| Aug. |
26 |
Introduction to
course; Overview Lecture
:
American Literature, Beginnings to 1860
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29 |
Giovanni da Verrazzano,
from Verrazzano’s Voyage… (pp.
10-16)
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31 |
John
Smith, from The
General History of
Virginia
... (pp. 32-45)
. |
| Sept. |
2 |
finish Smith; brief
explanation of Web Course-Enhancement Projects
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5 |
Labor
Day |
|
7 |
William Bradford, from Of
Plymouth
Plantation
... (pp. 46-61). |
|
9 |
finish
Bradford; Thomas Morton, from The New English Canaan (pp. 62-69);
by now, have read “Exploration and the Colonies,” pp.
1-9
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12 |
John Winthrop, from A Model of Christian Charity (pp. 69-77) |
|
14 |
Roger
Williams, from The
Bloody Tenet..., The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody and
“Letter to the Town of
Providence
” (pp. 77-84) |
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16 |
Anne
Bradstreet, “The
Flesh...,” “Upon the Burning...” and from Meditations...
pp.
84ff)
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19 |
Edward
Taylor,
“Huswifery” and “A Fig...” (pp. 161ff); by now, have
read “Puritanism,” pp. 109-11
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21 |
finish
Taylor
; brief review for Announced Quiz #1
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23 |
Announced Quiz #1; begin Byrd, from The
History... and A Progress (pp. 232ff)
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26 |
continue
Byrd |
|
28 |
finish
Byrd; begin Benjamin Franklin, from Poor Richard’s... and letter to
Ezra Stiles (pp. 318ff)
. |
|
30 |
finish
Franklin
|
IIn preparation for the midterm, work through the first Web
Course-Enhancement project (on Woolman and Edwards; read
headnotes in textbook for both writers).
. |
| Oct. |
3 |
Thomas Paine, from The Age of Reason (pp. 371ff)
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5 |
finish Paine
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7 |
Thomas
Jefferson, from Notes
on...Virginia, letters to Benjamin Rush and John
Adams
(pp. 412ff)
. |
|
10 |
finish
Jefferson
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12 |
Olaudah
Equiano, from The
Interesting Narrative…
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14 |
Philip
Freneau, “On Mr.
Paine’s...” and “On the Universality...” (pp. 451ff)
.
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17 |
finish Freneau;
10-minute review for midterm |
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19 |
Midterm Exam |
|
21 |
VCU Reading Day
. |
|
24 |
Ralph
Waldo Emerson,
“The Divinity School Address” and “Ode [to Channing]”
(pp. 879ff)
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26 |
continue Emerson |
|
28 |
finish
Emerson; begin Edgar
Allan Poe, “The Raven,” “The Philosophy...” and
“Romance” (pp. 1228ff); by now, have read “The
Romantic Temper...,” pp. 525-532 and “Transcendentalism,” pp. 877-878
. |
|
31 |
continue Poe |
| Nov |
2 |
finish Poe |
|
4 |
Herman
Melville, from
Battle
Pieces
:
“The Portent,” “The March into
Virginia
,”
“
Shiloh
” and “Malvern Hill” (pp. 1524ff)
. |
***************NOV 4: LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM CLASSES*******
|
|
7 |
finish Melville
poetry; begin “Bartleby the Scrivener” |
|
9 |
continue “Bartleby
the Scrivener” |
|
11 |
finish “Bartleby the
Scrivener”; brief review for Announced Quiz #2
. |
|
14 |
Announced
Quiz #2; begin Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s... (pp. 1730ff)
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16 |
continue Stowe |
|
18 |
finish Stowe; begin Harriet
Jacobs, Incidents... (pp. 1807ff)
. |
|
21 |
continue Jacobs; by
now, have read “The Humanitarian...,” pp. 1675-1680 |
|
23 |
finish
Jacobs; |
|
25 |
Thanksgiving
Holiday
. |
In
preparation for the final exam in two weeks, work through the
second Web course-enhancement project (on Melville and Poe).
. |
|
28 |
begin Frederick
Douglass, Narrative... (pp. 1821ff) |
|
30 |
continue Douglass |
| Dec |
2 |
finish
Douglass; begin Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Specimen Days, “After
First
Fredericksburg
,” “Abraham Lincoln” and “Virginia” (pp. 1913ff)
. |
|
5 |
continue Whitman |
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7 |
continue
Whitman
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|
9 |
finish Whitman; brief
review for final exam
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12 |
Final Exam —
8
:
00-10
:
50 am
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