American Lit. Course Calendar Spring 2021
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Reading responses, exams, and essays must be completed before 11:59 p.m. on the Sunday following the week under which they are listed. For instance, Reading Response #11—“Going to Meet the Man” by James Baldwin—is listed under the week of March 14–20; therefore, it is due on or before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 21. The same is true of your two exams and your one essay. The readings that require you to write reading responses are typed in bold and red. Exams and essays are typed in ultra bold and blue. The volume and page number for each reading are in parentheses. For instance, “(D582)” would indicated that the reading is in Volume D of your textbooks and on Page 582 in that volume. Footnotes are listed numerically and can be found on the last page of this course calendar. Be sure you read them.1 A lot of times you will see the initials ALW following an en dash—a punctuation mark that is longer than a hyphen and shorter than an em dash, which is traditionally referred to simply as a “dash.” This is a weird habit I developed years ago when social media was first starting out. The organization I was running at the time had a group of assistants, secretaries, PR people, and other individuals who would make posts under my name. To indicate that I personally wrote the post, I would add “–ALW,” and it’s a habit I’ve kept
Allen Loibner-Waitkus • UA-PTC