Home Page for Prof. Furr's History of the English Language course Fall 2014

Welcome to the Home Page for Prof. Furr's History of the English Language course ENGL-284
Fall 2014

ENGL 284-01 TR 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. UH 2012

I plan to put on this page links to all kinds of course information and other material related to the readings in this course.
Please let me know if you find any relevant sites on the Internet that other students should know about.

Class Photo
Group One	Group Two
Group Three	Group Four
Group Five

Email me here if you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or problems.

NOTE: Some of my web pages have my old email address on them -- furrg@ALPHA.montclair.edu. This email address does not work any more! Do not email me at 'ALPHA'.

English Department Home Page

ORGANIZATION:

Homework Page	Class Schedule	Course Syllabus	Prof. Michael Drout, A History of the English Language. Course Guide -download it FREE here.	Prof. Seth Lerer. "The History of the English Language" - video series of all 36 lectures online free at Youtube
The Oxford English Dictionary Online	Software You Will Need and How To Get It	The List of Recommended Readings and Activities	Guidelines for Biweekly Assignments	How To Produce 'Plain Text' for Emailing Your HW
Streaming Audio Instructions	How to E-mail an Essay Using the Copy-and-Paste Method (any E-mail client)	*Professor Elly Van Gelderen's Page to Accompany her Textbook A History of the English Language, revised edition (2012)*	IRC Information for Distance Classes	Instructions for Off-Campus Access to Electronic Databases at Sprague Library

* I present these eight themes or topics to you at the beginning of the course. You'll find them in these and many, many other novels and literature from formerly colonial countries.

NOTE: By pressing the button on the far right below each 'slide', you can get a large-print copy of the slide without any illustrations, suitable for printing, if you like. The button with the little house on it takes you back to this page, our course's "Home Page."

How To Inform Me of Your Absence (preferably beforehand, but no later than the same day).

Email me at furrg - AT - mail.montclair.edu, with the following Subject line:

Lastname HL [date of class you are absent] Absent

For example:

Subject: Robinson HL September 21 Absent

That way I'll be able to recognize, file, and later find, your email, and so give you credit for an "excused absence."

In addition, here are Links to other sites that are relevant to our course. This is really what you'll find on the rest of this page -- you can get to the other materials by "jumping" from the links above

PLEASE NOTE:

1. You must have at least two e-mail addresses for this course.

2. You MUST use the MSU mail email account for this course. It is "free" -- i.e. you have already paid for it in your tuition.

To set up this account, go here.

NOTE: To use your MSU email, go to http://webmail.montclair.edu

You also need a second email account, for emergency use only, in case the MSU mail server breaks down. If you don't have one already, you can get free email.

To get free web-based e-mail, go to one of these two indexes:

Yahoo's List of Free E-mail Sites;
The Free Email Address Directory - more complete, and lots more help than Yahoo.

3. You must have at least two ISPs for this course, in case one of them "goes down." You are responsible for emailing your work on time even if your ISP is not working. So, you have to have at least two of them.

4. You MUST set up the MSU ISP on your home/dorm computer. It is "free" too (already paid for).

To set up the MSU ISP, go here.

You will need to use the MSU ISP to access some of the databases we will use in this course.

5. You will also need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader on your home/dorm computer. (It is already on all the computer lab computers at MSU). Download it from this page.

IMPORTANT: Whenever you email me, use the proper subject line:

Subj: Yourlastname HL date assignment is due

The "HL' tells me which class your email comes from.

For example, if your last name is 'Robertson' and your are emailing me the assignment for the class on September 23,

Subj: Robertson HL September 23 (or, 9/23, or Sept. 23, etc.)

Note: NO YEAR! Please do not put the YEAR in your subject line!

If you don't, I'll forward your e-mail right back to you.

Be sure to "send a copy to yourself" of ALL your homework assignments!

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