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

M	August 31	Introduction
W	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)

M	September 7	Labor Day Holiday
W	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)

M	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)
W	September 16	QUIZ ON EARLY AMERICAN WRITERS The Eighth Remove-The Twentieth Remove (267-288)
		Moodle Forum 1 Deadline

Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution

M	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)
		Moodle Forum 1 Response
W	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)

M	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
		Moodle Forum 2 Deadline
W	September 30	MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Part Three: The American Renaissance

M	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
W	October 7	Emerson, "Nature," Chapters IV-VIII (222-243) Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet—To Science" (633), "The Man of the Crowd" (681-687), "The Masque of Red Death" (687-691)
		Moodle Forum 2 Response

M	October 12	Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (964-979), Walden: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" (1023-1033)
W	October 14	Thoreau, Walden: "Higher Laws" (1090-1097), "Spring" (1136-1147) "Conclusion" (1147-1155)

M	October 19	Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chs. 1-8
W	October 21	Stowe, Chs. 9-14

M	October 26	Stowe, Chs. 15-18
W	October 28	Stowe, Chs. 19-26

M	November 2	Stowe, Chs. 27-34
W	November 4	QUIZ ON STOWE Stowe, Chs. 35-45

M	November 9	Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, The Custom-House (450-476)
W	November 11	Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chs. I-V (476-499)
		Moodle Forum 3 Deadline

M	November 16	Hawthorne, Chs. VI-X (499-527)
		Moodle Forum 3 Response
W	November 18	Hawthorne, Chs. XI-XV (527-550)

M	November 23	Hawthorne, Chs. XVI-XX (550-573)
W	November 25	Hawthorne, Chs. XXI-XXIV (573-593)

M	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)
W	December 2	Douglass, Chs. III-VIII (1188-1204) PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO

M	December 7	Douglass, Chs. IX-XI, Appendix (1204-1239)
W	December 9	Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1483-1509) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS

W	December 16	FINAL EXAM, 12-1:55PM