DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

(revised again on April 30, 2018)

Note: "The Norton" refers to The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 3rd Edition, Vol. 1.

Wednesday, January 18, 2018

• First Day of Class
• Canceled due to snow, unfortunately.

Friday, January 20, 2018

• New start date for class because of snow.

Monday, January 22, 2018

• Download the template for student contact information from the Handouts section of the class website, complete it, change the file name, and email it to Dr. Halbert at hhalbert@mc3.edu.  The subject line of the email should follow this convention: Your first and last name's Contact information.
• Sign, date, and return the Course Contract (available in the Handouts section).
• Read and mark the following from the Norton:
• "Introduction: Talking Books" (xxv-xivii)
• "The Vernacular Tradition, Part 1" (Only read 3-6, stop at "Defining the Vernacular")
• "City Called Heaven" (12-13)
• "Go Down, Moses" (14-15)
• "Been in the Storm So Long" (15-16)
• "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (16)
• "Steal Away to Jesus" (16-17)
• "Promises of Freedom" (22)
• "Run, Nigger, Run" (24)
• "John Henry" (25-28)

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

• Read and mark the following from the Norton:
• "The Signifying Monkey" (30-33)
• "Folktales" (54-56)
• "All God's Children Had Wings" (57-58)
• "How to Write a Letter" (60)
• "De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard" (64)
• "Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again" (67-68)
• "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" (68-69)
• "How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox" (69-70)
• "What the Rabbit Learned" (72-73)

Friday, January 26, 2018

• Read and mark "The Literature of Slavery and Freedom" in the Norton (75-87)

Monday, January 29, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Phillis Wheatley section (Norton 137-150)
• Read and mark the entire Jupiter Hammon Section (Norton 88-92)

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Olaudah Equiano section (Norton 112-137).

Friday, February 2, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Sojourner Truth section (Norton 176-180)
• Read and mark the entire Solomon Northup section (Norton (186-198)

Monday, February 5, 2018

• Read and mark in the Norton pages 221-246 of the Harriet Jacobs section.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

• No Class: we do not meet on Tuesdays.
• Last day to drop the course before withdrawal period begins.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

• Finish reading and marking the Harriet Jacobs section (Norton 246-261)
• Read and mark the biography and the following selections from Frances E. W. Harper in the Norton:
• "Eliza Harris" (449)
• "The Slave Mother" (450)
• "Aunt Chloe's Politics" (454)
• "Learning to Read" (455)
• "A Double Standard" (456)
• "An Appeal to my Country Women" (458)
• "Woman's Political Future" (470)
• After today, you will need to withdraw from the course should you wish to stop taking the course.

Friday, February 9, 2018

• Read and mark the biographical sketch of Frederick Douglass (Norton 326-330)
• Read and mark the selection from Douglass' What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (Norton 402-413)

Monday, February 12, 2018

• Read and mark Chapters I-IX of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Norton 330-362)
• We will begin to watch 12 Years a Slave in class.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

• Read and mark Chapters X-XI of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Norton 362-388)
• We will continue to watch 12 Years a Slave in class.

Friday, February 16, 2018

• Read and mark the Appendix to Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Norton 389-393)
• Quotation Assignment #1 due.  Please download and type directly into the template for the quotation assignment (see the Assignments section of the class web page). Submit completed assignment to the "Quotation Assignment #1" section of the Dropboxes section of the class web page in Blackboard.

Monday, February 19, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Booker T. Washington section (Norton 548-580)

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

• Read and mark the biography of Charles W. Chestnutt and his "The Goophered Grapevine" (Norton 580-591)

Friday, February 23, 2018

• Midterm Exam.  See Assignments sections for essay questions, quotation list, and instructions for making an exam card.

Monday, February 26, 2018

• Draft of Paper #1 Due.  Post a copy to the discussion board in the "Paper #1 Draft" forum as both a copy and paste AND an attachment.  Print a copy and bring it to class. 
• The draft will be graded out of 20 points: 20 points means a complete paper that meets the required length and has a works cited page.  Papers with less than that will be prorated.  It is better to come with some of a draft than skipping.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

• Read and mark the following from the W.E.B. Du Bois section in the Norton:
• Biography (679-683)
• Pages 687 to 709 from The Souls of Black Folk (The Forethought through the end of chapter IV)

Friday, March 2, 2018

• Read and mark pages 709 to 742 in the Norton from The Souls of Black Folk (Chapter V through the end of chapter XII)

Monday, March 5, 2018

• Finish reading and marking pages 742-760 in the Norton from The Souls of Black Folk (Chapter XIII through the end of The After-Thought)

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

• Read and mark in the Norton the entire Paul Laurence Dunbar section (894-916)

Friday, March 9, 2018

• No class: Paper #1 Due.  Post to both the discussion board and the dropbox.  See the paper checklist in the handouts section for details.

