Revised Schedule

Course Schedule


Week 1

Thursday January 28 Introduction


Week 2

Tuesday February 2 Introduction – pp. xxiii – liv
Art of the Personal Essay


Thursday February 4 CLASS CANCELED

Week 3

Tuesday February 9 Virginia Woolf – “A Room of One’s Own”


Thursday February 11 Charles Lamb – “A Chapter on Ears” – pp. 165 - 169


Week 4

Tuesday February 16 Annie Dillard – “Seeing” – pp. 693-706
Blog

Thursday February 18 NO CLASS






Week 5

Tuesday February 23 First Draft of Analytic Essay Due
Peer Review


Thursday February 25 NO CLASS

Week 6

Tuesday March 2 Richard Selzer – “The Knife” – pp. 707-714
Stylistic Devices – (handout)

Thursday March 4 Natalia Ginzburg – “He and I” – pp. 453-457
Blog


Week 7

Tuesday March 9 “Meatless Days” – pp. 458 - 475
Blog

Thursday March 11 Wole Soyinka – “Why Do I Fast” – pp. 422-430


Week 8

Tuesday March 16 The Lover – pp. 3-10

Thursday March 18 The Lover – 11-38
Blog



Week 9

Tuesday March 23 First Draft of Stylistic Essay Due
The Lover pp. 39-83



Thursday March 25 The Lover 84-end

Week 10

Tuesday March 30 NO CLASS – Spring Recess

Thursday April 1 NO CLASS – Spring Recess


Week 11

Tuesday April 6 The Pain of Sorrow in the Modern World: The Works of Marguerite Duras” – Julia Kristeva (handout)
Blog

Thursday April 8 Library Session




Week 12

Tuesday April 13 Louise Gluck - “On Impoverishment” (handout)

Thursday April 15 F. Scott Fitzgerald – “The Crack-Up”
Blog


Week 13

Tuesday April 20 E. B. White – “Ring of Time” – pp. 538-539
First Draft of Research Paper Due



Thursday April 22 Joan Didion – “Goodbye to All That” – pp. 680-688

Week 14

Tuesday April 27 Jorge Luis Borges – “Blindness” – pp.376 – 386

Thursday April 29 James Baldwin – “Notes of a Native Son” - pp. 587-604



Week 15

Tuesday May 4 Second Draft of Research Paper Due
In class conferences concerning the final Personal Essay Assignment

Thursday May 6 In class peer review of final Personal Essay Assignment


Week 16

Tuesday May 11 First Draft of Personal Essay Due

Thursday May 13 Portfolio Conferences
Final Portfolio Due
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