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Spring 2008 American Lit Schedule

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Spring 2008 Intro to American Literature

Preliminary Reading and Writing Calendar

Mar 31 Apr 1 Apr 2 Apr 3 Apr 4
Introductions, a look at the class and Literary Bios. What is X?
 More on What is X? History Lesson: Colonizing and Populating America and other Significant Dates and Events  Lecture on Puritanism!
Read "The Literature of Colonial America 1620-1776". p 111-128
Apr 7 Apr 8 Apr 9 Apr 10 Apr 11
Smith: Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. p 101-109 Morton: New English Caanan (136) AND Bradford Chapter XIX (156) AND Hawthorne's "Maypole of Merry Mount" (1730) Winthrop: Intro; Model of Christian Charity (162) AND Bradford: Intro; Of Plymouth Plantation, through Ch. XI (144) Saffin; Sweetly my Dearest, and Bradstreet: Intro; Prologue, Author to Her Book, Before the Birth of One of Her Children Taylor: Intro; Preface to God’s Determinations (237); Meditations 6 (232) and 8 (233) and Wigglesworth's Day of Doom (192); Book Club formation and meeting day
Apr 14 Apr 15 Apr 16 Apr 17 Apr 18
Mather: Intro; Magnalia Christi Americana Theoloplis Americana< Sarah Kemble Knight: Intro and Journal Rowlandson: Intro; A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, p. 197-229. Hawthorne: Intro; Scarlet Letter Ch I- VI (1-6) Book Club/Essay work day
Apr 21 Apr 22 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 25
Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter Ch VII- XII (7-12) Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter Ch XIII-XIX (13-19) Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter Ch XX-XXIV (20-24) Franklin: Intro, 366; Witch Trial, 433; Poor Richard, 437; Sale of the Hessians, 444 Essay Research Day; library room 211
Apr 28 Apr 29 Apr 30 May 1 May 2
Lit of the New Republic p. 515-538; Jefferson: Declaration of Independence Paine: Intro, Common Sense, Occasional Letter on the Female Sex Webster: Intro, American Dictionary Preface Colonial Lit draft due for evaluation  Study Day; No Class
May 5
 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9
Seminar Day Seminar Day Colonial Lit Essay due for grading Midterm--readings through Scarlett Letter Book Club Work Day
May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16
Midterm Book Club Presentations Lit of Am. Renaissance, p. 1035-1056; Emerson: Intro and Nature Thoreau: Intro and Resistance to Civil Government 1538 Poe: Intro; Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, The Raven Melville: Intro; Bartleby the Scrivener
May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23
Melville: Billy Budd

Whitman: Intro, Song of Myself Jacobs: Intro, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Dickinson : Intro; I Reason, #301; Much Madness, #435; The Consciousness, #822; One Need not Be a Chamber, #670 ; The Brain, #632; I Felt a Cleaving, #937 Book Club Work Day
May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30
Memorial Day Holiday Essay Two Draft Due Seminar and Book Club Work Day Seminar and Book Club Work Day Book Club Presentation
Jun 2 Jun 3 Jun 4 Jun 5 Jun 6
Essay Two Due Book Club Presentation Book Club Presentation Book Club Presentation Book Club Presentation
Jun 9 Jun 10 Jun 11 Jun 12 Jun 13
Book Club Presentation Dead Day; No classes Finals Final: 10:30 to 12:30 Finals
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