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Internet surfing snafus will occur; so please read, download, & print handouts or readings sufficiently ahead of time!

 

 

   

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Class Date

THE "DISCOVERY"   

   

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Course Introduction

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Columbus, "Letter to Lord Sanchez" (e-text)

Vespucci, "Account of His First Voyage" (e-text)
Montaigne, Of Cannibals (e-text)

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IMAGINING THE NEW WORLD

    

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Shakespeare, The Tempest: Ed.'s intro. lxiii-lxxvii & Acts I-V

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NATIVE AMERICAN AND PURITAN COMMUNITIES AND BELIEFS

    

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Cherokee Indian Creation/Trickster/Hunting Tales (e-text)

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Sioux Indian "Younger Brother" Tale  (e-text version)

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Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (e-text)
Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (e-text)

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17TH/18TH-CENTURY NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITY & ASSIMILATION

    

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Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity ..." (in Journeys)
 

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"A Narrative of the Captivity ..." continued

 

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Equiano, The Life of Olaudah Equiano (Ed.'s intro. ix-xii, Chapters I-III, IV 77-m79, V, VII, VIII, X, XI, & XII 220-m223 & m233-36) m=middle of page

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DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: SELF AND NATION MAKING

    

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Franklin, Autobiography of B. Franklin (Parts One & Two)

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Crevecoeur, "What is an American?" (e-text)
Ashbridge, Autobiography (in Journeys)
Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" (e-text)

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Thoreau, Walden
 

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Spring Break

    

 

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Cather, My Antonia

 

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CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVES: HYBRID IDENTITIES

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 Immigrant novel Go  

 

 

 

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course summary		  

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REVISED ESSAY DUE
Native American novel

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Review, Wrap-Up, and Class Evaluation

    

 

Final Exam from 6:25-9:05 (but only really will take one hour)