English 1B Online

Hi, I'm James Lim, your English 1B (Online--Dr. Kleinman) Library guide for this semester.   This means you can contact me when you need help using library resources or the general internet for finding relevant articles/information for your assignments.  There's a chat box to the right.  If it says jamesccsf is online that means I'm logged in and you can try chatting with me.  If I'm offline, you can still leave a message, but be sure to leave an email adress or some other way to contact you.

Note: None of this is required reading.  This page is only meant to be supplemental to your regular class readings.

1. email: jlim@ccsf.edu
2. phone: 415-452-5430
3. a chat line which is to the right
   
4. dropping by the Rosenberg Library on the Ocean Campus--I'm usually there Monday through Friday. If you don't see me, ask for me at the Reference Desk and they'll try to wake me up. You can also call me to set up an appointment.
   

Week 1: Gwendolyn Brooks

• You can find some information on Gwendolyn Brooks in our EBooks (Netlibrary) collection, if you do a fulltext search.  The CCSF Catalog also lists a few titles, if you do a subject search.  A better bet is to use the Literature Resource Center or Biography Resource Center for biographical information.
• Web:
  • Gwendolyn Brooks (Modern American Poetry)
  • Brooks Interview (Artful Dodge, Dept. of English, College of Wooster)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks (Univ. of Minnesota)

Week 2: Andrew Marvell & Theodore Roethke

• Our EBooks collection has a title called Poetry Handbook: a Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism that might be useful for more information on rhyme, meter, hyperbole, etc.  Try SFPL's Literature Criticism Online for information on the two poets. Here's how you might do a search in Literature Resource Center for Roethke and My Papa's Waltz:

• You can also try SFPL's Literature Criticism Online and JSTOR for information on the two poets.  Note:  CCSF's Literature Criticism Online is different from SFPL's.  Ours is much more limited.  Use theirs instead.
• Just for "fun":  Andrew Marvell Society
• Supplemental: 
  • Andrew Marvell at Luminarium.org
  • Theodore Roethke (Modern American Poetry)

Week 3: Anne Bradstreet & Kate Chopin

Week 4: Marilyn Mei Ling Chin & Alice Walker

• Voices from the Gaps: Marilyn Chin
  Modern American Poetry: Marilyn Chin

• Voices from the Gaps: Alice Walker
  Alice Walker Archives at Emory University
  Official Alice Walker web site

Week 5: Susan Glaspell & T.S. Eliot

Week 6: Allen Ginsburg & Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Week 7: Herman Melville

Week 8: Various poets: Dickinson, Hughes, Whitman, Levine, Dunbar, Sanchez, Alexie, Robinson

Week 9: Midterm, 'Zine and MLA

Week 10: James Baldwin

Week 11: Louise Erdrich & Yusef Komunyakaa

Week 12: Flannery O'Connor

Week 13: Shakespeare and Maxin Kumin

Week 14: Hamlet

Week 15: Hamlet

Week 16: Hamlet

Week 17: Hamlet

Week 18: Hamlet & Final!

The following online resources should be quite useful for your English 1B research.  If you are at home or anywhere off-campus you'll need the BARCODE NUMBER from your student ID (NOT your Student ID Number).

Don't forget the San Francisco Public Library!  You just need to live in California and show a current photo ID to get a library card.  The bar code number and a pin allows you online access to their great collection of databases.  The following may be particularly useful: