Syllabus
Composition II, English 1023
Jeremy Burns, Instructor
Unit One: Reading and Writing about Short Fiction
Week 1
Day One:
Monday, 14 January, 2008
Introductions
Policies and Procedures
Assignment for next class:
Read:
LWP
Ch. 1 pp. 3-17;
LWP
Ch. 5 pp. 91-96
James Joyce’s “Eveline”
LWP
pp. 3-7
Day Two:
Wednesday, 16 January
Discuss writing about literature; in class writing
Assignment for next class:
Read Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.”
LWP
pp. 388-397
Day Three:
Friday, 18 January
Continue discussion of Ch. 5 & “What We Talk About…”
Bring
St. Martin’s Handbook
Assignment for next class:
Read
LWP
Ch. 6 (Structure) and Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”
pp. 97-114
Week 2
Day Four:
Monday, 21 January
Martin Luther King Day
University Closed
Day Five:
Wednesday, 23 January
Discussion of Structure & “The Things They Carried”
(Discuss Paper One Assignment)
Assignment for next class:
Read
LWP
Ch 7 (Imagery and Symbolism) pp. 115-117 and Katherine Anne
Porter’s “The Grave”
LWP
pp. 305-309
Day Six:
Friday, 25 January
Discuss Imagery and Symbolism & “The Grave”

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Bring
St. Martin’s Handbook
Assignment for next class:
Read
LWP
Ch 8 (Point of View) pp. 138-140 and James Thurber’s “The Catbird
Seat,”
LWP
pp. 465-471
Week 3
Day Seven:
Monday, 28 January
Discuss Point of View & “The Catbird Seat”
Assignment for next class:
Read
LWP
Ch 9 (Setting and Atmosphere) and Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the
Snow” pp. 151-163
Day Eight:
Wednesday, 30 January
Discuss Setting and Atmosphere & “Hunters in the Snow”; paragraph unity
Assignment for next class:
Read
LWP
Ch 10 (Theme) and Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
pp. 168- 187
Day Nine:
Friday, 1 February
Discuss Theme & “Good Country People”
Bring
St. Martin’s Handbook
Assignment for next class:
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Read
LWP
Ch 2 (Writing Process) pp. 18-32 and James Joyce’s “Araby”


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