DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Thursday, September 3, 2020

• First Day of Class

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

• Read the instructions and complete the Contact Information handout .
• Read the instructions and complete the Student Contract handout.
• Read the instructions and complete the "Introduce Yourself" assignment.
• Read "How to Really Read This Book" (Download from the Course Materials 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 Materials):
• "Creation of the Whites" (Yuchi myth; Heath Vol. A, 77)
• "The Arrival of the Whites" (Lenape-Delaware oral tradition; Heath Vol. A, 78-84)
• "In Focus: America in the World/The World in America" (background essay; Heath 107-109) (please note this section is called "Cluster: America in the European Imagination" if printed from Course Materials)
• from Utopia (Thomas More; Heath 110)
• from Of Cannibals (Michel de Montaigne; Heath 110-111)
• America (Painting, Heath 111)
• from New Atlantis (Francis Bacon; Heath 113)
• "Requerimiento" (Palacios Rubios; boxed text Heath 117-118)
• "Christopher Columbus" (background essay; Heath 122-123)
• Excerpt from The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493; Handout.
• "Cluster: Aesthetics and Criticism—Paradigms of Cultural Encounters" (136-146)
• Last day to Add the course

Thursday, September 10, 2020

• Read and mark the following Selections from the Heath Vol. A:
• from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca (147-161)
• "History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531" (231-240)
• "The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt" (259-263)

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

• Read and mark the following Selections from the Heath Vol. A:
• All of the selections by John Smith (Vol A. 315-329)
• From Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) (Vol A. 330-334)
• Read and mark "New England" (overview; Vol A. 359-364)

Thursday, September 17, 2020

• Read and mark the entire William Bradford section (Vol A. 397--421). 

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Morton section (Vol. A 364-378)
• Read and mark the following selections from Anne Bradstreet:
• "Anne Bradstreet 1612?-1672" (Vol A. 437-438)
• "The Prologue [To Her Book]" (Vol A. 439-441)
• "The Author to Her Book" (Vol A. 445)
• "The Flesh and the Spirit" (Vol A. 446-448)
• "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (Vol A. 448-449)
• "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Vol A 449)
• "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment" (Vol A. 449-450)
• "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" (Vol A. 450-451)
• "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old" (Vol A. 451)
• "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" (Vol A.451-452)
• "To My Dear Children" (Vol A.452-455)
• We will discuss the in-class Last day to Drop the course

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

• NO CLASS. We don't meet on Wednesdays
• Withdrawal period without faculty signature starts

Thursday, September 24, 2020

• Read and mark the following selections from Cotton Mather:
• "Cotton Mather 1663-1728" (Vol A. 552--554)
• from The Wonders of the Invisible World (Vol A. 555-560)
• from The Negro Christianized (Vol A. 573-578)
• from Bonifacius . . . With Humble Proposals . . . to Do Good in the World (Vol A. 579-580)
• 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.
• You will need to copy and paste your exam card into the actual test, so make sure it is in an MS Word file format prior to the start of the exam.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

• Read and mark the following from Jonathan Edwards:
• "Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758" (Vol. A 700-702)
• from Images of Divine Things (Vol A. 702-704)
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Vol A. 723-735)

Thursday, October 1, 2020

• READING CHECK DAY.
• You will attend class as we normally do, but you will need to hold your readings up to the camera to show that you have marked them. Once I have checked your readings, you can leave the class for the day.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

• Read and mark all of the selections of William Byrd II (Vol A. 662-687)

Thursday, October 8, 2020

• Paper #1 Prewriting Due. Post a copy in the "Paper #1: Prewriting" forum on the discussion board.
• Two-Minute Presentations on Paper Topic
• Exam Quote Assignment #1 Due.  Submit your quotation assignment to the Blackboard Drop Box by the start of class.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

• Draft of Paper #1 Due.  Post a copy to the discussion board in the "Paper #1: Draft" forum.  (5 points for posting.
• We will have a workshop during class time to revise the paper worth 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.
• We will go over the midterm exam essay options.

Thursday, October 15, 2020

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Paine section (Vol A 1045-1065)

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• NO CLASS.
•  Final Draft Paper #1 Due.  See checklist for details.

