Presentation and Prospectus Workshop


Week 1


reading 1-----[Mr. Nesbitt] "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" Walt Whitman
"To a Locomotive in Winter" Walt Whitman
"O Me! O Life! "Walt Whitman"


Week 2


reading 2-----[Jessica Powell] "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman

reading 3-----[] "Hands" Sherwood Anderson


reading 4-----[Alana Trimmier] "Howl" Allen Ginsberg
"Shopping at a Supermarket in California" Allen Ginsberg

reading 5-----[Chad Crawford] "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" Emily Dickinson 249
"There's a Certain Slant of Light" Emily Dicksinson 258
"This World is not Conclusion" Emily Dickinson 501
"I Cannot Live with You" Emily Dickinson 640
"The Bible is an Antique Volume" Emily Dickinson 1545

Week 3

reading 6-----[Alan Pack] "Mending Wall" Robert Frost
"The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost
"Canis Major" Robert Frost

reading 7 a-----[Anna Gagliardi] "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot
"The Hollow Men" T.S. Eliot
reading 7 b-----[Sonyona Beattie] "The Wasteland" with notes T.S. Eliot (no quiz questions on "The Wasteland"

reading 8 a-----[Dee Stone] "Theme for English B" Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Langston Hughes
"Fire" and "Late Last Night" Langston Hughes
reading 8 b-----[Benicio Mandez] "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amiri Baraka
"An Agony. As Now" Amiri Baraka

reading 9 a-----[Katie Hector] "In Just" e.e. cummings
"Buffalo Bill's" e.e. cummings
"Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" e.e. cummings
9 b-----[] Modernism (no reading)

reading 10-----[Brinta Pharisien] "Ariel" Sylvia Plath
"Daddy" Sylvia Plath
"The Colossus" Sylvia Plath


Week 4

reading 11-----[Aileen Iturralde] "Dolor" Theodore Roethke
"The Geranium" Theodore Roethke
"My Papa's Waltz" Theodore Roethke

reading 12-----[Jaime Backlund] "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" Wallace Stevens
"Anecdote of the Jar" Wallace Stevens

reading 13-----[Adam Britt] "The River Merchant's Wife" Ezra Pound
"A Pact" and "In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound

reading 14-----[Beni Newman] "The Red Wheelbarrow" William Carlow Williams
"Spring and All" William Carlos Williams
"This is Just to Say" William Carlos Williams
"The Rose is Obsolete" William Carlos Williams

reading 15 a-----[Melissa Mekdeci] "Storm Warnings" Adrienne Rich
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," "Orion," and "Diving into the Wreck" Adrienne Rich
15 b-----[] Post-Modernism (no reading)


Week 5 (July 23-27)


reading 16-----[Nakisha Sucarichi] "The Sick Rose" William Blake
"The Fly" William Blake
"The Tyger" William Blake
"London" William Blake

reading 17-----[Marie Rodriguez] "Eolian Harp" Samauel Taylor Coleridge
"Kubla Khan" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Frost at Midnight" Samuel Taylor Coleridge

reading 18 a-----[Losa Pettway] "Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats
"To Autumn" John Keats
"Ode on Melamcholy" John Keats
18 b-----[] Romanticism (no reading)

reading 19-----[David Baker] "Ozymandias" Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To a Skylark" Percy Bysshe Shelley

reading 20-----[Cedric Small] "The World is Too Much With Us" William Wordsworth
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" William Wordsworth
"London, 1802" William Wordsworth

Week 6 (July 30-August 3)


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