English 3563
Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Extras
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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: Wednesday classes last twice as long as Monday and Friday classes.
| W |
September 3 | Introduction |
| Part I: Arrivals in the New World |
| F |
September 5 |
Bartolomé de las Casas, from "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies"
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, from "The True History of the Conquest of New Spain" |
| M |
September 8 |
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation |
| W |
September 10 |
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation |
| F |
September 12 |
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
| M |
September 15 |
Rowlandson, continued |
| W |
September 17 |
Anne Bradstreet, "A Dialogue between Old England and New; Concerning Their Present Troubles, Anno, 1642," "The Flesh and the Spirit" "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet"
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. |
| Part II: Enlightenment and Revolution |
| F |
September 19 |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| M |
September 22 |
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, from Letters from an American Farmer |
| W |
September 24 |
Crèvecœur, continued
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
| F |
September 26 |
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" |
| M |
September 29 |
Philip Freneau, "On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple" |
| W |
October 1 |
Joel Barlow, "The Hasty Pudding" |
| F |
October 3 |
MID-TERM EXAMINATION |
| Part III: An American Renaissance |
| M |
October 6 |
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth,/i>, chs. I-IX |
| W |
October 8 |
Rowson, chs. X-XXI |
| F |
October 10 |
Rowson, chs. XXII-end |
| M |
October 13 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
| W |
October 15 |
Emerson, "The American Scholar" |
| F |
October 17 |
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" |
| M |
October 20 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy |
| W |
October 22 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 2: Were I Lived . . .;Chapter 17: Spring |
| F |
October 24 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chs I-V |
| M |
October 27 |
Stowe, chs V-IX |
| W |
October 29 |
Stowe, chs X-XIII |
| F |
October 31 |
Stowe, chs XIV-XVI |
| M |
November 3 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XX |
| W |
November 5 |
Stowe, chs XXI-XVI |
| F |
November 7 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
| M |
November 10 |
Stowe, chs XXXIII-XXXVIII |
| W |
November 12 |
Stowe, chs XXXIX-end |
| Part IV: Emergence from Slavery |
| F |
November 14 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
| M |
November 17 |
Douglass, continued |
| W |
November 19 |
Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom House" |
| F |
November 21 |
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chs. 1-8 |
| M |
November 24 |
Hawthorne, chs. 9-15
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| W |
November 26 |
Hawthorne, chs. 16-24 |
| F |
November 28 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| M |
December 1 |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man of the Crowd" |
| W |
December 3 |
Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Raven" |
| F |
December 5 |
Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
| M |
December 8 |
Melville, continued |
| W |
December 10 |
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" |
| F |
December 12 |
Whitman, continued |
| M |
December 15 |
FINAL EXAM FROM 8 TO 9:55AM |
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