DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Note: The bulleted items under a specific date are what is due on that date. Items are due at the start of class unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

• First Day of Class

Friday, January 20, 2023

• 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)

Monday, January 23, 2023

• Read and mark the following documents in this order (if you don't have the text yet, you can download these from Course Materials):
• "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)

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

• No Class: we do not meet on Tuesdays.
• Last day to add without faculty signature.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

• 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)

Friday, January 27, 2023

• 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)

Monday, January 30, 2023

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

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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

Friday, February 3, 2023

• 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)

Monday, February 6, 2023

• 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)

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

• No Class: we do not meet on Tuesdays.
• Last day to drop a course (15-week Classes)

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

• In-Class Essay on Cotton Mather’s The Negro Christianized. See Assignments section for details. The essay is worth up to 20 points.
• Make sure you prepare an Exam Card. The exam card is worth up to five points.
• Withdrawal without signature period starts.

Friday, February 10, 2023

• 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)

Monday, February 13, 2023

• Scholarly Article Analysis Project Due (20 points).  First, read and mark "’Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’: Some Unfinished Business” by Edward J. Gallagher. Present marked essay and post written response in the “Academic Article Activity” dropbox.  See Assignment description for specific details.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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

Friday, February 17, 2023

• 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)
• Exam Quotation Assignmen #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, February 20, 2023

• 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.
• If you had an accommodations letter sent to me, please send me an email to remind me that you will need extra time on the midterm exam so I can make arrangements.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

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

Friday, February 24, 2023

• Midterm Exam. Make sure to prepare an Exam Card.

Monday, February 27, 2023

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

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

• 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, March 3, 2023

• 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 6, 2023

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

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

• 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 10, 2023

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

Monday, March 13, 2023

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Friday, March 17, 2023

• NO CLASS: Spring Break

Monday March 20, 2023

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

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

• 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

Friday, March 24, 2023

• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2462-2473)
• Read and mark the entire Sojourner (Truth Section (Vol. B. 2454-24612)

Monday, March 27, 2023

• 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).

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

• NO CLASS: We don’t meet on Tuesdays.
• Withdrawal without signature period ends.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

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

Friday, March 31, 2023

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

Monday, April 3, 2023

• 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

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

• 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 7, 2023

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

Monday, April 10, 2023

• 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)

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 [UPDATED LOCATION INFORMATION ON 4/6/23}

• Library Research Orientation.  Meet updatairs in College Hall Library in room 301.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

• NO CLASS: We don’t meet on Thursdays.
• Withdrawal with faculty signature ends.

Friday, April 14, 2023

• NO CLASS: Dr. Halbert will be on an academic trip with the Liberal Arts Division.
• Use this day for library research.
• Withdrawal now require approval from Academic Affairs.

Monday, April 17, 2023

• Read and mark “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving (Vol B. 2506-2541)

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

• 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 21, 2023

• Annotated Bibliography Due at start of class.  Post a copy to the "Research Paper: Bibliography" forum and submit a copy to the "Annotated Bibliography" dropbox. Review the Sample Annotated Bibliography to make sure you are formating it correctly. 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 24, 2023

• 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.
• If you had an accommodations letter sent to me, please send me an email to remind me that you will need extra time on the final exam so I can make arrangements.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

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

Friday, April 28, 2023

• Complete Exam Quotation Assignmen #2 and post to the dropbox. Remember to use at least six different writers listed on the syllabus after the due date for quote assignment 1.
• 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 1, 2023

• Last Class.
• 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 5, 2023, 10:20 AM to 12:20 PM. [revised 5/1/23]

• ENG 211 Final Exam in our regular classroom. Make sure to prepare an Exam Card.
• Today is the last day to reconcile any missing work.

Monday, May 8, 2023

• Final Draft Paper #2 Due by 9AM. Submit to both Dropbox and Discussion Board. See Checklist for details.
• Optional Major Paper Rewrite of Paper #1 due. Submit to Dropbox and email to Dr. Halbert with a subject line “Major Paper Rewrite for ENG 211.”

End of Semester Reminders:

• Always attend the last day of class for each of your courses.
• Check your MC3 email every day of exams until the professor lets you know the grades have been submitted. If there is an issue, your professor will email you to try to resolve the issue, but if you don’t check your email, you may not have your issue addressed, resulting in a lower grade or even a failure for the course.
• Professors must submit grades no later than 11:59 PM on Thursday, May 11, 2023.
• Don’t email your professor to see if the grades are done: he will email the class when they are finalized.