Assignment Overview & Grade Breakdown: Category Description Points Assignment 1: Short Fiction Essay This literary analysis essay explores the themes of a major work or works of Short Fiction. 200 Assignment 2: Author Power Point Submit a Power Point with biographical and literary information on a selected author. 100 Assignment 3: Drama Essay This critical analysis and research essay explores the themes of a major work of drama. 300 Attendance Participation, Discussions, quizzes, and homework assignments. Students will complete discussions on Canvas and in the classroom based on the assigned reading and complete an Author PowerPoint. Attendance, quizzes and other assignments are also part of the participation grade. 300 Final To be completed on Canvas. 100 Total: Total: 1,000 Course Calendar: Subject to change at the instructor’s discretion. Unit Begins Ends Objectives & Reading Assignments Items Due Intro Unit 1/8 1/14 Course Syllabus & Policies Introductory exercises Author PowerPoint Selection DUE 1/14: Complete Introduction Discussion Unit 1 1/15 Work on Author PowerPoints Read Short Stories: (Located in the textbook or in the Short Stories section of Library Guides) “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver “A&P” by John Updike Work on Author PowerPoint Unit 1 (Cont.) 1/21 1/28 Review Definitions: Types of Fiction (6) Plot (14) and Point of View (26), Character (74), Setting (117) and Theme (204) from the textbook, or review Literary Terms Power Points DUE 1/28: Author PowerPoints DUE 1/28: Complete Unit 1 Assignments and Quiz
Read: Short Stories: (Located in the textbook or in the Short Stories section of Library Guides) “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathanial Hawthorne “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor Unit 2 1/29 Review: Tone and Style (165) and Symbol and Allegory (234) from the textbook, or review Literary Terms Power Points. Read the following: “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin “Harrison Burgeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (226) Unit 2 (Cont.) 2/5 2/11 Craft Essay 1 Thesis Statements/ Outlines. Work on rough draft. Read the following: “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by Sherman Alexie “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner (30) DUE 2/11: Complete Unit 2 Assignments and Quiz Unit 3 2/12 Read the following: (Located in the textbook or Poetry section of the Library Guide.) Langston Hughes Biography “Harlem”, “Mother to Son”, “I, Too” and “Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes Read the following: Ch. 43 in Writing Ch. 31 in Poetry (1001-1035) Work on Short Fiction Essay
Unit 3 (Cont.) 2/19 2/25 Read the following: (Located in the textbook or Poetry section of the Library Guide.) T. S. Eliot Biography “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot Read the following: Ch. 32 in Poetry (1036-1057) DUE 2/25: Essay 1 Short Fiction Analysis DUE 2/25: Complete Unit 3 Discussion and Responses Unit 4 2/26 Read: Oedipus the King (Located in the textbook or Drama Section of the Library Guide.) The Theater of Sophocles (1200-1206) Work on Unit 4 Discussion and Responses Unit 4 (Cont.) 3/5 3/11 Read: Oedipus the King DUE 3/11: Complete Unit 4 Discussion on Oedipus. Unit 5 3/12 Read the following: Hamlet (1351-1446) (Located in the textbook or Drama Section of the Library Guide.) The Theater of Shakespeare/Biography Work on Drama Essay Unit 4 (Cont.) SPRING BREAK 3/25 SPRING BREAK Enjoy Spring Break! Unit 5 (Cont.) 3/26 Finish Reading: Hamlet (1351-1446) Work on Drama Essay Unit 5 (Cont.) 4/2 Read the following: Othello (1247-1350) (Located in the textbook or Drama Section of the Library Guide.) DUE 4/8: Complete Unit 5 Discussions and Student Responses Unit 6 (Cont.) 4/9 Read the following: A Doll’s House (1550-1606) (Located in the textbook or Drama Section of the Library Guide.) DUE 4/15: Essay 2 Drama Analysis Work on Unit 6 Unit 6 (Cont.) 4/16 4/22 Study for the Final Exam. DUE 4/22: Unit 6 Discussions