L141 American Best Sellers
Class Schedule

Week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15

Bring your 3" x 5" or 4" x  6" ruled, white index cards to every class session

PAL = Popular American Literature of the Nineteenth Century Anthology
ER = Electronic Reserve - PDF files available by clicking on the links below:

Rosenwasser and Stephen / What is Analysis and How Does it Work?

Rosenwasser and Stephen / The Fortune Cookie School of Interpretation

Rosenwasser and Stephen / Recognizing and Fixing Weak Theisis Statements

Rossenwasser and Stephen / Making the Thesis Evolve

Read the listed assignments for a given day before the lecture for that day.

WEEK ONE:
M) Course Introduction
T) Discussion Sections

Thoroughly and thoughtfully visit the class web page at http://www.indiana.edu/~bestsell
before your first discussion section meeting

W) PAL: Life of Washington, pages 1- 23
ER: Writing Analytically, 3rd edition - Chapter 1, pages 2-8 and 12-17: "What is Analysis . . . "
      Submit your self-introduction for Week 1
R) Discussion Sections - turn in signed copy of “Course Agreement on Plagiarism and Cheating”
(The last page of the syllabus - detach, sign and turn it in to your discussion section leader).

WEEK TWO:
M) Charlotte Temple, pages xxxxi - 62
PAL: “Novel Reading,” pages 71 - 74
ER: Writing Analytically, 3rd edition - Chapter 3, pages 48-52: "The Fortune Cookie School"
T) Discussion Sections
W) Charlotte Temple, pages 65 - 120
      Submit your question and answer for Week 2
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #1

WEEK THREE:
M) PAL: Quaker City, pages 287 - 345
ER: Writing Analytically, 2nd edition - Chapter 3, pages 77-88: "Recognizing and Fixing . . . "
T) Discussion Sections
W) PAL: Quaker City, pages 346 - 402 Click here for a summary of the ending of the story
      Submit your question and answer for Week 3
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #2 [First drafts due on Life of Washington or Charlotte Temple]

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WEEK FOUR:
M) PAL: Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, pages 651-706
PAL: "Murderers of Fathers, and Murderers of Mothers," pages 62-71
T) Discussion Sections
W) PAL: Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, pages 706-750
      Submit your question and answer for Week 4
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #3 [First drafts due on Quaker City]

WEEK FIVE:
M) PAL: "John Jenkins," "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "Miggles," pages 782-785; 790-804
ER: Writing Analytically, 2nd edition - Chapter 4, pages 109-121: "Making the Thesis . . . "
T) Discussion Sections [First Drafts due on Ten Nights in a Bar-Room]
W) The Secret of the Old Clock, pages 1-94
      Submit your question and answer for Week 5
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #4 [Final papers due on Life of Washington and Charlotte Temple]

WEEK SIX:
M) The Secret of the Old Clock, pages 95-210
T) Discussion Sections
W) No Lecture and no Weekly Written assignment on the web
R) Discussion Sections [Final Papers due on Quaker City and Ten Nights in a Bar-Room]
At least one final draft of an argument paper is due by this date.

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WEEK SEVEN:
M) Peyton Place, pages 1 - 128
T) Discussion Sections
W) Peyton Place, pages 129 - 186
       Submit your question and answer for Week 7
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #5  [Final draft of papers due on "Miggles" and The Secret of the Old Clock]

WEEK EIGHT:
M) Peyton Place, pages 187-289
T) Discussion Sections
W) Peyton Place, pages 290-372
Submit your question and answer for Week 8
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #6

WEEK NINE:
M) The Godfather, chapters 1-10
T) Discussion Sections
W)  The Godfather, chapters 11-13
      Submit your question and answer for Week 9
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #7  [Final draft of papers due on Peyton Place]

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WEEK TEN:
M) The Godfather, chapters 14-23
T) Discussion Sections
W) The Godfather, chapters 24-32
      Submit your question and answer for Week 10
R/F) Discussion Sections with Quiz #8 


WEEK ELEVEN:
M) Misery, Book I, chapter 1 - Book II, chapter 5 {Look up and be able to identify: "Scheherazade"}
T) Discussion Sections
W) Misery, Book II, chapter 6 - Book II, chapter 17
      Submit your question and answer for Week 11
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #9 [Final draft of papers due on The Godfather]

WEEK TWELVE:
M) Misery, Book II, chapter 18 - Book III, chapter 18
T) Discussion Sections
W) Misery, Book III, chapter 19 - end
      Submit your question and answer for Week 12
R/F) Discussion Sections with Quiz #10

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WEEK THIRTEEN:
M) No Lecture
T) No discussion sections
W) Holiday Break
      No weekly assignment for Week 13

WEEK FOURTEEN:
M) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapters 1-9
T) Discussion Sections
W) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapters 10-17
      Submit your question and answer for Week 14
R) Discussion Sections with Quiz #11 [Final draft of papers due on Misery]

WEEK FIFTEEN:
M) Course Review
T) Discussion Sections
W) No Lecture
      Submit your question and answer for Week 15
R) Discussion Sections [Final draft of papers due on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]

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