EN220/IN250, American Identity, O'Conner

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Syllabus, Spring 2004, IN250/EN220
American Identity: What Is an American? Changing American Identity in the 20th Century

01-22 Intro to course, Joke, International Student Guide, see essays in Links

01-27 The US and its Puritan past, AS1, Bradford Intro, Bradford's Journal, Winthrop's City on the Hill
01-29AS3, Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, What is American Worksheet

02-03 Franklin, the Practical Yankee, Way to Wealth, Aphorisms,Video: Bill Moyers, National Soul, Vol One
02-05 Slavery in America, Douglass, Lincoln Speeches, Video: Africans in America, 1831-65, Judgement Day

02-10 AS4, Whitman, Native Americans, Chief Joseph , Little Big Horn
02-12 AS1 DUE, Immigration, Critique of Movie: Avalon (1990), Director Levinson

02-17 AS2, Steinbeck (through Ch14)
02-19 Steinbeck (through Ch22), Group 1 Presentation

02-24 Steinbeck (end) Elements of Fiction, Fiction Template Grapes of Wrath
02-26 Midterm

03-02 Gatsby Ch 1 -3
03-04 Gatsby Ch 4-7, Group 2 Presentation

03-09 Gatsby Ch 8-9 and afterward
03-11 Ellison (Prologue to end of Ch6), Armstrong, Washington vs. DuBois

03-16 Ellison(Ch7 to end of Ch13), Group 3 Presentation
03-18 Ellison(Ch14 to end of Ch20)

03-30 Ellison (Ch21 to end of book)
04-01 Roth "Defender of the Faith" (Blackboard)

04-06 Advising Day
04-08 Roth "Conversion of the Jews" (Blackboard), AS2 DUE, IM extra credit due

04-13 Viramontes (end of Ch2), AS4 draft section due
04-15 Midterm Essay Exam Due, via email -class does not meet

04-20 Viramontes(end of Ch3), Group 4 Presentation, AS4 draft section due
04-22 Viramontes(end of Ch4)

04-27 Erdrich, "Fleur" (Blackboard), AS4 draft section due
04-29 Erdrich, "The Red Convertible" (Blackboard)

05-04 Momaday(end of CH XI), AS4 draft section due
05-06 Momaday(end), Group 5 Presentation

05-11 Course Eval, AS4 final draft due

05-17 10:30-12:30 Lib13, Final Exam