English 10 Assignment and Reading Schedule (Mac Test, Summer 2006)
From UCSB English Department Knowledge Base
[edit] Aug 7: Introduction
[edit] Aug 8: Poetry - Origins and Forms
- Get to know Literary Terms
[edit] Read:
- "Quoof " reading by Ruth Padel
- Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
- Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina," "Visiting St. Elizabeths"
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 130
- Louis MacNeice "The Sunlight on the Garden"
- Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
- e. e. cummings, "O Sweet Spontaneous"
- W.C. Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
- Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
[edit] Aug 9: Poetry - Early Modern to Victorian
[edit] Write
- discussion question about one of the poems
[edit] Read
- William Shakespeare, Sonnets 12, 18, 97
- John Donne, "Holy Sonnets:" 14
- Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress,"
- Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
- Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
- Emily Dickinson 272, 305, 435
[edit] Aug 10: Poetry - Modern
[edit] Write
- Response Paper #1: Paraphrase a poem (1-pg)
[edit] Read
- Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought.
- Auden, "Museé de Beaux Arts"
- W.B. Yeats, "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming,"
- Allen Ginsberg, "Amerika"
- Wilfred Owen, "Greater Love," "Futility," "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
- Robinson Jeffers, "The Purse-Seine,"
- Hart Crane, "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge"
- Louis MacNeice "The Sunlight on the Garden"
[edit] Aug 14: Poetry - Contemporary
[edit] Read
- Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," "In A Dark Time"
- Allen Ginsburg, "America,"
- Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus," "The Colossus,"
- Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
- Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish,"
- Robert Lowell, "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"
- Robert Bly, "Surprised by Evening"
- William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark"
[edit] Aug 15: Poetry - Close reading
[edit] Read
- Helen Vendler "Writing about Poems" (hand-out)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover,"
- W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W.B. Yeats,"
- Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,
- Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird"
- Marianne Moore, "The Fish"
- W.S. Merwin, "The Drunk in the Furnace"
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
- Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool"
- Les Murray "Poetry and Religion," "The Instrument,"
[edit] Aug16 Drama - Shakespeare, The Tempest
[edit] Read
- Acts 1-2
[edit] Aug 17 Drama - Tempest
[edit] Read
- Acts 3-4
[edit] Write
- Response Paper #2: Close-read a passage from The Tempest (1-pg)
[edit] Aug 21 Drama - Tempest
- Paper #1 DUE
[edit] Read
- Act 5
[edit] Aug 22 Drama - Tempest
[edit] Read
- Brown, Paul. "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism."
[edit] Aug 23 Drama - Stoppard, RGD
[edit] Read
- Act 1
- Keyssar-Franke, Helene. "The Strategy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."
[edit] Aug 24 Drama - RGD
[edit] Write
- Response paper #3 on passage in RGD (1pg)
[edit] Read
- Act 2
[edit] Aug 28 Drama - RGD
[edit] Read
- Act 3
[edit] Aug 29 Drama - RGD
[edit] Read
[edit] Aug 30 Novel - Conrad, Heart of Darkness
[edit] Write
- Response paper #4 on Raskin (1 p-g)
[edit] Read
- pages 1-40
- Raskin, Jonah. "Imperialism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness."
[edit] Aug 31 Novel - Heart of Darkness
[edit] Write
- Thesis/Intro to paper
[edit] Read
- pages 41-80
[edit] Sept 4 LABOR DAY - NO CLASS
[edit] Aug 5 Novel - Heart of Darkness
[edit] Read
- pages 81-100
- Paper #2 DUE
[edit] Aug 6 Short Story - Stephan Crane
[edit] Read
- entire short story
[edit] Aug 7 Short Story - DH Lawrence
[edit] Read
- entire short story
[edit] Aug 11 Short Story - William Faulkner
[edit] Read
- entire short story
[edit] Aug 12 Short Story - Katherine Mansfield
[edit] Read
- entire short story
