Week 2: 9/10 and 9/12

In advance of Tuesday's class, please read/watch:

Chapter 2: Traditional American Values and Beliefs

Give me Liberty or Give me Death

Let America Be America Again

I Hear America Singing

Lincoln, Speech at New Haven

Excerpts from Self Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Please note that this is different from what is listed on the syllabus.  The above readings are correct and up to date.

As noted in an earlier post, by Tuesday at class time, please write a reverse outline of EITHER Goldman or Kennedy (linked in the preceding post and handed out in class on Tuesday) print it out, and place it in your Journal notebook or folder to bring to class, AND email it to at least three classmates and CC your professor.   In order to do this successfully, please get three classmates' email addresses in class on Thursday, 9/5.

Get ready!  By Tuesday, September 16, please write a finished, polished version of "I hear America singing", email it to three classmates and CC your professor, and print it out and put it in your Journal notebook or folder.  Here are some versions of the poem written by your fellow students and published in The Nation for inspiration.