DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Note: The bulleted items immediately below a date are due on the above date.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

• First Class.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

• Read the instructions and complete the Contact Information handout (See Handouts page).
• Read the instructions and complete the Student Contract handout (See Handouts page).
• Read the instructions and complete the “Introduce Yourself” assignment (See Assignments page)..
• Read "How to Really Read This Book" (Download from the Course Materials 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 Materials):
• "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 Materials)
• 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)
• Last day to add without signature.

Thursday, January 27, 2022

• 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)

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

• Scholarly Article Analysis Project Due. Post a copy in the “Scholarly Article Analysis” dropbox as an MS Word file. If you use another word processor, export it as an MS Word file.
• Read and mark “Going Native, Going Home. Ethnographic Empathy and the Artifice of Return In Cabeza De Vaca’s Relación” (in Course Materials) for the Scholarly Article Analysis Project.

Thursday, February 3, 2022

• 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
• Read and mark "New England" (overview; Vol A. 359-364)

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

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

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

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

Thursday, February 10, 2022

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

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

• Read and mark the following selections from Cotton Mather:
• "Cotton Mather 1663-1728" (Vol A. 552--554)
• 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)
• 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.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

• 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 22, 2022

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

Thursday, February 24, 2022

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Paine section (Vol A 1045-1065)
• Exam Quotation Assignment #1 Due.  Submit your quotation assignment to the Blackboard Drop Box by the start of class.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

• 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.

Thursday, March 3, 2022

• 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)

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

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

Thursday, March 10, 2022

• Midterm Exam. You will need to prepare an exam card. You should review the Midterm Quotation Guide.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Thursday, March 17, 2022

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

• 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)

Thursday, March 24, 2022

• Read and mark Chapters 1-9 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2163- 2199).

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2199-2234)
• Last day to withdraw without a signature

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

• NO CLASS. We do not meet on Wednesdays
• Withdrawal with faculty signature begins

Thursday, March 31, 2022

• 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
• Read and mark the entire Sojourner Truth section (Vol. B2454-2462)
• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2462-2473)

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

• 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)

Thursday, April 7, 2022

• 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)
• Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1868-1887)

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

• 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)
• Withdrawal with faculty signature period ends.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

• 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 15, 2022

• NO CLASS. We do not meet on Fridays
• Any withdrawals starting today are Excused Withdrawals (WEX) and require approval form Academic Affairs.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

• Complete Research Paper Prewriting Assignment.
• Library Research Day. Log into the Virtual Classroom for a brief overview and supervised online research.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

• NO CLASS.
• Complete Quotation Assignment #2 by noon today.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

• 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.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

• Last Class. Please be on time.
• 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)

Thursday, May 5, 2022

• American Lit 1 Final Exam 8:00 AM – 10:00 A. Click here for the essay questions and the quotation identification study guide.
• (click here for all Final Exam Times, MC3 portal log-in required)

Monday, May 9, 2022

• Paper #2 Final Draft Due by noon.. Post to the Dropbox and the Discussion Board. See checklist for details.
• Last day to submit optional Major Paper Rewrtie of Paper #1. Due by Noon. Email rewritten paper as an MS Word attachment to Dr. Halbert with subject line “ENG 211 Major Paper Rewrite.”