Composition II Calendar
FALL 2023 ▪ ONLINE ▪ LOIBNER-WAITKUS
WEEK ONE—AUGUST 21-26 • Welcome to the Class • Purchase Digital Textbook • Complete the Course Agreement WEEK TWO—AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 2 • Introduction to Literary Terms • Reading Response #1 Due: “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway WEEK THREE—SEPTEMBER 3-9 • Reading Response #2 Due: “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner WEEK FOUR—SEPTEMBER 10-16 • Reading Response #3 Due: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson WEEK FIVE—SEPTEMBER 17-23 • Reading Response #4 Due: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor WEEK SIX—SEPTEMBER 24-30 • ESSAY #1 (on SHORT FICTION) DUE WEEK SEVEN—OCTOBER 1-7 • Midterm Exam Due WEEK EIGHT—OCTOBER 8-14 • Reading Response #5 Due: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost WEEK NINE—OCTOBER 15-21 • Reading Response #6 Due: “Harlem” by Langston Hughes WEEK TEN—OCTOBER 22-28 • Reading Response #7 Due: “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman WEEK ELEVEN—OCTOBER 20-NOVEMBER 4 • Reading Response #8 Due: “cream of wheat” by Lucille Clifton WEEK TWELVE—NOVEMBER 5-11 • Reading Response #9 Due: “‘Poetry Make Nothing Happen’?” by Julia Alvarez