Reading Assignments
English 203-03 Spring 2010
All readings and discussion questions are due on Tuesday of the week for which they are
listed. Please bring all assigned material to class for the week it is due.
Failure to have your textbook(s) in class will result in loss of one attendance
point for the day. Logs may only be turned in on Thursdays. You may find
it useful to record the quizzes, logs, and discussion questions as you hand
them in so that you can keep track of the number of assignments you have completed.
(Separate readings are separated by semicolons.)
| Date, Written Assignments | Readings and Notes |
| Week 1
Jan. 19, 21 |
Harper 21-27,
from "The European Conquest of America" to "The Mysterious Strangers." *due
Thursday,1/21 Go to website and bookmark this page: www.radford.edu/~mbowling/ *Links are not part of the week's readings and may not be activated until we cover them in class. Notes: Literature and the Literary Canon
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| Week 2 Jan. 26,28 Quiz One, DQ, Log |
Harper 35-44
“Invisible Bullets,” Hariot, Columbus; 79-92, Bradford Caribbean Map Columbus's Route Columbus's Route (2) Discussion Questions Questions Weeks One and Two
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| Week 3
Feb. 2, 4 Quiz Two, DQ, Log |
Harper 95-96, Bradstreet;
99, "Before the Birth"; 100, "In Memory..."; 101,
"Here Follows Some Verses..."; 103-105, "To My Dear Children"
Discussion Questions Week 3 Project Guidelines
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| Week 4 Feb. 9, 11 Quiz Three, DQ, Log |
Harper 117,
"Anne Hutchinson's Trial";
121-129 “A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson” to the end of “The
Fourth Remove”; 156-157, Robert Beverly; 162-164, Thomas Jefferson.
"America's Guardian Myths" Photocopy Rowlandson's Narrative Discussion Questions Timeline of American Literature
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| Week 5 Feb. 16, 18 Quiz Four, DQ, Log
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Harper 299-mid-307 Crevecoeur; 315-325, Equiano; 356-361, "Westward Course," Apess. |
| Week 6 Feb. 23, 25 (MID-TERM Thursday, no logs this week) Quiz Five, DQ,
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Harper 405-407, Channing and Paulding; 408-426, Cooper. |
| Week 7
March 2, 4 Quiz Six, DQ, Log-Channing, Paulding, Cooper
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Harper 480-489 (to Part II), Emerson; 964-973, Stowe |
| SPRING BREAK Sat. March 6-Sun. March 14
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| Week 8 March 16, 18 Quiz Seven, DQ, Log, Short Paper One* (for those writing two short papers).
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Harper 982-1003, Jacobs, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,”; 1146-1152, Whitman; 1152-1158, “One’s Self," "I Hear America Singing," "Song of Myself" to line 65: 1177-78, section 16 from “Song of Myself” |
| Week 9 March 23, 24 Quiz Eight, DQ Log
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Johnson 1-62 (through Ch. 6); Harper 1254-1257, Dickinson; 1259, "241"; 1260, "258" and "280"; 1265, "465"; 2079-2091 “The Harlem Renaissance” (incl. Alain Locke, Langston Hughes) |
| Week 10 March 30, April 1 Quiz Nine, DQ, Log, Long Paper*
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Johnson 62-113 (through Ch. 10); Harper 1801-1802, Dunbar; 1804-05, “We Wear the Mask” and "Sympathy" |
| Week 11 April 6, 8 Quiz Ten, DQ, Log |
Johnson 114-125 (Ch. 11); Harper 2106, Cullen “Yet I Do Marvel”
and “Incident”; 2226, Hughes, "I, Too," and 2228-29, “Theme for English B”
Class Notes-(Literature from 1890-1930 and Johnson Criticism) |
| Week 12
April 13, 15 Quiz Eleven, DQ, Log, Short Paper*
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Silko 1-100; Harper 2213-2218, Hemingway; 2218-2222, "Soldier's Home" |
| Week 13 April 20, 22 Quiz Twelve, DQ, Log
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Silko 101-195; Harper 2451, Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California”; 2118-2119, new assignment to replace cummings |
| Week 14 April 27, 29 Log |
Silko 195-262; Harper 2474-2476 Sexton “Her Kind”; “Self in 1958” |
Papers are due by the beginning of the Thursday class for the week for which they are listed. A penalty of 10% will be assessed for papers turned in by the next class meeting (Tuesday) at 9:30. You must be in class the whole period to receive credit for an on time paper.
Final Exam Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 a.m.