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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