English 2230 Schedule - Fall 2004

Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2230: American Literature I
Fall 2004 / Section 1
Tentative Schedule

COLONIAL AMERICA and the AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT (Volume A)

M 8/23 -- Syllabus; Schedule; In-Class Writing; A Brief Overview of American History and Literature

W 8/25 -- Introductions: "Literature to 1700" (only pages 12-18) and "American Literature 1700 to 1820" (pages 425-435)

F 8/27 -- Anne Bradstreet: Introduction (238); The Prologue (239-240); The Author to Her Book (262); Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House (269-270)

M 8/30 -- Edward Taylor: Introduction (341); Prologue (343); The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended (356); Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold (359-360)

W 9/1 -- Phillis Wheatley: Introduction (808-810); On Being Brought from Africa to America (810); To the University of Cambridge, in New England (813); On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 (814-815)

F 9/3 -- Philip Freneau: Introduction (791-792); On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country (799-800); The Wild Honey Suckle (800-801); The Indian Burying Ground (801-802); To Sir Toby (802-804)

M 9/6 -- NO CLASSES -- Labor Day

W 9/8 -- Susanna Rowson: Introduction (879-880); Charlotte: A Tale of Truth: Preface - Chapter XVII (880-913)

F 9/10 -- Susanna Rowson: Charlotte: A Tale of Truth: Chapter XVIII - XXXV (913-945)

M 9/13 -- ______________________________ (Students Voted for the Following Selections) -- (Samuel Sewall)

W 9/15 -- ______________________________ (Benjamin Franklin)

F 9/17 -- ______________________________ (Thomas Paine)

M 9/20 -- ______________________________ (John Adams and Abigail Adams)

W 9/22 -- ______________________________ (Sarah Wentworth Morton)

F 9/24 -- ______________________________ (Native American Creation Stories)

M 9/27 -- EXAM #1

W 9/29 -- We will devote this day to A.R.C.C.'s visiting writer, Anthony Bukoski. I will distribute a sample of his writing before this class meeting. Attendance is required. We will meet in the Performing Arts Center.

F 10/1 -- NO CLASS -- Professor at a Conference

EARLY AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (Volume B)

M 10/4 -- Introduction: "American Literature 1820-1865" (pages 957-977)

W 10/6 -- Washington Irving: Introduction (978-980); Rip Van Winkle (980-992)

F 10/8 -- Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (992-1013)

M 10/11 -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Introduction (1039-1040); Cacoethes Scribendi (1040-1050)

W 10/13 -- William Cullen Bryant: Introduction (1071-1072); Thanatopsis 1072-1074); To a Waterfowl (1074-1075); The Prairies (1075-1078)

F 10/15 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Introduction (1476-1477); A Psalm of Life (1477-1478); The Slave’s Dream (1480-1481); The Fire of Drift-wood (1481-1482); My Lost Youth (1484-1486)

M 10/18 -- PEER REVIEW DAY -- Bring four (4) copies of a complete rough draft of your essay. Attendance is required.

W 10/20 -- The Cherokee Memorials (1029-1039); William Apess: Introduction (1078-1079); An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (1079-1084)

F 10/22 -- NO CLASSES -- M.E.A. Break

M 10/25 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Introduction (1103-1106); Nature: Introduction and Chapter I (1106-1109); The American Scholar (1135-1147)

W 10/27 -- Henry David Thoreau: Introduction (1788-1792); Walden: Chapter 2 (1850-1859), Chapter 18 (1974-1982)

F 10/29 -- Catch-Up Day on Emerson and Thoreau

M 11/1 -- ESSAYS DUE -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Introduction (1247-1250); My Kinsman, Major Molineux (1250-1263)

W 11/3 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1263-1272); Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1474-1475)

F 11/5 -- No Class / Professor at a Conference

M 11/8 -- Edgar Allan Poe: Introduction (1507-1510); The Raven (1518-1521); Annabel Lee (1524)

W 11/10 -- Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter (1575-1588); The Cask of Amontillado (1592-1597)

F 11/12 -- EXAM #2

LATER AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (Volume B)

M 11/15 -- Frederick Douglass: Introduction (2029-2032); Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Preface – Chapter VIII (2032-2062)

W 11/17 -- Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Chapter IX – Appendix (2062-2097)

F 11/19 -- Harriet Jacobs: Introduction (1757-1758); Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1759-1779)

M 11/22 -- Margaret Fuller: Introduction (1618-1620); Unfinished Sketch of Youth (1654-1670); Fanny Fern: Introduction (1746-1747); Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books (1748); Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern (1749-1750); A Law More Nice Than Just (1750-1751); Blackwell’s Island (1752-1757)

W 11/24 -- Herman Melville: Introduction (2287-2292); Bartleby, the Scrivener (2330-2355)

F 11/26 -- NO CLASSES -- Thanksgiving Break

M 11/29 -- Rebecca Harding Davis: Introduction (2545-2547); Life in the Iron-Mills (2547-2573)

W 12/1 -- Harriet Prescott Spofford: Introduction (2587-2588); Circumstance (2588-2597)

F 12/3 -- Walt Whitman: Introduction (2127-2131); Live Oak, with Moss -- II (2201); I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing (Handout); Once I Pass’d through a Populous City (2208); When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (2219); A Noiseless Patient Spider (Handout)

M 12/6 -- Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (2189-2193); Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (2212-2216)

W 12/8 -- Emily Dickinson: Introduction (2499-2503); Poems # ____________________

F 12/10 -- Emily Dickinson: Poems # ____________________

F 12/17 -- ENGLISH 2230 FINAL EXAM (Exam #3): 2:00-4:00 p.m.