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Week 1 |
07.09 - 07.13 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
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Review of the Literary Analysis Process |
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Guidelines for Reading |
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Types of Conflicts |
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• demo-introduction |
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• demo-conflicts |
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Tuesday: |
Definitions of: Myth, Fable, Parable, Folk Tales
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• demo-Folktales |
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Archetypes and Symbol, Shaman and Priest |
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• demo-Archetypes and Symbol / Shaman and Priest |
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Research Exercise, due 07.13 |
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Wednesday: |
Native American Folk Tales supplemental |
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Alabama-Coushatta Tribe |
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"Creation of the Earth" |
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"Origin of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes" |
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"How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas" |
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• demo-Creation Stories |
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Creation Myth cycles: Navajo tales pp 64-79 |
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Western Bible: Genesis 1 and 2: King James Version |
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Thursday: |
Anthology of American Literature: pp 2-4 |
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(stop at "The Renaissance, the Reformation, and Cultural Change") |
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Anthology of American Literature: pp 10-11 |
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Christopher Columbus pp 14-18 <updated |
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• timeline || • time table |
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• demo-Columbus |
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Extract from Columbus' Journal |
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Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies supplemental |
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FYI • Apologetic History of the Indies |
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FYI • Tears of the Indians: Reproduction of the first English translation |
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• demo-Bartolome de Las Casas |
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Friday: |
Anthology of American Literature: pp 4-9 |
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• demo-Protestant Movement and English Heritage |
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Thomas Hariot pp 19-24 |
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John Smith, “A Description of New England” pp 41-43 (bio), 55-61, 63 <updated |
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• demo-Hariot/Smith |
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FYI • Full Text of Smith's MS |
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Puritan Ideologies 1: Mind-set of the Colonists |
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• demo-Ideologies |
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FYI • John Winthrop to Nathaniel Rich |
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Two Songs from the Colonists—supplemental |
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Formal Paper 1 Expectations, paper due 07.23 |
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Week 2 |
07.16 - 07.20 |
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Monday: |
Puritan Ideologies 2: Puritan Plain Style |
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• demo-Ideologies |
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William Bradford, pp 84-85, 90-92 <updated |
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Tuesday: |
Puritan Ideologies 3: Diversity among the Colonists |
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• demo-Theological Discourses |
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John Cotton, selections from “God’s Promise to His Plantation” supplemental |
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FYI • John Cotton, full sermon “God's Promise to His Plantation |
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John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (“A City Upon a Hill” sermon) pp 135-136 |
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Wednesday: |
William Bradford, “Mr. Roger Williams” p 101 |
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Roger Williams A Key into the Language of America pp 137-142 |
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from The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience pp 142-144 |
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John Winthrop’s views on Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and the Devil pp 115-125 |
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Thomas Morton, Roger Williams in Rhode Island |
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FYI• Thomas Morton, Full Text of New England's Memorial |
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• demo-Roger Williams |
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FYI• John Cotton's response: The Bloudy Tenet Washed and Made White in the Bloud of the Lamb |
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• demo-Puritan Views on Democracy |
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Thursday: |
Women’s Roles in Puritan Society |
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Cotton Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World pp 202-211 |
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• demo |
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FYI • The Complete Text of The Wonders of the Invisible World: |
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Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, |
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the Number, and the Operations of the Devils |
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FYI • Witch Publication samples |
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Friday: |
Anne Bradstreet, “Contemplations” pp 156-162 |
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• demo: Public versus Private Voices |
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• demo: Overview of Contemplations |
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Week 3 |
07.23 - 07.27 |
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Monday: |
Anne Bradstreet, “Prologue” p 154 |
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“Upon the Burning of Our House” p 171 |
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• demo |
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“The Author to Her Book” p 165 |
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“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” p 166 |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
Our English Heritage |
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• demo |
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English-American Ballads supplemental |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
Edward Taylor, “Prologue” p 185 |
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“Meditations” #8, 38, pp 188-190 |
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• demo |
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.: To contrast with Taylor: William Shakespeare, monologue from Hamlet |
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Final Project Expectations • Review for Midterm |
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Thursday: |
Midterm |
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Friday: |
Thomas Jefferson, Early Draft of the Declaration of Independence pp 557-560 |
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• demo-Jefferson and Concepts of Emancipation |
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from Notes on the State of Virginia “Query XIV: Laws” pp 531, 533-539 |
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• demo-Jefferson and Race |
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Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” p 605 |
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“On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield” p 606 |
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• demo |
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Benjamin Rush, “An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies” supplemental |
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• demo |
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Week 4 |
07.30 - 08.03 |
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Monday: |
Final Project Thesis due |
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Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” p 756 |
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• demo-European Fairy Tale Influences |
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Tuesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” p 891 |
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Wednesday: |
“Sonnet — Silence” p 885 |
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• demo-Poe and Sonnets |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil” p 1131 |
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• demo- Similarities and Contrasts with Poe's “Fall of the House of Usher” |
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Thursday: |
Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” |
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Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass p 2070-2072 |
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section 01, p 2072 |
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section 05, p 2075 |
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• demo-Walt Whitman and Transcendentalism |
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• demo-Mark Twain and Walt Whitman |
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Friday: |
Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” |
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section 11, p 2079 |
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section 51-52, p 2117-2118 |
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• demo |
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Works Cited Page |
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• demo-Anthology Citations with Multiple Entries |
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Week 5 |
08.06 - 08.08 |
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Monday: |
Final Project due beginning of class |
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Walt Whitman “As Adam Early in the Morning” p 2122 |
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“The Sleepers” supplemental |
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Edgar Allan Poe “A Dream Within a Dream” supplemental |
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• demo |
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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
Emily Dickinson |
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#365 (“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”) p 2192 |
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#241 (“I Like a Look of Agony”) p 2181 |
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#216 (“Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”) p 2181 |
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# 754 (“My Life Had Stood — A Loaded Gun”) supplemental |
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#997 (“Crumbling is not an Instant’s Act”) supplemental |
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#465 (“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”) p 2187 |
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#249 (“Wild Nights, Wild Nights”) p 2182 |
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#303 (“The Soul Selects Her Own Society”) p 2183 |
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• demo-Dickinson |
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Wednesday: |
Final Exam: Bring Blue Book to Class |
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