Weekly Schedule for 205-95

American Lit I Reading, Writing, and Testing Schedule
Spring 2008

Internet and Resident Shared Schedule

Dr. Edward Eller

Check Schedule often throughout the semester. This Schedule Can Change. Recommended that you do not print.
ALL PAGE NUMBERS CORRESPOND TO NORTON ANTHOLOGY, VOL. A & B, 7TH EDITION

Week	Reading	Reading Checks, Tests and Writing
	See moodle.ulm.edu for Links to all Study Centers Click on Names of Readings below to get Reading Guides Click on Names of assignments below to get descriptions of writing assignments	This class has activities every week of the semester. You should be working on the start-up assignments in Week 1s from the get go.
Pre-Columbian Literature
Spring 2008 Dates Week 1 Jan 14-20	Read Syllabus This Schedule Class Policies and Thing you need to know [Dated but still of use -- moodle replaces blackboard] Look over Study Centers "Explore" the on-line lesson titled Dakota Winter Count by clicking here. Be sure to look at all links hidden in the graphic and read what the Dakota historians said. There are questions about this on Reading Check #1 [RC1 WK1 Intro]: famous people mentioned? Significant events? RC1 WK1 Into can be found button in moodle.ulm.edu. INTERNET CLASS: Discussion Board begins moodle forum immediately	RC1 WK1 due to be done in moodle.ulm.edu by Friday, Jan 18 before 9 p.m. All quizzes from here on out due by Tuesday of each week unless otherwise announced.
Week 2 Jan 21-27	Read [Click the links below to get Reading Guides] "Native American Oral Literature" [4-5] Stories of the Beginning of the World [17-31] Native American Trickster Tales [72-104] To get to Study Center Files listed below, enter moodle classroom and find the links in weekly schedule -- Study Center: Folklore [3 webpages] Native Map [PowerPoint file]	Weekly Pattern: Begin reading each week's assignment by Friday or Saturday of the previous week so that you can be ready to begin Discussions by Sunday or Monday of each week and take the Reading Check by Tuesday evening each week. Reading Check on this week's reading at moodle.ulm.edu due by Wed, Jan 23 before 9 p.m. With some variation, this weekly pattern remains fairly consistent throughout the semester. There may be slight variations at holidays and testing weeks.
First Encounters
Week 3 Jan 28-Feb 3	Read: Literature to 1700 1-18 Bartolome del las Casas, "The Very Brief Relation" 35-40 Cabeza de Vaca, The Relation of Alvar Nunez . . . " 40-48 Harriot, "A Brief and True Report. . ." 48-55 John Smith's "The General History of Virginia, New England ." 55-66 To get to Study Center Files listed below, enter moodle classroom and find the links in weekly schedule -- Study Center -- A Little Horror Show [webpages] Study Center -- The Other [webpages]	February is Black History Month
Mardi Gras Mon, Feb 4-6 [Classes Resume Monday Morning]
The English Settlers and Indian Conflicts
Week 4 Feb 7-17	This is a 10 day week starting Feb 7. Read: From Bradford: Introduction and Book I, Chapters IX-XXXII from Of Plymouth Plantation 104-105 and 116-138 Two Contrasting Views of Bradford's Account From Thomas Morton's opposing history: New English Canaan, 138-147 From Catharine Maria Sedwick's Fictional account of the Pequot War: Introduction [1009-1010] and Hope Leslie, Chapter IV [1011-1023] Study Center -- Providence[webpages with sound files] Study Center -- Co-opting the Native [webpages with sound files]	Response Paper #1: Does what one believes make a difference in the way one relates to the world and to fellow humans? Due Feb 8. Turn short essay into Assignment at moodle.ulm.edu. [100 points] Click Here to find out more particulars on this short writing.
Slavery