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• Midterm Exam.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

• Read and mark in Volume A the following essays by Benjamin Franklin:
• "The Way to Wealth" (913-919)
• "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly" (919-920)
• "The Speech of Polly Baker" (920-922)
• "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (927-931)
• "On the Slave Trade" (931-933)
• "Speech in the Convention" (933-935)

Thursday, October 29, 2020

• Read the following selections by Phillis Wheatley:
• "Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 (Vol A 1349-1350)
• "To MÏcenas" (Vol A 1350-1351)
• "To the Right Honoruable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c" (Vol A 1352-1353)
• "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (Vol A 1357)
• "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (Vol A 1359)
• "To His Excellency General Washington" (Vol A 1361-1362)
• "Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters" (Vol A 1363-1364)

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

• NO CLASS BUT HOMEWORK IS DUE
• Read and mark Chapters 1-9 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2163- 2199).
• No Class. Instead, 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.  This post must be completed by noon. (10 points)
• Dr. Halbert will be running a polling station for the national election this day.
• Please consider voting.

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

• NO CLASS. We don't meet on Wednesdays
• Withdrawal period without faculty signature ends

Thursday, November 5, 2020

• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2199-2234)
• Withdrawal period with faculty signature starts

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

• Read and mark Vol A, pages 1065-1073 on John and Abigail Adams
• Read and mark all the selections by Sarah Moore Grimke and by Angelina Grimke (VOL B. 2444-2454)
• Read and mark "Declaration of Sentiments" (Vol B. 2477-2479
• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2462-2473)

Thursday, November 12, 2020

• Read and mark the following selections from Washington Irving:
• "Washington Irving" (Vol B. 2505-2506)
• from A History of New York, Chapter 5 (Handout in Course Materials)
• Read the following selections from In Focus: Humor of the Old Southwest:
• introduction (Vol B.2484-2487, including the ad)
• All of the selections by Davy Crockett (Vol B. 2488-2491)
• All of the selections by Mike Fink (Vol B. 2491-2492)

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

• Read and mark the following selections by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Vol B. 1822-1825)
• "Chapter I: Nature" (Vol B. 1826-1828)
• "Chapter III: Beauty" (Vol. B. 1829-1833)
• Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1868-1887)

Thursday, November 19, 2020

• READING CHECK DAY.
• You will attend class as we normally do, but you will need to hold your readings up to the camera to show that you have marked them. Once I have checked your readings, you can leave the class for the day.
• Withdrawal period with faculty signature ends

Friday, November 20, 2020

• NO CLASS. We don't meet on Wednesdays
• All withdrawals from this day on in the semester require approval from Academic Affairs.

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

• Read and mark the following the following by Henry David Thoreau:
• "Henry David Thoreau" (Vol B. 1978-1979)
• "Resistance to Civil Government" (Vol B. 1979-1995)

Thursday, November 26, 2020

• NO CLASS: Thanksgiving Break.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

• Read and mark the following selections from Edgar Allen Poe:
• "Edgar Allen Poe" (Vol B. 2691-2693)
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Vol B. 2706-2720)
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Vol B. 2727-2731)
• "The Purloined Letter" (Vol B.  2731-2745)
• "The Raven" (Vol B. 2764-2767)
• "Annabel Lee" (Vol B. 2767-2768)

Thursday, December 3, 2020

• Post Annotated Bibliography in the Research Bank Forum by 5PM today.

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

• Draft of Paper #2 due.  Post a copy in the "Paper #2: Draft" forum. .  (5 points for posting.
• We will have a workshop during class time to revise the paper worth 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, December 10, 2020

• Last day of class.
• Complete quote assignment #2
• Read and mark the following from Walt Whitman:
• "Walt Whitman 1819-1892" biography (Vol B. 3218-3222)
• "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" (Vol. B 3311)
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Vol. B 3312-3319)
• "Prayer of Columbus" (handout in Course Materials)
• "To a Locomotive in Winter" (Vol. B 3321)

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

• NO CLASS. Reading Day for entire College.
• Final Draft of Paper #2 Due by noon. See checklist for details.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

• Final Exam: 8AM to 10AM online.

Monday, December 21, 2020

• NO CLASS.
• Last day to submit Major Paper Rewrite of Paper #1 if you choose to take this voluntary opportunity to improve your grade.
• Post a copy to the "Major Paper Rewrite" Dropbox and email a copy directly to me. Make sure you put "Sci-Fi Major Paper Rewrite" in the subject line.
• See the Assignments section for details on expectations for the Major Paper Rewrite.

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

• NO CLASS.
• Grades due from Professors by 11:59 PM.