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DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

  • First Class.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

  • Email Contact information to Dr. Halbert at hhalbert@mc3.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 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)
    • "Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations" (Heath 62-65)
    • "Cluster: America in the World/The World in America" (background essay; Heath 107-109)
    • from Utopia (Thomas More; Heath 110)
    • from Of Cannibals (Michel de Montaigne; Heath 110-111)
    • "America" by Theodor Galle (picture, Heath 111)
    • from New Atlantis (Francis Bacon; Heath 113)
    • Bartolome de las Casas " A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" (Heath 114-115)
    • "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 (See "Course Documents" in Blackboard)
    • "Cluster: Aesthetics and Criticism—Paradigms of Cultural Encounters" (136-146) 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 23, 2013

  • NO CLASS: Commencement

Monday, May 27, 2013

  • NO CLASS: MEMORIAL DAY

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

  • 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 (147-161)
    • "The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt" (259-263)
    • "The History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe" (Vol A.231-240)
    • All of the selections by John Smith (Vol A.315-329)
    • From Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) (Vol A. 330-334)
    • "New England" (overview; Vol A. 359-364) 10 points

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

  • Read and mark the entire William Bradford section (Vol A. 397-421) 5 points

Thursday, May 30, 2013

  • 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)

Monday, June 3, 2013

  • 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) 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.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

  • 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 5, 2013

  • Read and mark the following from Jonathan Edwards:
    • "Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758" (Vol. A 700-701)
    • from Images of Divine Things (Vol A. 702-704)
    • "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Vol A. 723-735)

Thursday, June 6, 2013

  • Read all of the selections of William Byrd II (Vol A. 662-687)
  • 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@mc3.edu.

Monday, June 10, 2013

  • CLASS CANCELLED: Turn in all electronic versions of the paper by 11AM Today.
  • 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)
  • Post a copy to the Paper #2 Dropbox. (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)
  • You should start reading Franklin's The Autobiography. It's long!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

  • Read and mark "Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790" (Vol A. 910-912)
  • Read and mark selection from The Autobiography (935-983: stop at the Part Two). WARNING: This reading is long.
  • We will discuss the Frederick Douglass in-class exam that will take place next week.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

  • Read the entire Thomas Paine section (Vol A 1045-1065)
  • Read the following selections by Phillis Wheatley:
    • "Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 (Vol A 1348-1350)
    • "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, June 13, 2013

  • Midterm Exam. Bring completed exam card with you.
  • Start reading Douglass when you are done with the exam!

Monday, June 17, 2013

  • Read and mark the introduction to Frederick Douglass and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2163-2234)
  • In-Class Douglass Exam.
  • WARNING: THIS ASSIGNMENT IS THE LONGEST READING OF THE SEMESTER. PACE YOURSELF.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

  • Library Research Day.  Sign in with Dr. Halbert in the library (College Hall).

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

  • 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. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" 2473-2475 + "Declaration of Sentiments" 2477-2479)
  • Read and mark the entire Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2462-2473)

Thursday, June 20, 2013

  • NO CLASS. Work on annotated bibliography.

Friday, June 21, 2013

  • NO CLASS Annotated Bibliography Assignment due to my email (hhalbert@mc3.edu) by 11:59 PM as an attachment.

Monday, June 24, 2013

  • 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 25, 2013

  • Read and mark the following selections by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Vol B. 1822-1825)
    • "Nature" (Vol B. 1826-1828)
    • "Beauty" (Vol. B. 1829-1833)
    • Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1868-1887)

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

  • Read and mark the following the following by Henry David Thoreau:
    • "Henry David Thoreau" (Vol B. 1976-1979)
    • "Resistance to Civil Government" (Vol B. 1979-1995)
  • 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 In Focus: Humor of the Old Southwest:
    • introduction (Vol B.2485-2487, 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, June 27, 2013

  • 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@mc3.edu.
  • 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. 2570-2768)

Monday, June 29, 2013

  • Final Draft of Paper #2 Due.  See Checklist for Paper #2 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)
  • Post a copy to the Paper #2 Dropbox. (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)

Tuesday, June 30, 2013

  • Read and mark the following from Walt Whitman:
    • "Walt Whitman 1819-1892" biography (Vol B. 2992-2995)
    • "I Hear America Singing" (Vol. B. 3287)
    • "When I heard at the Close of Day" (Vol. B. 3291)
    • "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" (Vol. B 3311)
    • "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Vol. B 3312-3319)
    • "To a Locomotive in Winter" (Vol. B 3321)

Wednesday, July 1, 2013

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

Thursday, July 2, 2013

  • NO CLASS. Summer 1 classes are over.
  • Optional Major Paper Rewrite due by 10:15 AM in my email account. Please rename the file Lastname_Firstname_102_p#REV.doc or .rtf.. See Major Paper Rewrite Guidelines in the assignment section of the class web page for instructions. 
 
 

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