HW: Read: Chpt. 1. Find date of arrival of the Mayflower and date of arrival of the first slave ship to “the new world.” Bring to class.Write: Journal entry 1: Questions 1 and 4, pgs. 13 and 14.Find a poem on the web by, and biographical info on, Phillis Wheatley. Print and bring to class. (Check our website for helpful link)

HW: Read Chpt. 14. Journal entry 2: explicate (see pg. 36 for explanation of “explication”) and respond to one stanza of one of Wheatley’s poems other than the one in the book. Optional journal entry: Compare/contrast Wheatley’s “On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA” (924) with Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” (635).HW: Read “Martin Luther King Jr.” by Gwendolyn Brooks (944). Do journal entry 3 on the poem in which you explicate it. Journal entry 4: look up King’s “Dream” speech (check our web site for a link). Compare Brooks’ poem to King’s speech.

HW: Read Chpt. 27. Find a painting by Ernie Barnes that relates to Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem.” Journal 5: How does the painting refer or relate to Hughes’ poem? Look at other Ernie Barnes paintings. Find one that relates to dreams and write about it.HW: Read Chpt. 2. Journal 6—write your own poem about van Gogh’s The Starry Night, then explicate your own poem. Begin reading A Raisin in the Sun.Optional journal: initial reactions to Raisin

HW: Finish Raisin

HW:. Look up “McCarthyism” on the web. Optional Journal: Describe “McCarthyism” in your own words. Look up “the Patriot Act” on the web. Are there any connections between the McCarthy era and now?Read Chapt. 6 on Allegory and Symbolism (including Welty’s “A Worn Path”)

HW: Journal 7: Discuss one symbol in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path.” (Hint: look up the old woman’s name in a dictionary)Go to Cyberguide for A Raisin in the Sun. Use Activity #5 to arrive at subject of first paper: You will be writing about a symbol that occurs in the play. Bring first draft to next class. Include copy of first draft in journal 8

HW: Revise paper. Optional Journal: What I have learned about symbolism so far.Optional journal: Watch movie, Malcolm X. Write response

HW: Journal 1: look at and respond to the “Interprise Poll—American Dream 2000.”

HW: Journal 2: compare the book and the movie. What was different? What was the same? Did any of the characters look differently than what you pictured? Did any of the characters in the movie play his/her part differently than you thought it should be played? Did the movie or the book make you “feel” something? What? Which made you “feel” the most? Why?

HW: Read (or re-read) “Might We Too?” (19) Journal 3—question #2 pg. 20. Bring to classBegin reading Chpt. 9. (pgs. 168-184) Journal 4: On “Battle Royal”: What was the narrator willing to do to achieve his dream? (This requires more than the concrete answer of what he physically “did” in the story.) Was he right? What are you willing or not willing to do to achieve your dream(s)? What were the dreams of the men in the crowd? Were they legitimate dreams? Why or why not? What makes a dream legitimate or illegitimate?

HW: Read pgs. 184-20

HW: Finish Chpt. 9. Journal 5: What is W. E. B. Du Bois’ gripe with B. T. Washington? Who do you agree with and why? Whose dream is more legitimate?

HW: Re-read Gunnar Myrdal (191). Journal 6: What is this selection an excerpt from? What is/was the significance of the original? How does it relate to A Raisin in the Sun?Read 869-884(Emily Dickinson section of Chpt. 28.)

HW: Find biographical information about Dickinson. Bring to class. Find article on Dickinson’s religious beliefs. Find poems about her religious beliefs. Print one and bring to class.

HW: Begin reading The Talented Mr. Ripley (if you haven’t already).

HW: Keep reading Ripley. Also read pgs. 66-76 and 85-93 in Intro. to Lit. book

HW: continue reading Ripley. Read“A Good Man is Hard to Find” (284).

HW: Journal 2: identify and trace a recurring symbol throughout “Good Man.”

HW: continue reading Ripley. Journal 3: Begin to identify recurring themes and symbols.

HW: Finish Ripley. Journal 4: start free writing and/or listing connections between “Good Man” and Ripley. This will be the basis for your next paper.

HW: Draft paper on “Good Man” and Ripley. Include copy of first draft in journal 5.

HW: Revise paper

HW: work on project and paper.

HW: continue work on project and paper.

HW: Journal 1 on differences between book and movie. What was lost? What gained?

HW: continue work on papers and projects. Read “One Friday Morning” (385) and “The Son of America” (391)

HW: Journal 3: Do you see any ways that the American Dream has become lost or twisted? If so, what or how. If not, explain why it remains legitimate or intact. In either case, cite works from this class to prove your thesis. (Since there have been so few journals in this section, I expect this one to be quite long and detailed—a couple of pages would be good. In some ways, this is a wrap up of the semester’s discussions.)