English 2230 Schedule

Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2230: American Literature I
Fall 2007 / Section 1

Tentative Schedule

COLONIAL AMERICA and PURITANISM

M 8/27 -- Introduction to the Course: A Brief Overview of American History, Literature, Topics, and Themes / Syllabus / Schedule / In-Class Writing

W 8/29 -- Historical Background: "Literature to 1750" (2-27) and "Colonial Settlements" (93-106) -- Note: Pay the most attention to any and all information about the Pilgrims and Puritans of New England, their beliefs, their actions and behaviors, etc.

F 8/31 -- William Bradford: Introduction (124-127); Of Plimoth Plantation (127-146); "Bradford through a Modern Lens" (147-152)

M 9/3 -- NO CLASSES -- LABOR DAY

W 9/5 -- Anne Bradstreet: Introduction (167-169); To My Dear and Loving Husband (182); A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment (183); Before the Birth of One of Her Children (181-182); The Author to Her Book (181)

F 9/7 -- Anne Bradstreet: Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House (184-185); The Flesh and the Spirit (178-180); The Prologue (170-171); "Bradstreet through a Modern Lens" (187-189); a John Berryman poem (HANDOUT)

M 9/10 -- Edward Taylor: Introduction (229-230); Prologue (231); The Preface (235-236); The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended (236-237); Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children (237-239)

W 9/12 -- Colonial Diaries and Journals: Read All Introductions and Diaries/Journals -- Sewall, Mather, Knight, Byrd (252-275)

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT

F 9/14 -- Historical Background: "American Literature 1750-1830" (312-333) and "Writing Colonial Lives" (335-340)

M 9/17 -- Benjamin Franklin: Introduction (340-343); The Autobiography: Part One (344-360)

W 9/19 -- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography: Part Two (361-371); "Franklin through a Modern Lens" (372-375)

F 9/21 -- Samson Occom: Introduction (402-404); A Short Narrative of My Life (404-409); "Occom through a Modern Lens" (410-413)

M 9/24 -- Olaudah Equiano: Introduction (414-416); The Interesting Narrative (416-426) / Slide Show of an African Slave Coast

W 9/26 -- EXAM #1

REASON INTO ROMANCE

F 9/28 -- Historical Background: "The Emerging Idea of 'America'" (427-465)

M 10/1 -- Historical Background: "Literature for a New Nation" (467-475) -- and Introduce the Essay Assignment

W 10/3 -- Historical Background: "Calls for a National Literature" (476-494)

F 10/5 -- Philip Freneau: Introduction (495-497); To Sir Toby (497-499); On the Emigration to America (499-501); The Wild Honey Suckle (501); The Indian Burying Ground (502-503)

M 10/8 -- Phillis Wheatley: Introduction (503-505); On Being Brought from Africa to America (505-506); To the University of Cambridge, in New England (506-507); To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works (508-509); A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W. (510-512); Letter to Samson Occom (516); "Wheatley through a Modern Lens" (517-519)

W 10/10 -- William Cullen Bryant: Introduction (567-569); Thanatopsis (569-571); The Yellow Violet (571-572); To a Waterfowl (572-573); The Prairies (574-577)

F 10/12 -- Washington Irving: Introduction (520-523); Rip Van Winkle (530-542)

M 10/15 -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Introduction (543-545); Cacoethes Scribendi (545-556)

TRANSCENDENTALISM and REFORMS

W 10/17 -- Historical Background: "American Literature 1830-1865" (588-605) and "The Era of Reform" (607-616)

F 10/19 -- NO CLASSES -- EDUCATION MINNESOTA BREAK

M 10/22 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Introduction (653-655); To be announced: Nature: Editors' Note, Introduction, and Chapter 1 (655-658) or The American Scholar (670-683)

W 10/24 -- Henry David Thoreau: Introduction (792-793); Walden: Editors' Introduction (809); Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (815-825), Conclusion (846-854)

F 10/26 -- Margaret Fuller: Introduction (725-727); Woman in the Nineteenth Century (727-733; Fuller's Early Journalism (733-747)

M 10/29 -- William Apess: Introduction (639-640); An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (640-645)

W 10/31 -- Frederick Douglass: Introduction (855-857); Narrative: Editors' Introduction (857); Narrative: Chapter I - Chapter IX (865-891)

F 11/2 -- Frederick Douglass: Narrative Chapter X - Appendix (891-922); "Douglass through a Modern Lens" (923-924)

M 11/5 -- Harriet Jacobs: Introduction (763-765); Letter from a Fugitive Slave (765-768); Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (768-791)

W 11/7 -- EXAM #2

FACTS AND FICTIONS

F 11/9 -- Historical Background: "American Facts and American Fiction" (935-943) -- and Writing about Literature Lecture

M 11/12 -- NO CLASSES -- VETERANS' DAY

W 11/14 -- PEER REVIEW DAY -- FOUR (4) COPIES OF A COMPLETE FIRST DRAFT AND ATTENDANCE ARE REQUIRED

F 11/16 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Introduction (966-968); My Kinsman, Major Molineux (973-986)

M 11/19 -- Edgar Allan Poe: Introduction (1018-1020); We will vote: Ligeia (1020-1030) or The Purloined Letter (1048-1061)

W 11/21 -- CRITICAL ESSAY DUE -- and -- Fanny Fern: Introduction (1062-1063); Read All Journalism (1063-1072)

F 11/23 -- NO CLASSES -- THANKSGIVING BREAK

M 11/26 -- Herman Melville: Introduction (1072-1074); Bartleby, the Scrivener (1074-1101)

W 11/28 -- Rebecca Harding Davis: Introduction (1149-1150); Life in the Iron-Mills (1150-1177)

POETRY

F 11/30 -- Historical Background: "New Poetic Voices" (1193-1199) and "The American Muse: Poetry at Midcentury" (1200-1201)

M 12/3 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Introduction (1213); A Psalm of Life (HANDOUT); The Jewish Cemetery at Newport (1214-1215); My Lost Youth (1216-1218)

W 12/5 -- Edgar Allan Poe: Introduction (1222); The Raven (1224-1227); Annabel Lee (1227-1228)

F 12/7 -- Walt Whitman: Introduction (1234-1238); One's-Self I Sing (1238); Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City (1284); I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing (1287); When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1293); Beat! Beat! Drums! (1294); A Noiseless Patient Spider (1306)

M 12/10 -- Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (1288-1292); "Whitman through a Modern Lens" (1309-1311); an Ezra Pound poem (HANDOUT)

W 12/12 -- Emily Dickinson: Introduction (1312-1315); Poems # ______________________________

F 12/14 -- Emily Dickinson: Poems # ______________________________; "Dickinson through a Modern Lens" (1348-1351)

M 12/17 -- EXAM #3 (Scheduled Final Exam Time): 11:50 a.m. - 1:50 p.m.