Syllabus

January 18th Wednesday 

January 23rd Monday
Hamlin Garland, Main Travelled Roads, “Up the Coolly,” “A 'Good Fellow''s Wife," “Mrs. Ripley’s Trip,”

January 25th  Wednesday

Garland, "Under the Lion's Paw," early Native American poems

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January 30th Monday
Early Native American poems

February 1st Wednesday

Discussion of 2 essays from The American Midwest: A Regional History, ed. Cayton and Gray;

Mark Twain, "The War Prayer," "Man's Place in the Animal World"

Icon post due Friday the 3rd

At least one of your 7 ICON posts should comment on one of the handouts from The American Midwest

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February 6th Monday
Mark Twain if needed; begin Ole Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth

February 8th Wednesday
Ole Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth

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February 13th Monday
Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth

February 15th Wednesday
Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers”

2nd ICON post due Friday the 17th

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February 20th Monday
Glaspell, “The Verge,” “The Inheritors”

February 22nd Wednesday
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February 27th Monday
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

February 29th Wednesday
Dreiser, Sister Carrie

3rd ICON posting due Friday the 2nd

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March 5th Monday
Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Topic of first paper with bibliography due

March 7th Wednesday
Poets: Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg

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Friday 9th outline of first paper due

Spring break

March 19th Monday
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac
First paper due

March 21st Wednesday
Leopold, Sand County Almanac

4th ICON post due Friday the 30th

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March 26th Monday
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

March 28th Wednesday
Lewis, Main Street

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April 2nd Monday
Poets: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Fenton Johnson, possibly begin Brooks

April 4th Wednesday
Gwendolyn Brooks, selections from Collected Poems

5th ICON post due Friday the 6th

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April 9th Monday
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

April 11th Wednesday
Smiley, A Thousand Acres

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April 16th Monday
Winona La Duke, Last Standing Woman

April 18th Wednesday
La Duke, Last Standing Woman

6th ICON post due Friday the 20th

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April 23rd Monday
Toni Morrison, Beloved 

April 25th Wednesday
Morrison, Beloved

 April 30th Monday
Marilyn Robinson, Gilead

 May 2nd Wednesday Robinson, Gilead

7th ICON post due Friday the 4th

Exam: class meeting for presentations and take-home exam/essay May 7th 3:30 p. m.