Important Note to Students

The HAMLIT assignment page is a convenience but not something to be dependent on. When possible, homework and reading assignments will be posted here, but you are expected to complete all assignments that are announced in class on time, regardless of whether they are posted online. If you are absent, or do not remember if there is an assignment, you will need to contact another member of class to verify what the assignment is. Neither I nor the site are responsible for your failure to complete this responsibility.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Updates

Please make sure you are making progress on the assignments in the previous posts.

Your "Minister's Black Veil" concern letter will be turned in ONLINE only. An assignment is now available on Turnitin for you to submit to, with the due date as December 1st at noon.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Due Monday after Thanksgiving

1. Moby Dick reading from your textbook. (You need the actual book to complete this reading. Because it is excerpts from a novel, I can't link to the passages that your book uses.)

2. Letter from Reverend Hooper from "A Minister's Black Veil".

Imagine you are a Reverend Hooper responding to the community's concerns about your wearing of the black veil. Create a supported response that approximately follows the format below.


 Greeting/Salutation

 Overview of your purpose for writing the letter.

 Your acknowledgement of the negative consequences wearing the veil is having on
the community.*

 Your reasons for why you feel it necessary to wear the veil.*

 Summary and acknowledgments

 Your name and information


*Each of these sections should contain multiple quotations from the text to support your claims.



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Due Thursday

Read "The Minister's Black Veil".

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Due Wednesday

Read Doctor Heidegger's Experiment. The story is available in your books, but the text is available here in case you forgot your book.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Due Monday

Read the excerpts from Emerson in your book: "Nature" and "Self-Reliance" (268-271)

Additionally,

Research Emerson quotations online and select 5 that you really enjoy. Copy and paste the quotations into a document and format it so that you have a pretty readable font-size (around 20). Cut out each quotation individually, and bring them with you to class.

We will be doing a class activity with these quotations, so make sure to get this done so you don't feel left out.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Due Wednesday

Please make sure you have completed all elements of the "Devil and Tom Walker" assignment.

Also, please make sure you have read pages 162-172 in your lit book, which will provide you background information to this time period. There will be a quiz.