English Eleven EE 51 Spragins Fall 2011
				1st Period: Even Days, Drop Down Day 5
				Room GC 202 Office Hours 2:15-3:30 p.m. (daily) jspragins@gilman.edu (410) 828-5212
				Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare
				The Autobiography of Ben Franklin (1771-90)
				The American Renaissance: Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Whitman, and Dickinson
				The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1876-83) by Mark Twain
Month	Day	Cycle Day	Day	Assignment
09/	07	Day 0	Wed	Full Day Minischedule
				Course Description Course Texts Homework: Summer Reading Speech
09/	08	Day 1	Thurs
09/	09	Day 2	Fri.
				Grammar Pre-test  Gilman School Computer Network Resources:  Drop Box Resources Folder Imail (username@gilman.edu) (BMS and RCPS girls need to supply accurate email addresses.) FTP Explorer (Powerpoint): (At the Hound: FTP Explorer Client Software and Instructions); Smartftp Googledocs Summer Reading Speeches (Begin)  (Speech Evaluation Form) Summer Reading Pledge Sheet Summer Reading Table Discussion: Essay Process Homework: Portrait of Self as a Writer (Semester Goals) due Tuesday at 3:30 pm Bring Grammar and Vocabulary Books to Class
09/	12	Day 3	Mon.
09/	13	Day 4	Tues.
		Shakespeare. The Chandos Portrait		Finish Summer Reading Speeches Complete Grammar Pre-test Portrait of Self as a Writer due by 3:30 p.m Why Study Shakespeare? Backgrounds to Shakespeare's Theatre Homework: Read: Shakespeare: A Portrait of the Playwright (Study Guide)
09/	14	Day 5	Wed	4th Period
				Shakespeare: A Portrait of the Playwright (Study Guide) (Quiz)  Read: Act I scene 1 "Elsinore's Ramparts" Exercise: Composition of Place: After reading the first 50 to 100 lines of scene 1, stop and use your imagination to construct the setting. Use all of your five senses, and note how Shakespeare uses poetry to appeal to each of them.  What year is it?  What time of year is it? What time of day is it (precisely)? What can you see, hear, feel, smell, even taste? Take the next step: where is the scene located philosophically? Write: Journal Entry Homework: Read: Act I scene 1 "Elsinore's Ramparts" Write: Journal Entry
09/	15	Day 6	Thurs.	Parents Night
				Finish Summer Reading Speeches Revenge Tragedy Exercise Act I scene 1 "Elsinore's Ramparts" Key Moments? Paragraph on the First Scene of Hamlet Homework: Read: Act I scene 2 Claudius' Court (video) Read: Act I scene 3 Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius Start Memorizing Soliloquy #1: "Oh that this too too solid flesh" Write: Journal Entry For further reading: Notes "The Impact of the Reformation" in Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas; see also "Enter Ghost" from Hamlet Conundrums (USC)
09/	16	Day 7	Fri.
09/	19	Day 8	Mon.
				Act I scene 2:  Claudius' Court Hamlet Soliloquy #1: "Oh that this too too solid flesh" Drawing Project Paragraph: Hamlet's Situation at the Start of the Action Act I scene 3 Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius Discuss "Two Families"  Homework: Read: Act I scene 4: The Ramparts; Read: Act I scene 5: Hamlet and the Ghost Memorize Soliloquy #1:"Oh that this too too solid flesh" Write: Journal Entry
09/	20	Day 9	Tues.
09/	21	Day 10	Wed
				Hamlet Soliloquy #1: "Oh that this too too solid flesh" Paragraph: Hamlet's Situation at the Start of the Action Act I scene 4: The Ramparts Act I scene 5: Hamlet and the Ghost Paragraph on Hamlet and the Ghost Homework: Read: Act II scene 1: Polonius and Reynaldo; Polonius and Ophelia Read: Act II scene 2, lines 1- 160:  Arrival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; Polonius' Report; Polonius and Hamlet Write: Journal Entry
09/	22	Day 1	Thurs.
09/	23	Day 2	Fri.	Class Day
09/	26	Day 3	Mon.
09/	27	Day 4	Tues.
