DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Tuesday, May 19, 2011

• First day of class.

Wednesday, May 20, 2011

• Email Contact information to Dr. Halbert at hhalbert@gmail.com.  See handout for specific information and link for spreadsheet template. (1 point for doing, -5 for not doing)
• Read and mark "How to Really Read This Book" (Course Documents). (1 point)
• Read, initial, and sign your contract for the course. (1 point for doing, -5 for not doing)
• Read and mark the following documents in this order (textbook and in Course Documments):
  • "Creation of the Whites" (Yuchi myth; Heath Vol. A, 73)
  • "The Arrival of the Whites" (Lenape-Delaware oral tradition; Heath Vol. A, 74-79)
  • "Cluster: America in the World/The World in America" (background essay; Heath 124-126)
  • from Utopia (Thomas More; Heath 127)
  • from Of Cannibals (Michel de Montaigne; Heath 127-128)
  • from New Atlantis (Francis Bacon; Heath 130)
  • "Requerimiento" (Palacios Rubios; boxed text Heath 132-133)
  • "Christopher Columbus" (background essay; Heath  137-138)
  • Excerpt from The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493; handout.
  • "Cluster: Aesthetics and Criticism—Paradigms of Cultural Encounters" (150-156) 5 points
• Please set up mail forwarding if you do not check your Montco email very often so that official school emails will reach you.

Thursday, May 21, 2011

• No Class: Commencement

Monday, May 23, 2011

• Warning: There is a lot of work here, so space it out over the days between classes.
• Read and mark the following Selections from the Heath Vol. A:
  • from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca (157-170)
  • "The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt" (222-225)
  • "The History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe" (Vol A. 196-204)
  • All of the selections by John Smith (Vol A. 273-287)
  • From Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) (Vol A. 288-291)
  • "New England" (overview; Vol A. 314-318) 10 points

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

• Read and mark the entire William Bradford section (Vol A. 348-370) 5 points

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Morton section (Vol. A 319-331)
• Read and mark the following selections from Anne Bradstreet:

• "Anne Bradstreet 1612?-1672" (Vol A. 418-419)
• "The Prologue [To Her Book]" (Vol A. 420-421)
• "The Author to Her Book" (Vol A. 426)
• "The Flesh and the Spirit" (Vol A. 427-429)
• "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (Vol A. 430)
• "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Vol A 430-431)
• "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment" (Vol A. 431)
• "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" (Vol A. 432)
• "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old" (Vol A. 432)
• "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10^th, 1666" (Vol A.433-434)
• "To My Dear Children" (Vol A. 410-413)
  

Thursday, May 26, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections from Cotton Mather:
  • "Cotton Mather 1663-1728" (Vol A. 531-533)
  • from The Wonders of the Invisible World (Vol A. 533-538)
  • from The Negro Christianized (Vol A. 551-556)
  • from Bonifacius . . . With Humble Proposals . . . to Do Good in the World (Vol A. 556-557) 5 points
• There will be an open-book 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.

Monday, May 30, 2011

• No Class: Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

• Draft of Paper #1 Due.  Must be complete with MLA Works Cited page. 0-20 points depending on completeness of draft.
• Post a copy of the paper in the "Paper 1: Draft Forum" on the discussion board. (1 point if completed, -5 if not).

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

• Read and mark the following from Jonathan Edwards:
  • "Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758" (Vol. A 669-671)
  • from Images of Divine Things (Vol A. 672-673)
  • "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Vol A. 690-701)
    
    

Thursday, June 2, 2011

• Exam quotation assignment due. Email a copy to Dr. Halbert as an MS Word or Rich Text Format attachment.  20 points.
  • Please rename the file according to this convention: Lastname_Firstname_211_quotes1.doc or .rtf. (-2.5 if not renamed)
  • Email the file to hhalbert@gmail.com. (-1 if sent to MC3 account)

Monday, June 6, 2011

• Final Draft of Paper #1 Due.  See Checklist for Paper #1 in the handouts section for envelope contents.  200 points.
• Submit the final draft to Turnitin.com. (1 point for doing, zero on paper if not completed)
• Post a copy of the paper in the "Paper #1 Final Draft" forum. (1 point if posted, -5 if not)
• Email a copy of the paper to me as an MS Word or Rich Text Format attachment. (1 point if completed, -5 if not)
  •  Please rename the file according to this convention: Lastname_Firstname_211_p1.doc or .rtf. (-2.5 if not renamed)
  • Email the file to hhalbert@gmail.com. (-1 if sent to MC3 account)

