WEEK 5: REALISM
COURSE BASICS
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MONDAY
Classwork: Two Sides of the Same Coin
TUESDAY
Debate: Washington or DuBois?
WEDNESDAY
English Department Common Assessment
THURSDAY
Lecture: Social Protest (Labor)
Author: Upton Sinclair
Read: The Jungle
FRIDAY
Lecture: Social Protest (Feminism)
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
WEEKEND
Relax
COURSE OVERVIEW
Syllabus
Class Policies
Study Guide: Semester 1 Final
English Registration: Senior Courses
WORKSHEETS
Lit Terms
Observation vs. Insight
Annotative Bookmark
Indirect Characterization
Indexed Notes
Distilled Notes
Song of Myself Translation
Poetry Explication
LECTURES AND SELECTIONS
Unit 1: Foundations
Unit 2: Romanticism
Unit 3: New England Renaissance
Unit 4: Research
Lecture: Scarlet Letter
Novel: Scarlet Letter
Step 1: Guidelines
Step 2: Bibliography
Step 3: Cornell Notes
Step 4: Working Thesis
Step 5: Formal Outline
Step 6: Rough Draft
Step 7: Final Paper
Research Resources
Unit 5: Division
Unit 6: Realism
Lecture
“Occurrence at Owl Creek”
“Outcasts of Poker Flat”
“Notorious Jumping Frog”
Up from Slavery
Souls of Black Folk
"Booker T. & W.E.B." (Poem)
The Jungle
“Yellow Wall-Paper”
Unit 7: Modernism
Lecture: Modernism
Lecture: Great Gatsby
Full Text: The Great Gatsby
1925 Book Review: Gatsby
Annotative Bookmarks
Vocabulary: Gatsby
Guided Reading: Gatsby
Lecture: Modern Poetry
Modern Poetry Selections
Modern Poetry Explication
Pen Your Own Poem
Lecture: Harlem Renaissance
Crash Course: Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Poetry
Crash Course: Hughes
Unit 8: Postmodernism
Lecture: Catcher
Study Guide: Catcher
Essay: Catcher
Crash Course: Part 1
Crash Course: Part 2
Lecture: Salesman
Study Guide: Salesman
Full Text: Salesman
Unit 9: Contemporary
“Recitatif”
Lecture: Fences
Full Text: Fences