English 120-01:  Types of Literature                       Prof. Sandra Bennett
Office:  310 Minne       Phone: 457-5445
email:sbennett@winona.edu
 
TEXTS: Cather, O Pioneers!
       Perkins, et al, Women's Work
 
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:  Group project: 25%
                      In-class midterm: 20%
Take-home final :  25%
                      Reading quizzes:  20%
                      Class participation:  10%
Each member of this class is expected to contribute to the learning of the
others,  so  your participation is expected in class discussion and small
group activities.  To this end, it is critical to keep up with reading.
Quizzes CANNOT be made up.  Your lowest quiz grade will be dropped.
 
SCHEDULE: Read all material or specified selections by each assigned author.
 
March 12-19:  Introduction & Unit I:  Women's Rights: Abigail Adams;
Sojourner Truth; Margaret Fuller, from "Woman in the 19th
Century";Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
 
March 24-26:  Unit II:  Slavery and Abolition: Harriet Beecher Stowe;
Harriet Jacobs; Sarah Morgan; Toni Morrison
 
March 31-April 16:  Unit III:  The Regional Experience:  Caroline Kirkland;
Sarah Orne Jewett; Kate Chopin, "A Pair of Silk Stockings"; Cather, O
Pioneers!
NO CLASS APRIL 2 OR 9.
 
April 21:  Midterm exam
 
April 23-28:  Unit IV:  Social Justice: Rebecca Harding Davis; Louisa May
Alcott; Susan Glaspell; Edith Wharton, "The Other Two"
 
April 30-May 7:  Unit V:  Unheard Voices:  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins; Mari
Sandoz; Leslie Marmon Silko; Maxine Hong Kingston
 
May 12-14:  Unit VI:  The Evolution of Poetry: Anne Bradstreet;  Emily
Dickinson;  Gwendolyn Brooks; Anne Sexton; Adrienne Rich.
 
Oral Presentations:  May 14 and 19. Papers due May 19.
 
May 19-21:  Unit VII:  Dramatizing Lives:  Lorraine Hansberry 
Final exam questions will be given out on the last day of class ONLY. Exams
will be due Thursday, May 28 by 5 pm.