DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Thursday, September 1, 2011

• First Class

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

• Email contact information to me at hhalbert@gmail.com.  See handout for exact information sought and pay careful attention to the subject heading and email account address I'd like you to use.
• Print, read, sign, and return your contract. See Handouts section of the class web page for the contract)
• Read "How to Really Read This Book" (Download from the Course Documents section of the class web page)
• Read and mark the following documents in this order (if you don't have the text yet, you can download these from Course Documents):
• "Creation of the Whites" (Yuchi myth; Heath Vol. A, 73)
• "The Arrival of the Whites" (Lenape-Delaware oral tradition; Heath Vol. A, 74-79)
• "Cluster: America in the World/The World in America" (background essay; Heath 124-126)
• from Utopia (Thomas More; Heath 127)
• from Of Cannibals (Michel de Montaigne; Heath 127-128)
• America (Painting, Heath 128)
• from New Atlantis (Francis Bacon; Heath 130)
• "Requerimiento" (Palacios Rubios; boxed text Heath 132-133)
• "Christopher Columbus" (background essay; Heath 119-120)
• Excerpt from The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493; handout.
• "Cluster: Aesthetics and Criticism—Paradigms of Cultural Encounters" (150-156)
• Be prepared to have your first reading check. Putting tabs in the text to mark what you read will help speed up the process.
• Please set up mail forwarding if you do not check your Montco email very often so that official school emails will reach you.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

• Read and mark the following Selections from the Heath Vol. A:
• from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca (157-170)
• "History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531" (196-204)
• "The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt" (221-225)

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

• Read and mark the following Selections from the Heath Vol. A:
• All of the selections by John Smith (Vol A. 273-287)
• From Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) (Vol A. 288-291)
• Read and mark "New England" (overview; Vol A. 314-318)

Thursday, September 15, 2011

• Read and mark the entire William Bradford section (Vol A. 348--370)
• We will discuss the in-class essay that will take place in one week.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Morton section (Vol. A 319-331)
• Read and mark the following selections from Anne Bradstreet:
• "Anne Bradstreet 1612?-1672" (Vol A. 418-419)
• "The Prologue [To Her Book]" (Vol A. 420-421)
• "The Author to Her Book" (Vol A. 426)
• "The Flesh and the Spirit" (Vol A. 427-429)
• "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (Vol A. 430)
• "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Vol A 430-431)
• "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment" (Vol A. 431)
• "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" (Vol A. 432)
• "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old" (Vol A. 432)
• "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" (Vol A.433-434)
• "To My Dear Children" (Vol A.434 - 437)
• Last day to drop before withdrawal begins

Thursday, September 22, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections from Cotton Mather:
• "Cotton Mather 1663-1728" (Vol A. 531-533)
• from The Wonders of the Invisible World (Vol A. 533-538)
• from The Negro Christianized (Vol A. 551-556)
• from Bonifacius . . . With Humble Proposals . . . to Do Good in the World (Vol A. 556-557)
• There will be a test on The Negro Christianized: you will need to write an essay (with quotes) that discusses if the text is a pro-slavery message or a means of undermining the validity of slavery.  Everyone is required to take this exam.  See handout on exam card preparation.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

• Read and mark the following from Jonathan Edwards:
• "Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758" (Vol. A 669-671)
• from Images of Divine Things (Vol A. 672-673)
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Vol A. 690-701)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

• Read all of the selections of William Byrd II (Vol A. 634-656)
• Sign up for Turnitin.com and add our class.  See handout for details.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

• Read the following selections from Benjamin Franklin:
• "Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790" (Vol A. 837-840)
• Selections from The Autobiography (861-05: stop at the letter).
• Bring your MLA Supplement that came with your textbooks or a writer's handbook with the 2009 MLA update to class.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

• Complete the pre-writing activity for Paper #1.  Bring a copy to class and post a copy to the discussion board under "Paper #1: Prewriting." (10 Points)
• Exam Quote Assignment #1 Due.  Email your 7 quotes as either an MS Word or Rich Text File attachment to me at hhalbert@gmail.com by 8AM.
• Bring your MLA Supplement that came with your textbooks or a writer's handbook with the 2009 MLA update to class.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

• Draft of Paper #1 Due.  Bring a copy to class and post a copy to the discussion board in the "Paper #1: Draft" forum.  (20 points)
• The draft will be assessed according to the following scale: 20 points for a full draft with works cited, 15 for 4 pages without a works cited, 10 for 3 pages, 5 for 2 pages, and 2 for 1 page.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

