Submitting email comments on the reading is helpful to class discussion. Essays Essays are due at the beginning of class on the day assigned. You must hand in something, even if you do not consider it your very best, in order to receive credit for the assignment. After that they will drop a full grade for each day late. You may choose which essay you would like to revise, but you must submit the revision by the due date.
Revisions are a separate assignment from essays and get their own grade.
You will not need to consult outside works for these essays and are discouraged from doing so. Use of old course essays or notes, Cliff's Notes , essays posted on websites, or other sources will interfere with your own thinking and is also strongly discouraged. It is assumed that any essay you submit represents your own work. These novels take place at home, in the domestic sphere, though perhaps at some remove from the reader's home. Yet they also critique the American home.