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 5 |
Introduction |
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| Part I: Arrivals in the New World |
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September 7 |
Christopher Columbus, from "Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage," from "Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage"
Bartolomé de las Casas, from "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies" |
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September 10 |
Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation of Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
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September 12 |
John Smith, from "A Description of New England"
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation, up through p. 120 |
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September 14 |
Bradford, continued |
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September 17 |
Anne Bradstreet, "The Flesh and the Spirit," "In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659" |
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September 19 |
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
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September 21 |
Edward Taylor, Preparatory Mediations, Prologue, Meditations 8 and 16 (First Series) and Meditations 26 and 150 (Second Series)
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 24 |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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September 26 |
Benjamin Franklin, "Concerning the Savages of North America" |
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September 28 |
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Letters from an American Farmer, Letter III
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
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October 1 |
Crèvecœur, from Letters IX and XII |
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October 3 |
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Viriginia |
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October 5 |
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." "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770" |
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October 8 |
MID-TERM EXAMINATION |
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| Part III: An American Renaissance |
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October 10 |
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" |
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October 12 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
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October 15 |
Emerson, "Nature" continued, "The American Scholar" |
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October 17 |
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" |
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October 19 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy up through p. 1892 |
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October 22 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy up through pp. 1892-1914 |
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October 24 |
Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 17: Spring pp. 2027-2038 |
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October 26 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom House"
The Scarlet Letter (itself), chs. 1-4 |
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October 29 |
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chs.5-8 |
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October 31 |
Hawthorne, chs. 9-15 |
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November 2 |
Hawthorne, chs. 16-24 |
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November 5 |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," "The Philosophy of Composition" |
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| Part IV: Individuality and Slavery |
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November 7 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chs I-V |
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November 9 |
Stowe, chs V-IX |
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November 12 |
Stowe, chs X-XIII |
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November 14 |
Stowe, chs XIV-XVI |
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November 16 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
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November 19 |
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
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November 21 |
Stowe, chs XVII-XXXII |
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November 23 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 26 |
Stowe, chs XXXIII-XXXVIII |
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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 3 |
Douglass, continued
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
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December 5 |
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," parts 1-20 |
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December 7 |
Whitman, parts 21-33 |
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December 10 |
Whitman, parts 34-end |
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December 12 |
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," pp. 2363-2374 |
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December 14 |
Melville, pp. 2374-end |
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December 19 |
FINAL EXAM NOON-1:55PM
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