Dakota College at Bottineau Course Syllabus

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1 Dakota College at Bottineau Course Syllabus Course Prefix/Number/Title American Literature II: English Credits Course Description: A survey of major works and writers in American Literature from the Civil War to the present. American Literature II surveys Unites States literature from the end of the Civil War to the present. Students will read, discuss and write about selections from the American West, fiction representing realism and naturalism, fiction, drama and poetry from various schools of expression of the 20 th Century. Pre-/Co-requisites: None Course Objectives: To discuss important themes in United States literature To learn about major United States witers and their works To analyze literature as it is affected by and affects U. S. history To analyze and write about United States literary themes and works To analyze and discuss how diverse groups affected and were affected by the American Dream. Instructor: Mr. Michael Porter Office: Thatcher Addition: Room 2209 Telephone: mike.porter@dakotacollege.edu Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday: 9:00 to 11:00 Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 2:00 to 3:00 Lecture/Lab Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 1:00 to 1:50 Textbooks: Baym, Nina, et. al. ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Seventh Edition. Volumes C, D and E. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Course Requirements: Daily reading assignments Class discussion Reflective papers Tests and quizzes

2 General Education Goals/Objectives: Goal 6: Demonstrates the knowledge of the human experience throughout history Objective 2: Recognizes the world of human diversity Skill 1: Demonstrates knowledge of varying cultural standards throughout the world Skill 2: Identifies the varieties of human social groupings Goal 7: Demonstrates the ability to create and analyze art; evaluate aesthetics; and synthesize interrelationships among the arts, the humanities, and society. Objective 1: Creates art Skill 1: Demonstrates knowledge of fundamentals of genres Objective 2: Analyzes art Skill 1: Possesses a base knowledge of art forms Skill 2: Uses base knowledge to critique art works Objective 3: Evaluates aesthetics Skill 1: Demonstrates knowledge of systems of aesthetics as those vary through time and among cultures Skill 2: Evaluates relationship of content and form in art works Objective 4: Synthesizes interrelationships among arts, languages the humanities, and societies Skill 1: Demonstrates knowledge of art forms in cultures Skill 2: Evaluates the impact of art on individuals and society Relationship to Campus Theme: American Literature considers technology and nature, but they are not a major focus. Human nature and writers reactions to the human condition are at the core of American Literature II. Classroom Policies: Grading 1/3 daily quizzes, assignments and activities 1/3 two essays 1/3 midterm and final Academic Integrity: All assignments, tests and quizzes will meet the standards of accepted Academic Integrity. Disabilities and Special Needs: Students with disabilities or special needs must inform the instructor of those needs as soon as possible. Student Policy Dakota College at Bottineau is increasingly dependent upon as an official form of communication. A student s campus-assigned address will be the only one recognized by the campus for official mailings. The liability for missing or not acting upon important information conveyed via campus rests with the student.

3 Tentative Course Outline: Syllabus: American Literature II Fall 2014 August 27 Lecture: Civil War, The American West, Industrialization and the American Dream pp.1-4 August 29 Washington p ; Up From Slavery pp ; Du Bois pp ; The Souls of Black Folk pp September 3 Bierce p An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge pp ; Chesnutt p ; The Wife of his Youth pp ; Barnett pp, Mob Rule in New Orleans pp September 5 Local Color pp. 9-11; Harte pp ; The Luck of Roaring Camp pp ; Burton pp.92 The Don and His Broad Acres pp ; Twain pp ; The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County pp ; The War Prayer pp ; Austin pp The Walking Woman pp September 8 Jewett pp The White Heron pp ; Chopin pp The Storm pp ; Freeman The Revolt of Mother pp September 10 Chippewa Songs pp ; Native American Oratory; Cochise pp ; Charlot pp ; ZITKALA pp Impressions of an Indian Childhood pp ; The School Days of an Indian Girl pp ; An Indian Teacher among Indians pp ; Eastman pp The Ghost War Dance pp ; Select Dickinson poems September 12 Emily Dickinson pp : Students select poems pp Whitman 17-21; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry pp September 15 Realism pp. 6-9 and pp 11-13; James: ; Daisy Miller pp September 17 Garland pp.752; Under the Lions Paw pp Glaspell pp. 1411; Trifles pp (Volume D) September 19 Gilman pp ; The Yellow Wallpaper pp ; Turned pp ; Sui Sin Far pp ; The Land of The Free

4 September 22 Naturalism; Crane pp ; The Open Boat pp ; London pp ; To Build a Fire pp ; Frank Norris pp. 931; Fantaisie Printaniere pp September 24 Dreiser pp ; Sister Carrie pp ; Wharton pp ; Roman Fever pp September 26 Masters pp ; Spoon River Anthology pp ; Anderson pp ; Winesburg, Ohio pp September 29 Cather pp ; The Sculptor s Funeral ; Robinson Richard Cory p Miniver Cheevy p ; Mr. Flood s Party p October 1 Modernist Manifestos pp ; Imagism; H. D. pp ; Mid-day pp ; Leda pp ; Lowell pp ; Venus Transiens pp1352; September 1918 p. 1353; Pound pp ; In a Station in the Metro p. 1482; The River merchant s Wife: A letter p. 1482; Williams pp ; The Young Housewife p1464; The Red Wheelbarrow pp11469; The Dance pp1473; Landscape with the Fall of Icarus pp ; Stephens ; Disillusionment of Ten O clock pp. 1443; Anecdote of the Jar p October 3 Eliot pp ; The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock pp ; The Hollow Men October 6 Moore pp ; Poetry pp ; What are Years p. 1535; The Paper Nautilus pp ; Millay pp ; Recuerdo p1804; I, being born a woman p.1805; I Too Beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex p. 1806; Apostrophe to Man pp ; Mina Loy p Parturition pp October 8 Assessment Day October 10 Midterm October 13 Frost pp ; Mending Wall pp1390; The Death of the hired Man pp ; After Apple Picking pp. 1398; The Road Not Taken pp ; Nothing Gold Can Stay p. 1403; Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening pp First Paper Due

