Syllabus

American Literature II

ENG 222

Essex County College

Prof. Sean O’Connell                                                  Tues/Thurs 10:00-12:50

Email:soconnel@essex.edu     

Phone: 973-877-1926                                                   Office: 1137

Office Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed 9-10                                      Room: 4139

           

                        By Appointment

                                                                       

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Texts:

• A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines

•       Their Eyes Were Watching God,  Zora Neale Hurston

•       Death of A Salesman, Arthur Miller  

• The Road, Cormac McCarthy, Vintage International

Other required materials: Folder, notebook, pens and USB storage stick

Course Description: This course focuses on writing in the United States from the American Civil War to the contemporary era. The student will gain some understanding of the literary history of the United States across periods, genres, regions, cultures, and aesthetics.

In the classroom we will use group work to discuss the stories you read on your own time. Do not use your phones while in the classroom (unless we are looking something up). As long as you read the stories and contribute to your group—everything should work out fine. Your group will tell on you if you sit there and do not help.

If you are excessively absent or late it will hurt your grade—do it enough and you will fail.

Papers are due when they are due—look at the due dates on the syllabus now and circle them. I will provide a handout with questions for each paper. If you hand a paper in when it is due—you can revise it. If you do not, it is late, cannot be revised and whatever you get on that paper is final.

January 8         Introduction to class, group assignments, discussion of syllabus and   plagiarism, Read A Lesson Before Dying

 10       A Lesson Before Dying, Read A Lesson Before Dying

 15       A Lesson Before Dying, Read A Lesson Before Dying

17        NO CLASS

22     A Lesson Before Dying

24        Film

29        Film, Read Their Eyes Were Watching God

31        Their Eyes Were Watching God

February 5       NO CLASS

               7       ASSIGN FIRST PAPER, Their Eyes Were Watching God , Read Their Eyes Were Watching God

  12      Their Eyes Were Watching God

  14      Film

  19      Film, PAPER DUE

  21      NO CLASS, Read Death of A Salesman Act 1     

  26      Death of A Salesman, Read Death of A Salesman Act 2

  28      Death of A Salesman

March    5       

   7       Death of A Salesman, Read The Road

  12      *NO CLASS* HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (EXTRA CREDIT CHANCE)

  14      The Road, Read The Road

  19      The Road, Read The Road

  21      The Road, Read The Road

26        Film

28        Film, ASSIGN SECOND PAPER

April     2         NO CLASS

              4        Paper Help in my Office (1137)

  9        Paper Help in my Office (1137)

11        Paper Help in my Office (1137)

15        MEET IN 1137, PAPERS DUE---LAST CLASS