				Act I scene 3 Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius Act II scene 1: Polonius and Reynaldo; Polonius and Ophelia Paragraph: Hamlet's Response to the Ghost Act II scene 2, lines 1- 160:  Arrival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; Polonius' Report; Polonius and Hamlet Homework: Read: Act II scene 2 to end: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; Arrival of the Players; Soliloquy #2: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" Write: Journal Entry
09/	28	Day 5	Wed	4th Period
				Act II scene 2: The Funhouse Arrival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Polonius' Report Polonius and Hamlet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern With Hamlet Hamlet: "What a piece of work is man..." Arrival of the Players Soliloquy #2: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" (video) Homework: Read: Act III scene 1: Soliloquy: "To Be or Not to Be..."; Hamlet and Ophelia (video) Write: Journal Entry
09/	29	Day 0	Thurs	ROSH HOSHANAH
09/	30	Day 6	Fri.
				Act II scene 2: The Funhouse Arrival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Polonius' Report Polonius and Hamlet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern With Hamlet Hamlet: "What a piece of work is man..." Arrival of the Players Soliloquy #2: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" (video)  Paragraph: The Funhouse Homework: Paragraph Work: Hamlet ends the long "Funhouse"  scene in which he ridicules Polonius, banters with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and then welcomes the players to Elsinore with the soliloquy which begins "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I". At the end of that speech he finally comes up with a plan: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king!" Yet, the very next time that we see Hamlet on stage he is contemplating suicide in the famous "To be or not to be..." soliloquy. Compare Hamlet at these two moments and see if you can make any sense of the contrast.
10/	3	Day 7	Mon.
10/	4	Day 8	Tues.
				Hurricane Ophelia Threatens Town of Hamlet Soliloquy #2: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" Act III scene 1: Soliloquy #3: "To Be or Not to Be..."; Hamlet and Ophelia (video) Video: Branaugh Homework: Act III scene 2: The Mousetrap Read Act III, scenes 3-4: Claudius' Soliloquy; The Queen's Bedroom (video)
10/	5	Day 9	Wed
10/	6	Day10	Thurs.
				Hamlet's 'Plan'  in Action: Act III scene 1: Hamlet and Ophelia Act III scene 2: The Mousetrap (Advice) (Video) Act III scene 3: Claudius' Soliloquy;  Act III scenes 3-4: The Queen's Bedroom Discuss: Hamlet's Choices Homework: Read Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England Read Act 4, Scenes 5-7: Ophelia's Madness Write: Journal Entry Write: Thesis Statement #1
10/	7	Day 1	Fri.
10/	10	Day 2	Mon.
				Thesis Discussion: What is Shakespeare's purpose in Hamlet? Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy: "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude... in the form of drama, not of narrative, through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions (catharsis)." Sewall: The Boundary Situation "The tragic vision  impels the artist, in his fictions, toward what Jaspers calls "boundary-situations," man at the limits of his sovereignty... Here, with all the protective covering stripped off, the hero faces as if no man had ever faced it before the existential question-- "What is man?"  (Sewall "The Vision of Tragedy," Corrigan 49-50). Act III scenes 3-4: The Queen's Bedroom The Death of Polonius The Extent of Gertrude's Guilt? Hamlet Crosses the Line Does Gertrude Betray Hamlet? Homework: Read: Act 5, scene 1: The Gravediggers
10/	11	Day 3	Tues.
10/	12	Day 4	Wed	PSAT's
10/	13	Day 5	Thurs.
		Ophelia (1852) by John Everett Millais		Essay on Hamlet due Monday, October 24th by 3:30 p.m. Thesis Discussion: What is Shakespeare's purpose in Hamlet? Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy: "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude... in the form of drama, not of narrative, through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions (catharsis)." Sewall: The Boundary Situation "The tragic vision  impels the artist, in his fictions, toward what Jaspers calls "boundary-situations," man at the limits of his sovereignty... Here, with all the protective covering stripped off, the hero faces as if no man had ever faced it before the existential question-- "What is man?"  (Sewall "The Vision of Tragedy," Corrigan 49-50). Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England How quickly has Claudius reacted to Hamlet's challenge? "How all occasions do inform against me..." Act 4, Scenes 5-7: Ophelia's Madness Can we piece together sense from Ophelia's madness? What has she taken refuge from in insanity?  Laertes Rage Ophelia's Flowers Gertrude's Elegy Homework: Read:  Act 5, scene 2: The Fencing Match Write: Thesis Statement #2
10/	14	Day 6	Fri.
