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Welcome to the ENH111 Literature and the American Experience (with Instructor Barbara Jordan) wiki. This site supports the face-to-face class being held at Mesa Community College, Spring 20121.

“You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”
(lines 28-29 “Song of Myself” Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman)

Please add titles of your favorite books to The Living Canon and information links to The Living Syllabus. Also, consider submitting your Reader Responses electronically. You may type them directly on the wiki pages or send them to me as attachments. Give me permission to put them on the wiki, and I will.

Note: Students will find the most recent postings by the instructor in the threads directly below this page. Checking "Updates" will show recent postings on or changes to the wiki. Use the navigation bar to scroll down the pages--the "threads" below will appear in reverse chronological order. Scroll ALL the way down the page to check for attachments, which will usually be word-processed documents handed out in class.

From the beginning, in hindsight at least, our social direction is clear. We have moved to become one people out of many. At intervals, men or groups, through fear of people or the desire to use them, have tried to change our direction, to arrest our growth, or to stampede the Americans. This will happen again and again. The impulses which for a time enforced the Alien and Sedition Laws, which have used fear and illicit emotion to interfere with and put a stop to our continuing revolution, will rise again, and they will serve us in the future as they have in the past to clarify and strengthen our process. We have failed sometimes, taken wrong paths, paused for renewal, filled our bellies and licked our wounds; but we have never slipped back—never.

--from “Afterward,” America and Americans, 1966, John Steinbeck
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litamex IInstructor's Note March 25 2011 0 Mar 25 2011, 12:36 PM EDT by litamex
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For those of you who have found the wiki, this is a supplement to the class that we can use for the remainder of the semester if we like. I'll invite the class to this wiki soon.
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litamex Spring 2011 Note to Students--Welcome! 0 Jan 7 2011, 10:36 PM EST by litamex
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I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you as we explore American literature and culture this semester.
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litamex Thursday, May 7th Note from Instructor 1 May 14 2009, 9:59 AM EDT by fairouza
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05/07/09 [an unusual occurrence of consecutive odd numbers]

Well, we've just had our last class session, and I must say how much I have enjoyed having class with all of you this semester. What an amazing group of people you are! Today we learned to pronounce each other's names more or less correctly, and Claudia Herrera revealed my compulsive attention to spelling at the expense of good manners and common sense. Fairouz Ahmadi, Richard Baumgartner, Boris Berman, Danae Dicochea, Somer Fox, Jinha Lee, Sandra Ligocki, Livyi Muela, Sunkung Myung, James Swan, and Aerin-Allyse Winfery--a perfect group of twelve remarkable human beings. Right now I feel like a very lucky person who loves my job. Thank you for your participation in this class.

Feel free to submit late journal entries on the wiki up until the scheduled exam time next week. There are links to all entires that can be accessed from the home page as well as the content bar on the left. Contact me if you need any assistance, preferably through my school email account: bjordan@mesacc.edu. I also reply to messages left on the wiki, and I have voice mail: 480-461-7854. You can come visit me in my office (Building One EO #6).

I hope you've had a good semester, and best of luck with your final projects and exams. I'll be in the GC202 classroom next Thursday, May 14th during the exam time (10:30 - 12:20 p.m.), so if you haven't submitted the exam responses by then, drop them off or write the answers longhand during the exam period.
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Word Document CompareContrastStudentSample.S11.doc (Word Document - 28k)
posted by litamex   Mar 25 2011, 12:50 PM EDT
Sample compare-contrast essay so that you understand the requirements of the essay. Use the same format.
Word Document ENH111AssignmentCalendarPostMidTerm.S11.doc (Word Document - 100k)
posted by litamex   Mar 25 2011, 12:46 PM EDT
Word copy of the assignment calendar for the post-midterm readings.