Welcome back to school! This is the first post on this blog this year. I typically update this blog 2 or 3 times a week. You can look here for brief summaries of what we did in class, assignments, and due dates.

A major project that students have been doing on-going work on is the Thesis project where they study a major American author throughout the year. Right now, students are in the exploratory phase, doing some reading of some authors and then determining who they want to study all year. Their first major assignment, "Author Selection," is due Monday Sept. 27.

I assigned a short reading by Frederick Douglass today (see me for the reading hand-out) and the assignment for reading it is here: Frederick Douglass. This is due on Thursday Sept. 23.