				Essay on Hamlet due Monday, October 24th by 3:30 p.m. Act 5, Scene 1:  The Gravediggers Alas, poor Yorick... Hamlet and Laertes Homework: Explore the Criticism Table for ways to improve your thesis and argument. Hamlet and the Oedipus Conflict (Ernest Jones) Hamlet and Melancholia (A.C. Bradley)
10/	17	Day 7	Mon.
10/	18	Day 8	Tues.
				Essay on Hamlet due Monday, October 24th by 3:30 p.m. Act 5, scene 2:  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Osric and The Fencing Match  "Readiness is all..." Hamlet's Death Homework: Explore the Criticism Table for ways to improve your thesis and argument. Hamlet and the Oedipus Conflict (Ernest Jones) Hamlet and Melancholia (A.C. Bradley)
10/	19	Day 9	Wed
10/	20	Day 10	Thurs.
				Essay Workshop : Hamlet and the Oedipus Conflict (Ernest Jones) Hamlet and Melancholia (A.C. Bradley) Criticism Table Essay on Hamlet due Monday, October 24th by 3:30 p.m. Homework: Essay on Hamlet due Monday, October 24th by 3:30 p.m.
10/	21	Day 1	Fri.
10/	24	Day 2	Mon.
		Copley, John Singleton Paul Revere c. 1768-70 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Samuel Adams (1772)  John Singleton Copley		The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1770-90)  (introduction) The Enlightenment Dream: - Man is not born in a sinful, depraved state. - The end of life is life itself: the good life on earth, not life after death in heaven. - Man is capable, guided solely by the light of reason and experience, of perfecting life on earth. - To accomplish this great goal, we must free our minds from the bonds of ignorance and superstition and our bodies from the oppression of corrupt social authorities.  18th c. American Art (Powerpoint) Creative Writing Assignment: Choose one of the paintings by Copley or West and make up a story about the characters in it. (Read the background materials to find ideas.)  OR... Imagine you are present at one of Franklin's scientific experiments and write a story about it: 1609 Benjamin Franklin's experiments in thermal radiation 510 Ben Franklin, electricity, and revolution 2192 Benjamin Franklin stirs up the new technology of flight
10/	25	Day 3	Tues.
10/	26	Day 4	Wed
		Benjamin Franklin (1706- 1790)		The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1770-90)  (introduction) All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:- How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge?  To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. John Locke,  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 14th at 3:30 pm Homework: Read Autobiography, part one "Childhood and Apprenticeship" (pp.45-75) Study Guide One; Vocabulary List One For Further Reading: Ben Franklin as Journalist (Bartleby)  Poor Richard's Almanac The Enlightenment of the 18th Century (Julius Outline, Notes)  Xenophon, Memorabilia of Socrates; Book II Chapter 6, "On Friendship"
10/	27	Day 5	Thurs.
		Map of Colonial Boston The Printing Press from Diderot's Encyclopedie Frontpage of The New England Courant August 7, 1721		Autobiography, part one (1771)  "Childhood and Apprenticeship" (Notes) (pp.45-75) Study Guide One; Vocabulary List One; Quiz 1; Lecture Notes One Writing Exercise:  Write a letter to the editor of your school newspaper on a controversial topic, but instead of revealing yourself as the author, adopt the persona of someone who completely disagrees with your position.  Use modest rhetoric. Use some words from today's vocab list. Use an anecdote to spice your argument. Summarize your message with a moral epigram. Argue this person's case in such a ridiculous manner that you wind up defending your own opinion.  Franklin's Model Writing Style Homework:  Read Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London (pp.76-106) Study Guide Two; Vocab List Two
10/	28	Day 6	Fri.	1/2 Day
		Map of Colonial Boston The Printing Press from Diderot's Encyclopedie Frontpage of The New England Courant August 7, 1721		Autobiography, part one (1771)  "Childhood and Apprenticeship" (Notes) (pp.45-75) Study Guide One; Vocabulary List One; Quiz 1; Lecture Notes One Writing Exercise:  Write a letter to the editor of your school newspaper on a controversial topic, but instead of revealing yourself as the author, adopt the persona of someone who completely disagrees with your position.  Use modest rhetoric. Use some words from today's vocab list. Use an anecdote to spice your argument. Summarize your message with a moral epigram. Argue this person's case in such a ridiculous manner that you wind up defending your own opinion.  Franklin's Model Writing Style Homework:  Read Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London (pp.76-106) Study Guide Two; Vocab List Two
10/	31	Day 0	Mon.	AIMS Conference
11/	1	Day 7	Tues.
