| Week |
Day |
Date |
In-Class Subject/Activity |
DUE THIS DAY |
Presentation Topics |
| 1 |
T |
23-Aug |
Early Voices |
Intro to course, syllabus. Hemispheric literature introduced. |
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R |
25-Aug |
Early Voices |
Hemispheric Literature; Introduction p. 29 and Iroquois Confederacy 33. "The Becoming of the Native: Man in America Before Columbus" p. 55 |
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| 2 |
T |
30-Aug |
Early Voices |
Timeline, p. 3-9, The Protestant Reformation and the Puritan “Errand into the Wilderness,” p. 18-23. Colonial Settlements, p. 93-106 |
Spirit of Revolution |
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R |
1-Sep |
Early Voices |
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation: p. 132-140. Altered Schedule: Mass of Holy Spirit/ Convocation. |
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| 3 |
T |
6-Sep |
Early Voices |
John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” p. 155-166; See link: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/kroggenkamp/JohnWinthropJournal.htm. |
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R |
8-Sep |
Early Voices |
Anne Bradstreet, “The Flesh and the Spirit,” p. 178; “…Upon the Burning of Our House…,” p.184; “The Author to Her Book,” p. 181. Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, p. 196-203; p. 209- 214; p. 222-224; P.227-228. |
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| 4 |
T |
13-Sep |
Early Voices |
From Cotton Mather’s Diary, p. 260 and from The Diary of Samuel Sewell, p. 254-257. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm. William Byrd, From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, p. 270-273 (p. 325-328 through March 1712 entry); p. 274 (and May 1712 entry) |
Salem Witch Trials |
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R |
15-Sep |
Changing Times |
Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” p. 291. |
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| 5 |
T |
20-Sep |
Changing Times and Exam I Review |
Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography p. 344-349, p. 358-360, p. 363-371; "Now, Gods, Stand Up for Bastards": Reinterpreting Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography" by William H. Shurr, JSTOR |
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R |
22-Sep |
Exam 1 Review |
Exam 1 Review |
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| 6 |
T |
27-Sep |
Exam 1 |
Exam 1 |
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R |
29-Sep |
An Emerging Nation |
Timeline, p. 313-31; Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, p. 416-426 |
Slavery |
| 7 |
T |
4-Oct |
An Emerging Nation |
Timeline, p. 589; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" p. 683 |
Transcendentalism |
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R |
6-Oct |
An Emerging Nation |
Emerson, "Self Reliance," and "The Foul Reign of Emerson's "Self Reliance" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/riff-ralph-waldo-emerson.html?_r=0) |
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| 8 |
T |
11-Oct |
An Emerging Nation |
Emerson, "Self Reliance," and "The Foul Reign of Emerson's "Self Reliance" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/riff-ralph-waldo-emerson.html?_r=0) |
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R |
13-Oct |
No class |
No class. Go to library to work on Being There journal! |
Abolition |
| 9 |
T |
18-Oct |
An Emerging Nation |
Henry David Thoreau, “Where I Have Lived, and What I Have Lived For,” p. 815, and "Conclusion," p. 846 |
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R |
20-Oct |
An Emerging Nation and Exam 2 review |
Thoreau, "Where I have Lived, and What I Have Lived For" and "Conclusion" |
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| 10 |
T |
25-Oct |
An Emerging Nation and Exam 2 review |
Frederick Douglass, from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, p. 865-868 (1016-1019), p. 879-884 (1030-1035), p. 891-898 (1042-1049) |
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R |
27-Oct |
Exam 2 |
Exam 2 |
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| 11 |
T |
1-Nov |
Dark Romanticism |
Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown," p. 987 (1113) Poe,"Ligeia"(1162) and "The Fall of the House of Usher" p. 1030 (1173) |
Brooks Farm Experiment and Utopian Communities |
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R |
3-Nov |
Dark Romanticism |
Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener,” p. 1074 (1227) |
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| 12 |
T |
8-Nov |
Dark Romanticism |
Hawthorne, "The Custom-House Sketch" |
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R |
10-Nov |
Dark Romanticism |
The Scarlet Letter, Chapters I-XI; "The Symbolic Three in The Scarlet Letter" by Wellborn, JSTOR |
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| 13 |
T |
15-Nov |
Dark Romanticism |
The Scarlet Letter, Chapters XII-end; "The Symbolic Seven in The Scarlet Letter" by Wellborn, JSTOR and exam review |
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R |
17-Nov |
Exam 3 |
Exam 3 |
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| 14 |
T |
22-Nov |
Thanksgiving Break |
No class |
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R |
24-Nov |
Thanksgiving Break |
No class |
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| 15 |
T |
29-Nov |
Whitman and Dickinson |
Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" p. 1295, "Song of Myself" p. 1240; article on "Song of Myself" from Literary Reference Center, EBSCO |
Civil War |
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R |
1-Dec |
Whitman and Dickinson |
Dickinson poems TBD. Last day to submit Being There journal. |
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| 16 |
T |
6-Dec |
Exam 4 |
Exam 4: 10:10-12:10. Research Papers due in class and turnitin.com. |
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