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Course

Course
JANUARY
1. Hero Narratives of the American West
FEBRUARY
1. Hero Narratives of the North East
MARCH
APRIL

The course readings and links to lecture notes are all linked here.

Date	Session Name (Lecture Notes)	Materials	Assignment (due before class on the date listed below)
JANUARY
1/13	Introduction to the American Hero	http://pbworks.com "pity this busy monster"	Create your own PBworks (Roster page). Syllabus Contract
1/15	Introduction to the American Hero	Selections from Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass.pdf
1/18	MLK Day (no class)
	Hero Narratives of the American West
1/20	The American Hero and Manifest Destiny	Louis L'Amour The Daybreakers	Sign up for a group. Sign up for Turnitin: CLASS ID 11454535 ENROLLMENT PASSWORD amlit2
1/22	The American Hero and Manifest Destiny - SNOW DAY (no class)	The Daybreakers Prologue -The West as History and Myth.pdf	Quiz 1 (on MyBC - due 1/25/16 BEFORE CLASS)
1/25	The American Hero and Manifest Destiny	The Day breakers How To Do A Close Reading	Identify a term (for group project)
1/27	The American Hero and Manifest Destiny	Theodore Roosevelt Manefest Destiny Speech Roosevelt "The American Boy"	Post the OEDOnline definition
1/29	Challenging Manifest Destiny	Humishuma Cogewea.pdf	Find a media clip.
FEBRUARY
2/1	Challenging Manifest Destiny	Cogewea.pdf	Create a working thesis.
2/3	In-Class Work Day (Definition Project)		post signed attendance sheet at the END of the hour (1:50pm).
2/5	Online Resource Group Project		FINAL DRAFT
2/8	Online Resource Group Project		Quiz 2 (on MyBC - due BEFORE class)
2/10	American Heroes, in Short	Sudden Fiction.pdf "The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction"
2/12	REVIEW
2/15	EXAM I - CLASS WILL MEET IN COMPUTER LAB TBA CLASS CANCELLED - SNOW DAY
	Hero Narratives of the North East
2/17	EXAM I RESCHEDULED (Computer Lab SCI 103).
2/19	The American Hero in the World	Anca Vlasopolos The New Bedford Samauri - Introduction
2/22	The American Hero in the World - GUEST LECTURE	Anca Vlasopolos The New Bedford Samauri	READING QUESTIONS FOR GUEST LECTURE DUE (for participation credit) Reading Questions for The New Bedford Samurai.pdf
2/24	The American Hero in the World	The New Bedford Samauri	Finding an artifact.
2/26	The American Hero in the World	The New Bedford Samauri
2/29	Realism and the American Hero	Henry James Daisy MillerChapter One. T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J.Alfred Pufrock"	Quiz 3 (on MyBC - due BEFORE class)
MARCH
3/2	Naturalism and the Eco-Hero	Jewett "The White Heron" Dr. Seuss The Last (PDF)	Defining the American Hero
	Hero Narratives of Appalachia and the American South
3/4	Modernism and the Question of Regional Heroes	Breece DJ Pancake TBA (PDF) Flannery O'Connor "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Faulkner "A Rose for Emily"
3/7 - 3/11	SPRING BREAK (no class)
3/14	Domestic Female Hero	Alcott "Modern Cinderella: Of, The Little Old Show" The Atlantic Gilman The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf Gilman If I Were a Man.pdf
3/16	Domestic Female Hero	Freeman "The Revolt of Mother" Roosevelt "On American Motherhood" 1905	Doing a Close Reading
3/18	Domestic Female Hero	Cahan yekl.pdf
	East Coast Urban Heroes
3/21	New York Heroes and the Harlem Renaissance	Poetry in the City "To Brooklyn Bridge" Harlem Renaissance Selections (PDF)
3/23	COMPUTER LAB SCI 103		Making Connections (artifact and text)
3/25	EASTER BREAK (no class)
3/28	EASTER BREAK (no class)
3/30	Heroes and Civil Rights	Dr. Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" Louis Reyes Rivera "Bullet Cry" At the Dark End of the Street.pdf	Secondary Sources
	West Coast Urban Heroes
APRIL	Detective Hero: The New Urban Savior	Chandler Blackmailers Don't Shoot.pdf "Phillip Marlowe: American Detective"
4/1	Hero and Anti-hero: Alexie's Mystery	Sherman Alexie Indian Killer
4/4	Hero and Anti-hero: Alexie's Mystery - JARA ARMSTRONG (guest speaker)	Indian Killer	Quiz 4 (on MyBC - due BEFORE class)
4/6	Hero and Anti-hero: Alexie's Mystery	Indian Killer	Theiss and Outline
4/8	Hero and Anti-hero: Alexie's Mystery	Indian Killer
4/11	Return to the Epic Hero in American Fiction	e.e. cummings "pity this busy monster"
4/13	Exam II (SCI 103)
4/15	Rough Draft Workshop (SCI 103)		Revising a paper
4/18	CONFERENCES
4/20	CONFERENCES
4/22	CONFERENCES
4/25	FINAL PRESENTATION		FINAL PROJECT DUE
4/27	FINAL PRESENTATION
4/29-5/4	FINAL EXAM