Dr. Lisa Hammond  University of South Carolina Lancaster  213 Bradley Building  803-313-7044

lhammond@gwm.sc.edu http://web.comporium.net/~lghammond http://blackboard.sc.edu Dr. Hammond's course schedule

All reading assignments include the introduction to the author. Please note also that this syllabus is subject to change as necessary to create a course environment that's flexible and responsive to particular class needs.  You are responsible for keeping up with such changes, which are generally announced at the beginning or end of class; if absent, please check with a classmate or with me, as additional assignments may be made at any time.  

Date	Readings In-Class Activities	Assignments
Th 8/21	Introduction to course and policies  Phillis Wheatley "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
T 8/26	Introduction to the captivity narrative  "Introduction" (American Captivity Narratives 1-17)	8/27:  Last day to drop without a grade of W being assigned
Th 8/28	John Smith From Generall Historie of Virigina (ACN 83-90)  Handsome Lake "How America Was Discovered" (reserve)
T 9/2	Mary Rowlandson  "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (ACN 127-176)	Response 1 due
Th 9/4	Rowlandson con't
T 9/9	Rowlandson con't  "Whose History is It?," Jill Lepore "'Indians':  Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History," Jane Tompkins (reserve)	Response 2 due
Th 9/11	Cotton Mather "Two Puritan Captivities as told by Cotton Mather:  Hannah Dustan and Hannah Swarton,"  (ACN 177-97)
T 9/16	Introduction to the slave narrative  Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (19-55, 70-84)  Introduction (ix-xxxi)	Response 3 due
Th 9/18	Equiano con't  Various texts (Equiano, 204-05, 217-21)
T 9/23	Equiano con't
Th 9/25	No class  Class cancelled while Dr. Hammond attends a conference	Equiano Group Project due to be posted no later than 11:00 a.m.
T 9/30	Frederick Douglass  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (3-80)	Response 4 due
Th 10/2	Douglass con't  "The Autobiographical Writings of Frederick Douglass," Peter Ripley (135-46)	Short Paper 1 due 10/2:  Last day to drop without a grade of WF being assigned
T 10/7	Douglass con't  "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (116-27)
Th 10/9	Harriet Jacobs  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (5-158)  Introduction (ix-xvi)	Response 5 due
T 10/14	Jacobs con't  "Written by Herself:  Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative," Jean Fagan Yellin (203-09)
Th 10/16	No class	Fall Break
T 10/21	Jacobs con't
Th 10/23	Class cancelled for paper conferencing
T 10/28	Class cancelled for paper conferencing
Th 10/30	Unknown "Gertrude Morgan:  Or Life and Adventures Among the Indians of the Far West" (ACN 393-418)	Short Paper 2 due
T 11/4	Zitkala-Sa "Impressions of an Indian Childhood,"  "The School Days of an Indian Girl, " "An Indian Teacher Among Teachers"	Response 6 due
Th 11/6	Andy and Larry Wachowski The Matrix (1999) viewing	Research Project Proposal due
T 11/11	Wachowski con't  The Matrix viewing con't
Th 11/13	Wachowski con't  The Matrix discussion
T 11/18	Presentations
Th 11/20	Presentations
T 11/25	Presentations
Th 11/27	No class	Thanksgiving
T 12/02	Presentations
Th 12/04	Course wrap-up
T 12/11	Final Exam 9:00-11:00 a.m.	Research Paper due