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Fall 2007
English
Composition Syllabus
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George
Catlin, Comanche Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows (1846
- 1848)
oil on canvas, 19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph
Harrison Jr.
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Instructor: |
Mary
C. Gray
The U of H Writing Center
Agnes Arnold 217
mcgray2@mail.uh.edu
Office hours: by appointment |
“How
can I tell what I think till I see what I say?” – E. M. Forster
Welcome to the English Composition portion of the English/History
course. You must also be registered for HIST 1377 with Dr. Mintz to be
enrolled in this class.
English 1303
is designed to develop your skills in effective written communication
in general and academic writing in particular through reading, thinking,
writing, revising and discussion. Writing practice will include invention,
planning, drafting, and revising. Discussion will cover assigned readings
and writing projects. Additionally, we will work on preparing manuscripts
that are professional by addressing issues of mechanics, grammar, and
presentation in terms of the earned authority of a manuscript.
In these
collaborative classes, we will be working toward developing critical thinking
skills and strengthening written communication while becoming active historians.
Assignments in this class should
both complement and enrich your studies in History. By examining texts
from American writers and artists before 1877, you will discover that
art and literature come not just from a person, but from a time and place,
and, as cultural expression, are inseparable from historical process.
In addition, we will have the advantage of having experts from the College
of Education to help us learn to integrate technology into our writing,
plus consultants from the Writing Center to help us formulate and execute
our ideas.
Grading
Policy
Calendar:
Note:
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Week
1: Introduction to the Course |
Sebastian
Munster,
Map of The Americas (detail of
Magellan’s ship)
(c. 1550) |
Tuesday,
August 21:
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Introduction |
Thursday,
August 23: |
Technology instruction
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Week
2: America's Colonial Legacies - Slavery |
The
Baptism of Pocahontas (detail) 1840
U.S. Capitol Rotunda |
Tuesday,
August 28:
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In Class:
- The
Art of Politics
- View
historical art
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Thursday,
August 30: |
Receive prompt for Web
Project 1: Analyzing Fugitive Slave Advertisements |
Week
3: America's Colonial Legacies - Puritanism |
Illustration
of the execution
of Mary Dyer, (detail) Salem, 1660 |
Tuesday,
September 4: |
Read:
“A
Notable Exploit: Dux Fæmina Facti” (Microsoft Word
format)
from Magnalia Christa Americana, the Ecclesiastical History
of New England – Cotton Mather -1702
“The
Duston Family Story,” (Microsoft Word format)
American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
– Nathaniel Hawthorne -1836
Illustration
from the Hawthorne’s story
The
story of Mary Martin (Microsoft Word format)
from The Journal of John Winthrop - 1630 – 1649
“Pillars
of Salt” (Microsoft Word format)
from Magnalia Christi Americana – Cotton Mather -
1702
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Thursday,
September 6: |
Technology
day – Work on Project 1
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Week
4: The Revolutionary War and the First New Nation |
Illustration
of Phillis
Wheatley from the 1873 edition of her poetry. |
Tuesday,
September 11: |
Read:
The poetry of Phillis
Wheatley - 1773
- "Preface"
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"A Copy of a Letter sent by the Author's Master"
- "To
the Publick"
- "To
the King's Most Excellent Majesty"
- "On
Being Brought to America"
Abigail
Adams’ letters to her husband and his replies –
1776
Receive
prompt for Essay 1: Surprise
and Inform |
Thursday,
September 13: |
Read
“The
Declaration of Independence”
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Week 5: Jeffersonian Republicanism |
George C. Bingham, Daniel Boone
Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap,
(detail) 1851-52 |
Tuesday,
September 18:
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Read:
Query
XIX “Notes on the State of Virginia” – Thomas
Jefferson – 1784
Peer
Review – Project 1 |
Thursday,
September 20: |
Web
Project 1 Due
Receive
prompt for Project
2: American History through Art |
Week
6: The New Nation's Storyteller |
John
Quidor,
The Return of
Rip Van Winkle
(detail) 1849 |
Tuesday,
September 25: |
Read:
"Rip
Van Winkle" - Washington Irving
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Thursday,
September 27: |
History
Test |
Week
7: The Birth of American Popular Culture |
Portraits
of P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) and J.A. Bailey (1847-1906) on a poster
advertising 'The Greatest Show on Earth.' |
Tuesday,
October 2: |
Peer
review Essay 1 |
Thursday,
October 4: |
Essay
1 DUE
Work
on Project 2 |
Week
8: American Transcendentalism |
Photograph
of Ralph
Waldo Emerson with manuscript, 1848 |
Tuesday,
October 9: |
Read:
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Henry
David Thoreau
