Welcome to English 206-3

Syllabus

Student Profiles

Class Portfolio

May 19: Take-home Final Exam Due.  Exam posted in Assignments.

May 12: Roth: Goodbye, Columbus.  Q&C 6.

May 5: Hughes, selected poems from Six American Poets: "Aunt Sue's Stories," "The Weary Blues," "Stoney Lonesome," "Still Here," "Blue Monday," "Juke Box Love Song," "Passing," "Harlem."  NOTE: Paper due May 5th.  See "Notes on Papers" in Assignments.  May 7: Roth: Goodbye, Columbus.

April 28-30: Cather, A Lost Lady.

April 21-23: Wharton: Ethan Frome.  Q&C 5.

April 14: Extra class on Frost!  Please bring poetry anthology to class and read "Three Frost Poems" in Resources.  April 16: Wharton, Ethan Frome. 

April 7: Frost: "Fire and Ice," "Dust of Snow," "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," "Design," "Directive."   April 9: NO CLASS!

March 31-April 2: Frost poems from Six American Poets: "The Pasture," "Mending Wall," "After Apple Picking," "The Wood-Pile," "The Road Not Taken"  Q&C 4.

March 24: Crane: The Red Badge of Courage   O&C 3   March 26: EXAM.

March 10-12: Crane: The Red Badge of Courage.  Paper due 3/10.

March 3-5: Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl.

Feb. 24-26: Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl.  Q&C 2.

Feb. 17-19: Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl. 

Feb. 10-12: Hawthorne tales: "Young Goodman Brown, "The Minister's Black Veil," "The Birth-Mark," "Ethan Brand." See Paper Topics # 1 in "Assignments."

Feb. 3-5: Hawthorne Selected Tales and Sketches: “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” “Young Goodman Brown”         

This course examines an American sense of identity, vision and style through readings of some of the nation's best known and lesser known writers.  Emphasis on the American sense of identity, style, values and place.  Fiction and autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane and Philip Roth.  Poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.