American Lit 245                                          FALL QUARTER 2004                    October 15, 2004

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

20 September
Fall Quarter Begins

Intro and Syllabus

21 Starter Kit Discussion

22 Starter Kit Discussion

23 pp. 1-9 Verrazzanno, pp. 10-16; Cabeza de Vaca, pp. 17-26

24 John Smith, pp. 32-45; Prep Writing Assignment #1 due

27 Computer Lab Orientation—1220G

 

28 William Bradford, pp. 46-61; Thomas Morton, pp. 62-69

Prep Writing Assignment #2 due

29 Anne Bradstreet, pp. 84-86; selected poems; Meditations, pp. 104-107; Puritanism, pp. 109-111. Mary Rowlandson, pp. 125-137

30 Rowlandson, pp. 137-149. Prep Writing Assignment #3 due

1  October

Samuel Sewall pp. 150-161

 

4 Computer Lab—Prep Writing help—individual conferences.

 

See me in my office—211T

 

5 John Woolman pp. 239-253

Prep Writing Assignment #4 due

6 Jonathan Edwards, pp. 290-291; read pp. 309-318; then skim “Sinners. . . ,” pp. 298-309

7 Benjamin Franklin, pp. 318-320; pp. pp. 342-345; Letters 365, 369; Speech pp. 370-371

8 Thomas Paine, pp. 371-373; Browse pp. 374-388; Read pp. 388-395

11 Reading Day

12 Thomas Jefferson pp. 412-416; The Federalist p. 443, pp. 446-451 on factions.

Prep Writing Assignment #5 due

 

13 No Class—create review questions for tomorrow’s review

14 Review

15 Experience #1

Beginnings through Jefferson (100 points)

18 The Native American Heritage--pp. 533-551

Prep Writing Assignment #6 due

How to Study a Poem

19 Introduction to Poetry

 

Romanticism

 

 Bryant—pp.817-818 Poems that begin on p.819, 821, 822, 823 (top), 826 (bottom), 829 (top), 836.

 

20 Continue Bryant and his poetry

21 A Primer on Poetic Feet

 

Paraphrasing advice and practice

 

22 Transcendentalism, pp. 877-878; Emerson, pp. 879-880; poems 986, 988 center, 992 top, 994 center, 994 bottom, 1000

 

25 Margaret Fuller, 1008-1019

Prep Writing Assignment  #7 is due at the beginning of class

26 Thoreau, 1020-1022; Essay pp. 1202-1215

 

27 Open

28 Poe, pp.1228-1230; Poems 1233 bottom; 1234 bottom; 1241 center; 1241 bottom;

1251 bottom

29 Introduction to Fiction

 

fiction terms

Short Stories beginning on pages 1262 and 1275

 

More Poe:

 

Continue short Stories beginning on pages 1262 and 1275

2 November

Poe story beginning on p.1291

(1297)

Prep Writing Assignment #8 is due

at the beginning of class

 

3 Hawthorne, pp. 1303-1305

Story 1318-1326

Young Goodman Brown

 

4 Hawthorne

story 1332-1340

 

Prep Writing Assignment #9 is due at the beginning of class

5 Hawthorne story

The Birthmark, 1347-1357

and review for Experience #2

8 Experience #2

9 Begin Melville 1524-26; Bartleby the Scrivener, pp. 1533-1557

 

10 Finish Melville 1524-26; Bartleby the Scrivener, pp. 1533-1557

11  Holiday

12  Faculty Work Day

15 pp. 1675-1680 Longfellow 1681-1683

Poems 1683; 1686; middle poem 1721; bottom poem 1721; 1722

 

 

 

 

16 Whittier 1722-1724; Poems top of 1729, Lines 1-50 of Snow-Bound 1735-6; Holmes 1755-6; Poems 1757,1758, bottom of 1760

Prep-Writing Assignment #10 due at the beginning of class

17 Lincoln 1761-1774

18 Fanny Fern, pp. 1774-1780

19 Equiano 427-436; Wheatley 437, Poem On Being Brought … 439

22 Stowe 1780-1800

Prep-Writing Assignment #11 due at the beginning of class

23 Jacobs 1807-1821

24 Nonscheduled day—no  classes; not a faculty work day; staff/admin only

25  Holiday

26  Holiday

29 Douglass 1821-1834

30 Whitman 1913-1916; Chapters 1,2,3,4,5,50,51,52 of Song of Myself (1930-1968)

Out of—1969; Once I—1969; I Saw--1970

1  December

Whitman, poems When I Heard—1983;The Dalliance—1983; Look Down—1988; This Compost—1996; A Noiseless—2013

Prep Writing Assignment #12

2 Best and the Worst day—Review for Experience #3

 

3 open/Experience #3

6 open/Experience #3

7  No regularly scheduled classes; faculty work day

8  FINALS

9   FINALS

10   FINALS

13  Faculty work day

14 Faculty work day

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