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Thursday:
October 11: |
Technology
Instruction |
Week
9: Slavery and the Slave South |
William
Sydney Mount, The Power of Music (detail) 1847 |
Tuesday,
October 16: |
Peer
review Project 2 |
Thursday,
October 18: |
Web
Project 2 Due
receive
prompt for Project
3: American Stories |
Week 10: The Age of Jackson |
George
Catlin, Stu-mick-o-sucks,
Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief,
Blood Tribe (1832) |
Tuesday,
October 23: |
Read:
One
of George Catlin's Letters
and Notes – 1832
In
class: View work of George Catlin
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Thursday,
October 25: |
Work on Project 3
Receive
prompt for Essay 2: An Emblem
of History |
Week
11: Radical Reform: Women's Rights |
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
And her daughter, 1856 |
Tuesday,
October 30:
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Read:
“The
Declaration of the Rights of Women” – The Seneca
Falls Convention - 1848
In
class: “Remember the Ladies” - Milestones of the Women’s
Movement
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Thursday,
November 1: |
Working with primary sources |
Week 12: American Gothic |
Edgar
Allen Poe |
Tuesday, November 6:
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Read:
"The
Tell-tale Heart" - Edgar Allen Poe |
Thursday,
November 8: |
Strategies for Essay 2 |
Week
13: Walt Whitman's America |
Walt
Whitman, age 37, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton
St., Brooklyn, N.Y., steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost
daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. |
Tuesday,
November 13: |
Read:
“Song
of Myself” (excerpts) – Walt Whitman - 1855 |
Thursday,
November 15: |
Read:
“When
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” – Walt Whitman
- 1865
Peer review Essay 2
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Week
14: American History in Perspective |
Harris
Rodrigan,
The Mayflower, c. 1934 |
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Essay
2 Due |
Thursday,
November 22: NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break |
Week
15: Conclusion |
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Tuesday,
November 27: |
Project
3 due |
Thursday,
November 29: |
History
Test and Presentations |
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Reproduction of Comanche Chasing Buffalo with Lances
and Bows:
Catlin, George. Comanche Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows.
1846 - 48. Online image. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Mrs.
Joseph Harrison Jr. 2005. 16
August 2007. http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/catlin_browsec.cfm?ID=492.
Additional
images:
Bingham,
George C. Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap.
1851-52. Online image. Daniel Boone as Colonizer. 11 October 1995. The
University of Virginia. 16 August 2007. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Boone/colonizer.html.
Catlin, George.
Stu-mick-o-sucks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe.
1832. Online image. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Mrs.
Joseph Harrison Jr. 2005. 16 August 2007. http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/catlin_naturalman.cfm?key=16&search=Chief.
Chapman,
John Gadsby. The Baptism of Pocahontas. 1840. Online Image.
Digital History. 16 August 2007. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/pocohontas/pocahontas_who.cfm.
Portrait
of Edgar Allen Poe. Online image. 16 August 200.7 http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Poe_Annapolis.
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and her daughter. 1856. Online image. The Library of
Congress. 16 August 2007. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a49000/3a49000/3a49096v.jpg
The Execution of Mary Dyer. Nineteenth Century. Online image.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. The Library of Congress.
16 August 2007. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/obj-list.html.
Hollyer,
Samuel. “Walt Whitman.” 1855. Online image. Walt Whitman.
Wikipedia. 16 August 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman.
Mount, William
Sydney. The Power of Music. 1847. Online image. The Cleveland
Museum of Art. 16 August 2007. http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/artistwork.asp?artistLetter=M&recNo=311&woRecNo=0
Munster,
Sebastian. The Americas: Tabula Nouarum insularum. c. 1550. Online
image. Digital History. 8 August 2005. http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1550m8.jpg.
Quidor, John.
The Return of Rip Van Winkle. 1849. Online image. Themes in
American Art - Narrative Art. The National Gallery of Art. 16 August
2007. http://www.nga.gov/education/american/narrative-i.shtm.
Phillis
Wheatley. Illustration to the volume of her poetry. 1873. Online
image. Renascance Editions. 16 August 2007. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/wheatley.html.
Portrait
of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1848. Online image. The Harvard Gazette
archives. Harvard University. 16 August 2007. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.03/01-emerson.html.
Rodrigin,
Harris. The Mayflower. Online image. 16 August 2007.
http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/wpafolder/mayflower.html.
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