11/	2	Day 8	Wed
		Colonial America 1754 William Penn's plan for the City of Philadelphia (1683) John Collet 'May Morning', c1760. "The Rake at the Rose Tavern" from The Rake's Progress, William Hogarth 1735		Hogarth's The Rake's Progress Key Precepts of Good Writing Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London (pp.76-106) (Notes) Study Guide Two; Vocab List Two; Quiz 2; Lecture Notes Two Franklin Essay Questions Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 14th at 3:30 pm Extra Credit Writing Exercises: Imitate an edition of The Spectator (Addison and Steele, The Spectator, No 232  "Sir Andrew Freeport on Beggary") Use a thesaurus and convert some lines of the 43rd Psalm to verse. (examples) (Father Pietropali also recommends the following psalms: 139, 22, 88, 95, 100 Take a tale or a story from the Sunpapers and convert it to verse. Take your favorite childhood story and convert it to a nursery rhyme. Franklin's Model Writing Style Franklin Speech Option Homework: Read Autobiography, part one The Pennsylvania Gazette (pp. 106-131);  Study Guide Three; Vocab List Three
11/	3	Day 9	Thurs.
11/	4	Day 10	Fri.
		The Pennsylvania Gazette January 2, 1750		Autobiography, part one The Pennsylvania Gazette (pp. 106-131)( Notes)  Study Guide Three; Vocab List Three; Quiz 3; Lecture Notes Three Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 14th at 3:30 pm Homework: Read Autobiography, part two The Science of Virtue (pp. 141-160) Study Guide Four
11/	7	Day 1	Mon.
11/	8	Day 2	Tues.
		Nicholas Boylston (1767) John Singleton Copley		Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 14th at 3:30 pm Autobiography, part two The Science of Virtue (pp.141-160) (1784) (Notes) Study Guide Four (Chart One, Chart Two); (Quiz 4);  Lecture Notes Four Franklin and the Critics Franklin Essay Questions Homework: John Rawls on Social Justice: Original Position and the Difference Principle D.H. Lawrence on Ben Franklin (UVA)
11/	09	Day 3	Wed.
				The West Project
11/	10	Day 4	Thurs.
		Benjamin Franklin		A Rebuttal to Franklin's Utilitarianism:  John Rawls on Social Justice: Original Position and the Difference Principle D.H. Lawrence on Ben Franklin (UVA) Review: Lecture Notes One Lecture Notes Two Lecture Notes Three Lecture Notes Four Homework: Essay Questions Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 14th at 3:30 pm
11/	11	Day 5	Fri.
11/	14	Day 6	Mon.
		Thomas Cole, Scene from the Last of the Mohicans (1827) Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1832)  Thomas Cole,  Falls of Kaaterskill (1826)		Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 14th at 3:30 pm Backgrounds to Transcendentalism and the American Renaissance: Kant's Epistemology (Theory of Learning): reaction against Locke's tabula rasa; assertion of innate reason; intuition The Finitude of Human Knowledge (The Rose Colored Glasses) Kant's Morality (Ethical Imperative) Sophie on Romanticism Transcendental Idealism; The Categorical Imperative in Notes on Nieman's Evil in the Modern World (2002) Journal Entry #1 (Natalie Goldberg's Rules) (prompt) (prompt2) (Goldberg 10-11) Homework:  Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Emerson, Emerson: On Intuition in "Self-Reliance" (1841) for further reading: Explore Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Romanticism and German Idealism (Study Guide)
11/	15	Day 7	Tues.
11/	16	Day 8	Wed.
		Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Durand, Kindred Spirits (1849)		Transcendentalism: from Emerson: On Intuition in "Self-Reliance" (1841)  The Finitude of Human Knowledge (The Rose Colored Glasses); Transcendental Idealism; The Categorical Imperative in Notes on Nieman's Evil in the Modern World (2002) Romantic Poetry: Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" (1798) Keats, "Sonnet to Solitude" (1816) Bryant, "November", "To An American Poet Departing for Europe" Whittier, from "Snowbound" (1865) Longfellow, "Psalm of Life" (1838) Journal Entry #2: (Natalie Goldberg's Rules) prompt 1 (Kenneth Koch 148-49); prompt 2 (Goldberg 58-59) prompt  Homework: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)  Thoreau, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" from Walden or Life in the Woods (1854)
11/	17	Day 9	Thurs.
11/	18	Day 2	Fri.
		Walden Pond from Pine Hill Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)		Thoreau, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" from Walden or Life in the Woods (1854) (quiz) Discussion: Thoreau's Purpose and Method Journal Entry #3: (prompt 1) (Goldberg 145) (prompt 2) (Goldberg 166) Whittier, from "Snowbound" (1865) Homework: Annie Dillard, "Heaven and Earth in Jest" from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) For further reading: Thoreau and the American Idyll (In Our Time) The Thoreau Reader Creative Writing: Thoreau Journal
11/	21	Day 1	Mon.
11/	22	Day 2	Tues.
		Annie Dillard (1945-)		Annie Dillard, "Heaven and Earth in Jest" from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) (Dillard Discussion) (Quiz) Journal Entry #4:  (prompt 1) (Goldberg 166) Homework: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Hawthorne,  "The Minister's Black Veil" (1837) For Further Reading: Creative Writing: Hawthorne Stylistic Imitation: Symbol My Kinsman, Major Molineux (1831)  Young Goodman Brown (1835)  Rapacinni's Daughter (1844)
11/	23	Day 0	Wed	THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/	28	Day 3	Mon.
11/	29	Day  4	Tues.
		Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)		Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864); "The Minister's Black Veil" (1837) (quiz)  Discussion: Hawthorne's Literary Devices Blake "The Sick Rose" (1789) (image) Keats, "On the Vale of Soul-Making" (1819) Wordsworth "We Are Seven" (1789) Holmes, "The Chambered Nautilus" (1858)  Journal Entry #4  (Hawthorne prompt 1) Creative Writing Option Two: Hawthorne Stylistic Imitation Symbol Homework: "A Christmas Memory" (1956) by Truman Capote (1924-84)
11/	30	Day 5	Wed.
12/	1	Day 6	Thurs.
		Truman Capote (1924-84)  reading "A Christmas Memory"		"A Christmas Memory" (1956) by Truman Capote (1924-84) "A Christmas Memory" Discussion Creative Writing Option Three: Capote and Family Memory Homework: Herman Melville (1819-1891) Read Melville, "The Town-Ho's Story" from Moby Dick (1851) (Study Guide) Creative Writing  Four: Melville Stylistic Imitation (Allegory) For further reading: The Lightning-Rod Man (1856)  The Piazza (1856)  The Life and Works of Herman Melville (web)
12/	2	Day 7	Fri.
12/	5	Day 8	Mon.
		Herman Melville (1819-1881) American Icons: Moby Dick (Studio 360) Church, Niagra (1857) Church, Heart of the Andes (1856)		Melville, "The Town-Ho's Story" (Quiz) (Study Guide) Discussion: Melville: Perspective and Allegory Herman Melville: Creative Writing Option Four: Melville Stylistic Imitation (Allegory) Romantic Paintings: Ballad Prompts Homework: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" (1855)  Creative Writing  Five: Whitman-esque Song of Myself (option a) (option b) Creative Writing Project Due: December 15 at 3:30 pm: Creative Writing Option One: Thoreau Journal Creative Writing Option Two: Hawthorne Stylistic Imitation Symbol  Creative Writing Option Three: Capote and Family Memory Creative Writing Option Four: Melville Stylistic Imitation (Allegory)  Creative Writing Option Five: Whitmanesque Song of Myself (option a) (option b) Creative Writing Option Six: Dickinson Poetry Imitation
12/	6	Day 9	Tues
12/	7	Day 10	Wed
		Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Walt Whitman Archive		Conventional 19th Century Poetry: Old Ironsides (1830) Oliver Wendell Holmes  Gloucester Moors (1889) William Vaughn Moody Walt Whitman,  from "Song of Myself" (1855)  (In depth biography) Discussion: Call out images that you remember from the poem. Describe the perspective from which the poem is written (space and time). To whom is the poem addressed? Take a shot at explaining Whitman's purpose. Alan Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" (1956) (audio) Whitman Notes Creative Writing Option Five: Whitman-esque Song of Myself (poem1) (poem2) Homework: Creative Writing  Five: Whitman-esque Song of Myself (poem1) (poem2)
