Week | Contents | Notice |
Unit One: Love |
Week 1 (9/24 Sat; 24-30) | Intro at School: How to read a poem; Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband" Icebreaker Game (到校) | |
Week 2 (10/1-7) | Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day,"& "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun" Moss, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" | |
Week 3 (10/8-14) | How to read a short story Henry, "Gift of the Magi" | |
Week 4 (10/15-21) | Donne, "The Flea" Suckling, "Out Upon It--" Behn, "On Her Loving Two Equally" | |
Unit Two: Family Relations |
Week 5 (10/22-28) | Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" Plath, "Daddy" | Journal #1 due |
Week 6 (10/29-11/4) | Kincaid, "Girl" Joyce, "Eveline" | |
Week 7 (11/5-11) | Tan, "Two Kinds" | |
Unit Three: Teen Life |
Week 8 (11/12-25?) | Brooks, "We Real Cool" An Interview with Brooks by George Stavros On "We Real Cool" Larkin, "This Be the Verse" Hudgins "Seventeen" | |
Week 9 (11/19) | Midterm Exam (到校) | Journal #2 due |
Week 10 (11/26-12/2) | Updike, "A&P" | |
Week 11 (12/3-9) | Oates, "Where are You Going, Where Have you Been?" | |
Unit Four: Self-Identity |
Week 12 (12/10-16) | Dickinson, "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?" "There's a Certain Slant of Light," "Before I Got my Eye Put Out" | |
Week 13 (12/17-23) | Whitman, From "I Sing the Body Electric" Shelley, "Ozymandias" | Journal #3 due |
Unit Five: Choices of Life |
Week 14 (12/24-30) | Frost, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" Hardy, "The Ruined Maid" | |
Week 15 (12/31-1/6) | Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" | |
Week 16 (1/7-13) | Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | |
Week 17 (1/14-20) | Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace" ? | |
Week 18 (1/21) | Final Exam (到校) | Journal #4 due |