American Literature 201November 15

Michael SimpsonSection 051

Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. [978]

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

Next Week’s Assignments

Monday, 11/22Deadline for 16th blog (FINAL blog)Read “Bartleby, the Scrivener”Submit passage for review in class (extra point)

Wednesday, 11/24 (No Class)

Monday, 11/29Identify 7th Graded Blog (FINAL Graded Blog) Read Cooper’s “Deerslayer”Submit passage for review in class (extra point)

Assignment Status

Current Research Summary Papers submittedGraded Blogs thru #6 and total blogsPoetry Video (distribution to be determined)

Last Deadline = Monday, 12/6 (Midnight)Revise all blogs for creditRevise Research Summary papers for creditPost video on blog

Argumentative Paper = Wednesday, 12/8, 6:30 PM

The Fall of the House of Usher

Key passages provided by class

Last QuestionsRemember for November 17

Deadline for 15th blogRead Uncle Tom’s Cabin thru Chapter IX

“It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.

Last QuestionsRemember for November 17

Deadline for 15th blogRead Uncle Tom’s Cabin thru Chapter IX

“It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.