Course: English 102--Introduction to Literature
Instructor: Ann Warren
Office Hours: By appointment; please email me to arrange a Zoom meeting.
E-mail: annw708@gmail.com
Course Schedule: Week 1--Introduction and The Short Story Course Schedule: Weeks 2-4--The Short Story Course Schedule: Weeks 5-7--The Novel Course Schedule: Weeks 8-12--Drama
Course Schedule: Weeks 13-15--Poetry Writing Assignments Lectures Discussion Questions

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1 Aug. 29-Sept. 4 INTRODUCTION
What is "Literature"?
Interpreting and Evaluating Literature
Writing About Literature
FICTION
Plot
Character
Go to Lecture 1
Go to Discussion Questions 1		 Reading: Lecture 1
Valenzuela, "All About Suicide"
Week 2 Sept. 5-11 FICTION
Understanding Fiction
Setting
Point of View
Go to Lecture 2
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Lecture 2
Poe, "The Tell-tale Heart"
Faulkner, "A Rose For Emily"
Chopin, "The Storm"
WEEK 3 Sept. 12-18 FICTION
Style, Tone, Language
Symbol and Allegory
Go to Discussion Questions 3
Go to Lecture 3		 Reading: Lecture 3
Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Alexie, "This is What it Means to Say..."
O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"
WEEK 4 Mar. Sept. 19-25 FICTION
Graphic Fiction
Theme
Go to Discussion Questions 4
Go to Lecture 4		 Reading: Lecture 4
Spiegelman, "Maus"
Satrapi, "Persepolis"
Barry, "Two Questions"
WEEK 5 Sept. 26-Oct. 2 THE NOVEL
Understanding the Novel
Novel vs. Short Story
Go to Lecture 5
No new Discussion Questions this week
Paper 1 due		 Reading: Lecture 5
Mandel, Station Eleven
WEEK 6 Oct. 3-9 NOVEL
Plot
Point of View
Style
No new Discussion Questions this week
No new Lecture this week
Station Eleven Museum Visit due 		Reading: Mandel, Station Eleven
WEEK 7 Oct. 10-16 NOVEL
Theme
Go to Discussion Questions 5
No new Lecture this week		 Reading: Mandel, Station Eleven
WEEK 8 Oct. 17-23 DRAMA
Understanding Drama
Reading Drama
Writing About Drama
Plot
No Discussion Questions this week
Go to Lecture 6
Station Eleven Project Proposal due		 Reading: Lecture 6
Cariani, Almost, Maine
WEEK 9 Oct. 24-30 DRAMA
Character
Go to Discussion Questions 6
Go to Lecture 7		 Reading: Lecture 7
Auburn, Proof
WEEK 10 Oct. 31-Nov. 6 DRAMA
Staging
Go to Discussion Questions 7
Go to Lecture 8		 Reading: Lecture 8
Rivera, Tape OR Hwang, Trying to Find Chinatown
Feldman, Asteroid Belt
Dooley and Holzman, Post-its
WEEK 11 Nov. 7-13 DRAMA
Theme
Go to Lecture 9
No new Discussion Questions this week
Station Eleven Project Research Paper due		 Reading: Lecture 9
Shakespeare, Hamlet
WEEK 12 Nov. 14-20 DRAMA
Theme
Go to Discussion Questions 8
No new Lecture this week 		Reading: Shakespeare, Hamlet
WEEK 13 Nov. 21-23 POETRY
Understanding Poetry
Reading Poetry
Writing About Poetry
Themes in Poetry
Voice
No new Discussion Questions this week
Go to Lecture 10		 Reading: Lecture 10
Marianne Moore, "Poetry"
Reading: Zagajewski, "Poetry Searches for Radiance"
O'Hara, "Why I Am Not a Painter" (see Lecture 10)
cummings, "l/a"
Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"
Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
Heaney, "Digging"
Carver, "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year"
Yamada, "The Night Before Goodbye"
Coleman, "Dear Mama"
Dickinson, "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
Sexton, "Cinderella"
Gluck, "Gretel in Darkness"
Mirikitani, "Suicide Note"
Dorfman, "Hope"
Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham"
Wayman, "Did I Miss Anything?"
WEEK 14 Nov. 28-Dec. 4 POETRY
Word Choice, Word Order
Imagery
Figures of Speech
Symbols, Allegory, Allusion, Myth
No new Discussion Questions this week
Go to Lecture 11
Go to Discussion Questions 9 		Reading: Lecture 11
Espaillat, "Bilingual/Bilingue"
Rich, "Living in Sin"
Sagel, "Baca Grande"
Brooks, "We Real Cool"
Brooke, "The Soldier"
Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow"
Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
Hughes, "Harlem"
Plath, "Daddy"
Atwood, "You Fit Into Me"
Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"
Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Yeats, "The Second Coming"
WEEK 15 Dec. 5-11
STATION ELEVEN PROJECT DUE		 Project due by Thursday, Dec. 8
WEEK 16 FINAL EXAM Exam due Monday, December 12, by midnight.
No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.