DAILY HOMEWORK SCHEDULE

Note: bulleted assignments are due on the date immediately above the bulleted list. References to “BA” are located in the in the Broadview Anthology.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

• First Day of Class

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

• Read the instructions and complete the Contact Information handout (See Handouts page).
• Read the instructions and complete the Student Contract handout (See Handouts page).
• Read "How to Really Read This Book" (Download from the Readings section of the Canvas web page)
• Read and mark in the Broadview Anthology the following:
• “Indigenous North American Cultures and Literatures” (BA 1-5).
•  “Contact, and the Literature of Contact” (BA 5-15).
• "Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Accounts of the Arrival of the Whites) oral tradition (BA 116-119, stop when you get to Thomas Harriot)
• Read and mark the following documents found in the Readings section of the Canvas course site in this order:
• "In Focus: America in the World/The World in America" (background essay that sets up the following additional excerpts from much larger works)
• from Utopia (Thomas More)
• from Of Cannibals (Michel de Montaigne)
• America (Painting)
• from New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)
• “from Christopher Columbus with Bartolomé de las Casas, Journal of the First Voyage to America” (BA 90-94).
• “Chrisopher Columbus, Letter of Columbus to Varous Persons Describing the Results of His First Voyage and Written on the Return Journey” (BA 94-97).
• Last day to add a course.

Thursday, January 25, 2024

• Read and mark the following in in the Broadview Anthology (BA):
• “from Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” (BA 99-103).
• “New Mexico: The Pueblo Revolt” (BA 104-105).
• “Antonio de Otermín, letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, 8 September 1680” (BA 105-11)
• All of the selections by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (BA 137-144).

• Read and mark “Requermiento” by Palacios Rubios (See Readings section of Canvas page).

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (Updated on 1/21/2024)

• NO CLASS: Dr. Halbert had to accept an appointment with a specialist at this time. However, complete the work below by the start of class.
• Read and mark all of the John Smith section (BA 146-163)
• Read and mark all of Richard Frethorne (See Reading section of Canvas page).

Thursday, February 1, 2024

• Read and mark the entire William Bradford section (BA 165-181).

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

• Read and mark the entire “John Winthrop section (BA 187-197).
• Read and mark the following from the Anne Bradstreet section:
• “Anne Bradstreet” Bio (BA 213-215).
• “Prologue” (include the title page reproduction) (BA 215-217).
• “The Flesh and the Spirit” (BA 221-223).
• “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (BA 234).
• “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” (BA 234).
• "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" (BA 225).
• "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old" (BA 235).
• “For Deliverance from a Fever” (BA 235-236).
• “To My Dear Children” (BA 227-29).
• Last day to drop a course.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Wednesdays.
• Withdrawal Period without faculty signature starts.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

• Read the following from Cotton Mather:
• “Cotton Mather” Bio (273-274).
• from Wonders of the Invisible World (BA 275-279).
• The Negro Christianized (available in the Readings section of our Canvas site).

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

• Read the following from Jonathan Edwards:
• “Jonathan Edwards” Bio (BA 284-286).
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (BA 286-295).
• Quotation Assignments #1 Due. Submit to the “Quotation Assignment #1” Assignment. This assignment will not be accepted late (20 points).

Thursday, February 15, 2024

• Scholarly Article Analysis Project (20 points).  First, read and mark "’Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’: Some Unfinished Business” by Edward J. Gallagher. Present marked essay in class and post written response in the “Scholarly Article Analysis” Assignment.  See Assignment description for specific details.

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

• Draft of Paper #1 due.  Post a copy in the "Paper #1: Draft" Discussion Board topic. Posting is worth five points.
• We will have a workshop on your drafts today worth 20 points. You must attend class with a completed draft printed for a partner to read to get those points. Incomplete drafts will be prorated, but it is better to come with a partial draft than to skip class.
• If you had an accommodations letter sent to me, please send me an email to remind me that you will need extra time on the midterm exam so I can make arrangements.

Thursday, February 22, 2024

• Read and mark the selections by William Byrd (in Readings section of Canvas web page).

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

• No class.
• Final draft of Paper #1 due by noon in the “Paper 1: Final Draft (Graded copy)” in Assignments (for up to 200 points) and the “Paper 1: Final Draft (Discussion Board)” option (for 5 points).  See checklist for details.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

• Midterm exam. Remember to prepare an exam card for the essay questions and use the quotation study guide (both available on the Graded Tasks page) to get ready for the exam.
• LEAP YEAR DAY.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

• Read the following from Benjamin Franklin:
• “Benjamin Franklin” Bio (BA 303-305)
• from The Autobiography: Part 1 (BA 311-348)

Thursday, March 7, 2024

• Read the following Franklin essays in the Broadview Anthology:
• “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” (BA 305-308).
• “On the Slave Trade” (BA 308-310).
• Read and mark the following short piece by Benjamin Franklin found on the open web:
• “The Way to Wealth”
• “A Witch Trial at Mount Holly”
• “The Speech of Polly Baker”
• “Speech in the Convention”

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

• NO CLASS: Spring Break.

