DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Document updated on 2/18/2019

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

• First day of class.

Friday, January 18, 2019

• Email contact information to me at hhalbert@gmail.com.  See handout for exact information sought and pay careful attention to the subject heading. 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, 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 documents)
• 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.
• 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.

Monday, January 21, 2019

• NO CLASS: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day National Holiday

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

• Read and mark the following document: "Cluster: Aesthetics and Criticism—Paradigms of Cultural Encounters" (Vol. A 136-146)

Friday, January 25, 2019

• 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)

Monday, January 28, 2019

• 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)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

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

Friday, February 1, 2019

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Morton section (Vol. A 364-378)

Monday, February 4, 2019 (Updated on 1/27/2019)

• Read and mark "'By her unveil’d each horrid crime appears': Authorship, Text, and Subtext in Phillis Wheatley’s Variants Poems" (course materials).
• Complete Scholarly Article Analysis Project and post to dropbox in "Scholarly Article" section.

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Tuesdays
• Last day to drop the course

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

• Withdraw period without signature starts
• 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)

Friday, February 8, 2019

• Read and mark the following selections from Cotton Mather:
• "Cotton Mather 1663-1728" (Vol A. 452--454)
• 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)

Monday, February 11, 2019

• 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.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

• 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)

Friday, February 15, 2019

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

Monday, February 18, 2019

• Read and mark the following from Thomas Jefferson:
• “Thomas Jefferson: 1743-1826” (Vol A 1080-1083)
• From Notes on the State of Virginia (Vol A 1083-1101)

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

• Read all of Jefferson’s letters in the anthology (Vol A 1101-1118)

Friday, February 22, 2019

• Read selectin from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (Vol A 1157-1162)

Monday, February 25, 2019 [Revised 2/18/2019]

• Scholarly Article Activity Due.  Present marked essay and post written response in the “Academic Article Activity #2” forum and dropbox.  See assignment description for specific details. Read "An American Cabinet of Curiosities: Thomas Jefferson's 'Indian Hall at Monticello'"(Available in Course Materials).

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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

Friday, March 1, 2019

• 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)
• Letter to Samson Occom (Vol A 1156-1157)

Monday, March 4, 2019

• 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.
• We will go over the midterm exam essay options.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

• Read and mark the following:
• “Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions” (Vol A 1118-1121)
• The Federalist No. 6 (Vol A 1121-1126)
• The Federalist No. 10 (Vol A 1126-1131)

Friday, March 8, 2019

• Exam Quote Assignment #1 Due.  Submit your quotation assignment to the Blackboard Drop Box by the start of class.
• We will go over the midterm exam today.

Monday, March 11, 2019

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

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

• Read and mark the entire Toussanint L’Ouverture section (Vol A 1135-1142)

Friday, March 15, 2019

• Midterm Exam.

Monday, March 18, 2019

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Friday, March 22, 2019

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Monday, March 25, 2019

• Read and mark "Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790" (Vol A. 910-912)
• Read and mark selection from The Autobiography (935-983: stop at the Part Two). WARNING: This piece is long.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

• Last day to withdraw without professor’s signature.  Please email professor if you plan to withdraw.
• 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, March 28, 2019

• NO CLASS: we do not meet on Thursdays
• Withdrawals from the course now require professor’s signature

Friday, March 29, 2019

• Read the entire J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur section (Vol. A, 1006-1045)

Monday, April 1, 2019

• 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

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2462-2473)

Friday, April 5, 2019

• NO CLASS: I will be at an academic conference
• 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. 2163- 2199).
• 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)
• Schedule your in-class essay at the Testing Center for either Monday or Wednesday of next week.  See https://mymccc.mc3.edu/allcampusresources/studentaffairs/tc/Pages/students.aspx for details on how to register.

Monday, April 8, 2019

• NO CLASS: I will be at an academic conference
• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2199-2234)
• You must take your in-class essay today, tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday prior to my return.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

• NO CLASS: I will be at an academic conference
• Have you taken your in-class essay at the Testing Center yet? It needs to be done by Thursday night.

Friday, April 12, 2019

• Read and mark “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”—Douglass (Vol B 2235-2251)

Saturday, April 13, 2019

• NO CLASS: we do not meet on Saturdays
• Last day to withdraw with professor’s signature

Sunday, April 14, 2019

• NO CLASS: we do not meet on Sundays
• All withdraws from this date on require approval from the Office of Academic Affairs

Monday, April 15, 2019

• 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 Documents)
• 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)

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

• 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)

Friday, April 19, 2019

• Read and mark the following selections by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1868-1887)
• Have you started your research for your annotated bibliography?

Monday, April 22, 2019

• 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)

• If you own a writer’s manual with MLA information in it, you may want to bring it to class.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

• NO CLASS.
• Post Annotated Bibliography in the Research Bank Forum by 5PM today.
• I will be in my office from 9 AM to 10 AM to discuss potential papers.

Friday, April 26, 2019

• 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)

Monday, April 20, 2019

• 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.

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

• Last 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 Documents)
• "To a Locomotive in Winter" (Vol. B 3321)

Friday, May 3, 2019

• No Class
• Final Draft of Paper #2 by noon.  See checklist for details. 

Monday, May 6, 2019

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