12/	8	Day 1	Thurs
12/	9	Day 2	Fri
		Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Emily Dickinson Archive Emily Dickinson Electoronic Archives		Read Whitman Stylistic Imitations Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): Selected Poems  (Dickinson Notes) More poems by Dickinson Homework: Creative Writing Six: Dickinson Poetry Imitation Sylvia Plath, The Colossus (1959); Lady Lazarus; Ariel; Daddy (1962) (Sylvia Plath at Modern American Poetry) Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck (1971) Elizabeth Bishop, One Art (1970) Thornton Wilder, Our Town (1937) For further reading; Emily Dickinson (poets.org) Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860" (1966)
12/	12	Day 3	Mon
12/	13	Day 4	Tues
				Creative Writing Six: Dickinson Poetry Imitation Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Emily Dickinson, More poems by Dickinson  Read Dickinson Stylistic Imitations Creative Writing Project: Creative Writing Option One: Thoreau Journal Creative Writing Option Two: Hawthorne Stylistic Imitation Creative Writing Option Three: Capote and Family Memory Creative Writing Option Four: Melville Stylistic Imitation Creative Writing Option Five: Whitman-esque Song of Myself (poem1) (poem2) Creative Writing Option Six: Dickinson Poetry Imitation Creative Writing Workshop One Creative Writing Workshop Two Homework: Creative Writing Project Due: December 15 at 3:30 pm
12/	14	Day 5	Wed
		Huckleberry Finn Slave vs. Free States in 1860		Creative Writing Project Due: December 15 at 3:30 pm Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910): Backgrounds to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1876-85) Notes on Slavery Homework: Read: The Huck Finn Controversy and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" by Mark Twain (1874)
12/	15	Day 6	Thurs.
		Jim (Barry Moser's 1985 illustration) Jim (E.W. Kemble's 1885 illustration)		Creative Writing Project Due: December 15 at 3:30 pm The Huck Finn Controversy The N. Word (discussion)  "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar  Slave Songs (Spartacus) (Frederick Douglass) Does Twain get it right? "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" by Mark Twain (1874) Jim's Persona: Going Behind The Mask: Illustrations from the Original Huck Finn (PBS) Representing Jim (UVA) Slave Stereotypes (discussion)  "Incident" by Countee Cullen  "Minstrel Man" by Langston Hughes  Changing Perspective in Huck Finn: The Action of the Novel Homework: Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain, Chapters One to Eight, pp. 13-58  (On- Line Edition) For further reading: The Huck Finn Controversy (PBS) Huck Finn Homepage (UVA) Sources and Pretexts for Huckleberry Finn (UVA)
12/	16	Day 7	Fri.	EARLY DISMISSAL
1/	2	Day 0	Mon.	WINTER BREAK
1/	3	Day 8	Tues.
		Winslow Homer, "Veteran in a New Field" (1865) Winslow Homer, "Breezing Up" (1876)  Hannibal, Missouri (1869)		Mid-Year Exam 2011-12 (Exam Schedule) Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910): Backgrounds to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1876-85) Reading Twain: Compare to "reading" a Winslow Homer painting. Paragraph 1: Huck's Situation: Chapters One to Eight, pp. 13-58  (On- Line Edition) 'sivilising Huck Tom's Gang Huck's Ghosts Homework: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain, Chapters One to Eight, pp. 13-58  (On- Line Edition)
1/	4	Day 9	Wed.
1/	5	Day 10	Thurs.
		Homer, "The Lifeline" (1884) Mississippi River Map		Mid-Year Exam 2011-12 (Exam Schedule) Paragraph 2: America's Situation: Huck's Situation: Chapters One to Eight, pp. 13-58  (On- Line Edition) Life With Pap: America in 1876 (allegory) Pap on the nigger and the guv'ment (39) The Link Between Poverty and Racism? the D.T.'s (41) What's coming? Huck's Escape: (the river's 'June rise') (43) (Staging Huck's murder) (45-46) Freedom: (voices on the river) (46-47) Jackson's Island (river search for Huck's remainders) (50) lonesome (51) Twain's Satire: Exploding Stereotype Creative Writing: Write a monologue in which your character evokes a racist, sexist or ethnic stereotype (something like Pap on the guv'ment (39)); then find a way to subvert it.  Homework: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain, Chapters Nine to Sixteen, pp. 59- 116  (On- Line Edition)
1/	6	Day 1	Fri.
