Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Required Readings by Genre
Fiction:
Gwynn:
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sweat – Zora Neale Hurston
Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been – Joyce Carol Oates
How I Met My Husband – Alice Munroe (story)
Cathedral – Raymond Carver
Handouts:
No One’s A Mystery – Elizabeth Tallent
The Flowers – Alice Walker
Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot – Robert Olen Butler
Poetry:
Gwynn:
“A Red, Red Rose” – Robert Burns (471)
“Sonnet 73” – William Shakespeare (476)
“Sonnet 116” – William Shakespeare (476)
“Song of Myself, 6” – Walt Whitman (527)
“The Second Coming” – William Butler Yeats (549)
“Design” and “Home Burial” – Robert Frost (558)
“The Red Wheelbarrow” – William Carlos Williams (572)
“This Is Just to Say” - William Carlos Williams (573)
“In a Station of the Metro” – Ezra Pound (574)
“The Fish” – Marianne Moore (582)
“My Papa’s Waltz” – Theodore Roethke (610)
“The Fish” – Elizabeth Bishop (611)
“One Art” – Elizabeth Bishop (614)
“Those Winter Sundays” – Robert Hayden (616)
“We Real Cool” – Gwendolyn Brooks (628)
“A Supermarket in California” – Allen Ginsberg (654)
“Diving into the Wreck” – Adrienne Rich (675)
“A Walk” – Gary Snyder (681)
“Daddy” – Sylvia Plath (685)
“The Black Walnut Tree” – Mary Oliver (693)
“The One Girl at the Boys Party” – Sharon Olds (723)
“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” – Jim Hall (738)
“Facing It” – Yusef Komunyakaa (740)
“Tu Negrito” – Sarah Cortez (743)
“The Traveling Onion” – Naomi Shihab Nye (758)
Burroway:
“Woodchucks” – Maxime Kumin (194)
“At Navajo Monument Tribal School” – Sherman Alexie (149)
Handouts:
“The Cinnamon Peeler” – Michael Ondatjiee
Drama:
Gwynn:
How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel
Burroway:
Eukiah – Lanford Wilson
The Philadelphia – David Ives
Gas – Jose Rivera
Handouts:
You Can Count on Me – scenes
Suggested Additional Readings: (all in Gwynn)
“The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin
“A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
“Good Country People” – Flannery O’Conner
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” – Walt Whitman
“The Soul Selects Her Own Society” – Emily Dickinson
“Sunday Morning” – Wallace Stevens
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. Eliot
A Doll’s House – Henrick Ibsen
The Piano Lesson – August Wilson
Gwynn:
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sweat – Zora Neale Hurston
Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been – Joyce Carol Oates
How I Met My Husband – Alice Munroe (story)
Cathedral – Raymond Carver
Handouts:
No One’s A Mystery – Elizabeth Tallent
The Flowers – Alice Walker
Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot – Robert Olen Butler
Poetry:
Gwynn:
“A Red, Red Rose” – Robert Burns (471)
“Sonnet 73” – William Shakespeare (476)
“Sonnet 116” – William Shakespeare (476)
“Song of Myself, 6” – Walt Whitman (527)
“The Second Coming” – William Butler Yeats (549)
“Design” and “Home Burial” – Robert Frost (558)
“The Red Wheelbarrow” – William Carlos Williams (572)
“This Is Just to Say” - William Carlos Williams (573)
“In a Station of the Metro” – Ezra Pound (574)
“The Fish” – Marianne Moore (582)
“My Papa’s Waltz” – Theodore Roethke (610)
“The Fish” – Elizabeth Bishop (611)
“One Art” – Elizabeth Bishop (614)
“Those Winter Sundays” – Robert Hayden (616)
“We Real Cool” – Gwendolyn Brooks (628)
“A Supermarket in California” – Allen Ginsberg (654)
“Diving into the Wreck” – Adrienne Rich (675)
“A Walk” – Gary Snyder (681)
“Daddy” – Sylvia Plath (685)
“The Black Walnut Tree” – Mary Oliver (693)
“The One Girl at the Boys Party” – Sharon Olds (723)
“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” – Jim Hall (738)
“Facing It” – Yusef Komunyakaa (740)
“Tu Negrito” – Sarah Cortez (743)
“The Traveling Onion” – Naomi Shihab Nye (758)
Burroway:
“Woodchucks” – Maxime Kumin (194)
“At Navajo Monument Tribal School” – Sherman Alexie (149)
Handouts:
“The Cinnamon Peeler” – Michael Ondatjiee
Drama:
Gwynn:
How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel
Burroway:
Eukiah – Lanford Wilson
The Philadelphia – David Ives
Gas – Jose Rivera
Handouts:
You Can Count on Me – scenes
Suggested Additional Readings: (all in Gwynn)
“The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin
“A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
“Good Country People” – Flannery O’Conner
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” – Walt Whitman
“The Soul Selects Her Own Society” – Emily Dickinson
“Sunday Morning” – Wallace Stevens
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. Eliot
A Doll’s House – Henrick Ibsen
The Piano Lesson – August Wilson