Moorpark English 1B Tentative Reading List: Fall 2008

Texts:

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 4th Compact Edition. eds. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Longman: San Francisco: Longman, 2005. aka LIT
Choose a novel from the Whole text booklist
various handouts aka HO
most online sources are linked from here and the schedule
Silverman et al. Rules of Thumb. 6th ed. San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2005. aka ROT

Please check the schedule for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and response of LIT readings are due within one week of in-class discussion. Various smaller writing assignments will be given in class. Any revision of reading assignments announced in class.

Web Resources:

Walker, Janice and Todd Taylor. "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources" The Columbia Guide to Online Style. CUP. 18 Nov 2002. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html (9 Jan 2004).
Craig Branham. "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW." http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/ (9 Jan 2004).
Burke's Pentad

Introductions
- Haiku (LIT) Image (LIT)
Conflict
- Komunyakaa, Yusef. "Facing It."(LIT)
- Tim O'Brien. "The Things They Carried." (LIT)
- Tim O'Brien. "How to Tell A War Story." (HO)
- Wilfred Owen. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" "Anthem For a Doomed Youth" and "War Poetry" (LIT)
- Sigfried Sassoon. (HO)
- Henry Reed. "Naming of Parts"(LIT)
Science Fiction
- Le Guin (HO) and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas" (LIT)
- Vonnegut. "Harrison Bergeron" (LIT)
Critical Casebooks: students will work in groups to determine the readings for each case study.
- Nov 19: O'Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
- Nov 24: Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- Nov 26: Dickinson:
  - "Success is Counted Sweetest."
  - "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church."
  - "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!"
- Dec 1: Langston Hughes:
  - "I, Too."
  - "Ballad of the Landlord."
- Dec 3: Shakespeare: "Dark Lady Sonnets" Handouts
  - No. 130
  - No. 138
  - No. 151
  - No.
- Dec 8: Sophocles: Oedipus
Fall 2008 Index

Eng M02-A

Eng M02-B

Policies

Office Hours

Janet Cross

Class web page

Syllabus

Schedule

Eng 097

Eng 098

Eng 305