AML 3930: Early American Women’s Words

Weekly Course Schedule

Note: All responses to Forum assignments must be posted to your group by Friday at 11:59 p.m.

Week/Date	In-class Activities, Readings and Discussions	Posting
1. M 1/6/03	Read “Learning-on-Line” in WebCT; read syllabus and schedule at http://webct.ucf.edu/SCRIPT/aml3930c/scripts/serve_home	Introduce yourself to other group members
W 1/8/03	Rowlandson, in Derounian-Stodola, pp. 1-52
F 1/10	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 1 (Rowlandson)
2. M 1/13-W 1/15	Rowlandson (cont’d) Dustan; Hanson, in Derounian-Stodola, pp. 53-80
F 1/17	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 2 (Dustan, Hanson)
3. M 1/20 Martin Luther King Day, no class meeting
W 1/22	Go to the following websites and read the biography of Phillis Wheatley (first site) and then the following from her book, “Preface,” “Copy of a letter,” “To the Publick,” “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To S.M. a Young African Painter.” http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_219.htm http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/wheatley.html To view images of the original text, go to http://149.123.1.7/dynaweb/digs/wwm9728 and see title page, image, and illustration. No class meeting; you are invited to attend the forum “Black Women and Feminism” in VAB 105 from 1-2 p.m. (See www.cas.ucf.edu/womensstudies for more information.).
F 1/24	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 3 (Wheatley)
4. M 1/27-W 1/29	Kinnan, Panther in Derounian-Stodola, pp. 81-90 and 105-116
F 1/31	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 4 (Kinnan, Panther)
5. M 2/3-W 2/5	Ashbridge, Some Account of the Forepart of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. Go to the Heath Anthology of American Literature website at http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth/ashbridge_el.html and click on the “Link” at bottom of page to full text http://www.sewanee.edu/amstudies/Ashbridge.html.
F 2/7	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 5 (Ashbridge)
6. M 2/10- W 2/12	Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey, in Taves’ Religion and Domestic Violence
F 2/14	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 6 (Bailey)
7. M 2/17	Memoirs (cont’d);
W 2/19	Women’s Crime Narratives (Wilson, Boston, Rodgers, and Wall) at UCF library electronic reserve from Daniel E. Williams, ed. Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal Narratives (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1993).
F 2/21	Forum Posting Assignment	See Modules 6 and 7 (Bailey and Crime Narratives)
8. M 2/24-W 2/26	Reed, “Six Months in a Convent” in Veil of Fear
F 2/28	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 8 (Convent Tales)
9. M 3/3-W 3/5	Monk, “Awful Disclosures…” in Veil of Fear
F 3/7	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 8 (Convent Tales)
10. M 3/10-W 3/12	Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, in Derounian-Stodola, pp. 117-210
F 3/14	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 9 (Jemison)
M 3/17- F 3/23	Spring Break
11. M 3/24-W 3/26	Southworth, The Hidden Hand, first half only
F 3/28	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 10 (Southworth)
12. M 3/31-W 4/2	Southworth, The Hidden Hand, second half
F 4/4	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 10 (Southworth)
13. M 4/7-W 4/9	Spofford, “Circumstance” and “The Godmothers” in The Amber Gods and Other Stories
F 4/11	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 11 (Spofford)
14. M 4/14-W 4/16	Spofford, “The Amber Gods” in The Amber Gods and Other Stories
F 4/18	Forum Posting Assignment	See Module 11 (Spofford)
15. M 4/21-W 4/23	Spofford, “The Black Bess,” “The Moonstone Mass” in The Amber Gods
F 4/25	Optional Posting Assignment only
Final Exam Period W 4/23 1-3:50 p.m.	Presentations of Final Assignment (review of supplementary text)