Class Activities/Homework/Assignments (This schedule is subject to change.

) Week 1: August 20 Read: Start Here button on the Course Menu in Blackboard to familiarize yourself with the course. Follow instructions as noted in Start Here. Read: Beginnings to 1700 (pp. 1-15) Read: Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage to America (pp. 138-146), Narrative of the Third Voyage (pp. 146-149) Read: Smith, from The General Historie of Virginia (pp. 276-281); from A Description of New England (pp. 281-284) Friday August 24: Last day to add a class. Week 2: August 27 Read: Winthrop, from A Modell of Christian Charity (pp. 334-342); from The Journal of John Winthrop (pp. 342-348) Read: Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation (pp. 350-370) Read: Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (pp. 461-492) Read: Williams, from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (pp. 559-567) Week 3: September 3 Due: Scholarly Article Presentation topic selection by midnight on Monday, September 3. Post topic selection in Presentations: Topic Selection forum in Discussion Board. Online Peer Review is next week. Review the Short Essays assignment sheet found in the Short Essays folder in Course Documents in Blackboard. Review the Writing About Literature folder in Course Documents in Blackboard. Read: Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World (pp. 533-540), from Decennium Luctuosum (pp. 548-549) Read: Franklin, A Witch Trial at Mount Holly (pp. 846-847) Read: Paine, from Common Sense (pp. 992-997) Read: Adams and Adams, Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776; Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 (pp. 1011-1012), Abigail Adamss Diary of Her Return Voyage to America, March 30-May 1, 1788 (pp. 1016-1018) Wednesday September 5: Last day to drop a class with a refund. Week 4: September 10 Due: Short Essay #1 by midnight on Wednesday, September 12.

Upload your essays into the Peer Review Discussion Board Forum for Week 5. Please follow instructions as outlined in the forum. Due: Peer Review Letters by midnight on Friday, September 14. Week 5: September 17 Due: Final revision of Short Essay #1 by midnight on Monday, September 17 Read: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865 (pp. 1443-1473) Read: Emerson, Nature (pp. 1707-1734); Self-Reliance (pp. 1746-1762) Read: Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government (pp. 1862-1876), Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (pp. 1877-1886) Week 6: September 24 Read: Race, Slavery, and the Invention of the South (pp. 1981-1982) Read: Garrison, Editorial from the First Issue of The Liberator (pp. 1996-1997) Read: Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas (pp. 2038-2048 & 2059-2070) Read: Literature and the Woman Question (p. 2237) Read: Fuller, from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (pp. 1821-1849) Read: Child, from Appeal in Favor of the Class of Americans Called Africans (pp. 2000-2001) Read: Jacobs, from Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl (pp. 2187-2212) Week 7: October 1 Read: Sarah Moore Grimke, from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (pp. 2238-2242) Read: Angelina Grimke, from Letters to Catherine Beecher (pp. 2245-2247) Read: Truth, Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage (pp. 2250-2252) Read: Fern, Thanksgiving Story (pp. 2258-2259), Soliloquy of a Housemaid (pp. 22592261) Read: Stanton, from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences (pp. 2268-2269), Declaration of Sentiments (pp. 2270-2271) Week 8: October 8 Read: The Development of Narrative (pp. 2272-2275) Read: Fuller, from American Literature (pp. 1843-1850) Read: Irving, Rip Van Winkle (pp. 2309-2321), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (pp. 23212340) Read: Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux (pp. 2401-2414), Young Goodman Brown (pp. 2422-2429), The Birth-mark (pp. 2439-2450), Rappaccinis Daughter (pp. 2451-2470) Week 9: October 15 Read: Poe, Ligeia (pp. 2487-2497), The Fall of the House of Usher (pp. 2497-2510), The Tell-Tale Heart (pp. 2517-2520), The Black Cat (pp. 2520-2526), The Purloined Letter (pp.

2527-2539) Read: Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener (pp. 2651-2677) Week 10: October 22 Due: Short Essay #2 by midnight on Monday, October 22 Read: The Emergence of American Poetic Voices (pp. 2934-2936) Read: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition (pp. 2546-2553), SonnetTo Science (p. 2554), The Raven (pp. 2564-2567), Annabel Lee (2570-2571) Friday October 26: Last day to withdraw from a class with a grade of W Week 11: October 29 Read: Emerson, The Poet (pp. 1763-1777),Concord Hymn, The Rhodora, The Snow Storm, Compensation, Hamatreya, Merlin, Brahma, Days, Terminus (pp. 17931803) Read: Bryant, Thanatopsis (pp. 2957-2958), To a Waterfowl (pp. 2960-2961), To Cole (p. 2961), To the Fringed Gentian (p. 2962), The Prairies (pp. 2962-2965), Abraham Lincoln (p. 2965-2966) Read: Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (pp. 2967-2968), The Jewish Cemetery at Newport (pp. 2972-2973), Aftermath (p. 2974), The Harvest Moon (p. 2975) Week 12: November 5 Warning: This weeks reading is long and challenging. Pace yourselves. Read: Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (pp. 2996-3009), Song of Myself (pp. 3010-3054) Week 13: November 12 Due: Short Essay #3 by midnight on Monday, November 12 Read: Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (pp. 3068-3073), Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (pp. 3073-3078), When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer (p. 3080), Beat! Beat! Drums! (p. 3081), Cavalry Crossing a Ford (p. 3082), When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd (pp. 3089-3096) Note: Discussion Board responses are due as normal; after posting your response by Friday, November 18 and responses to classmates by Monday, November 21, you are free for the rest of the week. Use this additional time to think about and work on your final paper. 22-25 November Thanksgiving Break; classes not in session Week 14: November 26 Online Peer Review is next week. Review the Final Paper assignment sheet found in the

Final Paper folder in Course Documents in Blackboard. Review the Writing About Literature folder in Course Documents in Blackboard. Read: Dickinson, Success is counted sweetest (p. 3131), I Like a Look of Agony (p. 3132), Theres a certain Slant of Light (p. 3134), I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (p. 3134-3135), I heard a Fly buzz when I died (p. 3145) They shut me up in Prose (p. 3149), The Brain is wider than the Sky (p. 3150), I cannot live with You (p. 3150-3151), Because I could not stop for Death (p. 3154) Week 15: December 3 Due: Final Paper by midnight on Wednesday, December 5. Upload your essays into the Peer Review Discussion Board Forum for Week 5. Please follow instructions as outlined in the forum. Due: Peer Review Letters by midnight on Friday, December 7. Finals Week: December 10-15 Due: Final revision of final essay by midnight on Monday, December 10