Monday, March 12, 2018

• No Class: Spring Break

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

• No Class: Spring Break

Friday, March 16, 2018

• No Class: Spring Break

Monday, March 19, 2018

• Read and mark "Harlem Renaissance 1919-1940" in the Norton (929-944)
• Read and mark the entire Arthur A. Schomburg section in the Norton (944-949
• Read and mark the entire Hubert Harrison section in the Norton (956-962)

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Marcus Garvey section in the Norton (984-992)
• Read and mark the following in the Norton:
• Zora Neale Hurston (Biography) (1029-1032)
• Hurston's "Sweat" (1032-1040)

Friday, March 23, 2018

• Finish reading and marking the rest of the Zora Neale Hurston section in the Norton (1040-1079)

Monday, March 26, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Langston Hughes section (1302-1339)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

• No Class: we do not meet on Tuesdays.
• Last day to withdraw from the course without Dr. Halbert's signature.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

• Read and mark the entire George Samuel Schuyler section in the Norton (1218-1237)
• From now until April 12, any withdrawal from the course requires Dr. Halbert's signature on the e-form.

Friday, March 30, 2018

• Read and mark the entire Paul Robeson section in the Norton (1260-1265)
• Read and mark the entire Marita Bonner section in the Norton (1265-1269)
• Read and mark "Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism: 1940-1960" (Course Documents)

Monday, April 2, 2018

• Read and mark the selections from Richard Wright (Course Documents)

Wednesday April 4, 2018

• Read and mark the selections from Ralph Ellison (Course Documents)

Friday, April 6, 2018

• Read and mark the selections from Gwendolyn Brooks (Course Documents)

Monday, April 9, 2018

• Read and mark the selections from James Baldwin (Course Documents)

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

• Read and mark pages 470-498 of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (Bio + Act I—see course handouts)

Thursday, April 12, 2018

• No Class: we do not meet on Thursdays
• Last day to withdraw with Dr. Halbert's signature.  After today, any withdrawals must be approved by the Vice President of Academic Affairs.

Friday, April 13, 2018

• Finish reading and marking A Raisin in the Sun (Course handouts)
• Any withdrawals from this day to the end of the semester requires the approval of Academic Affairs.

Monday, April 16, 2018

• Read and mark the selections from Malcolm X (Course Documents)
• Read and mark "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Course Documents)

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

• Library research day.  Meet in the library and sign in with Dr. Halbert.  Those of you with laptops may wish to bring them.

Friday, April 20, 2018

• Annotated Bibliography and 2 Minute Presentations due.  See Assignments section of the class web page for details.

Monday, April 23, 2018

• Paper #2 Draft due. Post a copy to the discussion board in the "Paper #2 Draft" forum as both a copy and paste AND an attachment.  Print a copy and bring it to class. 
• The draft will be graded out of 20 points: 20 points means a complete paper that meets the required length and has a works cited page.  Papers with less than that will be prorated.  It is better to come with some of a draft than skipping.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

• Read Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" (Course Documents)

Friday, April 27, 2018

• Read and mark Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" (Course Documents)

Monday, April 30, 2018

• Last day of class.
• Read and mark Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" (Course Documents)
• Quotation Assignment #2 is due.  Please download and type directly into the template for the quotation assignment (see the Assignments section of the class web page). Submit completed assignment to the "Quotation Assignment #2" portion of the Dropboxes section of the class web page in Blackboard.

Friday, May 4, 2018

• Final Exam, 8AM to 10AM in our normal classroom

Monday, May 7, 2018 (revised April 30, 2018)

• No class: we don't meet after 4/30 except for the final exam.
• Final draft of Paper #2 due. Post to both the discussion board and the dropbox.  See the paper checklist in the handouts section for details.
• Last day to submit a major paper rewrite by noon.  Email rewrite directly to Dr. Halbert with "ENG 246 Rewrite" in the subject line.  Make sure the file name references "rewrite."

Thursday, May 10, 2018

• No class: we don't meet after the final exam.
• Faculty must complete final grades by 11:59 PM today.