8/27

-Orientation

8/28 (S)

-Introduction
-What is literature?
-Background on Hemingway

HW: Review Syllabus,
One page paper: What is culture?

8/29 (S)

-Who are these characters?
-What is funny?

HW: Read Ch. VIII-IX in The Sun Also Rises

8/30 (S)

-Setting the scene

HW: Ch. X-XII

8/31

NO SCHOOL

9/3

NO SCHOOL

9/4 (A)

NO CLASS

9/5 (B)

-Men among men

HW: Ch. XIII-XIV

9/6 (C)

-Gender theory and more

HW: Ch. XV, One page response paper

9/7 (D)

-Seeing through the “bull”

HW: Ch. XVI-XVII

9/10 (E)

-Coping with Cohn

HW: Ch. XVIII

9/11 (F)
Senior Retreat

NO CLASS

9/12 (G)

-Death in the afternoon

HW: Ch. XIX, Begin working on paper

9/13 (A)

NO CLASS

9/14 (S)

-Isn’t it pretty to think so?

-We’re all a lost generation

HW: Paper due Tuesday

9/17 (B)

-Begin discussion of college essay writing

HW: Paper due Tuesday; bring in drafts of essays

9/18 (C)

-College essays

HW: Work on college essays

9/19 (D)

-College essays

HW: Read "Autobiographical Notes"

9/20 (E)

-Catching up on history

-James Baldwin and African-American Identity in post-WWII America
 

HW:  Read “Many Thousands Gone”

9/21 (F)

-More on Baldwin

HW: Read “The Uses of the Blues”

9/24 (G)

-What are “the blues”?

-Background on Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man

HW: Read “Prologue” of Invisible Man and write a one-page response

9/25 (A)

NO CLASS

9/26 (S)

-To see or not to see…

HW: Read Ch. 1

9/27 (B)

-Tone and Color

HW: Ch. 2

9/28 (C)

-True Blood

HW: Ch. 3/4