Week 1
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01/07
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Introduction to Course
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01/09
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A World Full of "Marvels"
- Read Before Class: Period Intro. (pp. 1-8);
Columbus, Headnotes (p. 11), from "Letter to Luis de
Santangel" (pp. 11-13), & from "Letter to Ferdinand
and Isabella" (pp. 13-14); Las Casas, Headnotes (p. 15)
& from The Very Brief Relation (pp. 16-18);
Stories of the Beginning of the World (pp. 52-53);
Iroquois, "The Iroquois Creation Story" (pp.
53-57--including Headnotes); Pima,"The Story of the
Creation" (pp. 57-60--including Headnotes).
- Discussion of Reading Response Assignments.
- Discussion of Oral Presentation Assignment and
Sign-up.
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01/11
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Encounters
- Read Before Class: Harriot, Headnotes (pp.
76-77) & from A Brief and True Report (pp.
77-83); Smith, Headnotes (pp. 102-104), from The
General History of Virginia (pp. 105-114), & from
A Description of New England (pp. 114-117); Native
American Trickster Tales, Headnotes (pp. 120-121), Navajo
Headnotes (pp. 146-147), & "Coyote, Skunk, and the
Prairie Dogs" (pp. 147-152).
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Week 2
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01/14
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Puritan and Colonial Philosophies
- Read Before Class: Period Intro. (pp.
153-156); Bradford, Headnotes (pp. 164-165) & from
Of Plymouth Plantation (pp. 165-170, 174-190);
Morton, Headnotes (p. 205) & from New English
Canaan (pp. 206-213); Winthrop, Headnotes (p. 214),
& from The Journal (pp. 226-234); Williams,
Headnotes (pp. 234-235) & from "The Bloody Tenet of
Persecution" (pp. 243-246).
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01/16
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Colonial Poetry
- Read Before Class: Bradstreet, Headnotes (pp.
246-247), "The Author to Her Book" (pp. 270-271), "Before
the Birth of One of Her Children" (p. 271), "To My Dear
and Loving Husband" (p. 272), "Verses upon the Burning of
Our House" (pp. 278-279), & "To My Dear Children"
(pp. 280-283); Wigglesworth, Headnotes (pp. 283-284)
& from "The Day of Doom" (pp. 284-297); Taylor,
Headnotes (pp. 330-331), "Upon Wedlock, and Death of
Children" (pp. 346-347), "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold"
(pp. 348-349), "Huswifery" (p. 349), & "A Fig for
Thee, Oh! Death" (pp. 350-351).
- Study Questions
for Colonial Poetry.
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01/18
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Essay #1 Assignment
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Week 3
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01/21
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Martin Luther King Day--No Class.
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01/23
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Captivity Narratives
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01/25
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Video: "The World of Franklin and Jefferson"
NOTE: Class meets today in Studio D,
IMC, Knight Library.
- Read Before Class: Period Intro. (pp.
156-161).
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Week 4
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01/28
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Enlightened Arguments
- Read Before Class: Franklin, Headnotes (pp.
491-492), "Information to Those Who Would Remove to
America" (pp. 510-516), "Remarks Concerning the Savages
of North America" (pp. 516-520), & "Speech in the
Convention" (pp. 520-521); De Crevecoeur, Headnotes (pp.
640-641) & "What Is An American" (pp. 641-650);
Paine, Headnotes (pp. 691-692) & from Common
Sense (pp. 693-699); Jefferson, Headnotes (pp.
712-713) & from The Autobiography (pp.
714-719).
- Last chance to turn in Reading Response
#1.
- Study questions
for writers associated with the American Revolution.
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01/30
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The Federalist
- Read Before Class: Headnotes (pp. 742-743);
No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton] (pp. 743-746); No. 10
[James Madison] (pp. 746-751).
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02/01
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The Ideal vs. the Real
- Read Before Class: Occom, Headnotes (pp. 612-
613) & "A Short Narrative of My Life" (pp. 614-619);
Equiano, Headnotes (pp. 751-752) & from The
Interesting Narrative of the Life (pp. 752-786).
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Week 5
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02/04
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Essay #1 Due; Review for Midterm
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02/06
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Midterm
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02/08
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Essay #2 Assignment
NOTE: Class meets today in ITC
Classroom, 267B Knight Library
- Discussion of Goals and Requirements for Essay
#2.
- Start reading (for Monday's class): Rowson,
Charlotte Temple (pp. 851-916).
