DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Thursday, January 21, 2016

• First Day of Class

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

• Email contact information to me at hhalbert@gmail.com.  See handout on Blackboard for exact information sought and link to template.  PLEASE USE THE TEMPLATE FILE.
• Read, sign, and return your contract.
• Read "How to Really Read This Book" (Handout)
• Read and mark the following selections from The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (hereafter called "Norton")
• The entire Anne Bradstreet section (vol. A, 144-160)
• The entire Mary Rowlandson section (vol. A. 174-178)
• The entire Sarah Kemble Knight section (vol. A. 251-261)
• The entire Abigail Adams section (vol. A. 315-321)
• The entire Judith Sargent Murray section (vol. A. 336-345)

Thursday, January 28, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Mary Wollstonecraft section.  Our token British author. (vol. A 370-391)

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Phillis Wheatley section (vol. A 358-364)
• Read and mark the entire Sarah Wentworth Morton section (vol. A 391-396)
• Read and mark the entire Sojourner Truth section (vol. A 509-513)
• Read and mark the entire Harriet Jacobs section (vol. A 618-630)

Thursday, February 4, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Harriet Beecher Stowe section (vol A. 600-618)

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Margaret Fuller section (vol. A 558-572)
• Read and mark all the selections by Sarah Moore Grimke and by Angelina Grimke (see Course Documents for handout)
• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern section (vol. A 587-600)
• Read and mark the entire Elizabeth Cady Stanton section (vol. A 630-633
• Last day to drop class without applying for a withdrawal.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

• Read and mark Barbara Welter's "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860" (see course documents section for handout)

 Tuesday, February 16, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Rebecca Harding Davis section (vol. A 1104-1131)
• Read and mark the entire Louisa May Alcott section (vol. A 1131-1151)

Thursday, February 18, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Emily Dickinson section (vol. A 1037-1076)

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Emma Lazarus section (vol. A 1237-1242)
• Read and mark the entire Sarah Orne Jewett section (vol. A 1242- 1251)
• Read and mark the entire Charlotte Perkins Gilman section (vol. A 1388-1404)

Thursday, February 25, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Mary E. Wilkins Freeman section (vol. A 1344-1357)
• Read and mark the entire E. Pauline Johnson section (vol. A 1414-1429)

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

• Draft of Paper #1 due.  Bring a copy to class and post a copy in the "Paper #1: Draft" forum of the class discussion board. (20 points for complete paper with MLA works cited page)

Thursday, March 3, 2016

• Quotation Assignment #1 due. See Assignment section for details.  Make sure to download and use the template for the quotation assignment: do not simply copy and paste. Submit to the dropbox. Do not include selections from the introductions to texts.
• Read and mark the entire Anna Julia Cooper section (vol. A 1361-1377)

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

• Final Draft Paper #1 Due by 2PM.  See handout for specifics.  Remember to post to the dropbox, the discussion board, and to Turnitin.com. 
• NO CLASS.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

• Midterm Exam.  See Assignments section for essay topics, quotation guide, and rules for the exam card.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

• NO CLASS: Spring Break
• Start reading the Kate Chopin section.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

• NO CLASS: Spring Break
• Keep reading the Kate Chopin section.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

• Read and mark the entire Kate Chopin section (vol. A 1251-1344).  WARNING: this selection is a short novel, so break it up over Spring Break.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

• Read and mark Chapter 2 from Gilbert and Gubar's The Mad Woman in the Attic (a handout in the Course Documents section of the Blackboard site).

Monday, March 28, 2016

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Mondays.
• Last day to withdraw without my permission.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

• Read the entire Edith Wharton section (vol. B 29-56)

Thursday, March 31, 2016

• Read the entire Willa Cather section (vol. B 91-120)

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

• Read and mark the introduction to Gertrude Stein and "The Gentle Lena" (vol. B 141-163)
• Read and mark the entire H.D. section (vol. B 280-300)
• Students wishing to withdraw will need my permission to do so up until April 13th.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

• Read the entire Katherine Anne Porter section (vol. B 339-347)
• Read the entire Zora Neale Hurston section (vol. B 347-360)

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

• Read the entire Edna St. Vincent Millay section (vol. B 444-458)
• Read the entire Djuna Barnes section (vol. B 458-468)
• Read the entire section (vol. B)
• Read the entire Dorothy Parker section (vol. B 487-494)

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

• NO CLASS: we don't meet on Wednesdays.
• Last day to withdraw from class with professor's permission. After today, you will need to appeal to the Office of Academic Affairs.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

• Read the entire Gwendolyn Brooks section (vol. B 780-790)
• Read the entire Hisaye Yamanoto section (vol. B 834-844)

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

• Read the entire Flannery O'Connor section (vol. B 892-907 )
• Read the entire Ursula K. Le Guin section (vol. B 940-955)
• Read the entire Sylvia Path section (vol. B 1044-1065)

Thursday, April 21, 2016

• Read the entire Toni Morrison section (vol. B 994-1026)

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

• Draft of Paper #2 Due.  Post a copy and bring two copies to class. (20 points for complete paper with MLA works cited page)

Thursday, April 28, 2016

• Read the entire Maxine Hong Kingston section (vol. B 1228-1238)
• Read the entire Alice Walker section (vol. B 1295-1303)

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

• Last class.
• Second Quotation Assignment due.  Use texts from any reading listed on the syllabus after the first Quotation Assignment.  Make sure to download and use the template for the quotation assignment: do not simply copy and paste. Submit to the dropbox.
• Read and mark the entire Sandra Cisneros section (vol. B 1399-1408)
• Read and mark the entire Louise Erdrich section (vol. B 1408-1414)
• Read and mark the entire Jhumpa Lahiri section (vol. B 1498-1510)

Friday, May 6, 2016

• NO CLASS: class meetings are over.
• Final Draft of Paper #2 is due by 2PM.  See handout for specifics.  Remember to post to the dropbox, the discussion board, and to Turnitin.com. 

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

• FINAL EXAM: 12:20 to 2:20 PM in our normal classroom. 
• Bring exam card.
• Last chance to verify any missed readings.