Welcome to the Class!

Welcome to the Class!

Taking a literature course during a summer session is not easy! But it is very

manageable if you keep up with the readings. Your readings for the entire session

are located on this weekly schedule. Please take a minute to review them to see

what is expected of you.

Grading: Essay 1= 10%; Essay 2 = 15%; Essay #3 = 25%;

Quizzes = 15%; Discussions = 10%; Final Exam = 25%

This is your weekly schedule of assignments. I reserve the right to alter this

schedule, but I will let you know in advance if a change is needed.

Please check out the calendar under course tools for a schedule of and links to the essays

and quizzes. These can also be found under the Assignments and Assessments sections!

*The course will be divided into three sections, one for each book. *Your Assignments must be submitted during the weeks they are assigned.

Please email me if you cannot complete the assignments on time*

Please note that all of your essays this semester will be submitted through

www.turnitin.com

Make sure you go to the website and create a student account.

The class ID# is

and the group password is

2328e01

Week One

I break the assignments into days to help you schedule your homework. However, assignments must be completed/submitted by the end of the week they are assigned (11:59 pm Sunday Night)

*Essays are due the days stated*

Monday:

Assignment 1: Read the course syllabus (the syllabus link) Email me that you have read and understood the syllabus. Pay particular attention to the Plagiarism statement and the attendance policy!

Assignment 2: If you have never taken an online course before, explore the Orientation link on the homepage to familiarize yourself with taking an online course.

Assignment 3: Introduction discussions due. Students are to introduce themselves in a 4-6 sentence discussion posting (click on the discussion tool!), and please read everyone else's introduction.

Assignment 4: Read the "Welcome to 2328" on your homepage.

Section 1: Literature from 1865-1910 (Volume C)

Assignment 4: In the Learning Modules section, in the Background Information folder, read the Introduction and the Late Nineteenth Century readings. In the Literary Movements folder,read both Realism and Naturalism.

Tuesday:

Assignment 1: Read the Mark Twain Bio, p.54-56., read "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" p.56-60, and read "The War Prayer" p.102-104

Assignment 2: Submit Mark Twain discussion posting (in discussion section). Postings are worth assignment grades. Your posting should be a minimum of 3-4 sentences unless I note otherwise. Assignment 3: Read William Dean Howells bio. P.232-233. Also, read “Editha” p.248-257 Assignment 4: Submit Discussion posting for Howells.

Wednesday:

Assignment 1: Quiz over Howells and Twain (quizzes are open book).

Assignment 2: Read Ambrose Bierce Bio p.342 and click on this link to read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek".

Assignment 3: Submit Ambrose Bierce discussion posting (in discussion section). Thursday:

Assignment 1: Read Stephen Crane Bio p.515-517 and "The Open Boat" p.517-533. Assignment 2: Submit 'Open Boat' discussion postings.

Friday:

Assignment 1: Read Upton Sinclair Bio. p.702-704 and excerpts from "The Jungle" p.704-717. Assignment 2: Submit discussion postings "The Jungle".

Week Two

(6/10-6/16)

Assignment 1: Quiz over Bierce, Crane and Sinclair!

Section 2: Literature from 1910-1945 (Volume D)

Assignment 3: Read Late Nineteenth Century in the Background information section of the learning module.

Assignment 4: Read F. Scott Fitzgerald bio under Authors in the Learning Modules. There is an additional bio in the book pages 1616-1617.

Tuesday:

Assignment 1: Essay 1 is due today!

Regionalism in one or more of the short stories. The Essay should be 2-3 pages in length in MLA format with a minimum of one source (yes the text can be a source). Don't forget your in-text citation and works cited page!!! The essay should be submitted through turnitin.com

Assignment 2: Read chapter one of "The Great Gatsby". Assignment 3: Submit discussion posting for chapter 1. Wednesday:

Assignment 1: Read chapter two of "The Great Gatsby". Assignment 2: Submit discussion posting for chapter two. Thursday:

Assignment 1: Read chapter 3 of "The Great Gatsby". Assignment 2: Submit discussion posting for chapter 3. Friday:

Assignment 1: Read chapters 4 and 5 of "The Great Gatsby". Assignment 2: Submit discussion postings for chapters 4 and 5.

Week Three

(6/17-6/23)

Assignment 1: Read chapters 6 and 7 of "The Great Gatsby". Assignment 2: Submit discussion posting for chapters 6 and 7. Tuesday:

Assignment 1: Read chapters 8 and 9 of "The Great Gatsby". Assignment 2: Submit discussion posting for chapters 8 and 9. Wednesday:

Assignment 1: Essay #2 is due today!

