: "The Toughest Indian in the World" 1-13 "1-900" 53-74 "The Girl on the Plane" 325-42 |
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Wednesday, August 24 | Quotes
and documentation Ecco: "Cowboy" 525-35 "Aurora" 213-26 "A House on the Plains" 227-51 |
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Monday, August 29 | Syllabus input | On
plagiarism Ecco: "The Identity Club" 153-72 "The New Automaton Theater" 559-77 |
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Wednesday, August 31 | Word problems Ecco: "Double Exposure" 397-415 "Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine" 445-69 "Saulte Ste. Marie" 537-49 |
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Monday, Sept. 5 | Labor Day holiday | Labor Day holiday |
Labor Day holiday |
Wednesday, Sept. 7 | Ecco: "Reve Haitien" 307-24 "Some Terpsichore" 511-24 "Landfill" 607-28 |
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Monday, Sept. 12 | Ecco: "Who Invented the Jump Shot" 727-48 "Bullet in the Brain" 749-54 "Escort" 647-50 |
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Wednesday, Sept. 14 | Class canceled | Class canceled | Class canceled |
Monday, Sept. 19 | Ecco: "On the Rainy River" 629-46 Handout: "The Things They Carried" |
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Wednesday, Sept. 21 | Ecco: "Paper Losses" 579-89 "The Brown Chest" 697-704 |
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Monday, Sept. 26 | The Imperfectionists 1-74 | ||
Wednesday, Sept. 28 | The Imperfectionists 75-129 | ||
Monday, October 3 | The Imperfectionists 131-202 | Paper 1 assigned | |
Wednesday, October 5 | The Imperfectionists 203-69 | ||
Monday, October 10 | Paper proposal due | Midterm exam | |
Wednesday, Oct. 12 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
Norton: Sylvia Plath 593-615 |
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Monday, October 17 | Paper 1 due | Norton: Allen Ginsberg 334-58 | |
Wednesday, Oct. 19 | Norton: Elizabeth Bishop 15-17 "The Fish" 21-22 "At the Fishhouses" 26-28 "In the Waiting Room" 34-36 "Poem" 40-41 "One Art" 43 Karl Shapiro 68-69 "The Fly" 69-70 "The First Time" 70-71 Robert Lowell 119-21 "Waking Early Sunday Morning" 136-38 |
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Monday, October 24 | Norton: Delmore Schwartz 72-73 "In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave" 73 "The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me" 74 Muriel Rukeyser 75-76 "Absalom" 76-78 "Alloy" 78-79 "Poem" 82 Gwendolyn Brooks 140-49 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 26 | Norton: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 162-66 Philip Larkin 210-11 "Water" 212 "Church Going" 212-14 "Talking in Bed" 218-19 "High Windows" 221 "The Be The Verse" 223-24 "Aubade" 226-27 Kenneth Koch 261 "From Days and Nights" 265-66 |
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Monday, October 31 | Norton: James Merrill 305-7 "The Broken Home" 307-9 "Days of 1964" 309-11 "Lost in Translation" 313-18 Anne Sexton 431-38 |
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Wednesday, November 2 | Norton: A. K. Ramanujan 438-48 Ted Hughes 558-71 |
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Monday, November 7 | Paper corrections | Norton: Adrienne Rich 456-83 | |
Wednesday, November 9 | Norton: Margaret Atwood 765-74 Charles Simic 705-12 |
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Monday, November 14 | Norton: Rita Dove 974-87 "The Day Lady Died" 365 "Eating Poetry" 621-22 |
Paper 2 assigned | |
Wednesday, November 16 | Norton: Geoffrey Hill 581-92
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Monday-Saturday, November 21-26 |
Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday |
Monday, November 28 |
Paper proposal due | Norton: Charles Bernstein 909-15 "Sun" 829-31 "Anorexic" 845-46 |
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Wednesday, November 30 | Sherman Alexie 1045-52 |
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Monday, December 5 |
Catching up missed poems: |
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Friday, December 9 | Paper 2 due | ||
Final exam Monday, December 12 3:30-5:30 |
Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative. I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.