English 2773 schedule, fall 2005
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Friday, August 19 | Course
description 2000-4000 grades and grading |
Introduction to course | |
Monday, August 22 | Student info (online) |
Simple
Stuff |
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Wednesday, August 24 | Simple Stuff exercise | Golden
rules 6-10 Norton: Columbus letters 34-37 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 58-70 John Smith 103-14 |
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Friday, August 26 | Golden
rules quiz Golden rules quiz w/ answers |
Norton: Indian trickster tales 120-56 |
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Monday, August 29 | Golden rules exam (online) |
Nuggets
1-5 |
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Wednesday, August 31 | Drop/add ends |
Nuggets
6-10 |
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Friday, September 2 |
Nuggets quiz |
Norton: Michael Wigglesworth
292-93 |
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Monday, September 5 |
Labor Day Holiday |
Labor Day Holiday | Labor Day Holiday |
Wednesday, Sept. 7 | Nuggets exam (online) |
Norton: Mary Rowlandson
308-9 |
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Friday, September 9 |
Quotes
and documentation 1-3 |
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Monday, September 12 |
Quotes/documentation
quiz |
Quotes
and documentation 4-5 Norton: Benjamin Franklin 515-16 "The Way to Wealth" 516-22 "Rules by Which a Great Empire . . ." 523-28 "Remarks Concerning the Savages" 534-37 |
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Wednesday, Sept. 14 | QD exam (online) |
Norton: J. Hector St. John
de Crevecoeur 657 |
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Friday, September 16 | On
plagiarism Word problems Norton: Olaudah Equiano 747-48 The Interesting Narrative 748-59 |
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Monday, September 19 | Word problems quiz | Norton: Equiano, Narrative 759-81 | |
Wednesday, Sept. 21 | Norton: Philip
Freneau 791-92 "On the Emigration to America" 799-800 "The Wild Honey Suckle" 800-1 "The Indian Burying Ground 801-2 "To Sir Toby" 802-4 "On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man" 804-5 "On the Religion of Nature" 805-6 |
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Friday, September 23 | Norton: Phillis
Wheatley 808-10 "On Being Brought from Africa . . ." 810 "To the Right Honorable William . . ." 812-13 "To the University of Cambridge . . ." 813 "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. . . ." 814-15 "To His Excellency Gen. Washington" 819-20 Letters 820-25 |
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Monday, September 26 | Norton: Royall
Tyler 825-26 The Contrast 826-45 |
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Wednesday, Sept. 28 | Norton: Tyler, The Contrast 845-67 | ||
Friday, September 30 | Norton: Susanna
Rowson 879-80 Charlotte 880-911 |
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Monday, October 3 | Norton: Rowson, Charlotte 911-45 | ||
Wednesday, October 5 |
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Midterm 1 | |
Friday, October 7 |
Norton: Washington
Irving 978-80 |
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Monday, October 10 | Norton: James
Fenimore Cooper 1013-15 The Pioneers excerpts 1015-29 |
Paper 1 assigned | |
Wednesday, October 12 |
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Norton: Catharine Maria
Sedgwick 1039-40 |
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Friday, October 14 |
Norton: William Cullen
Bryant 1071-72 |
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Monday, October 17 | Paper proposals |
Norton: Ralph Waldo
Emerson 1103-6 |
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Wednesday, October 19 |
Norton: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1247-50 |
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Friday, October 21 | Fall break | Fall break | Fall break |
Monday, October 24 |
Norton: Hawthorne,
"The Birth-Mark" 1289-1300 |
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Wednesday, October 26 | Class canceled |
Work on your papers |
Class canceled |
Friday, October 28 | Paper 1 due |
Norton: Edgar Allan
Poe 1507-10 |
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Monday, October 31 |
Norton: Edgar Allan
Poe: |
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Wednesday, Nov. 2 |
Norton: Harriet Beecher
Stowe 1670-72 |
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Friday, November 4 |
Norton: Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1709-46 |
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Monday, November 7 | Norton: Harriet
Jacobs 1757-58 Incidents in the Life excerpts 1759-79 |
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Wednesday, Nov. 9 |
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Midterm 2 | |
Thursday, November 10 | Last day to withdraw w/ "W" | ||
Friday, November 11 |
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Norton: Henry David
Thoreau 1788-92 |
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Monday, November 14 | Paper 1 corrections |
Norton: Frederick Douglass
2029-32 |
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Wednesday, Nov. 16 |
Norton: Douglass, Narrative 2065-97 |
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Friday, November 18 |
Norton: Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow 1476-77 |
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Monday, November 21 |
Norton: Walt Whitman: |
Paper 2 assigned | |
Wednesday-Friday,
November 23-25 |
Thanksgiving Break | Thanksgiving Break | Thanksgiving Break |
Monday, November 28 |
Norton: Herman Melville
2287-92 |
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Wednesday, Nov. 30 |
Norton: Melville, Billy Budd 2461-87 |
Research help | |
Friday, December 2 |
Norton: Emily Dickinson
2499-2503 |
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Monday, December 5 |
Norton: Dickinson poem
numbers: 130, 285, 978, 986, |
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Wednesday, Dec. 7 |
Norton: Rebecca Harding
Davis 2545-47 |
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Friday, December 9 | Paper 2 due |
Norton: Louisa May
Alcott 2574-75 |
Discuss exam |
Final exam Monday, Dec. 12, 10:30-12:30 |
Paper 2 corrections |
Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative. I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.