Mr. Donnelly
American Literature
Grades 11 and 12
Class Web site: http://mrdonnelly.tripod.com
 
GRADING
50% - Weekly essay exams
30% - Homework
20% - Class participation

Note: If you are absent on one of the days below, you still will be expected to complete a literary analysis of the reading(s) you missed.
 
All readings are found in the textbooks unless indicated with an asterisk (*).

Syllabus
 
First Quarter
August 26 – INTRODUCTION; POLICIES
August 27 – John Smith, The General History of Virginia
August 28 - William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
August 29 – John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity
September 1 – NO SCHOOL
September 2  – Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children, To My Dear and Loving Husband, A Letter to Her Husband, In Memory..., Upon the Burning...
September 3 – Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative
September 4- Phyllis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America, On the Death of the Reverend..., To His Excellency...
September 5 - Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
September 8 - Thomas Paine, The Crisis & Common Sense
September 9 - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
September 10 - Philip Freneau, To the Memory of the Brave Americans, The Indian Burying Ground
September 11 - Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle
September 12 - Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
September 15 - James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The American Democrat
September 16 - William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis, The Death of Lincoln, The Flood of Years
September 17 and 18 – H.W. Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
September 19 - J.G. Whittier, Ichabod, Skipper Ireson’s Ride
September 22 - O.W. Holmes, Old Ironsides, The Deacon’s Masterpiece
September 23 - Abraham Lincoln, Gettsyburg Address, Second Inaugural Address
September 24 - Frederick Douglass, Narrative
September 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
September 26 - Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
September 29 - E.A. Poe, The Raven
September 30 – E.A. Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
October 1 - Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
October 2 - Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black Veil
October 3 – Hawthorne, Ethan Brand
October 6-7 - Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
October 8-10 - Herman Melville, Billy Budd
October 13 – NO SCHOOL
October 14-15 - Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
October 16 – Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
October 17 – Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Bloomed...; LAST DAY OF FIRST QUARTER
 
Second Quarter
October 20 – Emily Dickinson, Poems (441, 449, 478, 657, 816
October 21 - Mark Twain, The Notorious Jumping Frog...
October 22 - Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
October 23- Henry James, The Real Thing
October 24 - Henry James, The Jolly Corner
October 27 - Bret Harte, The Outcasts of Poker Flat
October 28 - Henry Adams, The Dynamo and the Virgin
October 29 - Theodore Dreiser, The Second Choice
October 30 - Jack London, To Build a Fire
October 31 – Willa Cather, Neighbor Rosicky
November 3- Robert Frost, Home Burial, The Road Not Taken
November 4 - Carl Sandburg, Fog, Gone, Washerwoman
November 5- T.S. Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent
November 6-7 - T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
November 7 – T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
November 10-12- Eugene O’Neill, The Hairy Ape
November 13 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, all poems (pp. 1466-1470)
November 14 – Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Grammy Weatherall
November 17 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
November 18 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Baby Party (*)
November 19 – William Faulkner, Spotted Horses
November 20 – William Faulkner, That Evening Sun
November 21 – William Faulkner, Barn Burning
November 24 – In-class writing
November 25 – In-class writing; DEADLINE FOR STUDENT TEACHING IDEAS 
December 1- Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber (*)
December 2 - Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (*)
December 3 – Ernest Hemingway, My Old Man (*)
December 4 – Ernest Hemingway, The Undefeated (*)
December 5 – Ernest Hemingway, The Light of the World (*)
December 8-10 – Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 
December 11-12 – STUDENT TEACHING RESEARCH DAYS
December 15-19 – STUDENT TEACHING; LAST DAY OF SECOND QUARTER
December 22-January 2 – NO SCHOOL
 
