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Unit One: Love

Week 1 (2/26)

Demonstration Lesson

Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (到校)

 

Week 2 (3/3)

Demonstration Lesson

Henry, “Gift of the Magi”

 

Week 3 (3/10)

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 4 (3/17)

Donne, ”The Flea”

Suckling, “Out Upon It--“

Behn, “On Her Loving Two Equally”

 

Unit Two: Family Relations

Week 5 (3/24)

Roethke, ”My Papa’s Waltz”

Plath, ”Daddy”

Journal #1 due

Week 6 (3/31)

Kincaid, ”Girl”

Joyce, “Eveline”

 

Week 7 (4/7)

Tan, ”Two Kinds”

 

Unit Three: Teen Life

Week 8 (4/14)

Brooks, ”We Real Cool”

An Interview with Brooks by George Stavros  On "We Real Cool"

Larkin, “This Be the Verse”

Hudgins “Seventeen”

 

Week 9 (4/23)

Midterm Exam (到校)

Journal #2 due

Week 10 (4/28)

Updike, ”A&P”

 

Week 11 (5/5)

Oates, ”Where are You Going, Where Have you Been?”

 

Unit Four: Self-Identity

Week 12 (5/12)

Dickinson, “I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”

“There’s a Certain Slant of Light,”

“Before I Got my Eye Put Out”

 

Week 13 (5/19)

Faulkner, ”A Rose for Emily”

Journal #3 due

Week 14 (5/26)

Whitman, From “I Sing the Body Electric”

Shelley, “Ozymandias”

 

Unit Five: Choices of Life

Week 15 (6/2)

Frost, ”Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”

 

Week 16 (6/9) Bierce, ”An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”  

Week 17 (6/16)

Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace"

 

Week 18 (6/25)

Final Exam (到校)

Journal #4  due