Monday, April 25

Exam 3: The Short Story

Friday, April 21

Norton Anthology pgs. 414-452

• "The Water People" – Rudolfo Anaya
• "Sánchez" – Richard Dokey
• "The Last of the Menu Girls" – Denise Chávez

Review for Exam

Wednesday, April 19

Norton Anthology pgs. 454-477

• "Araby" – James Joyce
• "Gorilla, My Love" – Toni Cade Bambara
• "Boys and Girls" – Alice Munro

Monday, April 17

Norton Anthology pgs. 362-410

• "The Lame Shall Enter First" – Flannery O’Connor
• "Everything That Rises Must Converge" – Flannery O’Connor
• Passages from Essays and Letters – Flannery O’Connor

Friday, April 7

Norton Anthology pgs. 590-608

• "Barn Burning" – William Faulkner
• "The Management of Grief" – Bharati Mukherjee

Wednesday, April 5

Norton Anthology pgs. 569-90

• “The Most Dangerous Game” – Richard Connell

Friday, February 23

Exam 1: Basics of Fiction

Wednesday, February 21

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 296-321

• “The Watcher” – Guy Vanderhaeghe

Review for Test

Monday, February 19

Norton Anthology pgs. 482-503

• “The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin
• “A Very Short Story” – Ernest Hemingway
• “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garciá Márquez
• “Girl” – Jamaica Kincaid
• “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” – Yasunari Kawabata
• “Form as Context”

Friday, February 16

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 279-296

• “Love Medicine” – Louise Erdrich

Wednesday, February 14

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 246-278

• “The Secret Sharer” – Joseph Conrad

Monday, February 12

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 218-244

• “How Much Land Does a Man Need” – Leo Tolstoy
• “Her First Ball” – Katherine Mansfield
• “A Souvenir of Japan” – Angela Carter

Monday, February 5

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 186-211

• “Young Goodman Brown” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “The Loons” – Margaret Laurence
• “Janus” – Ann Beattie

Friday, February 2

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 172-184

• “The Lady with the Dog” – Anton Chekhov

Wednesday, January 31

Discuss Norton Anthology 148-171

• “A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
• “A Pair of Tickets” – Amy Tan

Monday, January 29

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 127-145

• “Our Friend Judith” – Doris Lessing
• “A Conversation with my Father” – Grace Paley

Friday, January 26

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 117-127

• “Fenstad’s Mother” – Charles Baxter

Wednesday, January 24

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 103-117

• “Why I Live at the P.O.” – Eudora Welty

Monday, January 22

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 82-100

• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – Ambrose Bierce
• “Blow-Up” – Julio Cortázar

Friday, January 19

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 72-82

• “The Cask of Amontillado” – Edgar Allan Poe