Note: 7A Course Calendar: List of Readings and Assignments:
Note: the numbers in parentheses refer to pages in the Heath text, not to the time periods during which writers lived.
Week 1: Aug. 23-27. Introduction to the course; the problem of the canon; Heath Anthology preface to 2nd edition (IV). The Colonial Period to 1700: (1-20). Native American Oral Literatures (21-26). "Talk Concerning The First Beginning" (Zuni) (27). "Changing Woman and The Hero Twins After The Emergence Of The People" (Navajo) (41). "Raven Makes A Girl Sick and Then Cures Her" (67). "The Gift of The Pipe" (Lakota) (59) "The Origin of Stories" (Senica) (69) Native American Oral Poetry (95). "Like Flowers Continually Parishing" (104). "Woman’s Divorce Dance Song" (110). Cultures In Contact (114). "Creation of The Whites" (Yuchi) (115).
Week 2: Aug. 30 through Sept. 3. Cultures In Contact (continued). Voices From The Imperial Frontier; Columbus "Journal of The First Voyage To America" (116). Journal number 1 due Fri. Sept. 3.
Week 3: Sept. 6-10. Cultures In Contact (continued). Alvar Nuiiez Caheza de Vaca (128-140). Cultures In Contact: The Anglo Frontier. Handsome Lake: "How America Was Discovered" (Senica) (182). John Smith (184-198). Richard Freghorne (207-210). Thomas Morton (211-222). John Winthrop (223-244). Note: Mon. Sept. 6 is Labor Day holiday.
Week 4: Sept. 13-17. Cultures In Contact (continued). William Bradford (245-266). Roger Williams (267-288). Anne Bradstreet (289-314). Journal 2 due Fri. Sept. 17.
Week 5: Sept. 20-24. Captivity Narratives. Mary White Rowlandson (340-366). The Bay Psalm Book and The New England Primer (326-329). Journal 3 due.
Week 6: Sept. 27 through Oct. 1. Contested Boundaries: Tales of Incorporation, Resistance, and Reconquest In New Spain: (472-494) Introspection and The Search For Enlightenment. Jonathan Edwards: "Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God" (592). Elizabeth Ashbridge (starts on page 604). Journal 4 due.
Week 7: Oct. 4-8. First essay midterm assigned. Benjamin Franklin: Myth, Man, Secular Puritan. (717-818). Selections include excerpts from Poor Richard’s Almanac, the Autobiography, and the essays "Remarks Concerning The Savages of North America," and "On The Slave Trade."
Week 8: Oct. 11-15. The letters of John and Abigail Adams (902-916). Introduction to the Jefferson enigma. Journal 5 due.
Week 9: Oct. 18-22. The writings of Thomas Jefferson (continued) (916-958). Phillis Wheatley (1095-1127). Journal 6 due.
Week 10: Oct. 25-29. Susanna Haswell Rosen (1215-1225). Charles Brockden Brown: "Somnambulism: A Fragment" (1228-1257). Read also: Anti-Federalist Contentions" (1243-1256. Journal 7 due.
Week 11: Nov. 1-5. Washington Irving: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1332-1374). –Your text contains other Irving material running through page 1401. Read also the drama by Mordecai Manuel Noah beginning on page 1377.
Week 12: Nov. 8-12. James Fenimore Cooper (1402-1425) Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1427-1440) Edgar Allen Poe, beginning on page 1440. Readings to be assigned. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1578-1689. Specific readings to be assigned. Special projects due.
Week 13: Nov. 15-19. Second take-home midterm assigned. Emerson (continued). Frederick Douglass (1751-1836). Harriet Ann Jacobs (1837-1863. Henry Highland Garnet: "An Address To The Slaves of The United States of America" 1957) Journal 9 due. Special projects due.
Week 14: Nov. 22-26. Sojourner Truth: (2045-2069). Also selected readings from Henry David Thoreau (2090-2189). Journal 10 due.
Week 15: Nov. 29 through Dec. 3. Thoreau (continued). Nathaniel Hawthorne: (2190-2256). Specific stories to be assigned.
Week 16: Dec. 6-10. Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass; read the Preface, and sections 1, 11, 16, 21, 48, and 52. All Whitman material is found in your Heath Anthology, pages 2725-2853. Journal 11 due. Emily Dickinson: poems 249, 280, 328, as well as several Dickinson letters. Dickinson material begins on page 2854. Journal 12 due. Take-home final exam issued.
Week 17: Dec. 13-17. Discussions of Emily Dickinson (continued) Submit pieces for class anthology.
Week 18: Dec. 20-24. Take-home final exams due. Oral presentations of special projects due. Oral readings from class-compiled anthology.
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