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December 7, 2006 1) For our class on Dec. 12, please read Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead," posted in "Resources." 2) Take-home Final Exam (due Dec. 19) posted in "Assignments."
November 16, 2006 For our class on Nov. 21st, please read the following essays from James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son: "Autobiographical Notes," "The Harlem Ghetto" & "Notes of a Native Son."
November 3, 2006 1] Paper # 2 due November 28th: see assignment 2] We will have to drop McKay's Home to Harlem from class discussion. I hope you still will be able to read it and you are free to write on it. See revised syllabus. 3] Exam on November 2nd here posted.
October 31, 2006 Exam: November 2nd. See model exam.
October 24, 2006 The Exam has been rescheduled for Thursday, November 2nd. On Thursday, October 26th we will finish the Crane readings and on Tuesday, October 31st we will review a model of the up-coming exam. See revised syllabus.
October 18, 2006 I have revised the course syllabus to reflect the changes made in class. All missing work must be passed in before the Exam on October 31st. By then each student should have passed in three 1 pp. paper responses and one critical essay.
September 27, 2006 Paper # 1 is due on October 3rd. Pass in these papers in class. After I have read them, post your revised versions on your website. Temporary Revised office hours: Thursday (9/28): no office hours Monday (10/2): 1:30-3:30 Wednesday (10/4) 10:00-11:30 Thursday (10/5): no office hours Thursday (10/12): 10:00-12:00 Thereafter: Monday 1:30-3:00; Thursday 10:00-12:00 & by appointment.
September 18, 2006 NOTE: Revised office hours: Monday 1:30-3:00; Thursday 10:00-12:00 & by appointment.
September 17, 2006 I have posted essay assignment #1 in "Assigments." For Thursday, Sept. 21st, please read two poems on Walt Whitman ( "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" & "Mannahatta") and one by Herman Melville ("The House-top"). They can be found in "Resources." When you begin to post your 1-pp. papers, number them in order: Assignment #1 on Sept. 26th and so on. Your 4-5 pp. paper (Paper #1 on Syllabus) need not be posted; rather, deliver a paper version in class.
September 7, 2006 See Michale Brick's account of New Yorkers' memories of 9/11 in New York Times, 9/7/06 -- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/nyregion/07voices.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.
NOTE: E 379 meetings have been rescheduled to Wheatley-2-126. We will meet there for our opening class on Tuesday, September 5th, at 1:00 and all classes thereafter.
September 2, 2006
Please post your 1 pp. responses (starting 9/26) on your webpage. (See syllabus for discussion of 1 pp. papers content.) I will set up a profile for each student in the class: Username (your name as it appears on the UMB email system – “shaun.oconnell” for example) and Password (the last four numbers of your UMB Student ID). In “Writing Room,” after entering Username & Password information, you may 1) post a picture of yourself, 2) post the 1 pp. paper or another document, 3) post additional information about yourself, 4) list assignments. I will be able to attach comments to the posted papers and the rest of the class will be able to review the exchange. Please post these papers at least one day before the class during which we will discuss the literary work they address.
August 19, 2006
See readings in “Resources.”
July 10, 2006
Welcome to E 379: Boston & New York. The website for this course, as you have discovered, is found at www.litandwriting.umb.edu. I have posted a syllabus with course requirements and a reading list. I hope you will be able to read some of these works over the summer. This is the best time to read long novels: The Bostonians, A Hazard of New Fortune (I’m only asking you to read chapters 1-12, but you could read it all), The Late George Apley. You may reach me directly at shaun.oconnell@comcast.net. I will be posting more information and links throughout the summer and during the semester, so check the website weekly. As The Happenings so eloquently put it, see you in September. . See WBUR’s “Boston at the Crossroads”: http://www.wbur.org/special/bostonatc/history.asp.
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