Eh112 Syllabus

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Here are the simple instructions for using our on-line syllabus:

1) Click on a class number -- such as "Class One" -- to be taken to the outline and links for that class.

2) Click on a concept -- such as "Critical thinking" -- to be taken to the class concept page

3) Click on any of the in-class readings -- such as "William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" -- to be taken directly to a reading.

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Course Syllabus

Class One:

Concepts:

• Critical thinking
• Interpretation
  

In-Class Readings:

• William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"
• Robert Frosts’ “Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening”
  

Class Two:

Concepts:

• Speaker
• Audience
• Situation
  

In-Class Readings:

• Emily Dickenson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
• Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Miniver Cheevy”
• Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing”
  

Class Three:

Concepts:

• Audience
• Cultural References
  

In-Class Readings:

• William Carlos Williams’ “Danse Russe”
• Alfred, Lord Tenneyson’s “Ulysses”
• William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”
  

Class Four:

Concepts:

• Situation
• Poetry Paper
  

In-Class Readings:

• Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
• Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
  

Class Five:

Concepts:

• Imagery
  

In-Class Readings:

• Elizabeth Bishop's "First Death in Nova Scotia"
• Margaret Atwood's "The Is A Photograph of Me"
• John Donne's "The Flea"

Class Six:

Concepts:

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Symbol
  

In-Class Readings:

• Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors”
• Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”

Class Seven:

Concepts:

• Point of View

In-Class Readings:

• Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
• John Updike’s “A&P”

Class Eight:

Concepts:

• Plot
• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action

In-Class Readings:

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Class Nine:

Concepts:

• Character

In-Class Reading:

• Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Class Ten:

Concepts:

• Character (2)

In-Class Reading:

• Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.

Class Eleven:

Concepts:

• Allegory
• Setting

In-Class Reading:

• Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

Class Twelve:

Concepts:

• Allegory (2)

In-Class Reading:

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

Class Thirteen:

Concepts:

• Motif
• Theme

In-Class Reading:

• Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”

Class Fourteen:

Concepts:

• Motif (2)
• Critical Thinking (2)

In-Class Reading:

• Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of The House of Usher"
  
  Class Fifteen:
  Class Sixteen:
  Class Seventeen:
  
  How To Write The First Paper
  Researching The Final Paper
  Writing the Final Paper
  MLA Citation Guide
  APA Citation Guide