Quarter+One

Friday	19 October Read and Respond to "Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (161-164). Friday night at 11:59 all posting for the first quarter ends.

Thursday	18 October Read and Respond to "Speech in the Convention" (207-209) and "Letter to Her Daughter" (217-219).

Friday	12 October Consider three of your problem areas, and compose a brief answer for each in response to the question "What should we do about it?" Please type.

Thursday	11 October Read and Respond to "Speech in the Virginia Convention" (203-206).

Wednesday	10 October Complete and type your final draft of the Billy Budd essay. Submit with all previous drafts.

Friday	5 October Bring to class a copy of Wheatley's "An Hymn to Evening." Mark this copy for various vocal parts.

Wednesday	3 October Complete your first draft of the Billy Budd essay.

Tuesday	2 October Compose the first two paragraphs of your Billy Budd essay.

Wed-Fri	26-28 Sept. Watch and Respond to the film Billy Budd. Prepare your essay.

Tuesday	25 September Read and Respond to "The Crisis" (174-176).

Friday	21 September Compose the Previous Actions and Resolution for your own Declaration of Independence. Type up a complete first draft of your whole document. Follow instructions given on the handout you received.

Thursday	20 September Compose the List of Grievances for your own Declaration of Independence. Follow instructions given on the handout you received.

Wednesday	19 September Compose the Philosophical Foundations for your own Declaration of Independence. Follow instructions given on the handout you received.

Tuesday	18 September Compose the Preamble to your own Declaration of Independence. Follow instructions given on the handout you received.

Monday	17 September Read and Respond to "The Declaration of Independence" (170-173).

Friday	14 September Read and Respond to "Poor Richard's Almanack" (149-150). Type and bring to class you three favorite sayings and two or three sayings you don't understand or don't agree with.

Thursday	13 September Take some time to develop your discussion board posting.

Wednesday	12 September Read and Respond to the passage from Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (143-147).

Tuesday	11 September Read and Respond to "Early National Literature" background (130-137).

Monday	10 September Create a parallel between the physical process you have described and an abstract process, just as Edward Taylor created a parallel between making cloth and becoming a good Christian. Describe the important moments step by step. For example, how are the steps in making a sandwich like the steps in becoming a good friend to someone?

Friday	7 September Compose a description of a process (mowing the lawn, washing dishes, tying your shoes, etc.). As always, type. Bullet points are acceptable.

Thursday	6 September Compose an imitation of your selected sentence from Jonathan Edwards. An imitation uses the same sentence structure but fills it with your own content. Where Edwards uses a noun, verb or adjective, you use a noun, verb or adjective.

Wednesday	5 September Select one interesting and powerful sentence from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (102-106). In your own words, say what the sentence is saying. Look up and write down the meaning of all challenging words in the sentence. What specifically makes this an interesting and powerful sentence? Altogether, this should be 1-2 typed pages.

Tuesday	4 September Read and Respond to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (102-106).

Thursday	30 August Read and Respond to "The General History of Virginia" (70-75) and "Of Plymouth Plantation" (76-83).

Tuesday	28 August Read and Respond to "The Iroquois Constitution" (26-28) and "Journal of the First Voyage to America" (60-62). Also, please find at A Plain Public Road examples of excellent, acceptable, weak, and unacceptable posts. Print these examples and bring to class. Refer to the APPR Post Scoring Guide.

Monday	27 August Read and Respond to the introductory material "Literature of Early America (6-13). If you are reading the text online, go to http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com, log in, click on the text link, and in the left sidebar click on "Overview Featuring Susan Power," then use the triangular navigation markers to move from page to page.

Friday	24 August Read and Respond to "When Grizzlies Walked Upright" and "The Navaho Origin Legend" (21-25).

Thursday	23 August Research your oldest person's birth year at Wikipedia. Try to discover what was going on in America, Europe and Asia in that year. Who else was born in that year? What notable people died in that year? Come to class with this information.

Wednesday	22 August Compose and type a draft of everything you know about the oldest person you know. You can use bullet points for this.

Tuesday	21 August Bring to class a family story that you can tell to the rest of us.

Monday	20 August Begin to ask family member about the oldest family story they know. Make contact with the oldest person you know.

Friday	17 August Read Course Procedures and Guidelines. Sign (and have parents sign) the Textbook Agreement. Register for A Plain Public Road. Write and type your self-introduction (1-2 pages): who are you as a reader and as a writer?

Thursday	16 August Welcome to United States Literature and Composition 121