The Lamp Beside the Golden Door:
A Literature of American Dreams

Dr. Johnny Lorenz
Visiting Professor (Fulbright)


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Week One (31 de julho)
Today's Discussion:
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
Allen Ginsberg's "Supermarket in California"
Gold Mountain Poems
Homework for next class:
Read Allen Ginsberg's poems from HOWL

**Writing Project for "Supermarket in California"


Week Two (7 de agosto)
Due Today: Writing Project for "Supermarket in California"
Today's Discussion:
poems from Allen Ginsberg's HOWL

Asphodel

America

Sunflower Sutra

Song
Homework for next class:
Read these poems:
Pat Mora - "Elena"
Dwight Okita - "In Response to Executive Order 9066"
Gerald Stern - "Behaving Like a Jew"
Pat Mora - "Immigrants"
Shirley Geok-lin Lim - " Lost Name Woman"
Martin Espada - "Coca-Cola and Coco Frio"
Pat Mora - "Senora X No More"
Mart’n Espada - "Niggerlips"
Li-Young Lee - "Mnemonic"

**Be sure to do the Writing Project for "America"



Week Three (14 de agosto)
Due Today: Writing Project for "America"
Today's Discussion:
Poetry
Homework for next class:
Read these poems:
Amiri Baraka - "Ka 'Ba"
Naomi Shihab Nye - "Blood"
Nikki Giovanni - "Legacies"
Sherman Alexie - from "Crazy Horse Speaks"
Naomi Shihab Nye - "My Father and the Figtree"
Diana Chang - "Foreign Ways"
Maxine Kumin - "Living Alone with Jesus"
Linda Hogan - "Heritage"
Chrystos - "I Walk in the History of My People"

** Be sure to do the Writing Project for "Mnemonic"




Week Four(21 de agosto)
Due Today:Writing Project for "Mnemonic"
Today's Discussion:
Poetry
Homework for next class:
Read these poems:
Martin Espada - "Bully"
Joseph Bruchac - "Prayer"
Alicia Ostriker - "Lamenting the Inevitable"
Ray Gonzalez - "Praise the Tortilla..."
David Hernandez - "Martin and My Father"
Peter Blue Cloud - "The Old Man's Lazy"
Joy Harjo - "I Give You Back"

**Be sure to do the Writing Project for "Praise the Tortilla"



Week Five (28 de agosto)
Due Today: Writing Project for "Praise the Tortilla"
Today's Discussion:
Poetry
Please note: I will introduce the outline guidelines today
Homework for next class:

Do your Outline for Paper 1


Week Six (4 de setembro)
Due Today: Outline for Paper 1
Today's Discussion:
Poetry Translation
Homework for next class:

** Be sure to do the Poetry Translation Project


Week Seven (11 de setembro)
Due Today: Poetry Translation Project
Today's Discussion:
Outlines Returned with my Comments
Your poetry translations
Homework for next class:
**Write 3 pages of your essay


Week Eight (18 de setembro)
Due Today: 3 pages of essay
Today's Discussion:
Rough Draft Workshop
Homework for next class:
**Finish ESSAY 1


Week Nine (25 de setembro)
Due Today: ESSAY 1
Today's Discussion:
To Be Announced
Homework for next class:
Read these stories:
Jesus Colon "Kipling and I"
Leslie Silko "Lullaby"

** Do the Writing Project for "Lullaby"


**END OF GRAU A**


Week Ten (2 de outubro)
Due Today: Writing Project for "Lullaby"
Today's Discussion:
Jesus Colon's "Kipling and I"
Leslie Silko's "Lullaby"
Homework for next class:
Read these stories: Louise Erdrich "Red Convertible"
and Denis Johnson "Car Crash While Hitchhiking"

** Do the Writing Project on Cars


Week Eleven (9 de outubro)
Due Today: Writing Project on Cars
Today's Discussion:
Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible"
and Denis Johnson's "Car Crash While Hitchhiking"
Homework for next class:
Read these stories:
John Updike's "A & P"
and Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson"

** Do the Writing Project for "The Lesson"


Week Twelve (16 de outubro)
Due Today: Writing Project for "The Lesson"
Today's Discussion:
John Updike's "A & P"
and Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson"
Homework for next class:
Read these stories:
Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek"
and Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea"

** Do the Writing Project for "Children of the Sea"


Week Thirteen (23 de outubro)
Due Today: Writing Project for "Children of the Sea"
Today's Discussion:
Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek"
and Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea"
Homework for next class:
Read these stories:
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
and Sherman Alexie's "Because My Father Always Said..."

**Do the Writing Project on Music


Week Fourteen (30 de outubro)
Due Today: Writing Project on Music
Today's Discussion:
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
and Sherman Alexie's "Because My Father Always Said..."
Homework for next class:
**Do your Outline for Paper 2


Weeks Fifteen (6 de novembro)
Due Today:Outline for Paper 2
Today's Discussion:
Outline
Homework for next class:
To be announced


Week Sixteen (13 de novembro)
Due Today: To be announced
Today's Discussion:
Outline Returned with Comments
Homework for next class:
**Write 4 pages of essay


Week Seventeen (20 de novembro)
Due Today:4 pages of essay
Today's Discussion:
Draft Workshop
Homework for next class:
**Finish ESSAY 2


Week Eighteen (27 de novembro)
Due Today: ESSAY 2
Today's Discussion:
To be announced

Week Nineteen (4 de dezembro)
**Aula-sintese**

Week Twenty (11 de dezembro)
Due Today: **Recuperacao**