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.
| September 6 | Introduction |
| Part I: Arrivals in the New World | |
| September 13 | Christopher Columbus, from The Journal of the First Voyage to America |
| September 15 | Alvar Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation |
| September 18 | Alvar Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca, continued |
| September 20 | John Smith, from A Description of New England William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation |
| September 25 | Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
| Part II: Settlement and Rebellion | |
| September 27 | Anne Bradstreet, "Contemplations," "The Flesh and the Spirit," "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old," "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" |
| October 2 | Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| October 4 | Thomas Paine, from Common Sense, from The American Crisis BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| October 9 | J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
| October 11 | Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia |
| October 16 | Phillis Wheatley, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
| Part III: Unsettling Developments | |
| October 18 | Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntley |
| October 23 | Brown, continued MID-TERM EXAMINATION |
| October 25 | Brown, continued |
| October 30 | Brown, continued |
| November 1 | Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| Part IV: An American Renaissance | |
| November 6 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
| November 8 | Emerson, "Self-Reliance" Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" |
| November 13 | Thoreau, from Walden |
| November 15 | Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
| November 20 | Douglass, continued |
| November 22 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter |
| November 27 | Hawthorne, continued |
| November 29 | Hawthorne, continued |
| December 4 | Hawthorne, continued BRING WORKING DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| Part V: Cynicism and Optimism | |
| December 6 | Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER. |
| December 11 | Melville, continued |
| December 13 | Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" |
| December 16 | FINAL EXAMINATION (IT IS ON A SATURDAY). |
22 September 2000