5 October 15 Sandburg pp ; Chicago p ; Fog p 1438; Grass p. 1439; Cummings pp ; in Just pp. 1809; next to of course god America I p1811; pity this busy monster,manunkind p.1816 October 17 Fitzgerald pp ; Winter Dreams pp ; Babylon Revisited pp October 20 Hemmingway pp ; The Snows of Kilimanjaro pp October 22 Johnson pp ; Autoiography of an Ex-Coloured Man pp, ; Dunbar pp ; We Wear the Mask p. 1043; Sympathy pp ;Wright pp ; The Man Who was Almost a Man pp October 24 Drama October 27 Harlem Renaissance: Hughes pp ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers p Mother to Son p. 2028; I, too p.2028; Mulatto pp ; Toomer p ; Cane pp ; McKay pp ; The Harlem Dancer p. 1687; Harlem Shadows pp ; The Lynching p. 1688; America p1689; If We Must Die p. 1688; Brown pp ; Mister Samuel and Sam pp ; He Was a Man pp October 29 Cullen p ; Yet Do I Marvel p2061; Incident p. 2061; From the Dark Tower p, 2065: Hurston ; The Eatonville Anthology pp, ; How It Feels to be Colored Like Me pp ; The Gilded Six-Bits pp October 31 Kay Boyle pp The White Horses of Vienna pp ; Jarrell pp ; The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner p. 2268; Second Air Force pp ; Yusef Komunyakaa pp ; Facing It pp ; Nude Interrogation pp ; William Vollmann pp ; Red Hands pp November 3 Steinbeck pp ; The Leader of the People pp ; Dos Passos pp ; The Big Money pp November 5 Faulkner pp ; As I Lay Dying pp ; Barn Burning pp

6 November 7 Ransom Bells for John Whiteside s Daughter Warren pp ; Bearded Oaks p ; American Portrait: Old Style pp ; Mortal Limit pp.2120; Lowell pp ; Colloquy in Black Rock pp ; For the Union Dead pp November 10 Porter pp ; Flowering Judas pp ; Welty pp ; Petrified Man pp November 12 Ellison pp ; Invisible Man pp ; Baldwin pp ; Going to Meet the Man pp ; Reed pp ; The Last Days of Louisiana Red pp November 14 Morrison pp ; Recititif pp ; Bambara 2861; Medley pp ; Clifton pp ; miss rosie p. 2801; homage to my hips p.2802 November 17 Baraka ; An Agony, As Now pp ; Hayden pp ; Middle Passage pp Those Winter Sundays p. 2264; Brooks pp ; Kitchenette Building p. 2411; the mother p ; a song in the front yard p. 2412; The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men p. 2413; We Real Cool p ; Lorde pp ; The Woman Thing pp. 2783; Black Mother Woman p. 2784; Harper pp ; American History pp. 2857; Martin s Blues pp November 19 Flannery O Connor pp. 2521; The Life You Save May Be Your own pp ; Paley pp ; A Conversation with My Father pp November 21 Updike pp ; Separating pp ; Cheever pp ; The Swimmer pp November 24 Malamud pp ; The Magic Barrel pp ; Bellow pp ; The Adventures of Augie March pp ; Roth pp ; Defender of the Faith pp November 26 Vonnegut pp ; Slaughterhouse-five pp ; Barthelme pp ; The Balloon pp ; Pynchon pp ; Entropy pp Second Paper Due

7 December 1 Anzaldua pp. 2935; Towards a New Consciousness pp ; El sonavabitche pp ; Cisneros p Woman Hollering Creek pp ; Anaya pp ; Bless Me, Ultima pp ; Alvarez pp. 3108; The Mother December 3 Momaday pp ; The Way to Rainy Mountain pp ;Visenor pp ; Almost Browne pp ; Silko pp ; Lullaby pp ; Sherman Alexie pp ; The Exaggeration of Dispair pp ; Crow Testament pp ; Do Not Go Gentle pp ; Erdrich pp ; Dear John Wayne pp December 5 Roethke My Papa s Waltz p.2138; Wilbur pp ; A World without Objects is Sensible Emptiness pp ; Love Calls Us to the Things of This World , Max Apple pp ; Bridging pp December 8 Ginsberg pp ; Howl pp ; Jack Kerouac pp ; Big Sur pp December 10 Levertov pp ; In Mind p ; September 1961 pp ; Sexton pp ; The Truth the Dead Know p. 2642; Sylvia s Death pp ; Rich pp ; Snapshots of a Daughter-in- law pp ; I Am in Danger-Sir- p ; Plath pp ; Morning Song pp. 2700; Lady Lazarus pp ; The Applicant p December 12 Jhumpa Lahiri pp ; Sexy pp ; Amy Tan pp. 3154; The Joy Luck Club pp Finals Week Final Examination

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