Great Plains Studies:English 458/858P
Reading Assignments:
Monday, June 24: "Mosaic of the Prairie"
TEXT: Prairie Mosaic selections
9:00-10:30--Living on the Prairie:
"Plants of the Prairie" (pp. 54-61)
"Prairie Fauna" (pp. 68-77)
"Landscape Patterns of the Prairie" (pp. 62-67)
"Prairie Views" (pp. 82-89)
"From Prairie to Cropland" (pp. 194-203)
1:00-2:30--Responses to the Prairie:
All Poetry
"Forces of creation" (pp. 80-91)
"Prairie Views" (92-99)
"Solomon Butcher" (pp. 112-115)
"Prairie Reclamation Project" (152-157)
"Art of Emerging Nebraska Artists" (pp. 158-167)
Tuesday, June 25: "The Immigrant Plains"
TEXT: Collected Stories by Willa Cather
1:00-2:30 Cather on the Prairie
"Neighbor Rosicky" (pp. 231-261)
"Nebraska Farm Women" in Prairie Mosaic (pp. 210-218)
"Old Mrs. Harris" (pp. 262-314)
"The Happiness and the Curse" in Prairie Mosaic (pp. 138-143)
"Two Friends" (pp. 315-331)
"Stand Up for Nebraska" in Prairie Mosaic (pp. 116-121)
Wednesday, June 26: "The Native Plains"
TEXTS: The Dance House by Joseph Marshall III and Skins by Louis Owens
9:00-10:30--On the Rosebud Reservation
The Dance House: Stories from Rosebud by Joseph Marshall III
"Forces of Creation" in Prairie Mosaic (pp. 80-91)
1:00-2:30-- On the Pine Ridge Reservation
Skins by Adrian Louis
Thursday, June 27: "The Mulitcultural Plains"
TEXTS: Tell me a Riddle by Olsen; And the Earth Did Not Devour Him byRivera
9:00-10:30--Jewish Heritage
Tell me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen (pp. 39-62 )
1:00-2:30--Hispanic Heritage
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Tomas Rivera
"Hispanics in Central Nebraska" in Prairie Mosaic (pp. 218-225)