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1. Reading Journals
2. Unit 1 Discussions
3. Unit 1 Assignments
4. Literary Periods Timeline
5. Reading Journal 1
6. Literary Terms Definition List
7. Literary Terms and Narrative Handoff
8. Reading Journal 2
9. How to Annotate Texts
10. Home Burial by Robert Frost
11. Annotation and You
12. Annotation of Home Burial
13. Reading Journal 3
14. An Introduction to Close Reading
15. Sample Close Reading
16. Close Reading of Home Burial
17. Reading Journal 4
18. Unit 2 - Discussions
19. Literary Theory (selection from Wikipedia)
20. Literary Theory (selection from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
21. Quick Guide to Textual Analysis
22. Reading Journal 5
23. Overview of Literary Theory
24. Library and Internet Research
25. Literary Theory: Database Dive
26. Reading Journal 6
27. Unit 3 - Discussions
28. Analyzing a Short Story
29. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
30. Woman in the 19th Century by Margaret Fuller
31. Short Fiction: Database Dive
32. The Dead by James Joyce
33. James Joyce: A Biography
34. Short Fiction: Close Reading
35. The Novel: Choose Wisely
36. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
37. Behind a Mask or A Woman's Power - A.M. Barnard
38. The Novel: Close Reading
39. The Novel: Teach a Lesson
40. Unit 4 - Discussions
41. Poetry
42. Ode On a Grecian Urn by John Keats
43. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
44. The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
45. To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough by Robert Burns
46. We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
47. The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman
48. How to Annotate
49. Poetry: Annotations
50. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
51. The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
52. Mowing by Robert Frost
53. A Servant to Servants by Robert Frost
54. Hope by Emily Dickinson
55. Lament by Edna St. Vincent Millay
56. Poetry: Comparative Close Reading
57. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
58. Drama: Database Dive
59. Drama: Close Reading
60. Unit 5 - Discussions
61. Final Close Reading Essay Assignment
62. Annotated Bibliographies
63. Discuss the Final Essay
64. Final Essay
65. The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
66. Rashōmon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
67. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
68. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
69. The School Days of an Indian Girl by Zitkala-Sa
70. From "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois
71. The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston
72. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde
73. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
74. Trifles by Susan Glaspell
75. The Wood-pile by Robert Frost
76. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman
Sample Close Reading
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