DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

[Revised 6/24/14)

Please note: if you are using a different edition or if the page numbers do not line up, please use your index to find the appropriate reading in your textbook.

Monday, May 19,, 2014

• First Class.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

• 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.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

• 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)

Thursday, May 22, 2014

• 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)
• "New England" (overview; Vol A. 359-364) 10 points

Monday, May 26, 2014

• No Class: Memorial Day.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

• Warning: There is a lot of work here, so space it out over the days between classes.
• "New England" (overview; Vol A. 359-364) 10 points
• Read and mark the entire William Bradford section (Vol A. 397-421) 5 points

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

• 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)

Thursday, May 29, 2014

• 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.

Monday, June 2, 2014

• 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).

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

• 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)

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

• 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.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

• 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.

Monday, June 9, 2014

• 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)

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

• 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)

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

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

Thursday, June 12, 2014

• Library Research Day.  Sign in with Dr. Halbert in the library (College Hall).
• Read mark the introduction to Frederick Douglass andthe first seven chapters of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Monday, June 16, 2014

• Finish reading and marking the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2163-2234)
• WARNING: THIS ASSIGNMENT IS THE LONGEST READING OF THE SEMESTER. PACE YOURSELF.
• In-class essay on Frederick Douglass. See Assignments section for details.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

• 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)

Thursday, June 19, 2014

• NO CLASS. Work on annotated bibliography.

Friday, June 20, 2014

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

Monday, June 23, 2014

• 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 24, 2014

• 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)

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 [Revised 6/24/14)

• 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. 2767-2768)

Thursday, June 26, 2014

• 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)

Monday, June 30, 2014 [Revised 6/24/14)

• LAST CLASS.
• Final Exam. Bring Exam Card.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 [Revised 6/24/14)

• NO CLASS. Summer 1 classes are over.
• 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)
• 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.