This document provides the assignments and schedule for an American Literature 201 course. Next week's assignments include identifying reading quotes due Monday and the essay portion of the final exam on Wednesday. Adjustments are listed for late blogs and missing assignments. Works to be read for identifying quotes are listed, including passages from Nature, The Deerslayer, and other works. Key passages from The Deerslayer will be provided by the class. The document ends with reminders to review for the final exam and a quote attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and its source.

1. American Literature 201
November 29
Michael Simpson
Section 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”

2. Next Week’s Assignments
Monday, 12/6
Reading quote identification
Short answer
Last date for all assignments except
Argumentative paper
Wednesday, 12/8
Essay portion of Final Exam
Last date for Argumentative Paper

3. Adjustments
Late and Missing Blogs
Late blogs will count only .5 each
Missing blogs still count off 1 point
No revised version of 7th
graded blog
Minus 5 Points
Revised Research Summary not turned in
Graded blogs 1 thru 6 not revised
Poetry reading video not posted
Email me with any corrections

4. 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

5. The Deerslayer
Key passages provided by class
[only one passage per page]

6. Last Questions
Remember 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.

7. Last Questions
Remember 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.