Professor Schell (Section S/19)

Part V Exemplary Lives: Exemplary Lives in Historical Context      

Schedule of Readings and Class Meetings

Text: Louis Masur's 1831: The Year of the Eclipse

 

Week 11 November 7th- 11th      Reading: Part I and II of Masur's 1831, Slavery and Abolition  and Religion and Politics (9-114).

Your group should meet this week and begin discussing your project.

Monday Begin reading 1831: Introduction (3-8). Class: Review argument from Larrimore's convocation; Introduction to Masur's 1831 and Part V of class
Tuesday

Hallie formal paper due in class. . Reading: 1831 (9-34 on Nat Turner and William Lloyd Garrison )

Wednesday

Reading: 1831 (34-62 on de Tocqueville and Virginia debate about slavery). Reading quiz.

Thursday

No class meeting. Please read 1831 (63-88 on Religion and Reform and Women and Working classes)

Friday

Reading: 1831 (88-114 on Anti-Masons and National Republicans and Andrew Jackson) Informal writing due in class:

Informal writing assignment: Choose a figure discussed in Part I or Part II of 1831.  Discuss the figure in terms of the historical context and comment on whether they can be considered exemplary. In your paper, make sure to paraphrase Masur at least once (and cite correctly) and directly quote Masur at least once (and cite correctly). For this paper, please provide a full citation at the end of the paper for the text, using MLA format.

 

Week 12 November 14th - 18th     Reading: Part III of Masur's 1831, State and Nation  (115-168)

Continue research for group project.

Monday

Reading: 1831 (115- 135 on Indians)

Tuesday

Convocation: Jeff Rankin, "History of the College."

Reading: 1831 (135-144  Bank of the United States)

 

*6pm. Dinner at the Quinby House with President and Mrs. Ditzler. We will meet in front of Wallace Hall at 5:45 pm and walk over together. Please dress appropriately for the dinner (informal but neat).

Wednesday

Learning community: Craig Vivian on 60s activism. *Electronic Classroom, Hewes Library.

Reading: 1831 (144-160 on Nullification). Annotated Bibliography due in class.

Thursday

Convocation: William Ayers, University Illinois, Chicago.

Reading: 1831 (160-166 on July 4, 1831)

 

Week 13 November 21st - 23rd   Reading: Part IV of Masur's 1831, Machines and Nature (169- 216).

Monday

Class meets with Professor Mato's class in Wallace 201.

Reading: 1831 (169 - 182  on Railroads and reapers)

Tuesday

Convocation: Professor Benita Dilley, Monmouth College. "Reading Television and the Movies" (information literacy)  Reading: 1831 (182-206 on Tocqueville and Beaumont, Audubon and cholera)

Wednesday

Class meets with Professor Mato's class in Wallace 201.

Reading: 1831 (206-216 on Mt. Auburn Cemetary and Frances Trollope)

Thursday

No class: Happy Thanksgiving!