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

• Read all of the selections of William Byrd II (Vol A. 634-656)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

• Read the entire Thomas Paine section (Vol A 989-1003)
• Read the following selections by Phillis Wheatley:
  • "Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 (Vol A 1297-1299)
  • "To MÏcenas" (Vol A 1299-1301)
  • "To the Right Honoruable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c" (Vol A 1302-1303)
  • "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (Vol A 1306)
  • "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (Vol A 1308-1309)
  • "To His Excellency General Washington" (Vol A 1311-1312)
  • "Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters" (Vol A 1313-1314)
    

Thursday, June 9, 2011

• Midterm Exam.  See Exam Preparation Guide for information on what you can bring to class.

Monday, June 13, 2011

• Read and mark the introduction to Frederick Douglass and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2035-2101)
• WARNING: THIS ASSIGNMENT IS THE LONGEST READING OF THE SEMESTER. PACE YOURSELF.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

• A, pages 1008-1016 on John and Abigail Adams
• Read and mark all the selections by Sarah Moore Grimke and by Angelina Grimke (VOL B. 2238-2248)
• Read and mark "Declaration of Sentiments" (Vol B. 2270-2272
• Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2256-2266)
• We will discuss the Frederick Douglass in-class exam that will take place in one week.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Vol B. 1704-1706)
  • "Nature" (Vol B. 1708-1710)
  • "Beauty" (Vol. B. 1711-1714)
  • Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1746-1762)

Thursday, June 16, 2011

• NO CLASS. I will be at a conference. You should read the Thoreau assignment for next Tuesday, though.

Monday, June 20, 2011

• Draft of Paper #2 Due.  Must be complete with MLA Works Cited page. 0-20 points depending on completeness of draft.
• Post a copy of the paper in the "Paper 2: Draft Forum" on the discussion board. (1 point if completed, -5 if not).

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

• Read and mark the following the following by Henry David Thoreau:
  • "Henry David Thoreau" (Vol B. 1859-1862)
  • "Resistance to Civil Government" (Vol B. 1862-1876)
• Read and mark the following selections from Washington Irving:
  • "Washington Irving" (Vol B. 2299-2301)
  • from A History of New York, Chapter 5 (Vol B. 2301--2309)

• Read the following selections from A Sheaf on Humor of the Old Southwest:
• Sheaf introduction (Vol B.2276-2279, including the ad)
• All of the selections by Davy Crockett (Vol B. 2279-2282)
• All of the selections by Mike Fink (Vol B. 2283-2287)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

• Read and mark the following selections from Edgar Allen Poe:
  • "Edgar Allen Poe" (Vol B. 2484-2486)
  • "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Vol B. 2497-2510)
  • "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Vol B. 2517-2520)
  • "The Purloined Letter" (Vol B.  2527-2539)
  • "The Raven" (Vol B. 2564-2567)
  • "Annabel Lee" (Vol B. 2570-2571)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

• Second Exam quotation assignment due. Email a copy to Dr. Halbert as an MS Word or Rich Text Format attachment.  20 points.
• Please rename the file according to this convention: Lastname_Firstname_211_quotes2.doc or .rtf. (-2.5 if not renamed)
• Email the file to hhalbert@gmail.com. (-1 if sent to MC3 account)

Monday, June 27, 2011

• Final Draft of Paper #2 Due.  See Checklist for Paper #1 in the handouts section for envelope contents.  200 points.
• Submit the final draft to Turnitin.com. (1 point for doing, zero on paper if not completed)
• Post a copy of the paper in the "Paper #2 Final Draft" forum. (1 point if posted, -5 if not)
• Email a copy of the paper to me as an MS Word or Rich Text Format attachment. (1 point if completed, -5 if not)
  •  Please rename the file according to this convention: Lastname_Firstname_211_p2.doc or .rtf. (-2.5 if not renamed)
  • Email the file to hhalbert@gmail.com. (-1 if sent to MC3 account)
• Bring Vol. B to class.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

• Read and mark the following from Walt Whitman:
  • "Walt Whitman 1819-1892" biography (Vol B. 2992-2995)
  • "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" (Vol. B 3087-3088)
  • "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Vol. B 3089-3096)
  • "Prayer of Columbus" (Vol. B 3097-3099)
  • "To a Locomotive in Winter" (Vol. B 3100)

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

• Last Class.
• Final Exam. See Exam Preparation Guide for information on what you can bring to class.