September 2010 Archives
Assigned Text:
John Henry (Ballad)
Folk Ballad (details TBA)
Assigned Text:
Emerson
Nature (essay)
Due Today:
Ex 3: Analytical Essay
Topic:
Transcendentalism
Due Today:
Online pre-discussion
By 5pm Monday, complete a brief online GriffinGate exercise that prepares you for Wednesday's class. (Read the text assigned for today first.)
Assigned Text:
Emerson (Selections)
Short works by Emerson. (TBA)
Assigned Text:
How To Read Literature…
Interlude (p. 82), Chapters 12, 13
Assigned Text:
Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville)
Topic:
Romanticism: Gender
Respond to a literary argument.
Due Today:
Online pre-discussion
By 5pm Monday, complete a brief online GriffinGate exercise that prepares you for Wednesday's class.
Assigned Text:
Emily Dickinson
Series 1, Section III "NATURE"
Continue reading Emily Dickinson.
Assigned Text:
How To Read Literature…
Chapters 8, 9, 10
Assigned Text:
The Scarlet Letter (19-24)
Due Today:
Ex 2: Revision of Model Essays
Read and respond to model essays.
Continue reading Writing Exercise.
Due Today:
Online pre-discussion
By 5pm Monday, complete a brief online GriffinGate exercise that prepares you for Wednesday's class. (Read the text assigned for today first.)
Continue reading Online pre-discussion.
Assigned Text:
The Scarlet Letter (13-18)
Assigned Text:
How To Read Literature…
Chapters 3, 5, 7
Assigned Text:
The Scarlet Letter (7-12)
See last week's poetry analysis exercise for details.
Read and respond to model essays.
Assigned Text:
The Scarlet Letter (1-6)
Note that I am not assiging "The Cusom-House: Introductory to "The Scarlet Letter"
Due Today:
Online pre-discussion
By 5pm Monday, complete a brief online GriffinGate exercise that prepares you for Wednesday's class.
Continue reading Online pre-discussion.
Assigned Text:
How To Read Literature…
Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2
Continue reading How To Read Literature….
Assigned Text:
Young Goodman Brown (Hawthorne)
In class, I will give you a short poem, asking you to read it, mark it up, and complete an analysis activity.
Continue reading Analysis Exercise.
Due Today:
Ex 1: Response to Model Essays
Read and respond to model essays. (Details to follow.)
Read and respond to model essays.
Continue reading Writing Exercise.
Assigned Text:
Model Essays
Several model essays on today's readings.
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