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.
Part One: Arrivals in the New World |
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September 7 |
Introduction |
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September 9 | Christopher Columbus, from "Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493," from "Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500"
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
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September 14 |
John Smith, from "A Description of New England"
John Winthrop, from "A Modell of Christian Charity" |
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September 16 |
William Bradford, from "Of Plymouth Plantation" |
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September 21 |
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, pp. 464-475 (First through Fifth Removes) |
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September 23 |
Rowlandson, pp. 475-492 (Eighth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth Removes)
Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I Am the Living Bread" |
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September 28 |
Anne Bradstreet, "The Flesh and the Spirit," "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being but a Month, and One Day Old, "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666"
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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September 30 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution |
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October 5 |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
J. Hector St. John de Crèveœur, from Letters from an American Farmer, from Letters I and II |
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October 7 |
Crèvecœur, Letters III, V, IX, XII
PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
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October 12 |
Thomas Paine, from "The American Crisis"
Thomas Jefferson, from "Notes on the State of Virginia," Queries VI, XI, XIV, XVII, XVIII |
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October 14 |
Philip Freneau, "The Power of Fancy," "On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple"
Phillis Wheatley, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c," "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
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Part Three: The American Renaissance |
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October 19 |
Seattle, "Speech of Chief Seattle"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
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October 21 |
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government," Walden: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" |
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October 26 |
Thoreau, Walden: "Higher Laws," "Spring," "Conclusion" |
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October 28 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Preface-Chapter VIII |
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November 2 |
Douglass, Chapter IX-end |
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November 4 |
Fanny Fern, "A Law More Nice Than Just," "The Working-Girls of New York"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chs. 1-6 |
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November 9 |
Stowe, Chs. 7-12 |
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November 11 |
Stowe, Chs. 13-18 |
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November 16 |
Stowe, Chs. 19-25 |
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November 18 |
Stowe, Chs. 26-32 |
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November 23 |
Stowe, Chs. 33-40 |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 30 |
Stowe, Chs. 41-45 |
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December 2 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark"
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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December 7 |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," "The Philosophy of Composition" |
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December 9 |
Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno," pp. 2695-2716
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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December 14 |
Melville, pp. 2717-2738 |
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December 16 |
Melville, pp. 2738-2752 |
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December 17 |
Final Exam, 2-3:55pm |
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