JANUARY

• http://pbworks.com
• "pity this busy monster" 

• Create your own PBworks (Roster page). 
• Syllabus Contract  

• Selections from Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass.pdf  

Hero Narratives of the American West

• Louis L'Amour The Daybreakers

• Sign up for a group. 
• Sign up for Turnitin: 
• CLASS ID 11454535
• ENROLLMENT PASSWORD amlit2 

• The Daybreakers 
• Prologue -The West as History and Myth.pdf  

• Quiz 1 (on MyBC - due 1/25/16 BEFORE CLASS)

• The Day breakers 
• How To Do A Close Reading 

• Identify a term (for group project) 

• Theodore Roosevelt Manefest Destiny Speech
• Roosevelt "The American Boy" 

• Post the OEDOnline definition 

• Humishuma Cogewea.pdf

• Find a media clip. 

FEBRUARY

• Cogewea.pdf   

• Create a working thesis. 

• post signed attendance sheet at the END of the hour (1:50pm).

• FINAL DRAFT  

• Quiz 2 (on MyBC - due BEFORE class)

• Sudden Fiction.pdf  
•  "The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction"   

Hero Narratives of the North East

EXAM I RESCHEDULED (Computer Lab SCI 103).

• Anca Vlasopolos The New Bedford Samauri - Introduction

• Anca Vlasopolos The New Bedford Samauri 

• READING QUESTIONS FOR GUEST LECTURE DUE (for participation credit) Reading Questions for The New Bedford Samurai.pdf

• The New Bedford Samauri  

• Finding an artifact. 

• The New Bedford Samauri   
• "Christian Missionaries find Japan a Tough Nut to Crack" The Japan Times

• 'Don't Give Up on Japan' Christianity Today 

• Henry James Daisy MillerChapter One. 
• T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J.Alfred Pufrock" 

• Quiz 3 (on MyBC - due BEFORE class)

MARCH

• Henry James Daisy MillerChapter One. 
• T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J.Alfred Pufrock" 

• Defining the American Hero 

Hero Narratives of Appalachia and the American South

•  Flannery O'Connor "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" 
• Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" 

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

• Freeman "The Revolt of Mother" 
• Roosevelt "On American Motherhood" 1905 

• Doing a Close Reading  

• Alcott "Modern Cinderella: Of, The Little Old Show" The Atlantic
• Gilman   The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
• Gilman  If I Were a Man.pdf
• Freeman "The Revolt of Mother" 
• Roosevelt "On American Motherhood" 1905  

East Coast Urban Heroes

Poetry in the City

•  "To Brooklyn Bridge"
• Langston Hughes "The Weary Blues"
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• Making Connections (artifact and text)  

•  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

• Chandler Blackmailers Don't Shoot.pdf  
• "Phillip Marlowe: American Detective" 

• Quiz 4 (on MyBC - due BEFORE class)

• Theiss and Outline 

• e.e. cummings "pity this busy monster"   

• Revising a paper 

• FINAL PROJECT DUE