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Week 1 07-13 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
General Essay Guidelines
Guidelines for Reading
Types of Conflict
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Tuesday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 1-2 (stop at "Exploration and Colonization")
Classifications of Folk Tales and Myth
Archetypes and Symbol
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Wednesday: |
• Native American Folk Tales supplemental handout
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
Tlingit Tribe
Iroquois-Language Tribes
Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
• Iroquois Leaque, from "The Constitution of the Five Nations" p 37
.: full version of the Iroquois Nation Constitution |
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Thursday: |
• Christopher Columbus pp 14 - 22
The Complete Christopher Columbus Letter:
Facsimile
The Latin Transcription
Translated |
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• Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies supplemental handout
Apologetic History of the Indies
• Anthology of American Literature: ("Exploration and Colonization")p 2 - 9 |
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Friday: |
• John Smith, "A Description of New England" p 40-42, 56-59, 60-61, 63 |
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The Complete Text from John Smith |
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• William Bradford, p 64-67, 68, 69
William Shakespeare, Sonnet #126 supplemental handout
Thomas Taylor, Meditations from the Creatures |
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Week 2 07-20 |
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Monday: |
• Jonathan Edwards, "Images or Shadows of Divine Things" p 293-298 |
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• William Bradford, p. 74-75 |
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John Donne, “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed” |
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• John Winthrop, p 98 and A Model of Christian Charity p 109 (“A City Upon a Hill" sermon) |
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The Complete Journals and Letters of John Winthrop |
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Tuesday: |
Library Orientation
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Wednesday: |
• William Bradford, "from Chapter XXIV: Mr. Roger Williams"p 85
• Roger Williams, p 120-126
State of Rhode Island considering changing its name
John Cotton "God's Promise to His Plantation" sermon
"The Divine Right to Occupy the Land" sermon supplemental handout
• John Winthrop, Journals of John Winthrop p 119-120 |
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Thursday: |
Cotton Mather "The Wonders of the Invisible World:
Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils" |
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Friday: |
• Anne Bradstreet, p 134-135
"Contemplations" p137
"Prologue" p 136
"The Author to Her Book" p 147
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Week 3 07-27 |
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Monday: |
review
• Anne Bradstreet,
“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” p 148
"Upon the Burning of Our House" p 153
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Tuesday: |
Midterm
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Wednesday: |
• Edward Taylor, p 167, 169-173
Prologue, Meditations 6, 8, 38
• Phillis Wheatley p 526 |
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"Ocean" — poem from the intended second edition |
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Final Project expectations |
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Thursday: |
• Red Jacket, p 651
• Vine Delora Jr Custard Died for Your Sins supplemental handout |
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Friday: |
• Washington Irving p 713, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" p 730
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• The Castle of Indolence John Thomson: early publication modernized language publication |
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Week 4 08-03 |
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Monday: |
•“The Fall of the House of Usher” p 918
Official Edgar Allan Poe site |
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Tuesday: |
“The Fall of the House of Usher” p 918
Declaration of Thesis due |
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Last Day to Drop Class with a 'W'
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Wednesday: |
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister's Black Veil” p 1112 |
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Thursday: |
• Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" selections from supplemental handout
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Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass p 2115 |
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"As Adam Early in the Morning" p 2179 |
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Friday: |
• Walt Whitman, "The Sleepers" p 2219-2226
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Edgar Allan Poe "A Dream Within a Dream" supplemental handout |
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Week 5 08-10 |
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Monday: |
• Emily Dickinson, #365 ("Because I Could Not Stop for Death") p 2265
#241 ("I Like a Look of Agony") p 2253
Detail of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini —Full image |
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Tuesday: |
• Emily Dickinson, #216 ("Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers") p 2252
# 754 ("My Life Had Stood — A Loaded Gun") p 2267 |
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Wednesday: |
Final Paper due
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