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All required readings are due on the date listed on the Course Calendar.  Any changes will be noted in class and on this page.  As you can see, the reading load is fairly substantial, and requires your commitment.  You are responsible for all readings, even during school-excused absences. 

Page numbers refer to The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women . Titles in highlighted text may be accessed on-line through web links.  Plan ahead in order to complete all readings in a timely fashion.  Response papers are due EVERY Monday unless otherwise noted on the calendar.

Computer Lab Assignments

 
Date Required Reading/Session Topic

F 11/4

Student Holiday

M 3/31

Complete Vol I, Frankenstein

T 4/1
CL

The Gothic and The Sublime

W 4/2

MS Letter to Fanny Imlay, 173-175
PBShelley "Mont Blanc," 175-179

TH 4/3

Moers, "Female Gothic," 214-224

M 4/7

Response Paper Due Using 19th Century Responses (Select one 185-201)

Complete Vol 2, Frankenstein

T 4/8

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

W 4/9

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

TH 4/10

Complete Vol 3, Frankenstein

M 4/14

NO Response Paper

Christina Rossetti "Song," 892, Rossetti "Goblin Market," 892-914

T 4/15

CL

Rough Draft Due -- Peer Editing, Work in CL

W 4/16

Short Paper #2 Due (Frankenstein )

Non-traditional Women’s Literature and Other Female Voices
Cookbooks, Letters, Quilts, Handwork, Journals

TH 4/17

Holy Thursday

4/21-25

EASTER VACATION

Reading Domestic Literature

M 4/28

Response Paper Due

Louisa May Alcott, from "Little Women" 945

Emily Dickinson, Poems #593, #613, #642, 855

T 4/29
CL

Godey’s Ladies Book and Women’s Magazine Fiction

W 4/30

Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice (discuss)

Fanny Fern, "Mrs Adolphus Smith Sporting the "Blue Stocking," "Hour Glass Thoughts," "Mr. Pipkin’s Ideas of Family Retrenchment," "Lady Doctors," "Moral Molasses," "The Boston Woman" 437-442

TH 5/1

Thesis Due for Paper #3 (Nontraditional Women’s Literature)

M 5/5

AP EXAMS

No Response Paper Due This Week

Turn of the Century Literature, 961-979

Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron," 1003-1011

T 5/6

CL

Kate Chopin. "The Storm"

http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/chopinstorm.html

W 5/7

 

TH 5/8

 

Turn of the Century Literature — Women Find a Voice

M 5/12

No Response Paper Due This Week

T 5/13

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," 1130-1144

W 5/14

Susan Glaspel, "Trifles"

TH 5/15

Glaspel, "A Jury of Her Peers" (audio in class)

M 5/19

Short Paper #3 DUE (Nontraditional Women’s Literature)

T 5/20

 

W 5/21

Review

TH 5/22

Review

M 5/26

MEMORIAL DAY — SCHOOL HOLIDAY

T 5/27

SENIOR EXAMS

W 5/28

SENIOR EXAMS/STUDY DAYS

TH 5/29

SENIOR EXAMS/STUDY DAYS

6/2-5

EXAM WEEK

WED 8-10 AM, ENGLISH EXAM