English 3563
Schedule
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 | ||
| W | September 5 | Introduction |
| F | September 7 | 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) |
| M | September 10 | John Smith, from "A Description of New England"(93-96) William Bradford, from "Of Plymouth Plantation", Chs. I, IV (122-127) |
| W | September 12 | Bradford, Chs. VII-XXIV (127-156) |
| F | September 14 | John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (166-177) |
| M | September 17 | 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) |
| W | September 19 | Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Intro-Ninth Removes (257-269) |
| F | September 21 | Rowlandson, Tenth-Twentieth Removes (270-288) |
| Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution | ||
| M | September 24 | Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (430-441) |
| W | September 26 | Benjamin Franklin, "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (476-480) BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| F | September 28 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, from Letters from an American Farmer (605-625) |
| M | October 1 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| W | October 3 | Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia (668-677) |
| F | October 5 | 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) PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| Part Three: The American Renaissance | ||
| M | October 8 | Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" (29-41) Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature," Intro-Chapter III (214-222) |
| W | October 10 | Emerson, "Nature," Chapters IV-VIII (222-243) |
| F | October 12 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "My Lost Youth" (604-606), "The Cross of Snow" (607) John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Hunters of Men" (609-610) |
| M | October 15 | Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" (637- 640), "The Philosophy of Composition" (719-727) |
| W | October 17 | Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (964-979) |
| F | October 19 | Thoreau, Walden: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" (1023-1033) |
| M | October 22 | Thoreau, Walden: "Higher Laws" (1090-1097), "Spring" (1136-1147) "Conclusion" (1147-1155) |
| W | October 24 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chs. 1-6 |
| F | October 26 | Stowe, Chs. 7-12 |
| M | October 29 | Stowe, Chs. 13-18 |
| W | October 31 | Stowe, Chs. 19-25 |
| F | November 2 | Stowe, Chs. 26-32 |
| M | November 5 | Stowe, Chs. 33-40 |
| W | November 7 | Stowe, Chs. 41-45 |
| F | November 9 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, The Custom-House (450-476) |
| M | November 12 | Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chs. I-IV (476-492) |
| W | November 14 | Hawthorne, Chs. V-VII (492-509) |
| F | November 16 | Hawthorne, Chs. VIII-X (509-527) |
| M | November 19 | Hawthorne, Chs. XI-XIII (527-542) |
| W | November 21 | Hawthorne, Chs. XIV-XVII (542-559) |
| F | November 23 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| M | November 26 | Hawthorne, Chs. XVIII-XXI (559-578) |
| W | November 28 | Hawthorne, Chs. XXII-XXIV (578-593) |
| F | November 30 | 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) |
| M | December 3 | Douglass, Chs. III-VIII (1188-1204) |
| W | December 5 | Douglas, Chs. IX-XI, Appendix (1204-1239) PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| F | December 7 | Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1526-1540) |
| M | December 10 | Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1540-1561) |
| W | December 12 | Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1562-1582) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| F | December 14 | Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1383-1387) |
| M | December 17 | Final Exam, 12-1:55pm |
10 September 2012