Reading List

American Literature II
Weekly Reading Assignments

Jan. 19-21
Volume C – “Animal Tales” p. 39
Volume D – Wharton “Roman Fever” p. 1019
Volume E – King “I Have a Dream” p. 2341
Jan. 26-28
Volume C – “Conjure Stories – Two Tales from Eatonville” p. 49
Volume D – Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” p. 1422
Feb. 2-4
Volume C – “John and Old Marster” p. 51
Volume D – Wharton “The Eyes” p. 1007
Feb. 9-11
Volume D – Robert Frost poems p. 1060-1070
Volume C – Chopin “Desiree’s Baby” p. 359
Feb. 16-18
Volume D – Anderson “Death in the Woods” p. 1076
Volume E – O’ Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” p. 2217
Feb. 23-25
Volume C – Amy Lowell poetry
Volume D - "Bride comes to Yellow Sky"
Mar. 2-4
Volume C – King “The Little Convent Girl” p. 203
Volume D – Cather “A Wagner Matinee” p. 1035
Mar. 9-11
Volume C – Dunbar-Nelson “Sister Josepha” p. 209
Volume D – Edward Albee - "The Sandbox"
Mar. 23-25
Volume D – Toomer “Box Seat” p. 1510
Volume E – Updike “Trust Me” p. 2453
Mar. 30- Apr. 1
Volume E – Updike “Trust Me” p. 2453
Various poetry in Volume E
Apr. 6-8
Volume D modernists
My version of Updike's "Trust Me"
"Barn Burning" William Faulkner
Worked on MagCloud
Apr. 13-15
Volume C – Gilman “Turned” p. 590
Volume D – Maltz “The Happiest Man on Earth” p. 1689
Volume E – Kingston “No Name Woman” p. 2704
Apr. 20-22
Volume C – Alcott “My Contraband” p. 652
Volume D – Odets “Waiting for Lefty” p. 1709
Volume E – Oates “Where are you going? Where have you been?” p. 2620
April 27-29
Volume C – Eaton “Leaves from Mental…” p. 777
Volume D – Faulkner “Barn Burning” p. 1464
Volume E – Allison “Don’t Tell me you Don’t know” p. 2874
May 4-6
Volume C – Watanna “A Half Caste” p. 795
Volume D – Steinbeck “The Chrysanthemums” p. 1792
Volume E – Alexie “Because my Father said he was the only Indian to see
Jimi Hendrix…” p. 3081

Volume C – Harris “Uncle Remus” p. 108
Volume D – O’Neill “The Hairy Ape” p. 1177
Volume E – Ozick “The Shawl” p. 2299
Volume E – Paley “The Expensive Moment” p. 2173
Volume E – Malamud “The Magic Barrel” p. 2018
Volume E – Olsen “Tell me a Riddle” p. 1972
Volume C – Twain “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” p. 58
Volume C – Twain “A True Story” p. 67
Volume E – Hinojoso-Smith “Sometimes it just Happens that Way” p. 2356
Volume E – Barth “Lost in the Funhouse” p. 2366