Moorpark English 1B Tentative Reading List: 2012

Moorpark English 1B Tentative Reading List: Fall 2012

Texts:

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 7th Compact Edition. eds. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Longman: San Francisco: Longman, 2013. aka LIT
Silverman et al. Rules of Thumb. 8th ed. San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2009. aka ROT
Choose a novel from the Whole text booklist
various handouts aka HO
most online sources are linked from here and the schedule

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 Dec '12

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)
- The Heritage of the Great War
- Reed. "Naming of Parts" (LIT)
Science Fiction
- Student choice of novel
- Le Guin (HO) PDF 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.
- Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
- Alice Walker: "Everyday Use."
- Satire: "A Modest Proposal" (HO).
- TS. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (711-715).
- Langston Hughes (694-700).
  - "I, Too"
  - "Theme for English B"
  - "Mother to Son"
  - "Weary Blues"
- Shakespeare. The "Dark Lady" sonnets (HO).
  - 127: "In the old age black was not counted fair,"
  - 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,"
  - 131: "Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,"
  - 135: "Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will,"
  - 138: "When my love swears that she is made of truth,"
  - 147: "My love is as a fever longing still,"
  - 148: "O me! what eyes hath love put in my head,"
- Sophocles: Oedipus
Fall 2012 Index

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