Week 5 Feb 18-24	Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" 751-752 Veiw Video: Phyllis Wheatley available through Moodle [Flash Movie] Olaudah Equiano, From The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano. 674-710 "Slavery, Race, and the Making of American Literature" -- Jefferson, Walker, Garrison, Grimke, Truth, and Delany 1682-1696 View video: "Uncle Tom's Cabin: Historical Context" at Innovator <http://www.ulm.edu/innovator/lessons/utc/utchistory/utchistory.html> Study Center -- Slavery [webpages] : Dates You Should Know
A Fictional Account of Slavery
Week 6 Feb 25-Mar 2	A Fictional Account of Slavery and Freedom: Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vol. I 1698-1744 View video: "Uncle Tom's Cabin: Literary Characteristics" at Innovator
Week 7 Mar 3-9	A Fictional Account of Slavery and Freedom: Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vol. II 1744-1792 [New Reading Guide] View video: "Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Critical Reaction" at Innovator	Mar 7: Mid-term grades posted in Arrow
The American Romantics Warning!!! Upcoming reading is vocabulary intensive
Week 8 Mar 10-16	Frederick Douglass and Narrative of the Life, Introduction and Chapters I-[2060-2064] and 2072-2129]	Response Paper #2: Your choice of several possible subjects. Due in moodle Assignments by Friday, March 18.
Week 9 Mar 18-24	Poe: Poems and tales about the power struggle between male and female forces "To Helen" 1532, "To -----. Ulalume" 1539, "Annabel Lee" 1542, "Ligeia" 1543-1553, "Fall of the House of Usher" 1553-1566, and "The Black Cat" 1593-1599. Study Center -- Poe and the American Gothic [webpages with sound files]	Response Paper #2: Your choice of several possible subjects. Due in moodle Assignments by Friday, March 18.
Spring Holiday	Fri, March 21-Mon, March 30
Week 10 Mar31-Apr 6	Hawthorne, Puritan Tales "The Maypole of Merrymount" 1304-1311 "Young Goodman Brown" 1289-1298 "The Minister's Black Veil" 1311-1320 A Tale About Science and Beauty "The Birthmark" 1320-1332 Study Center -- Hawthorne and the American Gothic [webpages]	Apr 2: Final date for dropping a Fall Semester course or resigning from the University -"W" grades issued.
Week 11 Apr 7-13	A Tale about Social Perception and Reality Melville, "Benito Cereno" 2405-top of 2450
American Philosophers--Conformity vs. Non-conformity
Week 12 Apr 14-20	Perception and Reality Puritan vs. Romantic American Literature 1700-1820 357-367, John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" 147-158 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, "Self-Reliance"1163-1180. Response Paper #3: Perception and Reality due by April 22	Response Paper #3: Perception and Reality due by April 22
American Philosophers--Conformity vs. Non-conformity
Week 13 Apr 21-27	Theologians and Divines Theologians and Divines REVISED: Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World 307-313 NEW: Robert Calef, More Wonder of the Invisible World 334-343 REVISED: Thomas Paine: From The Age of Reason 629-630 and 643-649. Study Center -- The Invisible World	Response Paper #3: Perception and Reality due by April 22
Week 14 Apr 29-May 5	"An American Renaissance?" (929-930) and "'Renaissance,' Reform, Conflict" (938-943). How to live the GOOD LIFE Jonathan Edwards: "Personal Narrative" 384-396. Thoreau, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For," Chapter 2 of Walden 1914-1924; no Reading Guide yet] Study Center: Transcendentalism [Not Yet Linked]	Response #4 will be written at finals time. All students in one class will write their essay at the same time. No exceptions. Internet class: see schedule for next week. Make your preparations accordingly.
Internet Final: Final for internet class --Saturday May 9: Response#4 written in moodle.ulm.edu at 9 a.m. , Saturday morning.
Dec 3-7	University Finals Week: Final Essay and Final objective measure of your reading and comprehension skill level at finals: [150 points together]	These are requirements of the college and will be evaluated by a team of readers. So hit a home run for the team, please.

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