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. Page numbers in parentheses refer to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Eighth Edition.
Part One: Arrivals in the New World |
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August 31 |
Introduction |
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September 2 |
Christopher Columbus, from "Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage" (35-36), from "Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage" (36-38)
Bartolomé de las Casas, from "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies" (39-42)
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, from Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (44-51) |
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September 7 |
Labor Day Holiday |
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September 9 |
John Smith, from "A Description of New England"(93-96)
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation, Chs. I, IV, VII-XXIV (122-156) |
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September 14 |
Anne Bradstreet, "The Flesh and the Spirit" (222-224), "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" (230), "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old" (230-231), "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being but a Month, and One Day Old" (231)
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Intro-The Seventh Remove (257-266) |
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September 16 |
QUIZ ON EARLY AMERICAN WRITERS
The Eighth Remove-The Twentieth Remove (267-288) |
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Moodle Forum 1 Deadline |
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Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution |
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September 21 |
Edward Taylor, "Meditation 8 (First Series): John 6.51. I Am the Living Bread" (292-293)
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (430-441) |
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Moodle Forum 1 Response |
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September 23 |
Benjamin Franklin, "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (476-480)
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, from Letters from an American Farmer (605-625) |
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September 28 |
Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (764), "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c" (765-766), "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (766), "To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works" (771-772)
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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Moodle Forum 2 Deadline |
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September 30 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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Part Three: The American Renaissance |
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October 5 |
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, "Sweet Willy," "To the Pine Tree," "Lines at Castle Island, Lake Superior," "Moowis, the Indian Coquette," "The Little Spirit, or Boy-Man" (161-167)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature," Intro-Chapter III (214-222)
PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
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October 7 |
Emerson, "Nature," Chapters IV-VIII (222-243)
Edgar Allan Poe, "SonnetTo Science" (633), "The Man of the Crowd" (681-687), "The Masque of Red Death" (687-691) |
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Moodle Forum 2 Response |
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October 12 |
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (964-979), Walden: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" (1023-1033) |
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October 14 |
Thoreau, Walden: "Higher Laws" (1090-1097), "Spring" (1136-1147) "Conclusion" (1147-1155) |
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October 19 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chs. 1-8 |
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October 21 |
Stowe, Chs. 9-14 |
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October 26 |
Stowe, Chs. 15-18 |
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October 28 |
Stowe, Chs. 19-26 |
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November 2 |
Stowe, Chs. 27-34 |
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November 4 |
QUIZ ON STOWE
Stowe, Chs. 35-45 |
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November 9 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, The Custom-House (450-476) |
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November 11 |
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chs. I-V (476-499) |
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Moodle Forum 3 Deadline |
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November 16 |
Hawthorne, Chs. VI-X (499-527) |
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Moodle Forum 3 Response |
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November 18 |
Hawthorne, Chs. XI-XV (527-550) |
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November 23 |
Hawthorne, Chs. XVI-XX (550-573) |
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November 25 |
Hawthorne, Chs. XXI-XXIV (573-593) |
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November 30 |
Writing Workshop
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave William Lloyd Garrison's Preface, Wendell Phillips' Preface, Chapters I-II (1174-1188)
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December 2 |
Douglass, Chs. III-VIII (1188-1204)
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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December 7 |
Douglass, Chs. IX-XI, Appendix (1204-1239) |
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December 9 |
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1483-1509)
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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December 16 |
FINAL EXAM, 12-1:55PM |
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