DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

REVISED 4/30/2017

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

• First day of class.

Friday, January 20, 2017

• 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 Sarah Kemble Knight section (vol. A. 251-261)
• The entire Abigail Adams section (vol. A. 315-321)

Monday, January 23, 2017

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

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

• 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)

Friday, January 27, 2017

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

Monday, January 30, 2017

• 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)

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

• 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

Friday, February 3, 3017 (revised 2/1/2017)

• NO PHYSICAL CLASS MEETING: Dr. Halbert has Jury Duty.
• Read and mark Barbara Welter's "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860" (see course documents section for handout)
• Complete the online activity described in the handouts section.

Monday, February 6, 2017

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

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Tuesdays.
• Last day to drop before withdrawal period begins.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Emily Dickinson section (vol. A 1037-1076)
• Withdrawal period starts.  You can withdraw without your professor's class up until 3/23/2017.

Friday, February 10, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Emma Lazarus section (vol. A 1237-1242)

Monday, February 13, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Sarah Orne Jewett section (vol. A 1242- 1251)

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Charlotte Perkins Gilman section (vol. A 1388-1404)

Friday, February 17, 2017

• 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.
• Be prepared to narrow the topic of your paper down to a specific text or set of texts with a topic and a vague thesis.  We will each present our idea to the class verbally.

Monday, February 20, 2017

• 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)

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

• 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)

Friday, February 24, 2017

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

Monday, February 27, 2017

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

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

• 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).

Friday, March 3, 2017

• Start reading and marking Kate Chopin's section (starts on vol. A 1251). You should get to the end of Chapter XX. 

Monday, March 6, 2017

• Finish reading and marking the entire Kate Chopin section (vol. A 1251-1344). 

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

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

Friday, March 10, 2017

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

Monday, March 13, 2017

• NO CLASS.  Spring Break.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

• NO CLASS.  Spring Break.

Friday, March 17, 2017

• NO CLASS.  Spring Break.

Monday, March 20, 2017

• Read and mark the introduction to Gertrude Stein and "The Gentle Lena" (vol. B 141-163)

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

• Read and mark the entire H.D. section (vol. B 280-300)
• Read the entire Katherine Anne Porter section (vol. B 339-347)

Thursday, March 23, 2017

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Thursdays.
• Last day to withdraw without professor's signature.

Friday, March 24, 2017

• Read the entire Zora Neale Hurston section (vol. B 347-360)
• Withdrawals now require professor's signature.  You have until 4/7/2017 to make such a request.

Monday, March 27, 2017

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

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

• Read the entire Djuna Barnes section (vol. B 458-468)

Friday, March 31, 2017

• Read the entire Gwendolyn Brooks section (vol. B 780-790)

Monday, April 3, 2017

• Read the entire Hisaye Yamanoto section (vol. B 834-844)

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

• Read the entire Flannery O'Connor section (vol. B 892-907 )

Friday, April 7, 2017

• Read the entire Ursula K. Le Guin section (vol. B 940-955)
• Last day to request a signature for a withdrawal from your professor.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

• From this point on, all withdrawal requests must go through Academic Affairs for approval.  Your professor cannot sign a withdrawal.

Monday, April 10, 2017

• Read the entire Sylvia Path section (vol. B 1044-1065)

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

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

Friday, April 14, 2017

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

Monday, April 17, 2017

• Read the entire Alice Walker section (vol. B 1295-1303)

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Sandra Cisneros section (vol. B 1399-1408)

Friday, April 21, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Louise Erdrich section (vol. B 1408-1414)

Monday, April 24, 2017

• Draft of Paper #2 due.  Bring a copy to class and post a copy in the "Paper #2: Draft" forum of the class discussion board. (20 points for complete paper with MLA works cited page)

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Rebecca Brown section (vol. B 1432-1436)
• Read and mark the entire Gloria Anzaldúa section (vol. B 1254-1262)

Friday, April 28, 2017

• NO CLASS.  Dr. Halbert will be at a conference.
• 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. Due by 5PM today.

Monday, May 1, 2017

• Read and mark the entire Jhumpa Lahiri section (vol. B 1498-1510)
• Last Class.

Friday, May 5, 2017 (Revised 4/30/2017)

• NO CLASS: Individual Class meetings are finished.
• Final Draft Paper #2 Due by noon.  See handout for specifics.  Remember to post to the dropbox and the discussion board. 

Monday, May 8, 2018

• Final Exam 10:10 AM to 12:10 PM in our normal classroom
• Last day to submit major paper rewrites