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General Literature 113 (WTL)


Section 4: TTh   9:30-10:45, Grubbs 301

Section 6: TTh 12:30 - 1:45, Grubbs 301

Spring Semester 2008

Instructor:  Dr. K. Nichols
knichols@pittstate.edu


Daily Reading Schedule II



FAMILIES

  •   Week Seven

02-26

  • Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys  474-93.

02-28

  • Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys  493-514.
  • Short Write


  •   Week Eight

03-04

  • Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing" 692-98.
  • Joan Aleshire, "Slipping" 89-90.
  • SAMPLE ESSAY: Writing to Analyze 114-121.

03-06

  • Louise Erdrich, "Red Convertible" 218-26.
  • Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays" 740-1.


NATURE and CIVILIZATION

  •   Week Nine

03-11

  • Nature 819
  • Imagery 52; Haiku 858-9--definition, plus 4 poems.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (online--about 20 pages printed)

03-13

  • Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" 820-38.
  • PAPER ASSIGNED. Due Thurs., 11/15. See paper directions (online).


  •   Week Ten
  • SPRING BREAK (no class)


  •   Week Eleven

03-25

  • Sonnets 68.  Allusions 51.
  • William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us" 861
  • William Stafford, "Traveling through the Dark" 872.
  • H.D., "Sheltered Garden" 867-68

03-27

  • Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" 1247-48.
  • PAPER DUE. (LATE PAPERS WILL BE GRADED DOWN.)


  •   Week Twelve

04-01

  • OPEN-BOOK EXAM. Review the literature we read, what we discussed in class, authors and titles, and the literary terminology used. About 1/3 the exam will be on Fugard.


REMINDER: Make sure you copy Schedule III (link below).






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