What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an individual in a society that claims to value freedom, but often unites against those who exercise it in ways the majority dislike? In this course, we will study our country’s 200 years of literature - the stories of dreamers, rebels and trailblazers - and search for answers to these questions. Our focus will be on the ideas that these men and women popularized and how they have shaped the world that we live in today.
MAJOR WORKS:
Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Stories and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry of William Cullen Bryant and the Romantics
Essays of R. W. Emerson and H. D. Thoreau
Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Excerpts from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and the Modernists
Poetry of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance school
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
Short fiction of Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner
This blog will serve as a source of information as well as a feature of certain assignments. Every other week I will post a "calendar" with upcoming topics and assignments, so save the website and make use of this resource if you are absent or trying to plan ahead. I'm looking forward to a great year, and hopefully this blog will help us achieve it.
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