Weekly Goals
Text
Literary Skills
Writing Skills
Literary and Cultural History
Literary Influences
Interdisciplinary Connections
Week
One
Introduce Huck Finn with Stowe, Douglass, Chesnutt; Huck Finn (I- XII)
Realism and Satire
Reading Quizzes. Parragraphs assigned; notes and outlines and other brainstorming exercises.
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Sophocles' Oedipus
Slavery
Week Two
Huck Finn (XIII-XXIII)
Regionalism: Local Color, Colloquialism
Reading Quizzes. Parragraphs assigned; notes and outlines being prepared for longer writing project.
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Shakespeare
Slavery
Week Three
Huck Finn (XXIV - XXXI)
finish over break
Symbol, Theme
Complete rough drafts of topic. Typed rough drafts are edited by peers who have specific editing goals.
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Supply Virgil passage from Cather's My Antonia.
WTCU
Week Four
Huck Finn
Narrator, Structure of novel
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Evaluate Virgil passage from Cather'sMy Antonia.
Reconstruction; Jim Crow laws.
Week Five
A) Daisy Miller pp.
B) Yellow Wallpaper
Ambiguity, Narrator and point of view
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Influence of English Novel on James; Compare his cultural identity (Anglophile) to T. S. Eliot.
A) Americans abroad; The Grand Tour. B) Women Suffrage movement.
Week Six
Daisy Miller cointinued.
Narrator and Satire
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Henry James; how does Henry J's love for Hawthorne haunt his text?
Women Suffrage movement.
Week Seven
Age of Innocence,by Edith Wharton,Chopin's The Awakening or another significant female author of the period.
Marriage and power
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Henry James; anticipates Fitzgerald.
Social lifestyle of east coast wealth.
Week Eight
Age of Innocence,by Edith Wharton,Chopin's The Awakening or another significant female author of the period.
Society vs. Individual
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How do Chopin, Jewett inform modern female authors?
Social lifestyle of east coast wealth.
Week Nine
Age of Innocence,by Edith Wharton,Chopin's The Awakening or another significant female author of the period. Other Short Stories: Jewett,Cather, et al.
Realism and Regionalism
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How do Chopin, Jewett inform modern female authors?
Social lifestyle of east coast wealth.
Week Ten
Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"& Trifles
Point of view, Irony; review English II Drama Terms
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Provencetown players (experimental theater still there today). Legacy of Eugene O'Neill Nobel Prize winner).
Pockets of Bohemian culture in America: American Marxism; Red Scare.