AMERICAN JOURNEYS of (SELF) DISCOVERY:
BEGINNINGS to 1940

 Syllabus

Assignments due on:
 
     
READING
WRITING
January Th 8 INTRODUCTION  
  T 13 BACKGROUND to 1620
Columbus, 8-14
Native American Creation Stories, 52-67
 
  TH 15 Smith 102-119
Disney, Pochantus (on reserve)
Discussion Forum (DF)
  T 20 BACKGROUND: 1620-1820  
  TH  22 Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 129-159
Williams, 188-199
DF
  T 27 Bradstreet, 199-227
Rowlandson, 244-275
Knight, 355-362
DF
  TH  29 Edwards, Personal Narrative, 379-390; "Sinners in the Hands. . . " 412-424 DF
February T 3 Franklin, letters, 470-486
Franklin, Autobiography , 487-548
DF
  TH  5 John Adams, Letters, 681-705
Paine, 706, The Crisis, 714-719
Jefferson, 726-732 ("Dec. of Independence")
DF
  T 10 Freneau, poems, 797-99, 805-813
Wheatlley, poems, 814-826
DF
  TH  12 BACKGROUND 1820-1865
Introduction, 879-892.
Notes and Queries Project Due
  T 17 Irving, 893-908
Bryant, 972-980
DF
  TH  19 Emerson, 989-993; "Self Reliance" 1045-62; journals (skim)
Thoreau, 1672-78, "Resistance to Civil Government" 1704-1719; 
DF
  T 24 Thoreau, Walden, 1719-1770. DF
  Th 26 Poe, 1430-35, "Ligeia" 1453-62; "The Fall of the House of Usher" 1463-75; Letters, 1560-1567 DF
March T 3 Hawthorne, 1169-73, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" 1173-86; "Young Goodman Brown" 1198-1207 DF
  TH  5 Fuller, 1587-1597
Lincoln, 1568-1580
Letters Project Due
  T 10 SPRING BREAK  
  TH  12 SPRING BREAK  
  T 17 Stowe, 1605-1616
Jacobs, 1624-1645 
DF
  TH  19 Whitman, 2027-2033, Song of Myself' 2048-2090; "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" 2108-2112; "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" 2119; from Drum Taps 2122-2126 DF
  T 24 Dickinson, TBA DF
  TH  26 BACKGROUND 1865-1914
Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Periodical Project Due
  T 31 Twain, Huckleberry Finn DF
April TH  2 Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Wharton, "Afterward"
DF
  T 7 Jewett, "A White Heron"
Chopin, The Awakening
DF
  TH  9 Chopin, The Awakening DF
  T 14 BACKGROUND 1914-1945 Popular Culture Project Due
  TH  16 Cather, My Antonia DF
  T 21 Cather, My Antonia DF
  TH  23 Hughes, TBA
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
DF
  T 28 Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God DF
  TH 30 LAST DAY OF CLASS
• Paper Presentations
• Evaluations
Final Project Due