American Literature 201November 8

Michael SimpsonSection 051

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. [976]

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

Next Week’s Assignments

Monday, 11/15Submit 1st draft of argumentative paperRead “The Fall of the House of Usher”Submit passage for review in class (extra point)

Wednesday, 11/17Deadline for 15th blogRead Uncle Tom’s Cabin thru Chapter IX”Submit passage for review in class (extra point)

The Birth Mark

Key passages provided by class

Last QuestionsRemember for November 10

Conferences for recording poetry video

“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.