Calendar

February

13 February 2002 (Wednesday) top

  • review course syllabus and web site
  • Course Notes: The Puritan Origins of the American Self?
  • Assignment Instructions: Representation of America Paper
  • Course Reader:
    • William Bradford (1590-1657), from Of Plymouth Plantation, Chapter IX
    • John Winthrop, from Of Christian Charity
    • The New England Primer: Selections
    • Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): "Prologue" (1650), "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666," "To my Dear and Loving Husband" (1678), "A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment" (1678), "Contemplations (1678),
  • Critical Terms for Literary Study: "Representation"
  • Syllabus Quiz (in class)

15 February 2002 (Friday) top

Representation of America paper due emailed by 10 AM

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25 February 2002 (Monday) top

  • read Course Notes: Contact!
  • Course Reader
    • Cabeza de Vaca, from Relacion
    • John Smith, from The General History of Virginia...
  • Critical Terms for Literary Study: "Culture"
  • Email Posting due by 10 AM

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28 February 2002 (Thursday) top

COL 49 Analysis Draft due emailed by 10 AM


March

4 March 2002 (Monday) top

No Class: Rescheduled for March 7 (see below)

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13 March 2002 (Wednesday) top

  • Dickinson, Emily: Selected Poems
  • Critical Terms for Literary Study: Determinacy/Indeterminacy
  • line memorizing due for Dickinson half of class
  • Proof of visit with Writing Tutor due in class

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  • Reader: Mid 19th Century Speeches
    • "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July"
    • Sojourner Truth "texts"
    • "Quinney's Speech"
    • The Gettysburg Address
  • Email Posting due by 10 AM

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22 March 2002 (Friday)

Poetry Analysis / Explication Paper DRAFT due by 10 AM

25 March 2002 (Monday)

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (100-306)
  • Email Posting due by 10 AM

27 March 2002 (Wednesday)

  • Reader:
    • Thoreau, Henry David: "Life Without Principle"
    • Proof of visit to writing tutor required for all students who scored below 3.0 on previous essay

Oral Midterms: March 27 (3-8 PM) - March 28 (9-11 AM; 1-5 PM)

27 March 2002 (Friday)

Poetry Analysis / Explication Paper due by 10 AM


April

8 April 2002 (Monday)

  • Mark Twain, An Introduction

10 April 2002 (Wednesday)

15 April 2002 (Monday)

17 April 2002 (Wednesay)

22 April 2002 (Monday)

  • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man: To 150
  • Course Notes: Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois
  • CD Companion: Selections
  • Email Posting by 10 AM

    7:30 PM Gregory 161

  • Video Screening: Ken Burns' "Jazz" (Section 1) 7:30-9:30

24 April 2002 (Wednesday)

  • Invisible Man: To 300
  • Critical Terms for Literary Study: "Class"
  • Course Notes: Invisible Man Reading Notes (150-300)
  • CD Companion: Selections

29 April 2002 (Monday)


May

1 May 2002 (Wednesday)

3 May 2002 (Friday)

6 May 2002 (Monday)

  • Critical Terms for Literary Study: "Popular Culture"
  • Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior 1-109
  • "The Ballad of Mulan"
  • Email Posting due by 10 am
  • Video Screening: Mulan
    7:30-9:30 Gregory 161

8 May 2002 (Wednesday)

  • The Woman Warrior 110-209
  • "Personal Statement"
  • Woman Warrior Essay Exam (40 minutes)
  • Proof of visit to writing lab tutor required for all students with score below 3.0 on first paper.
  • Text / Context Paper due emailed by 5 PM

13 May (Monday) 2002

  • Critical Terms for Literary Study: "Gender"
  • Feminist Poetry: Anne Sexton, Slyvia Plath,
  • Helena Maria Viramontes: "Moths"
  • Denise Chavez: "Novena Narrativas"
  • Email posting due by 10 AM

15 May (Wednesday) 2002

  • Thoreau: "Walking"
  • Luis Alfaro: "Orphan de Aztlan"
  • Portfolios due in class

20 May (Monday)