08/30/04: Course Overview

09/01/04: Discuss Bierce, ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''

09/06/04: Labor Day (no class)

09/08/04: Weblog Workshop

09/08/04: Discuss Melville, ''Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street''

09/08/04: Discuss Poe, ''The Raven''

09/13/04: Discuss Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 1

09/15/04: Discuss Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 2 (Chapters 10-15)

09/20/04: Discuss Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 3 (Chapters 16-24)

09/20/04: Oral Presentations (Panel A)

09/22/04: Oral Interpretation Workshop

09/27/04: Dickinson & Poe Retro Lit Cover Slam

09/29/04: Dickinson & Poe Retro Lit Cover Slam 2

10/04/04: Oral Presentations (Panel B)

10/04/04: Discuss: Emerson & Thoreau

10/06/04: Paper 1 Writing Workshop

10/11/04: Discuss Bierce, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

10/11/04: Oral Presentations (Panel C)

10/13/04: Native American Oral Literature

10/13/04: Oral Presentations (Panel D)

10/20/04: Discuss Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10/20/04: Oral Presentations (Panel E)

10/25/04: Discuss Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2

10/25/04: Oral Presentations (Panel F)

10/27/04: Discuss Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3

10/27/04: Folklore

11/01/04: Oral Presentations (Panel G)

11/01/04: Discuss The John Henry Legend

11/01/04: Discuss ''Br'er Rabbit''

11/03/04: Discuss Gilman, ''The Yellow Wall-paper''

11/03/04: Oral Presentations (Panel H)

11/08/04: Discuss Robinson

11/08/04: Oral Presentations (Panel I)

11/10/04: Discuss Belasco, The Girl of the Golden West

11/10/04: Oral Presentations (Panel J)

11/15/04: Draft Workshop

11/17/04: Formal Oral Reports 1

11/17/04: Review and Preview

11/22/04: Formal Oral Reports 2

11/29/04: Formal Oral Reports 3

12/01/04: Formal Oral Reports 4

12/06/04: All-American Retro Poetry Cover Slam 1

12/08/04: All-American Retro Poetry Cover Slam 2

12/15/04: Final Exam (20%)