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| WEEK #1 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 9/21 | Introduction to the Course Themes in Early American Literature |
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| Wed 9/23 | Native American Voices Sign up for presentations Discuss first Reader Response |
Read Native American oral tales: pp. 24-27 and pp. 54-58 Read pp. 115-116 “Creation of the Whites” |
| Fri 9/25 | Cultures in Contact: Imperial Frontier | Read pp. 182-184 “How America Was Discovered” Read pp. 116-128 from Columbus' “Journal” Read pp. 184-188 from John Smith's “Historie of Virginia” |
| WEEK #2 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 9/28 | Cultures in Contact: Voices from the New England Puritan immigrants | RR #1 due Read pp. 245-253 from William Bradford's “Of Plymouth Plantation” Read pp. 267-276 from Roger Williams “A Key into the Language of America” Read pp. 337-338 from “The New England Primer” |
| Wed 9/30 | Colonial Voices | Read pp. 421-425 from Cotton Mather's “The Wonders of the Invisible World” |
| Fri 10/2 | Colonial Women in Salem Excerpt from Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” |
Read ahead;) |
| WEEK #3 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 10/5 | Colonial Women | RR #2 due Read pp. 289-312 Anne Bradstreet's poetry Read pp. 466-469, 478 Colonial Women poets |
| Wed 10/7 | Captivity Narratives | Read pp. 343-366 from Mary Rowlandson's “A Narrative of Captivity” |
| Fri 10/9 | Continue discussion of Rowlandson The 18th Century Midterm essay topics handed out |
Read pp. 592-603 Jonathan Edwards' “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” |
| WEEK #4 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 10/12 | The Age of Enlightenment and Revolution | RR #3 due Read pp. 720-724 from Ben Franklin's “Poor Richard's Almanac”; pp. 730-731 “A Witch Trial at Mount Holly”; pp. 731-733 “The Speech of Polly Baker” Read pp. 810-819 from Franklin's “Autobiography, Part Two” |
| Wed 10/14 | Continue discussion of Franklin Race, Identity and Nation |
Read pp. 1018-1041 from Olaudah Equiano's “Interesting Narrative” |
| Fri 10/16 | Continue discussion of Equiano | Read pp. 1104 Phillis Wheatley's “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| WEEK #5 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 10/19 | Gender issues in the 18th Century | RR #4 due Read pp. 1194-1215 from Hannah Foster's “The Coquette” |
| Wed 10/21 | Gender issues Scenes from Royall Tyler's “The Contrast” |
Read pp. 1217-1226 from Susanna Rowson's “Charlotte Temple” |
| Fri 10/23 | Review for Midterm | Bring questions |
| WEEK #6 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 10/26 | Midterm | Bring take home essay to the midterm (no RR due this week) |
| Wed 10/28 | 19th Century Fiction, pre Civil War: Tall Tales |
Read pp. 1342-1354 Washington Irving's “Rip Van Winkle” |
| Fri 10/30 | 19th Century Fiction: Gothic/Psychological Drama |
Read pp. 1481-1485 Edgar Allan Poe's “The Masque of Red Death” Read pp. 1485-1489 Poe's “The Tell Tale Heart” |
| WEEK #7 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 11/2 | 19th Century Fiction: Psychology of Death and the Detective story (continuation of Poe) | RR #5 due Read pp. 1514-1518 Poe's “The Raven” Read pp 1489-1502 Poe's “The Purloined Letter” |
| Wed 11/4 | 19th Century Fiction: The Romantic Cynic | Read pp. 2207-2216 Hawthorne's “Young Goodman Brown” |
| Fri 11/6 | 19th Century Fiction: The Romantic Cynic | Read pp. 2216-2224 Hawthorne's “The Minister's Black Veil” |
| WEEK #8 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 11/9 | 19th Century Fiction: Science | RR #6 due Read pp. 2225-2236 Hawthorne's “The Birthmark” |
| Wed 11/11 | College Closed: Veterans Day | Read Ahead!!! |
| Fri 11/13 | 19th Century Fiction: Capitalism/Industrialization | Read pp. 2402-2427 Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener” |
| WEEK #9 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 11/16 | Transcendentalism and the Optimistic American Self | RR #7 due Read pp. 1578-1608 Emerson's “Nature” |
| Wed 11/18 | Transcendentalism and the Optimistic American Self | Start to read pp. 1622-1638 Emerson's “Self Reliance” |
| Fri 11/ 20 | Continue Emerson discussion Handout Final Exam Essay topics |
Finish Emerson Read ahead |
| WEEK #10 | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE: |
| Mon 11/23 | The Woman's Question | RR #8 due Read pp. 1715-1725, 1732-34 from Margaret Fuller's “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” Read pp. 2033-37 from Elizabeth Stanton's “Eighty Year and More” and “Declaration of Sentiments” Read pp. 2050-53 Sojourner Truth's speeches |
| Wed 11/25 | Civil Disobedience/Individualism | Read pp. 2093-2107 Thoreau's “Resistance to Civil Government” |
| Fri 11/27 | College Closed: Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| WEEK#11: TOPIC | ASSIGNMENTS DUE | |
| Mon 11/30 American Individualism: continued discussion of Thoreau |
RR #9 due Read pp. 2107-2117 from Thoreau's “Walden” |
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| Wed 12/2 Continue discussion of “Walden” |
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| Fri 12/4 Review for final exam Preview of Eng. 254W |
Bring questions |
FINAL EXAM: Bring your final exam essay to the final and one blue examination book (which may be purchased at the bookstore).
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