Course curriculum

  • 1

    Literary Analysis: Overview

    • Overview

    • Methodology
  • 2

    (1.1) The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams

    • Primary Text

    • Comprehension Quiz I

    • Vocabulary Words

    • Theoretical Lens

    • Comprehension Quiz II

    • Argumentative Writing Prompt

    • Sample Essay

    • Activities
  • 3

    (1.2) The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

    • Primary Text

    • Comprehension

    • Quote Selection / Thesis Formulation

    • Theoretical Lens

    • Writing Prompt

    • Sample Essay
  • 4

    (1.3) The Cranes by Hwang Sun-Won

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Theoretical Lens (Incomplete)

    • Sample Essay
  • 5

    (1.4) The Sniper by Liam O' Flaherty

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Sample Essay
  • 6

    (1.5) The Bet by Anton Chekhov

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Sample Essay

    • Theoretical Lens (Incomplete)

    • Creative Writing Example (Incomplete)
  • 7

    (1.6) Eve's Diary by Mark Twain

    • Primary Text

    • Theoretical Lens (Incomplete)

    • Sample Argumentative Essay

    • Sample Literary Essay (Incomplete)
  • 8

    (1.7) The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

    • Primary Text

    • Activity I

    • Theoretical Lens

    • Activity II

    • Writing Prompts

    • Sample Essays
  • 9

    (1.8) A Father's Confession by Guy de Maupassant

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Unorganized
  • 10

    (1.9) A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 11

    (1.10) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Writing Prompt

    • Sample Essay
  • 12

    (1.11) The Masque of Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 13

    (1.12) Everything that Arises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 14

    (1.13) Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 15

    (1.14) Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 16

    (1.15) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 17

    (1.16) A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 18

    (1.17) Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 19

    (1.18) The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 20

    (1.19) The Storm by Kate Chopin

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 21

    (1.20) Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 22

    (1.21) Living Like Weasels by Annie Dillard

    • Primary Text

    • Theoretical Lens

    • Sample Essay
  • 23

    (1.22) The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Sample Essay
  • 24

    (1.23) The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 25

    (1.24) The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 26

    (1.25) The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay

    • Theoretical Lens
  • 27

    (1.26) Rocking Horse Winner by DH Lawrence

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 28

    (1.27) Useless Beauty by Guy de Maupassant

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 29

    (1.28) A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

    • Primary Text

    • Activities

    • Sample Essay
  • 30

    (1.29) Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 31

    (1.30) Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 32

    (1.31) Man from the South by Roald Dahl

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 33

    (1.32) Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 34

    (1.33) A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 35

    (1.34) Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 36

    (1.35) A & P by John Updike

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 37

    (1.36) Say Yes by Tobias Wolff

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 38

    (1.37) Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 39

    (1.38) The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 40

    (1.39) Daemon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 41

    (1.40) Araby by James Joyce

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 42

    (1.41) Brothers by Sherwood Anderson

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 43

    (1.42) The Door by EB White

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 44

    (1.43) The Kitten by Richard Wright

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 45

    (1.44) The Judgment by Franz Kafka

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 46

    (1.45) The Lie by Kurt Vonnegut

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 47

    (1.46) I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 48

    (1.47) The Open Window by Saki

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 49

    (1.48) The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 50

    (1.49) Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 51

    (1.50) The Interlopers by Saki

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 52

    (1.51) Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 53

    (1.52) Last of Her Sons by Alden Nowlan

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 54

    (1.53) Orientation by Daniel Orozco

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 55

    (1.54) Ponies by Kij Johnson

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 56

    (1.55) Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 57

    (1.56) All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 58

    (1.57) Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 59

    (1.58) Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 60

    (1.59) The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 61

    (1.60) Birthday Party by Katherine Brush

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 62

    (1.61) Suicides by Guy de Maupassant

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 63

    (1.62) Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 64

    (1.63) The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas

    • Primary Text
  • 65

    (2.1) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 66

    (2.2) Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 67

    (2.3) Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 68

    (2.4) The Mending Wall by Robert Frost

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 69

    (2.5) For That He Looked Not Upon Her by George Gascoigne

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 70

    (2.6) Crossing the Swamp by Mary Oliver

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 71

    (2.7) A Barred Owl & The History Teacher

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 72

    (2.8) When I have Fears & Mezzo Cammin

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 73

    (2.9) Thou Blind Man's Mark by Philip Sidney

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 74

    (2.10) Echo Sonnet by Robert Pack

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 75

    (2.11) A Story by Li-Young Lee

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 76

    (2.12) XIV by Derek Walcott

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 77

    (2.13) The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 78

    (2.14) Convergence of the Twain

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 79

    (2.15) I, Too by Langston Hughes

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 80

    (2.16) My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 81

    (2.17) Ozymandias by Percy Shelley

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 82

    (2.18) The Colonel by Carolyn Forche

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 83

    (2.19) Funeral Blues by WH Auden

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 84

    (2.20) Those Winter Sundays

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 85

    (3.3) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    • Sample Essay

    • Primary Text
  • 86

    (3.5) Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay
  • 87

    (3.6) Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez

    • Primary Text

    • Activity 1

    • Theoretical Lens
  • 88

    (3.7) Macbeth by Shakespeare

    • Primary Text

    • Sample Essay