ENGL 383.001 Assignments
8/29-9/9/05 (Weeks 1-2)
Assignments can be updated at needs/speed of the class; you will be notified of
updates by e-mail, and are responsible for checking the page after notification.
Course Reserve Materials: For reasons of time, convenience, and
expense -- especially expense -- I have placed additional course readings on one-hour course reserve in the Blackwell
Library. Accessing library reserve materials for this class is easy:
- know before you go to the library which Collection you're looking for (I
list this in the schedule updates; see the example in the update below), as well
as for what class (ENGL 383) and what professor (Dr.
Melczarek) -- don't embarrass both of us by going in without knowing this
information! TAKE YOUR SU ID card to
check out materials.
- go to the main desk in the library, and look for the binders labeled
"Course Reserve" (or something like that); go to M (for "Melczarek"), and
indicate to the desk staff which collection for this class you need
- you have one hour with this material before you must return it to the
desk, and you cannot leave the library with the material -- TAKE THE MATERIALS TO
THE NEAREST PHOTOCOPIER, COPY THE MATERIAL, AND RETURN THE MATERIAL TO THE DESK
YOU GOT IT FROM. I tell you to photocopy the material because that's the only way
you can have it with you in class, to read and to take notes on. DO NOT WRITE ON
THE ORIGINALS AS OTHER STUDENTS NEED TO PHOTCOPY THEM. Do not try to read and
memorize the material for class; there's simply too much.
Do not wait until the last minute to check out and photocopy these items. If the
necessary items are all checked out, go to the photocopiers and ask the other
students there whether any of them are photocopying materials for my class.
SUGGESTION: start reading ahead in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man that we will get to in a few weeks. That way you are already familiar with the events of the story before we being discussing the novel in depth.
»»WEEK 1 (1/30 - 2/3/06)
for MONDAY January 30 --
-- introduction and description of course & course content
for WEDNESDAY February 1
-- discussion of the Atlantic slave trade
--have read, taken notes on, and be ready to discusss: Olaudah Equiano biographical material, and excerpts from Interesting Life (Collection 1); Phyllis Wheatley biographical material and poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "Imagination" (Collection 1)
for FRIDAY February 3
--have read, taken notes on, and be ready to discusss: Phyllis Wheatley biographical material and poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "Imagination" (Collection 1), and Frederick Douglass biographical material and "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (Collection 1)
»»WEEK 2 (2/6 - 2/10/06)
for MONDAY January 6
--have read, taken notes on, and be ready to discusss: Frederick Douglass biographical material and "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (Collection 1)
for WEDNESDAY January 8
--have read, taken notes on, and be ready to discusss: Frederick Douglass biographical material and "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (Collection 1)
for FRIDAY January 10
--have read, taken notes on: and be ready to discuss: Booker T. Washington biographical material and "The Alanta Exposition Address" (Collection 2)
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