Reading schedule for Fourth Quarter

 

April 4-8:

F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Absolution”;

T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.663

Edwin Arlington Robinson: “Richard Cory” p. 645; 

                                             “Miniver Cheevy” p. 646

 

April 11-15:

William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily” p. 715; 

                               “That Evening Sun” (link);                      

                                “Barn Burning” (link); 

Langston Hughes: “Dream Deferred”

                              “Dream Boogie”

First Essay Due by Friday (Turn It In)

 

 

 

This Week:  April 18-22:

Flannery O’Connor: “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” p. 673; 

                                 “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (link); 

                                 “Good Country People” (link)

Eudora Welty:          “A Worn Path” p. 634; 

                                 “Petrified Man” (link)

 

 

April 25-29:

Ezra Pound:  “In a Station of the Metro” p. 772

William Carlos Williams:  “The Red Wheelbarrow” p. 779

Walace Stevens:  “Anecdote of the Jar” p. 784

E. E. Cummings:  “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” (link)

                             “Buffalo Bill’s” (link)

Randall Jarrell:  “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” p. 932

Second Essay Due by Friday  (Turn It In)

 

 

May 2-6:

Donald Barthelme:  “Game” p. 956

Robert Olen Butler:  “Mr. Green” (link)

Louise Erdrich:  “The Red Convertible” (link)

Bernard Malamud:  “The Magic Barrel” p. 981

 

May 9-13:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez:  “The Handsomest Drowned Man” p. 996

Theodore Roethke:  “The Waking” (link)

Richard Wilbur:  “Beautiful Changes” p. 1006

Raymond Carver:  “Everything Stuck to Him” p. 1027

Elizabeth Bishop:  “The Fish” p. 1035

Third Essay Due by Friday  (Turn It In)

 

May 16-20:

William Least Heat-Moon:  From Blue Highways p. 1055

John Updike:  “A & P” (link)

                       “Son” p. 1069

Amy Tan:  “Rules of the Game” p. 1110

 

May 23-27:

Essay for College Applications

Review for Final Exam