Below are links to most of the documents you will need:
Course Documents
Current Syllabus
Literary Terms Quiz
Novels
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Geoge Orwell 1984
Short Stories
Arthur C. Clarke Nine Billion Names of God
Agatha Christie In a Glass Darkly
Roald Dahl Lamb to the Slaughter
M. Somerset Maugham The Verger
George Orwell Shooting an Elephan
Saki The Open Window
Doris Lessing Old Chief Mshlanga
Fred L. Taulbee Jr.--Teacher
MA Literature, MFA Creative Writing,
MFA Film Production
Instructor Austin Community College
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Saturday, January 27, 2018
American Literature
Revised March 2020
Short Works
Research stories AFTER you've read them and written your journals including watching any videos I have made.
Save these. Download them so you have them. Print them and take notes. Take notes somehow as you read. Or take notes on a document digitally. There are many different ways to do all of these, but most importantly take notes. Those notes are notes for later papers.
Works we have read or about to be assigned.
Robert Bloch "Picture"
Blythe and Sweet “CoitusInterruptis...”
Raymond Chandler “I’ll Be Waiting”
Kate Chopin “Ripe Figs”
Crane "Episode of War"
D. H. Lawrence "Rocking Horse Winner"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Birthmark"
Roger Zelazny "Auto-Da-Fe"
Roger Zelazny "Go Starless in the Night"
Ambrose Bierce "The Damned Thing"
Ambrose Bierce "Horseman in the Sky"
Robert Bloch "Beezlebub"
Ray Bradbury "The Time Machine"
Ray Bradbury "Uncle Einar"
Fredric Brown "Arena"
Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour"
Bel Kaufman "Sunday in the Park"
Tim O'Brien "The Things They Carried"
John Updike "Pygmalion"
David J. Schow "The Thing To Hideous to Describe"
Leslie Marmon Silko "The Man To Send Rainclouds"
Leslie Marmon Silko "The Yellow Woman"
Fredric Brown "The Weapon"
A. E. Van Vogt "Itself"
Short Works
Research stories AFTER you've read them and written your journals including watching any videos I have made.
Save these. Download them so you have them. Print them and take notes. Take notes somehow as you read. Or take notes on a document digitally. There are many different ways to do all of these, but most importantly take notes. Those notes are notes for later papers.
Works we have read or about to be assigned.
Robert Bloch "Picture"
Blythe and Sweet “CoitusInterruptis...”
Raymond Chandler “I’ll Be Waiting”
Kate Chopin “Ripe Figs”
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
Dashiell Hammett “Bodies Piled Up”
Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"
Robert Heinlein “All You Zombies”
Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”
Dashiell Hammett “Bodies Piled Up”
Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"
Robert Heinlein “All You Zombies”
Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”
H. P. Lovecraft “The Outsider”
John R. Platt "All Hands"
Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poe "Cask of Amontillado"
Saki "Open Window"
Norman Spinrad “CarcinomaAngels”
James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Tobias Wolf “Powder”
Roger Zelazny “Naked Matador”
end of list for now
John R. Platt "All Hands"
Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poe "Cask of Amontillado"
Saki "Open Window"
Norman Spinrad “CarcinomaAngels”
James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Tobias Wolf “Powder”
Roger Zelazny “Naked Matador”
end of list for now
D. H. Lawrence "Rocking Horse Winner"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Birthmark"
Roger Zelazny "Auto-Da-Fe"
Roger Zelazny "Go Starless in the Night"
Ambrose Bierce "The Damned Thing"
Ambrose Bierce "Horseman in the Sky"
Robert Bloch "Beezlebub"
Ray Bradbury "The Time Machine"
Ray Bradbury "Uncle Einar"
Fredric Brown "Arena"
Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour"
Bel Kaufman "Sunday in the Park"
Tim O'Brien "The Things They Carried"
John Updike "Pygmalion"
David J. Schow "The Thing To Hideous to Describe"
Leslie Marmon Silko "The Man To Send Rainclouds"
Leslie Marmon Silko "The Yellow Woman"
Fredric Brown "The Weapon"
A. E. Van Vogt "Itself"
Edgar Allan Poe “Angel of the Odd”
Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Birthmark"
Video
Stephen Crane “An Episode of War”
Shirley Jackson “The Lottery”
Ursula K. LeGuin “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Richard Wright “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
Zora Neal Hurston “Sweat"
Louise Erdrich “The Red Convertible”
“A-Haunting We Will Go” or “Guardian of Regress” or “The Last Tree”
Harlan Ellison “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
Stephen King “I Am the
Doorway”
Longer Works
Longer Works
Ernest Hemingway TheOld Man and the Sea
F. Scott Fitzgerald The
Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck Of Miceand Men
Mark Twain Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn
Edgar Allan Poe The Major Short Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Major Short Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne ScarletLetter
J. D. Salinger Catcherin thy Rye
Harper Lee To Kill aMockingbird
Kurt Vonnegut SlaughterhouseFive
Ken Kesey One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
S. E. Hinton The
Outsiders
L. Frank Baum The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit451
British Literature
Oscar Wilde “The Nightingale and the Rose”
Saki “The Open Window”
James Joyce “Araby”
Neil Gaiman “Changes”
Doris Lessing “Old Chief Mshlanga”
Rudyard Kipling "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"W. Somerset Maugham "The Verger"
Roald Dahl "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Agatha Christie "In a Glass Darkly"
Arthur C. Clarke "Nine Billion Names of God"
Charles Dickens “A Case of Identity”
George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"
H. G Wells Story to be Decided
Elizabeth Gaskell Story to be Decided
Thomas Hardy Story to be
Decided
E. F. Benson Story to be Decided
M.R. James Story to be
Decided
Arthur Conan Doyle “The Speckled Band”
Robert Louis Stevenson “The Body Snatcher”
Longer Works
Beowulf
Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Chaucer Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad Heart of
Darkness
Charles Dickens A Taleof Two Cities
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Christopher Marlowe The
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
George Orwell 1984
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
George Orwell 1984
George Orwell AnimalFarm
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
H.G. Wells Food of the Gods
H.G. Wells The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
H.G. Wells War of the Worlds
Friday, September 29, 2017
How to Set Up a Header in Microsoft Word
How to Set Up a Header in Microsoft Word
This video explains how to set up a header in Microsoft Word, not an MLA heading. The header is the section of your document usually with the page number, but more information can be put there. Visit my pages.
This video explains how to set up a header in Microsoft Word, not an MLA heading. The header is the section of your document usually with the page number, but more information can be put there. Visit my pages.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
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