Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
REMEMBER: Friday classes last twice as long as Monday and Wednesday classes, and Friday classes meet in a different room.
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September 7 |
Introduction |
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| Part I: Arrivals in the New World |
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September 8 |
Christopher Columbus, from "Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493," from "Journal of the Third Voyage to America, 1498-1500"
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation |
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September 11 |
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, continued |
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September 13 |
John Smith, from "A Description of New England" |
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September 15 |
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation |
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September 18 |
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
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September 20 |
Anne Bradstreet, "The Flesh and the Spirit," "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet . . ." "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" |
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September 22 |
Edward Taylor, Preparatory Mediations 1.8 and 2.26: "Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread" and "Meditation. Heb. 9.13.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc."
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
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| Part II: Enlightenment and Revolution |
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September 25 |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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September 27 |
J. Hector St. John de Crévecœur, from Letters from an American Farmer |
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September 29 |
Crévecœur, continued
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
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October 2 |
Crévecœur, continued
Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
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October 4 |
Philip Freneau, "On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple" |
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October 6 |
Joel Barlow, "The Hasty Pudding" |
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October 9 |
MID-TERM EXAMINATION
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| Part III: An American Renaissance |
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October 11 |
Thomas Jefferson, from "Notes on the State of Virginia" |
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October 13 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
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October 16 |
Emerson, "The American Scholar" |
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October 18 |
Emerson, "Self Reliance" |
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October 20 |
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government," Walden, Chapter 1: Economy |
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October 23 |
Thoreau, Chapter 2: Where I Lived |
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October 25 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 17: Spring |
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October 27 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom House"
The Scarlet Letter (itself), chs. 1-4 |
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October 30 |
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chs.5-8 |
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November 1 |
Hawthorne, chs. 9-15 |
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November 3 |
Hawthorne, chs. 16-24 |
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November 6 |
Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Raven"
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| Part IV: Ending the Slave System |
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November 8 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chs I-V |
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November 10 |
Stowe, chs V-IX |
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November 13 |
Stowe, chs X-XIII |
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November 15 |
Stowe, chs XIV-XVI |
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November 17 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
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November 20 |
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
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November 22 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
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November 24 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 27 |
Stowe, chs XXXIII-XXXVIII |
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November 29 |
Stowe, chs XXXIX-end |
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December 1 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
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December 4 |
Douglass, continued
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
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December 6 |
Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" |
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December 8 |
Melville, continued |
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December 11 |
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" |
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December 13 |
Whitman, continued |
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December 15 |
Whitman, continued |
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December 20 |
Final Exam from 10-11:55am |
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