DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Thursday, January 17, 2019

• First Day of Class

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

• 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)

Thursday, January 24, 2019

• 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)

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

• Read and mark “The Literature of Slavery and Freedom” in the Norton (75-87)
• Read and mark the entire Phillis Wheatley section (Norton 137-150)

Thursday, January 31, 2019

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

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

• Last day to drop the course
• Read and mark the entire Sojourner Truth section (Norton 176-180)
• Read and mark the entire Solomon Northup section (Norton (186-198)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Wednesdays
• Withdraw period without signature starts

Thursday, February 7, 2019

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

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

• 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)

Thursday, February 14, 2019

• 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.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Norton 362-393)
• 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.
• We will continue to watch 12 Years a Slave in class.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

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

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

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

Thursday, February 28, 2019

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

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

• 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.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

• 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)

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

• Finish reading and marking pages The Souls of Black Folk (Chapter V through the end of The After-Thought)

Thursday, March 14, 2019

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

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Thursday, March 21, 2019

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

• 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 27, 2019

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Wednesdays
• Last day to withdraw without professor’s signature.  Please email professor if you plan to withdraw.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

• Read and mark the entire Marcus Garvey section in the Norton (984-992)
• Withdrawals from the course now require professor’s signature

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

• Read and mark the following in the Norton:
• Zora Neale Hurston (Biography) (1029-1032)
• Hurston’s “Sweat” (1032-1040)

Thursday, April 4, 2019

• NO CLASS: I will be at an academic conference
• Read and mark the entire Langston Hughes section (1302-1339)
• This reading counts double.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

• NO CLASS: I will be at an academic conference
• Read and mark the bio and selections from Gwendolyn Brooks (Vol. 2 324-390)
• This reading counts double.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

• Read and mark the following selections from James Baldwin
• Bio (Vol. 2 390-394)
• “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (Vol. 2 394-400)
• “Sonny’s Blues” (Vol. 2 413-435)
• “Princes and Powers” (Vol 2 435-453)

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

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

• Read and mark the bio and selections from Malcolm X (Vol. 2 565-588)
• Read and mark the bio For Martin Luther King, Jr. and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Vol. 2 592-607)

Thursday, April 18, 2019

• Read Octavia Butler’s bio and “Bloodchild” (Vol 2 1251-1266)

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

• 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.

Thursday, April 25, 2019

• Read and mark Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” (Course Documents)

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

• Last 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 3, 2019

• NO CLASS
• 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.

Monday, May 6, 2019

• NO CLASS
• 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.”

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

• FINAL EXAM 8AM to 10AM in our normal classroom
• Bring exam card