Week 1-5 reading options
Week 2
Ch. 14 – “Reading a Poem”
Ch. 15 – “Listening to a Voice”
Ch. 16 – “Words”
Ch. 17 – “Saying and Suggesting”
Ch. 18 – “Imagery”
Ch. 22 – “Rhythm”
Ch. 25 – “Symbol”
“Mending Wall,” Robert Frost
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T. S. Eliot
“Daddy,” Sylvia Plath
“The Facebook Sonnet,” Sherman Alexie
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” John Donne
“To His Coy Mistress,” Andrew Marvell
“My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke
“Rites of Passage,” Sharon Olds
“By Accident,” Julia Alvarez
Week 3
Ch. 35 – “Reading a Play”
Ch. 36 – “Modes of Drama: Tragedy and Comedy”
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare
Oedipus the King, by Sophocles
Week 4
“Salvation,” Langston Hughes
“How I Became a Socialist,” Helen Keller
“About Men,” Gretel Ehrlich
“Waterloo” Andrew Lam
“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Week 5
“Salvation,” Langston Hughes
“How I Became a Socialist,” Helen Keller
“About Men,” Gretel Ehrlich
“Waterloo” Andrew Lam
“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr.