SHORT STORIES – Weekly Assignments
WEEK 1 - Romanticism
Monday2/3
Course Introduction-
Notes: Short Story History
H/W: Student Info sheet & Consent Form signed by Fri. 2/3
Tuesday2/4
Literary Terms review worksheet
H/W= finish Literary Terms review worksheet
Wednesday2/5
Review Lit Terms
H/W= Read Irving’s “The Adventure of a German Student” & quest.
Thursday2/6
Review note-taking; discuss “German Student”
H/W= Read Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" & quest.
Friday 2/7
Notes: Romanticism- Discuss “Goodman Brown”
Discuss Quarter 1 Essay
H/W= Read Irving’s ”The Devil and Tom Walker” & quest.
Week 2 - Romanticism
Monday 2/10
Notes: Washington Irving
Discuss ”The Devil and Tom Walker”
H/W= Read Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” & quest.
Tuesday 2/11
Notes: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Discuss “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
H/W= Read Cooper’s “The Lake Gun” & quest
Wednesday 2/12
Notes: James Fenimore Cooper
Discuss “The Lake Gun”
H/W= Read Melville’s “The Lightning-Rod Man”
Thursday 2/13
Notes: Herman Melville
Discuss “The Lightning-Rod Man”
H/W= Prepare notes for Monday’s quiz on Romantics
Friday 2/14 No School- Mid-winter Recess
Week 3 - Poe- Horror
Monday 2/17
No School- Mid-winter Recess
Tuesday 2/18
No School- Conference Day
Wednesday 2/19
Open-note quiz on American Romantics–
RomanticsQUESTS. DUE
Poe notes
H/W= Read “Ligeia” (h/o)
Thursday 2/20
Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition”
H/W= Continue reading “Ligeia” + Question
Friday 2/21
Discuss “Ligeia”
H/W= Read “The Premature Burial” pg.58 + Question
Week 4 - Poe- Detective & Mystery
Monday 2/24
Discuss “The Premature Burial”
Form reading groups (see right)
H/W= Read your group’s story
Tuesday 2/25
Work in groups on presentation*
H/W= Read “The Purloined Letter” pg.244 + Question
Wednesday 2/26
Discuss “The Purloined Letter”
H/W= Read “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” pg. 182 + Question
Thursday 2/27
Discuss “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether”
H/W= Rehearse your part of presentation
Friday 2/28
Group presentations of stories: SEE ABOVE*
H/W= Study for Romantics Test Monday 2/27
Week 5 - Realism- London & Bierce-
Monday 3/3
Romantics Test Poe QUESTS. DUE
H/W= Read London’s “The Sun-Dog Trail” p232 +Question
Tuesday 3/4
Notes: Realism,Jack London, Mark Twain, Bret Harte
Discuss “The Sun-Dog Trail”
H/W= Read London’s “To the Man on the Trail” p84 +Question
Wednesday 3/5
Discuss “To the Man on the Trail”
Notes: Ambrose Bierce;
selections from The Devil’s Dictionary
H/W= Read Bierce’s “The Damn Thing” +Question
Thursday 3/6
Discuss “The Damn Thing”
H/W= Read Bierce’s
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” +Question
Friday 3/7
Open-note quizon London & Bierce- QUESTS. DUE
Week 6 - Realism- Twain & Harte
Monday 3/10
No School- Conference Day
Tuesday 3/11
Address “Owl Creek Bridge” Quests.
Film: Jacob’s Ladder
H/W= Read “The Esquimaux Maiden’s Romance”
Wednesday 3/12
Film: Jacob’s Ladder
H/W= Read “The Californian’s Tale”
Thursday 3/13
Film: Jacob’s Ladder
H/W= Read “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
Friday 3/14
Film: Jacob’s Ladder
H/W= Read “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
Week 7 - Realism- Crane & Chopin
Monday 3/17
Open-note quizon Twain & Harte-
QUESTS. & Jacob’s Ladder ResponseDUE
Tuesday 3/18
Notes: Stephen Crane & Kate Chopin
H/W= Read “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” + Question
Wednesday 3/19
Discuss “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
Read in class: “A Dark Brown Dog” & discuss
H/W= Read “Desiree’s Baby” + Question
Thursday 3/20
Discuss “Desiree’s Baby”
Read in class: “The Story of an Hour”
H/W= Read “Beyond the Bayou” + Question
Friday 3/21
Discuss “Beyond the Bayou”
Themes and Motifs of Realism
Week 8 - Harlem Renaissance
Mon 3/24
Test on Realism- QUESTS. DUE
H/W= Read “A Summer Tragedy”
by Arna Bontemps + Question
Tuesday 3/25
Discuss “A Summer Tragedy” Notes: Harlem Renaissance
H/W= Read “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston + Question
Wednesday 3/26
Discuss “The Gilded Six-Bits” Videos: Harlem Renaissance
H/W= Read “Big Black Good Man” by Richard Wright + Question
Thursday 3/27
Discuss “Big Black Good Man” Read “Feet Live Their Own Lives” by Langston Hughes
H/W= Read “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes
Friday 3/28
Open-note Quiz on Harlem Renaissance authors & stories- QUESTS. DUE
Week 9 - Modernism
Monday. 3/31
Sign-up Story titles
Read Hemingway’s “A Clean Well-lighted Place”
H/W= Read Thurber’s “The Greatest Man in the World” & quest.
Tuesday, 4/1
Film: “The Greatest Man in the World”
H/W= Read Fitzgerald’s “Jemina, The Mountain Girl” & quest.
