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: Monday classes last twice as long as Wednesday and Friday classes.
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September 7 |
Introduction |
| Part I: Arrivals in the New World |
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| F |
September 9 |
Christopher Columbus, from "Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493," from "Journal of the Third Voyage to America, 1498-1500" |
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| M |
September 12 |
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation
John Smith, from "A Description of New England" |
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September 14 |
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation |
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September 16 |
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
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September 19 |
Rowlandson, continued
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" |
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September 21 |
Bradstreet, continued
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." |
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September 23 |
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 26 |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
J. Hector St. John de Crévecœur, from Letters from an American Farmer |
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September 28 |
Crévecœur, continued |
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September 30 |
Crévecœur, continued
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
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October 3 |
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"
Philip Freneau, "On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple" |
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October 5 |
Joel Barlow, "The Hasty Pudding" |
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October 7 |
Barlow, continued |
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| M |
October 10 |
MID-TERM EXAMINATION |
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| Part III: An American Renaissance |
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October 12 |
Thomas Jefferson, from "Notes on the State of Virginia" |
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October 14 |
John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Hunters of Men," "The Farewell" |
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October 17 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
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October 19 |
Emerson, "The American Scholar" |
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October 21 |
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" |
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October 24 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy, Chapter 2: Where I Lived |
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October 26 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 17: Spring |
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October 28 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom House" |
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October 31 |
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chs. 1-8 |
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November 2 |
Hawthorne, chs. 9-15 |
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November 4 |
Hawthorne, chs. 16-24 |
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| M |
November 7 |
Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Raven" |
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| Part IV: Ending the Slave System |
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November 9 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chs I-V |
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November 11 |
Stowe, chs V-IX |
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November 14 |
Stowe, chs X-XIII |
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November 16 |
Stowe, chs XIV-XVI |
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November 18 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
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November 21 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
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November 23 |
Stowe, chs XXXIII-XXXVIII
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 28 |
Stowe, chs XXXIX-end |
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November 30 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
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December 2 |
Douglass, continued |
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December 5 |
Douglass, continued
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
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December 7 |
Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" |
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December 9 |
Melville, continued |
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December 12 |
Melville, continued |
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December 14 |
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" |
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December 16 |
Whitman, continued |
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| M |
December 19 |
Final Exam from noon to 2:00pm |
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