• Mid-term exam.  Bring exam card. See handout for details and questions.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

• NO CLASS.
• Final Draft of Paper #1 Due in Email by 8AM.  See checklist for details.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Paine section (Vol A 989-1008)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

• Read and mark "Thomas Jefferson" (Vol. A. 2112-2115)
• Read and mark selections from Notes on the State of Virginia (Vol. A. 2116-1042)
• Last day to withdraw without my signature

Thursday, October 27, 2011

• Read and mark Vol A, pages 1008-1016 on John and Abigail Adams
• Read and mark all the selections by Sarah Moore Grimke and by Angelina Grimke (VOL B. 2238-2248)
• Read and mark "Declaration of Sentiments" (Vol B. 2270-2272
• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2256-2266)
• We will discuss the Frederick Douglass in-class exam that will take place in one week.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

• Read and mark the introduction to Frederick Douglass and Chapters 1-9 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2035- 2070).
• Post a two-page response to the reading in the "Frederick Douglass Reaction" forum.  In your response, identify a specific moment, quote, or scene in the text that you found particularly compelling and describe (using quotes with parenthetical citations) how Douglass is attempting to persuade/manipulate the readers to feel a specific way about that scene. (10 points)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2035-2101)
• We will have our in-class essay exam on Frederick Douglass today.  Bring your exam card.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

• Read the following selections by Phillis Wheatley:
• "Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 (Vol A 1297-1299)
• "To MÏcenas" (Vol A 1299-1301)
• "To the Right Honoruable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c" (Vol A 1302-1303)
• "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (Vol A 1306)
• "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (Vol A 1308-1309)
• "To His Excellency General Washington" (Vol A 1311-1312)
• "Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters" (Vol A 1313-1314)
• We will also check the Douglass reading today.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections from Washington Irving:
• "Washington Irving" (Vol B. 2299-2301)
• from A History of New York, Chapter 5 (Vol B. 2301--2309)
• Read the following selections from A Sheaf on Humor of the Old Southwest:
• Sheaf introduction (Vol B.2276-2279, including the ad)
• All of the selections by Davy Crockett (Vol B. 2279-2282)
• All of the selections by Mike Fink (Vol B. 2283-2287)

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Vol B. 1704-1706)
• "Nature" (Vol B. 1708-1710)
• "Beauty" (Vol. B. 1711-1714)
• Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1746-1762)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

• Read and mark the following the following by Henry David Thoreau:
• "Henry David Thoreau" (Vol B. 1859-1862)
• "Resistance to Civil Government" (Vol B. 1862-1876)
• Bring your MLA Supplement that came with your textbooks or a writer's handbook with the 2009 MLA update to class.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections from Edgar Allen Poe:
• "Edgar Allen Poe" (Vol B. 2484-2486)
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Vol B. 2497-2510)
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Vol B. 2517-2520)
• "The Purloined Letter" (Vol B.  2527-2539)
• "The Raven" (Vol B. 2564-2567)
• "Annabel Lee" (Vol B. 2570-2571)
• Absences counts double

Thursday, November 24, 2011

• No class: Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

• Meet in Library Lobby. Sign in with Dr. Halbert.
• Pre-writing activity for research Paper #2 due.
• Bring your MLA Supplement that came with your textbooks or a writer's handbook with the 2009 MLA update to class.
• Attendance penalty is doubled for missing this class meeting.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

• NO CLASS.
• Post Annotated Bibliography by 5PM today.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

• Draft of Paper #2 due.  Bring a copy to class and post a copy in the "Paper #2: Draft" forum.
• The draft will be assessed according to the following scale: 20 points for a full draft with works cited, 15 for 4 pages without a works cited, 10 for 3 pages, 5 for 2 pages, and 2 for 1 page.

Thursday, December 8, 2011 (Last Class)

• Read and mark the following from Walt Whitman:
• "Walt Whitman 1819-1892" biography (Vol B. 2992-2995)
• "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" (Vol. B 3087-3088)
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Vol. B 3089-3096)
• "Prayer of Columbus" (Vol. B 3097-3099)
• "To a Locomotive in Winter" (Vol. B 3100)
• Complete quote assignment #2.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

• NO CLASS.
• EMAIL and POST RESEARCH PAPER BY NOON. See checklist for details.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

• Final Exam 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM
• Bring research paper packet to class.  See checklist for details.
• Any major paper rewrites of Paper #1 must be emailed by 10:15AM.