Section III.E: LITERARY JOURNAL #1 (Spring 2008)

LITERARY JOURNAL Submission #1 (0-100 points), Due 3/18

"Growing Up and Growing Older," "The American Dream," and "Women and Men"


As cultural markers, the dates specified for each work are important.

A. You MUST respond to ALL 3 of the following selections (20 points each, 60 points total):

1._____The Piano Lesson, August Wilson, 808-879 [Required play, 1987, film 1995]

2._____"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot, 168-172, [Required Poem, 1917]

3._____"Hills Like White Elephants," Ernest Hemingway, 320-324 [Required short story, 1927]

[NOTE: The above selections are worth more points than the other journal selections, so these responses should be a minimum of two typed (and double-spaced) pages and more in depth.]
B. Reader’s Choice: You MUST select and respond to ANY 4 of the following selections (10 points each, 40 points total):

Fiction:

4._____"Girl," Jamaica Kincaid, 67-69 [1983]

5._____"Yours," Mary Robison, handout [1983]

6._____From "The Bluest Eye," Toni Morrison, 69-72 [1970]

7._____"A Mistaken Charity," Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 140-150 [1887]

Poetry:

8._____"the mother," Gwendolyn Brooks, 162-163 [1945]

9.____"Ex-Basketball Player," John Updike, 166-167 [1957]

10.____"Undertaker," Patricia Smith, 181-184 [1993]

11.____"Cinderella," Olga Broumas, 397-398 [1977]

12.____"Touch Me," The Doors, http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/Touch_Me_lyrics.html and http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_doors/touch_me.html [circa 1966]

13.____"Touch Me," Stanley Kunitz, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/touch-me/ [1995]

14.____"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," Dylan Thomas, 194 [1952]

15.____"Harlem," Langston Hughes, 1286 [1951]

Non-fiction:

16.____"No Name Woman," Maxine Hong Kingston, 265-274 [1976]

17.____"Gun Crazy," Dorothy Allison, 291-295 [1993]

18.____"I Want a Wife," Judy Brady, 569-572 [1971]

19.____"Leap," Brian Doyle, 1119-1120 [2002]

Drama:

20._____"Trifles," Susan Glaspell, 551-564 [1916]

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EXTRA CREDIT (5 points): You may select (from your textbook) ONE work not in the "Reader’s Choice" section.

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If you encounter difficulty in reading the selections, I encourage you to get help from the Learning Resource Center for reading strategies.

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