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=Welcome to Survey of American Literature I! =

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 * Prerequisites ** for this class are EH 101 (Composition 101) and EH 102 (Composition 102). You must have taken the two composition courses to take this course. There are no exceptions.

**Additional Required Readings-- ** supplied through this wiki as needed. **Suggested Readings ** --supplied through this wiki as needed. **Additional Required Materials ** --will depend upon what students decide to do for the course (see Academic Contract )
 * Required Textbook **-- //The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th edition, Volumes A and B.

**Purpose of this Class ** --We'll be studying literature representative of the period between 1600 and 1865. By studying such a representative sample, students will increase their understanding of the people, events and issues that shaped the American landscape to the present day.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Course Goals ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal;">--Students will demonstrate proficiency at recognizing, defining, and applying key literary terms and be able to make cultural, political, and philosophical connections to early American literature to the post Civil War era.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Electronic Devices (for in-person portion of class)-- ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal;">Laptops will only be allowed on the desk during certain assignments. In all other cases, laptops and other electronic devices (iPods, Smartphones, etc.) should be out of sight and sound turned off during class. If a device is needed to accommodate a disability, please have Special Student Services (see Special Student Services contact info below) send me a letter explaining the need and situation.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; line-height: 22px;">**Academic Honor Code** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; line-height: 22px;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">-- ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; line-height: 22px;">As a community of students and scholars, the University strives to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All members of the community are expected to exhibit honesty and competence in academic work. This responsibility can be met only through earnest and continuing effort on the part of all students and faculty. Any dishonesty related to academic work or records constitutes academic misconduct including, but not limited to, activities such as giving or receiving unauthorized aid in tests and examinations, improperly obtaining a copy of an examination, plagiarism, misrepresentation of information, altering transcripts or university records. Academic misconduct is incompatible with the standards of the academic community. Such acts are viewed as moral and intellectual offenses and are subject to investigation and disciplinary action through appropriate University procedures. Penalties may range from the loss of credit for a particular assignment to dismissal from the University. Faculty, students, and staff are responsible for acquainting themselves with, adhering to, and promoting policies governing academic conduct. // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Students who violate University rules on scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties. Since dishonesty harms the individual, fellow students, and the integrity of the University, policies on scholastic dishonesty will be enforced. Scholastic dishonesty includes a variety of things from cheating to plagiarism. If you are unsure what plagiarism is visit the USA website.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Academic Honesty-- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">The University of South Alabama is committed to the fundamental values of preserving academic honesty as defined in the Student Handbook: //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Lowdown // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">. Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty and must be avoided. Plagiarism is using somebody else’s ideas in your writing without correctly identifying such sources. As one resource for helping students avoid plagiarism, your written work in this class may be submitted to __Turnitin.com__, or a similar detection service, or require you to do so, for an evaluation of originality and proper use and attribution of sources. Assignments submitted to __Turnitin.com__ will be included as source documents in a restricted access database solely for the purpose of detecting possible plagiarism in such documents. As part of this process, you may be required to submit electronic as well as hard copies of your writing. You agree that by taking this course all assignments are subject to submission for originality review. A paper not submitted according to procedures set by the instructor will be penalized or not be accepted at all. **

[] Academic integrity @ USA, LOTS of good information and how to use Turnitin.com Another good site [] Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize and Avoid It <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Special Needs ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal;">--In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, students with bona fide disabilities will be afforded reasonable accommodation. The Office of Special <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student Services (OSSS) will certify a disability and advise faculty members of reasonable accommodations. If you have a specific disability that qualifies you for academic accommodations, please notify the instructor/professor and provide certification from Disability Services. (OSSS is located in Room 270 of the Student Center (460-7212).

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">__Required Activities – 500 points__ • Create a one-page vita with a photo and upload to DS (10 points) • Weekly meaningful participation in class (10 points/week) • Quizzes (4 at 10 points each) • Weekly "talk back" journals (50 points) • Mid-term and Final exams (50 points each) • Group activities/peer reviews (100 points)
 * Grading**--For this course, a points system and learning contract will be used. Students will be required to participate in certain activities (see Required Activities below). For the remainder of the points, students can choose from a range of activities/projects to produce (see Academic Contract ).

Points/grades will break down along the following lines-- <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A = required + 2 <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">00 optional points <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">B = required + 150 optional points __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __C = required + 100 optional points

D=required+50 optional points F=failure to meet required and/or optional points__
 * Due Dates--**Major exams are listed in the schedule. Quizzes will be scattered throughout the schedule and announced as I see they are needed. Journals will be taken up at midterm and again on the final week of class. Group activities and peer reviews will be announced in-class as they become necessary. Additional projects selected by students will be due on the week that the materials are covered with the exception of the written papers which will be due on the week of the final exam.


 * Absences**--students are allowed to miss 2 weeks worth of class (excused or unexcused) before their grades are lowered. Each additional week of class missed will lower the course grade by a letter grade. If you know you will need to miss multiple weeks (for job, activities, etc.), perhaps you should drop this class and take it at a more conducive time.

Activity Sign-up Area/Schedule <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> NOTE: Since all classes do not progress at the same rate, I may see the need to modify the above requirements or their timing as circumstances dictate. Students will be given adequate notification if such modifications are necessary.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">==== **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tentative Schedule ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">====
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 1 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Course Overview, Introduction to Course Wiki, Background for literature of Colonial America to 1700. || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Purchase textbook ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 2 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">John Smith, "The General History of Virginia"; William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I, Chapter IX. || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sign up for wiki
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Email completed Feed Forward form
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Email completed Academic Contract
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sign up for topics for additional projects
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 3 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I, Chapter XI and "The New England Primer" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 4 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Anne Bradstreet, "Contemplations," "The Flesh and the Spirit," "To My Dear and Loving Husband"; Mary Rowlandson, "Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 5 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cotton Mather, "A People of God in the Devil's Territories"; Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 6 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Literature of Reason and Revolution. Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography" Part 2; J. de Crevecoeur, "What is an American?"; Thomas Jefferson, "Declaration of Independence" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 7 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Phyllis Wheatley "on Being Brought from Africa to America"; William Bryant, "Thanatopsis," "To a Waterfowl"; Olaudah Equiano from his Autobiography || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read over study guide
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bring any questions you have to class ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 8 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Age of Romanticism. Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"; Ralph Emerson, "Nature"
 * Mid-Term Exam** || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Study for Mid-Term ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 9 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Henry Thoreau from Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Live For," "On Civil Disobedience"; Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 10 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Frederick Douglas, //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">, "Letter to His Old Master"; Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," "Young Goodman Brown" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 11 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"; Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Cask of Amontillado //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 12 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 13 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Whitman, "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 14 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed," "I'm Nobody! Who are you?," "I felt a funeral in my Brain," "Because I could not stop for Death," "I heard a Fly buzz," and "A narrow fellow in the grass" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read assignments for this week
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student projects/presentations
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read over study guide
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bring any questions you have about Final Exam
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finalize papers (if chosen as project) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finals Week || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Final Exam** || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Study for Final
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Email Feedback Form ||