1/	9	Day 2	Mon.
		Homer, Winslow Dressing for the Carnival (1877) Homer, Taking a Sunflower to Teacher, (1875)		Mid-Year Exam 2011-12 (Exam Schedule) Paragraph 3: Huck and Jim: Chapters Nine to Sixteen, pp. 59- 116 What does Huck need? What psychological obstacles stand in his way? How can they be overcome? What new morality is Huck learning from Jim? Deconstructing White Attitudes (The Hat Story (19) and The Hair Ball  (29-30)) Huck and Jim on Jackson's Island (The Uncanny) Huck and Jim on the Big River (Mood Shift) To Cairo and Beyond (Huck's Crisis: Fog and Lies) Twain's Writing Block Homework: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain, Chapters Seventeen to Twenty-Five, pp. 117-183  (On- Line Edition)
1/	10	Day 3	Tues.
1/	11	Day 4	Wed.	REVIEW DAY
		Slave vs. Free States in 1860 The Cracker		Mid-Year Exam 2011-12 (Exam Schedule)   "At the moment when so much of his heritage was crumpling, the remainder of that heritage was being greatly enhanced in value. Everywhere the South was engrossed in its great fight for white supremacy, everywhere preservation of superiority to the Negro was becoming the first thing. And in the poor-white, who had no other superiority to lose, this feeling was most intense of all. Hence, when he found himself falling to the status of cropper and tenant, what held his gaze to the exclusion of everything else was the spectacle of the grinning face of the ex-slave rising into his own." "Genesis of the Southern Cracker" W. J. Cash The American Mercury (1935) Paragraph Four: What vision of America emerges as Huck and Jim drift South? What is at the root of America's problems according to Twain? How can they be overcome? Is a happy ending possible? Huck and Jim Drift South: Chapters Seventeen to Twenty-Five, pp. 117-183 Jim and Huck on the River vs. Grangerfords and Stephensons Emmeline Grangerford and Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots The Death of Buck The Duke and the Dauphin One Horse Towns: The Camp Meeting; The Death of Boggs; The Royal Nonesuch The Long Lost Uncles of the Wilks Family Homework: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain, Chapters Twenty-Six to Thirty-Three, pp.184-241; (On- Line Edition) Why We Don't Read Chapters Thirty-Four to Forty-One: "Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer" by Nick Gillespie in Reason Online (Feb 2006) Forty-Two to Chapter the Last, pp. 287-296; (On- Line Edition) Review for Mid-Year Exam 2005  (Exam Schedule)
1/	12	Day 5	Thurs.	REVIEW DAY
				Mid-Year Exam 2011-12 (Exam Schedule) Grammar Review The Duke and the Dauphin (Innocents Abroad) Chapters Twenty-Six to Thirty-Three, pp.184-241 Jim and Huck on the Big River One Horse Towns Scamming the Wilks Family Forty-Two to Chapter the Last, pp. 287-296; (On- Line Edition) Explaining Twain's Ending: What was he thinking?! Freeing Jim (Tom's "Adventure") (290) Jim Learns He Is Free (294) (Pap's Dead) Lightin' Out for the Territories (295) Critical Comments: Jane Smiley. "Say It Ain't So, Huck." Harpers  (Jan. 1996) Homework: Review for Mid-Year Exam 2005-06 (Exam Locations)
1/	13	Day  6	Fri.	READING DAY
				Mid-Year Exam 2011-12 (Exam Schedule)
1/	16	Day 0	Mon.	MLK DAY
1/	17	Day 7	Tues.	EXAMS
1/	18	Day 8	Wed.	EXAMS
1/	19	Day 9	Thurs.	EXAMS
1/	20	Day 10	Fri.	EXAMS
1/	23	Day 1	Mon.	EXAM MAKE-UP DAY
1/	24	Day 2	Tues.	SECOND SEMESTER BEGINS