Moorpark English 1B Tentative Reading List: Fall 2010
Texts:
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 6th Compact Edition.
eds. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Longman: San Francisco: Longman, 2008. aka LIT
most online sources are linked from here and the schedule
Silverman et al. Rules of Thumb. 8th ed. San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2009. 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.
Last revised 10 Nov '10
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)
Brian Turner. Iraq war poetry (HO)
Wilfred Owen. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" "Anthem For a Doomed Youth" and "War Poetry" (LIT)
Sigfried Sassoon. (HO)
Science Fiction
Le Guin (HO) and "Ones 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 22: Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation."
Nov 24: Walker: "Everyday Use" (279 - 285).
Nov 29: Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" (22-272).
Dec 1: Langston Hughes (694-700).
"Ballad of the Landlord"(698 -699).
"Mother to Son." (695).
"Dream Variations" (696).
"Harlem [Dream Deferred]" (700).
Dec 6: TS. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (711-715).