Essay #2 is due by midnight on tonight!! It should be 3-4 pages in length + works-cited, contain 3 sources and be in MLA format. Write an essay on either "The Jungle", "The Open Boat" or The Great Gatsby. E-mail me with your topic of choice. Some example topics are: The uses of

Realism/Naturalism in "Open Boat" or "The Jungle", a discussion of Modernism within Gatsby, an Analysis of the character Nick Carraway. Remember to submit the essay through turnitin.com and please let me know if you have any questions.

Assignment 2: Quiz over Gatsby! Thursday:

Assignment 1: Read about the New Negro Renaissance pages 1741-1744.

Assignment 2: Read Hughes biography p.1773-1774. And read his works The Negro Speaks of Rivers p.1774, I, Too p.1778 and Big Meeting p.1782-1789

Assignment 3: Read Cullen biography p.1803 and his works Incident p.1804 and Yet Do I Marvel p.1805

Assignment 4: Submit discussion posting for Hughes and Cullen readings. Friday:

Assignment 1: Read Nella Larson biography p.1856-1857 Assignment 2: Read part one of “Passing” p.1857-1881 Assignment 3: Submit discussion posting for “Passing”

Week Four

(6/24-6/30)

Assignment 1: Read part two of “Passing” 1882-1921. Assignment 2: Submit discussion posting for “Passing” Tuesday:

Assignment 1: Quiz over Hughes, Cullen and Larson (and their works).

Section 3: Literature from 1945-The Present (Volume E)

Assignment 3: Read "Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present" P.2241-2250 in volume E of your books.

Wednesday:

Assignment 1: Click on this link to read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (one of my favorite writers). Also, check out the Learning Modules to read his biography.

Assignment 2: Read Thomas Pynchon biography pages 2994-2995 (in volume E). Also, read "Entropy" pages 2996-3004.

Assignment 3: Submit discussion postings for Vonnegut and Pynchon. Thursday:

Assignment 1: Read O’Conner biography p.2567-2568 and read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” p.2568-2578.

Assignment 2: Submit discussion posting for O'Conner. Friday:

Assignment 1: Read Anzaldua biography p.3159-3161 and read from “Borderlands/La Frontera” p.3161-3184.

Week Five

Assignment 1: Read Kingston biography p.3124-3125 and read “No Name Woman” p.2125-3133 Tuesday:

Assignment 1: Read Carver biography p.3013-3014 and read click on the link to read Cathedral Wednesday:

No late papers! It should be 5 pages + works-cited, contain a minimum of 5 sources and be in MLA format. Email me your topic of choice, but the topic must be about something we have read! Again, No Late papers!

Thursday:

Happy Independence Day!!!

Friday:

Your official exam day is Today – Friday June 5th, 8am to 7pm. on campus. At the main campus you can take the exam at the LEAC Rm. 307. At the south campus you can take the exam at the

Learning Enrichment Center Room B222 (Zaffirini Library, second floor). You will have 2 hours for the exam. Please remember to take your ID's.

What will be on your final: Your final exam will consist of 30 multiple choice and short answer questions (mostly multiple choice) and 4 essay questions. The multiple choice/short answer questions will be worth 2 points each, and the essay questions will be worth 10 points each for a total of 100 points.

What you should know: The 30 multiple choice and short answer questions will concern the stories you have not been quizzed over. That means all of the stories beginning with Volume E. Know the birth and death dates for all of the authors (know these dates by memory because I will ask you to write exact dates!!!). Also, know where they are from and what they wrote (from what we read). From the 30 questions, most will be multiple choice except the birth and death dates (you will need to know those from memory)! Also, I will include passage identification questions (but nothing too specific). Finally, you will have 4 essay questions, each worth 10 points. The essay questions will cover stories from all of your books. For each question I would like roughly half a page (a good size paragraph). The questions will cover the literary movements. There are four movements: Realism, Naturalism,

Modernism and Postmodernism. I will ask you to write about each movement giving examples from a story of your choice that relate to the movement in question. In other words, discuss the movements and how they relate to our readings. Make sure that you choose stories appropriate to the movements (not just from book E). For instance, when you write about Realism, use Twain or Howells, not Vonnegut.

You will not be allowed to take notes into the testing centers, so please study as the final is worth 25% of your grade!