American Literature 201November 29

Michael SimpsonSection 051

We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. [951]

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

Next Week’s Assignments

Monday, 12/6Reading quote identificationShort answerLast date for all assignments except Argumentative paper

Wednesday, 12/8Essay portion of Final ExamLast date for Argumentative Paper

Adjustments

Late and Missing BlogsLate blogs will count only .5 eachMissing blogs still count off 1 point

No revised version of 7th graded blog

Minus 5 PointsRevised Research Summary not turned inGraded blogs 1 thru 6 not revisedPoetry reading video not posted

Email me with any corrections

Works for Reading Quotes

Nature

American Scholar

Rip Van Winkle

The Big Bear of Arkansas

Emily Dickinson poem

The Birth Mark

The Fall of the House of Usher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Bartleby, the Scrivener

The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer

Key passages provided by class [only one passage per page]

Last QuestionsRemember for December 1

Review for Final Exam

“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 December 1

Review for Final Exam

“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.