Wednesday 4/2
Film: “The Greatest Man in the World”
H/W= Read Shaw’s “The Girls in their Summer Dresses”
Thursday 4/3
Film: “The Girls in their Summer Dresses” Discuss
H/W= Read Anderson’s “I’m a Fool” & quest.
Friday, 4/4
Quarter Essay is DUE!!! END OF QUARTER 3
Read Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” & quest.
Week 10 – Southern Gothic
Monday, 4/7
Notes on Modernism
H/W= Read Welty’s “A Worn Path” & quest.
Tuesday, 4/8
Notes on Southern Gothic
Film: “Noon Wine”
H/W= Read O’Connor’s “Good Country People” & quest.
Wednesday 4/9
Film: “Noon Wine”
H/W= Read Faulkner’s “Shingles for the Lord”
Thursday 4/10
Finish Film: “Noon Wine”
Discuss “Shingles for the Lord”
Friday 4/11
Quiz on Modernism & Southern GothicQUESTS. DUE
Week 11 – Ghost Stories
Monday. 4/21
Spring Break- No School
Tuesday, 4/22
Conference Day- No School
Wednesday 4/23
Read “On the Northern Ice” & discuss
Read & take notes on M.R. James’s “Some Remarks on Ghost Stories”
H/W= Read Treadwell’s “The Telephone” & quest.
Thursday 4/24
Discuss “The Telephone” & quest.
Read & Discuss Roald Dahl’s piece on ghost story & take notes
H/W= Read Dickens’s “The Signal Man” & quest.
Friday, 4/25
Read from Lovecraft’s
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” & take notes
H/W= Read King’s “1408”
Week 12 – Horror Stories
Monday, 4/28
Film: 1408
H/W= Read A.M. Burrage’s “The Waxwork”& quest.
Tuesday, 4/29
Film: 1408
H/W= Read Lovecraft’s “The Statement of Randolf Carter” & quest.
Wednesday 4/30
Film: 1408
H/W= Read Crawford’s “The Upper Berth”& quest.
Thursday 5/1
Finish Film: 1408; Discuss
Friday 5/2
Open-note Quiz on Ghost & Horror Stories- QUESTS. DUE
Week 13 – Detective Stories
Monday 5/5
Read Michaud’s “A Brief History of Detective Fiction” and
S.S. Van Dine’s “20 Rules for Writing Detective Fiction” & take notes
H/W= ReadDoyle’s “The Speckled Band” & quest.
Tuesday, 5/6
Discuss “The Speckled Band”
Activity: Detective Story Map
H/W= Read Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” & quest.
Wednesday 5/7
Discuss “A Jury of Her Peers” & Story Map
H/W= Read Christie’s “Accident” & quest.
Thursday 5/8
Discuss “Accident”& Story Map
H/W= Read Hammet’s “Arson Plus” & quest.
Friday, 5/9
Discuss “Arson Plus” & Story Map
Week 14– Mystery Stories
Monday, 5/12
Film: Rear Window
H/W= Read Woolrich’s “It Had to be Murder” & quest.
Tuesday, 5/13
Film: Rear Window
H/W= Read Redman’s “The Perfect Crime”& quest.
Wednesday 5/14
Film: Rear Window
H/W= Read Oates’s “Do With Me What You Will”& quest.
Thursday 5/15
Finish Film: Rear Window Discuss
H/W= Work on Quarter Essay
Friday 5/16
Open-note Quiz on Detective & Mystery- QUESTS. DUE
Week 15 – Sci Fi
Monday 5/19
Film: Minority Report
H/W= Read “Minority Report”
Tuesday, 5/20
Film: Minority Report
H/W= Read “Minority Report”
Wednesday 5/21
Film: Minority Report
H/W= Read “Minority Report”
Thursday 5/22
Film: Minority Report
H/W= Nelson’s “Narapoia”
Asimov’s “The Fun They Had” &
Brown’s “The Weapon”& quests.
Friday, 5/23
Memorial weekend- No school
Week 16 - Fantasy
Monday, 5/26
Memorial Day- No School
Tuesday, 5/27
Read & discuss fantasy fiction theory
H/W= Read “An Axe for Men”& quest.
Wednesday 5/28
Read selections from Tolkien’s
“On Fairy Stories”
H/W= Read “Leaf by Niggle” & quest.
Thursday 5/29
Discuss “Leaf by Niggle”- work on Epistolary Story
H/W= Read “The Magestone” & quest.
Friday 5/30
Open-note quiz on Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories- QUESTS. DUE
Week 17 – Old World Stories
Monday 6/2
H/W= Read Lavin’s “Sarah”
Tuesday, 6/3
Read in class Joyce’s “Araby”
H/W= Read Gorky’s “Twenty-six Men”
Wednesday 6/4
Read in class Jalal’s “Anket Anketov”
H/W= Work on Quarter Essay!
Thursday 6/5
Read in class Marquez’s
“Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon”
H/W= Read Borges’s
“The Garden of Forking Paths”
Friday, 6/6
Discuss Old World Stories
Quarter Essay Due!
Week 18 – New World Stories
Monday, 6/9
Read in class “The Warmth of Things”
H/W= Read Silkko’s “Tony’s Story”
Tuesday, 6/10
Discuss New World Stories
Wednesday 6/11
Open-note Quiz on
Old and New World Stories
Thursday 6/12
Final Exam
Friday 6/13
Final Exam
Monday 6/10
Make up day;
Contingency day;
Instructor eval.