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Week 6
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02/11
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The Novel in the U.S.
- Read Before Class: Rowson, Headnotes (pp.
850-851) & Charlotte Temple (pp.
851-916).
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02/13
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Beginnings of an "American" Literature
- Read Before Class: Period Intro. (pp.
917-933); Irving, Headnotes (pp. 934-936), "Rip Van
Winkle" (pp. 936-948), & from A Tour on the
Prairies (pp. 969-980).
- Turn in at Beginning of Class: Note cards for
at least three different types of sources for Essay #2
(see Assignments
via Course Web Site for more information) using correct
MLA citation format (see examples
of MLA format via the Course Web Site).
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02/15
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Early Short Fiction
- Read Before Class: Poe, Headnotes (pp.
1480-1483), "The Masque of the Red Death" (pp.
1542-1546), & "The Cask of Amontillado" (pp.
1567-1572); Hawthorne, Headnotes (pp. 1220-1222) &
"Young Goodman Brown" (pp. 1236-1245).
- Turn in at Beginning of Class: Thesis
Statement and Working Outline for Essay #2.
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Week 7
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02/18
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Poetic Voices
- Read Before Class: Bryant, Headnotes (pp.
1038-1039) & "The Prairies" (pp. 1042-1044);
Longfellow, Headnotes (pp. 1449-1450), "A Psalm of Life"
(pp. 1450-1452), "The Slave's Dream" (pp. 1453-1454),
& "The Fire of Driftwood" (pp. 1454-1455); Whittier,
Headnotes (pp. 1460-1461), "Icabod" (pp. 1461-1462),
& "Snowbound" (pp. 1462-1480); Poe, "Sonnet--To
Science" (p. 1483) & "Annabel Lee" (p. 1498).
- Last chance to turn in Reading Response
#2.
- Work on Essay #2 outside of class during this
week.
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02/20
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Transcendentalism
- Read Before Class: Emerson, Headnotes (pp.
1069-1072), "Experience" (pp. 1159-1174), & "Last of
the Anti-Slavery Lectures" (pp. 1174-1183); Thoreau,
Headnotes (pp. 1749-1752), "Resistance to Civil
Government" (pp. 1752-1767) & "Slavery in
Massachusetts" (pp. 1943-1953).
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02/22
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"Self-Evident" Truths
- Read Before Class: The Cherokee Memorials,
Headnotes (pp. 996-998), "Note" (p. 998), "Memorial of
the Cherokee Council" (pp. 999-1003), & "Memorial of
the Cherokee Citizens" (pp. 1003-1005); Apess, Headnotes
(pp. 1045-1046) & "An Indian's Looking Glass" (pp.
1046-1051); Jacobs, Headnotes (pp. 1717-1718) & from
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (pp.
1719-1739).
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Week 8
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02/25
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Peer Review Workshop
- First Draft of Essay #2 Due.
- In Class: Exchange, read, and comment on essay
first drafts.
- Read Ahead: Cooper, The Pioneers, Chs.
1-7 (pp. 13-91).
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02/27
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Revision Workshop
- In Class: Use Revision Guidelines and
Mechanics Checklist to polish Essay #2.
- Read Ahead: Cooper, The Pioneers, Chs.
8-16 (pp. 91-180).
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03/01
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Creating a Heroic Heritage
- Essay #2 Final Draft Due. Include in your
folder all the materials related to the preparation of
your essay: thesis statement, working outline,
bibliography cards, note cards, first draft, peer review
comment sheet, revision and mechanics checklists, and
final version.
- Read Before Class: Cooper, The
Pioneers, Chs. 17-25 (pp. 180-272).
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Week 9
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03/04
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- Read Before Class: Cooper, The
Pioneers, Chs. 26-33 (pp. 272-355).
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03/06
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- Read Before Class: Cooper, The
Pioneers, Chs. 34-41 (pp. 356-436).
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03/08
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A House Divided
- Last chance to turn in Reading Response
#3.
- Read Before Class: Melville, Headnotes (pp.
2256-2261) & "Benito Cereno" (pp. 2372-2427).
- Discussion questions
for "Benito Cereno"
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Week 10
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03/11
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In Class: View Moby Dick (Film).
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03/13
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In Class: View Moby Dick (Film).
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03/15
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Discussion; review for final; evaluation.
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Finals
Week
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03/18
(Mon)
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Final Exam, 10:15am
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