Third Quarter
January 5 - Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
January 6 - Eudora Welty, A Memory
January 7 - John Cheever, The Swimmer
January 8 - Ralph Elison, Invisible Man
January 9 - Bernard Malamud, The Mourners
January 12 –  James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
January 13 – Flannery O’Connor, Good Country People
January 14 – Flannery O’Connor, The Life You Save May Be Your Own (*)
January 15 – Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge (*)
January 16 – Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find (*)
January 19 – NO SCHOOL
January 20 - Flannery O’Connor, Revelation (*)
January 21 - Allan Ginsberg, Howl, America
January 22 - John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
January 23 – Toni Morrison, Sula
January 24 – John Updike, The Bulgarian Poetess (*)
January 25 - John Updike, Separating
January 26 – Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews
January 27 – Thomas Pynchon, Entropy
January 28- Raymong Carver, A Small, Good Thing
January 29 – Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
January 30 – Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh 
February 2 – Anne Tyler, Average Waves...
February 3 – Alice Walker, Everyday Use
February 4 – Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato
February 5 – Anne Beattue, Janus
February 6 – Amy Tan, Half and Half
February 9 – Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
February 10-13 – In-class writing
February 16-20 – NO SCHOOL
Famous Short Stories Written by American Women
February 23 – Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
February 24 – Louisa May Alcott, Transcendental Wild Oats
February 25 – Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
February 26 – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun
February 27 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
March 1- Kate Chopin, The Storm
March 2 – Edith Wharton, The Angel at the Grave
March 3 – Willa Cather, Paul's Case
March 4 – Alice Dunbar-Nelson, The Stones of the Village
March 5 – Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
March 8 – Djuna Barnes, Smoke
March 9 – Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
March 10 – Nella Larsen, Sanctuary
A study of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs
March 11 – Chapters 1-6
March 12 – Chapters 7-11
March 15 – Chapters 12-13
March 16 – Chapters 14-17
March 17 – Chapters 18-20
March 18 – Chapter 21
March 19 – LAST DAY OF THIRD QUARTER; in-class writing
 
Fourth Quarter
Contemporary American Short Stories
March 22 – Dorothy Alison, River of Names
March 23 – Richard Bausch, All the Way to Flagstaff, Arizona
March 24 – Ann Beattie, A Vintage Thunderbird
March 25 – Carol Bly, Talk of Heroes
March 26 – Scott Bradfield, The Darling
March 29 – Kate Braverman, Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta
March 30 – Raymond Carver, Cathedral
March 31 – Andrew Dubus, The Fat Girl
April 1 – Stuart Dybek, Chopin in Winter
April 2 – Richard Ford, Rock Springs
April 5 – Mary Gaitskill, A Romantic Weekend
April 6- Allan Gurganus, Minor Heroism
April 7 – Barry Hannah, Testimony of Pilot
April 8 – Ron Hansen, Wickedness
April 9 – NO SCHOOL
April 12 – Denis Johnson, Emergency
April 13 – Edward P. Jones, The First Day
April 14 – Thom Jones, A White Horse
April 15 – Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
April 16 – DEADLINE FOR STUDENT TECAHING IDEAS
April 19-23 – NO SCHOOL
April 26 – John L’Hereux, Departures
April 27 – Ralph Lombreglia, Men Under Water
April 28 – Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
April 29 – Chris Offutt, Aunt Granny Lith
April 30 – Robert Olmstead, Cody’s Story
May 3 – Jayne Anne Phillips, Home
May 4 – Susan Power, Moonwalk
May 5 – Mona Simpson, Lawns
May 6 – Amy Tan, Rules of the Game
A study of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
May 7 – Chapters 1-2
May 10 – Chapters 3-5
May 11 – Chapters 6-8
May 12 – Chapters 9-11
May 13 – Chapters 12-14
May 14 – Chapters 15-17
May 17 – Chapters 18-20
May 18 – Chapters 21-23
May 19 – Chapters 24-26
May 20 – Chapters 27-29
May 21 – Chapters 30-32
May 24 – 27 – STUDENT TEACHING RESEARCH DAYS
May 28 – June 4 – STUDENT TEACHING
June 4 – LAST DAY OF SCHOOL