DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

• First Class

Friday, January 24, 2020

• 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.
• "Cluster: Aesthetics and Criticism—Paradigms of Cultural Encounters" (136-146)
• 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.
• Last day to Add Courses without Faculty Signature

Monday, January 27, 2020

• 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)

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

• 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)

Friday, January 31, 2020

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

Monday, February 3, 2020

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

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

• 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 7, 2020

• 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 10, 2020

• 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)

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

• Read all of the selections of William Byrd II (Vol A. 662-687)
• First day to withdraw from course without faculty signature

Friday, February 14, 2020

• 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)

Monday, February 17, 2020

• Read all of Jefferson's letters in the anthology (Vol A 1101-1118)
• Read selectin from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (Vol A 1157-1162)

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

• NO CLASS (Dr. Halbert will be at an academic conference)
• Online Essay Due (20 points): Jefferson's views on slavery.  See Assignments for full requirements.  Essay due by noon today.

Friday, February 21, 2020

• NO CLASS (Dr. Halbert will be at an academic conference)
• Academic Article Activity Due (20 points).  Present marked essay and post written response in the "Academic Article Activity" forum and dropbox.  See Assignment description for specific details. Activity due by noon today.

Monday, February 24, 2020

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

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

• 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)

Friday, February 28, 2020

• 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)

Monday, March 2, 2020

• 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.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

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

Friday, March 6, 2020

• 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 9, 2020

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

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

• Read and mark "Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790" (Vol A. 910-912)
• 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

Friday, March 13, 2020

• Midterm Exam.

Monday, March 16, 2020

• NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

• NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

Friday, March 20, 2020

• NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

Monday, March 23, 2020

• Read and mark selection from The Autobiography (935-983: stop at the Part Two). WARNING: This piece is long.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

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

Friday, March 27, 2020

• 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

Sunday, March 29, 2020

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Sundays.
• Last day to withdraw without faculty signature

Monday, March 30, 2020

• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2462-2473)
• First day to withdraw with faculty signature

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

• 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).

Friday, April 3, 2020

• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2199-2234)

Monday, April 6, 2020

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

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

• 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)
• Mike Fink handout in Course Documents

Friday, April 10, 2020

• 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)

Monday, April 13, 2020

• Read and mark the following selections by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1868-1887)

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

• 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.
• Last day to withdraw with faculty signature

Thursday, April 16, 2020

• First day to withdraw with Vice President of Academic Affairs approval

Friday, April 17, 2020

• Library Research Orientation.  Meet in the Computer Lab in the Library. Make sure to sign in with the librarian as Dr. Halbert will be at an academic conference.

Monday, April 20, 2020

• Library Research Day. Work on sources for your final paper and your annotated bibliography.
• Dr. Halbert will be at an academic conference

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

• 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)

Friday, April 24, 2020

• Annotated Bibliography Due.  Post one copy to the dropbox and a second copy to the discussion board forum "Research Bank." Be sure to have a clear indication of what your topic and texts are in the subject line: "My research" will not be enough.
• Two-minute presentations due.

Monday, April 27, 2020

• 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, April 29, 2020

• Read and mark the following from Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864"
• "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Vol. B 2653—2676)

Friday, May 1, 2020

• Read and mark the following from Emily Dickinson:
• "Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886" (Vol. B. 3343-3347)
• "Success is counted sweetest" (Vol. B 3349)
• "I like a look of Agony" (Vol. B 3350)
• "Wild Nights---Wild Nights!" (Vol. B 33 51)
• "There's a certain Slant of light" (Vol. B 3351-52)
• "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (Vol. B 3352)
• "The Soul selects her own Society" (Vol. B 3353)
• "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church" (Vol. B 3354)
• "After a great pain, a formal feeling comes" (Vol. B 3356)
• "This is my letter to the World" (Vol. B 3358)
• "I showed her Hights she never saw" (Vol. B 3358)
• "I heard a Fly buzz---when I died" (Vol. B 3359)
• "The World is not Conclusion" (Vol. B 3360)
• "I cannot live with You" (Vol. B 3364-65)
• "I dwell in Possibility" (Vol. B 3366)
• "Publication---is the Auction" (Vol. B 3367)
• "Because I could not stop for Death" (Vol. B 3368)
• "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" (Vol. b 3371)

Monday, May 4, 2020

• LAST CLASS
• Complete quote assignment #2 and post to the dropbox.
• 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)
• Last day to reconcile missing assignments

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

• NO CLASS.
• Paper #2 Due. See checklist for details.

Monday, May 11, 2020

• FINAL EXAM: 8AM to 10AM in our normal classroom.
• Last day to submit major paper rewrite.  Email the paper to Dr. Halbert with a subject line: "ENG 101 Major Paper Rewrite from [Insert name]"

END OF SEMESTER INFORMATION:

• Log into the portal and visit the Spring 2020 Final Exam schedule for your other courses (or departmental exams in some cases).
• Final Grades are due May 14, 2020 by 11:59PM. If I complete them before the deadline, I will email the class. Please do not email me directly without checking to see if I have announced that Final Grades have been posted.
• Please check your Montco email every day after our last class until I announce that the Final Grades are posted: if there is an issue with your grades, I will email you to try and resolve it, and your prompt response would be helpful to both you and me.
• I strongly urge all students to attend the final class meeting of not just this course but all your courses. Beyond whatever positive energy your professor feels seeing you on the final class meeting, many professors provide valuable information that may affect your final grade in the course.