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Week 1

Course Introduction, Plot, Theme, Narrative Perspective, Tone

Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Week 2

Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Birth-mark"

Langston Hughes "Dream Variations" "I, Too, Sing America"

"Let America Be America Again" "Life is Fine"

"Madam and Her Madam" "Madam and the Phone Bill"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" "Night Funeral in Harlem"

"Po' Boy Blues" "Theme for English B" "The Weary Blues"

Gwendolyn Brooks "The Bean Eaters" "The Lovers of the Poor"

"The Mother" "the sonnet-ballad" "We Real Cool"

Week 3

Sterling A. Brown "Riverbank Blues" "Slim Greer in Hell"

"Southern Road"

Robert Hayden "Frederick Douglass" "O Daedalus, Fly Away Home"

"Those Winter Sundays"

James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" "Go Down, Death"

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" "Listen, Lord: A Prayer"

Claude McKay "If We Must Die" "The Tropics of New York"

"The White House"

Jean Toomer "Portrait in Georgia" "Reapers" "Song of the Son"

Week 4

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych

Week 5

Anton Chekhov "The Bear"

Week 6

Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Incident"

Week 7

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha

Week 8

Test I Literary and Rhetorical Terms

Week 9

Sophocles Antigone

Week 10

Henry David Thoreau "Resistance to Civil Government"

Week 11

Rodolfo Gonzales I Am Joaquin

Antonio Xicos Wetback Alley

Week 12

Jose Antonio Villarreal Pocho

Carmen Tofolla "Chencho's Cow"

Ana Castillo "Being Indian, a Candle Flame, and So Many Dying Stars"

Week 13

Rough Draft of Research Paper Due

David Silva "Hombre de Aqui"

David Silva Poems: "Closet Mexican" "The Latinos Where I Work"

"The Revolutionary Type"

Sandra Cisneros "One Holy Night"

Guy Garcia "La Promesa"

Week 14

Research Paper Due

Luis M. Valdez Los Vendidos

Martin Espada "The New Bathroom Policy at English High School"

"Revolutionary Spanish Lesson" *Scan page to find the first two Espada poems*

"Late Night at the Pawn Shop" "Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits"

"The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him"

"Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100" "Niggerlips"

"Bully" "Colibri"

Week 15

Preparation for Final

Date and Time of Final to be Announced