Thursday, Mach 14, 2024

• NO CLASS: Spring Break.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

• Read and mark the following texts by or about Thomas Paine:
• “Thomas Paine” Bio (BA 391-393).
• from Common Sense (BA 395-400).
• “The American Crisis” (available online) .

Thursday, March 21, 2024

• Read and mark the entire Thomas Jefferson section (BA 403-415).

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

• Read and mark the following by or about Phillis Wheatley:
• "Phillis Wheatley” bio (BA 514-515).
• "To MÏcenas" (BA 515-16).
• "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (BA 516)
• "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (BA 517)
• “On Imagination” (BA 517-18).
• "To His Excellency General Washington" (BA 519-20).)
• “In-Context: Preface to Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” (BA 523-24)
• Letter to Samson Occom (Available online)

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

• NO CLASS: We don’t meet on Wednesdays.
• Withdrawal Period with required faculty signature starts.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

• Read and mark the following by Olaudah Equiano:
• “Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa” bio (BA 424-426).
• Chapters 1-3 of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vasa, the African, Written by Himself (BA 427-440).

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

• Read and mark the following by or about Frederick Douglass:
• “Frederick Douglass” bio (BA 1068-71).
• “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (BA 1125-1140).
• Photographs of Frederick Douglass (BA1140-1143, no notes needed).

Thursday, April 4, 2024

• Read and mark the follow texts about women’s rights in America:
• Letters between Abigail and John Adams (Readings on Canvas).
• The Entire Sarah Moore Grimké section (BA 701-706).
• Sojourner Truth: “Speech at the Akron, Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, 1851” (BA 911-917: read both version and review photos).
• Fanny Fern selections (Readings on Canvas).
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Declaration of Sentiments” (Readings on Canvas).

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

• Read the following by or about Ralph Waldo Emerson:
• “Ralph Waldo Emerson” bio (BA 706-709).
• selections from Nature (BA 709-711).
• “Self-reliance” (BA 714-728)

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

• NO CLASS: We do not meet on Wednesdays.
• Withdrawal Period with required faculty signature ends.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• Read the following by or about Henry David Thoreau:
• “Henry David Thoreau” bio (BA 994-997).
• “Resistance to Civil Government” (BA 998-1010).
• All Withdrawal from this point on require documentation and approval from Academic Affairs.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• Read the following by or about Edgar Allan Poe:
• “Edgar Allan Poe” bio (BA 805-807).
• “The Fall of the House of Usher” (BA 817-27).
• “The Tell-Tale Heart” (BA 827-29).
• “The Raven” (BA 835-37).
• “Annabel Lee” (BA 840-41).

Thursday, April 18, 2024

• Read and mark the following texts by or about Nathaniel Hawthorne:
• “Nathaniel Hawthorne” bio (BA 755-57).
• “Young Goodman Brown” (758-65).

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

• Draft of Paper #2 Due. Post a copy in the "Paper #2: Draft" Discussion Board topic. Posting is worth five points.
• We will have a workshop on your drafts today worth 20 points. You must attend class with a completed draft printed for a partner to read to get those points. Incomplete drafts will be prorated, but it is better to come with a partial draft than to skip class.
• If you had an accommodations letter sent to me, please send me an email to remind me that you will need extra time on the final exam so I can make arrangements.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

• Read the following by or about Herman Melville:
• “Herman Melville” bio (1242-45).
• “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (BA 1251-71).

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

• Last class of this course.
• Read and mark the following texts by or about Walt Whitman:
• “Walt Whitman” bio (BA 1144-48).
• “I Sing the Body Electric” (BA 1212-18).
• “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (BA 1230-36).
• “To a Locomotive in Winter” (available on the Internet).

Thursday, May 2, 2024

• NO CLASS: Our regular class meetings are over, except for the final exam.
• Optional Major Paper Rewrite of Paper #1 due by noon. Please submit to “Major Paper Rewrite” Assignment.

Friday, May 3, 2024

• NO CLASS: Our regular class meetings are over, except for the final exam.
• Final Draft of Paper #2 due by noon. Post to “Paper #2 Final Draft: Discussion Board” (for 5 points) and to “Paper #2 Final Draft: Graded Copy” (for up to 200 points). See checklist for details.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

• Final Exam in our normal classroom from 10:20 AM to 12:20 PM. Make sure you prepare your exam card. See Quotation Guide:MS Word or PDF.

End of Semester Notes and Reminders:

• Attend the final meeting of all your classes.
• Check your Montco email and Canvas announcements every day until Dr. Halbert says the grades are posted.
• Don’t email Dr. Halbert to see if the grades are done: he will announce when he is done.
• Do check your gradebook on Canvas during the exams to see individual assignment grades as they are entered.
• If there is a problem with a graded assignment, please email Dr. Halbert immediately.