Fall 2021 Course Syllabus Course: ENGL-2326- Section: 71 American Literature

Instructor Information
Instructor	Jeremy Belyeu
E-mail	belyeujc@lamarpa.edu
Phone	(409) 984-6436
Office	Location: Student Success Center - Room: 130 Hours: MWF: 9-11 am; TR: 11:30-2 pm
COVID 19 Information	The Lamar State College Port Arthur (LSCPA) Student Code of Conduct COVID 19 Policy requires students who have been exposed to COVID 19 or diagnosed with COVID 19 to report their condition on the COVID 19 Notification Form (available via a link on the Student Code of Conduct COVID19 webpage). This information will be provided to the Dean of Student Services. In addition, this policy requires all students to wear face coverings in compliance with the criteria included in the policy. For more information please refer to the COVID 19 link on the LSCPA website.
Course Information
Description	A survey of American literature from the period of exploration and settlement to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from among a diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving American experience and character.
Prerequisites	Successful completion of ENGL 1301 Composition I
Learning Outcomes	Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions. Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions. Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities. Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.
Core Objectives	* Communication skills: Students will demonstrate effective written, oral and visual communication. * Critical Thinking Skills: Students will engage in creative and/or innovative thinking, and/or inquiry, analysis, evaluation, synthesis of information, organizing concepts and constructing solutions. * Teamwork: Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal and consider different points of view. * Personal Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making.
Program Student Learning Outcomes	PSLO 1: Critical Thinking Skills – Uses creative thinking, innovation, inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information. PSLO 2: Communication Skills – Demonstrates effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and/or visual communication. PSLO 4: Teamwork Skills- Shows the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal. PSLO 6: Personal Responsibility Skills – Integrates choices, actions and consequences in ethical decision-making.
Textbooks	Textbook Purchasing Statement: A student attending Lamar State College Port Arthur is not under any obligation to purchase a textbook from the college-affiliated bookstore. The same textbook may also be available from an independent retailer, including an online retailer. We will be reading and responding to a series of stories in PDF format throughout the semester. Links to these texts will be provided on the class Blackboard page. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TEXTBOOK FOR THIS COURSE.
Lecture Topics Outline	Week 1: Course Overview; Intro to American Literature, Timeline Week 2: Iroquois Creation Story/Bradford Week 3: Bradstreet/Rowlandson/Mather Week 4: Edwards/Franklin/Paine/Wheatley Week 5: Exam 1/ TBA Week 6: Irving/Emerson/Longfellow/Thoreau Week 7: Hawthorne/Poe Week 8: Dickinson/Whitman Weeks 9/10: Exam 2, Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Research Projects Week 11: Twain/Harte/Bierce/James Week 12: Lazarus/Jewett/Chopin/Gilman Week 13: Crane/London/Washington/Exam 3 Week 14: Stein/Frost/Glaspell/Sandburg/Stevens/Pound/Eliot/Hurston/Crane/Hughes/Roethke Week 15: Bishop/Cheever/Lowell/Brooks/Kerouac/Vonnegut/Ginsberg/Plath Week 16: Final (Exam 4) Research Paper due Friday, December 3
Major Assignments Schedule	ASSIGNED READINGS, from the Norton Anthology of American Literature, (9th Edition), provided as both a web link and PDF download on the course Blackboard page. In addition to the texts themselves, students are expected to familiarize themselves with the biographical information of each author to provide context for discussion. Some test questions may include or concern this information. Unit 1 (Weeks 1-5) The Natives and the Colonies: A Time of Firsts [Norton Anthology, Volume A] Iroquois Creation Story (p. 31) William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation, Book 1 (pp. 132-48) Anne Bradstreet: "The Prologue" (pp. 219-20), "The Author to Her Book" (p. 236), "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (pp. 236-37) "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (pp. 269-301) Cotton Mather: "The Wonders of the Invisible World" (p. 322) Johnathan Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (p. 390) Ben Franklin: "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (p. 462) Thomas Paine: Common Sense (pp. 682-88) Phillis Wheatley: "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (p. 789), "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth..." (pp. 789-90) WEEK 6: UNIT 1 EXAM Unit 2 (Weeks 6-9) Becoming Americans Washington Irving: From "A History of New York..." (pp. 998-1003) [End of Vol. A, Begin Vol. B] Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance" (p. 236), Letter to Whitman (p. 307) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "A Psalm of Life" (p. 573), "Evangeline" (p. 576) Henry David Thoreau: Resistance to Civil Government (p. 953-69) Nathanial Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil" (pp.368-76) Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (pp. 1461-69), "Shiloh" (p. 1571) Edgar Allan Poe: "The Masque of the Red Death" (p. 662-65), Philosophy of Composition (p. 701-09) Emily Dickinson: 340 (p. 1667), 479 (p. 1676), 591 (p. 1679), 1096 (p. 1687) Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself" (p. 1312), Letter to Emerson (p. 1395) Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (pp.1236-38) Abraham Lincoln: "A House Divided" (pp. 714-19) WEEK 9: UNIT 2 EXAM Unit 3: (Weeks 10-13) Division and Its Aftermath [End Vol. B, Begin Vol. C] Mark Twain: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (pp. 115-118), "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (pp. 318-30), Toni Morrison on Huckleberry Finn (pp. 312-13) Bret Harte: "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (p. 343-50) Ambrose Bierce: "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (pp. 395-400) Henry James: Daisy Miller, Part 1 (pp. 410-18) Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus" (p. 514) Sarah Orne Jewett: "A White Heron" (pp. 516-22) Kate Chopin: "Desiree's Baby" (pp. 538-41) Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (pp. 844-55) Steven Crane: "The Open Boat" (pp. 1048-63) Jack London: "To Build a Fire" (pp. 1113-23) Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery, Chapter 1 (pp. 701-08) WEEK 13: UNIT 3 EXAM Unit 4 (Weeks 14-16) Modern and Post-Modern America [End Vol. C, Begin Vol. D] Gertrude Stein: From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (pp. 214-17) Robert Frost: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (p. 233), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (p. 233) Susan Glaspell: "Trifles" (p. 241) Carl Sandburg: "Chicago" (p. 267) Wallace Stevens: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" (p. 272) Ezra Pound: "In a Station of the Metro" (p. 297) T.S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men" (pp. 378-80) Zora Neale Hurston: "Sweat" (p. 517) Hart Crane: "At Melville's Tomb" (p. 785) Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (p. 835) [End Vol. D, Begin Vol. E] Theodore Roethke: "My Papa's Waltz" (p. 35) Elizabeth Bishop: "The Fish" (pp. 56-7) John Cheever: "The Swimmer" (pp. 140-7) Robert Lowell: "For the Union Dead" (pp. 308-9) Gwendolyn Brooks: "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmitt Till (p. 313) Jack Kerouac: On the Road, Chapter 1 (pp. 333-8) Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 1 (pp. 344-54) Allen Ginsberg: "Howl" (pp. 487-94) Silvia Plath: "Lady Lazarus" (pp 622-4) WEEK 16: UNIT 4 EXAM (Final)
Final Exam Date	December 8, 2021 - 8:0 AM   Through  December 8, 2021 - 8:0 PM
Grading Scale	90 - 100=A    80 - 89=B    70 - 79=C     60 - 69=D    Below 59 = F
Determination of Final Grade	Exams 1-3 and Final (Multiple Choice and Short Answer): 40% (4 X 10% each) Response Papers (4 total, one per unit, MLA formatted, 500-1000 words): 40% (4 X 10% each) Research Paper (6-8 pages, MLA formatted, correct in-text citations for direct quotes and paraphrases, with a Works Cited page containing at least six scholarly sources): 20% Students who fail to submit a research paper will not pass the course.
Course Policies
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Attendance Policy	Although this is an online course, students are expected to contribute to class discussions and participate in virtual group chats whenever necessary based on instructor discretion. Failure to follow directions and/or pay attention to class announcements/emails will result in failure of the course.
Academic Honesty	Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty.
Facility Policies	No food or tobacco products are allowed in the classroom. Only students enrolled in the course are allowed in the classroom, except by special instructor permission. Use of electronic devices is prohibited.
Important Information
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Other	The Oxford Dictionary defines plagiarism as "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." In order to avoid both intentional and accidental plagiarism, please familiarize yourself with the four types of plagiarism most common in higher education here: https://copyleaks.com/blog/types-of-plagiarism Don't cheat. Don't have someone else write your papers or buy work from an online source. Don't copy and paste online material and try to pass it off as your own. I will know. The first offense will result in a zero on the assignment. The second offense will mean an automatic dismissal from the course and a failing grade. If I catch you plagiarizing, I reserve the right to retroactively regrade all past assignments to ensure that no previous plagiarism has taken place. Students will sign a contract acknowledging their understanding and acceptance of this course policy.
HB 2504	This syllabus is part of LSC-PA's efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504.
Department	General Education and Developmental Studies Chair: Dr. Michelle Davis E-mail: davisml1@lamarpa.edu Phone: (409) 984-6341 If you have a grievance, complaint, or concern about this course that has not been resolved through discussion with the Instructor, please consult the Department Chair.