Date

         Topic/Assignment/Reading

11/8

Unit Three: Transcendentalism

Links on Transcendentalism PPT File

Emerson, Nature, Introduction, Chapters I, IV, V, VII, VIII 496-/B1106-); “The American Scholar” (525-38/B1135-); “Each and All” (583/Handout) PPT: Emerson

Links on Emerson and His Works

Bryant, “To a Waterfowl”  (473/B1074)   Student's PowerPoint

11/15

Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1 (868-71, 873, 876, 904-5 only/ B1807-1811, 1812-13, 1844-45 ); Chapters 2, 9, 17, 18 (910-/B1850-)       PPT File     Student File 

Handout on Henry David Thoreau 　

Links on Henry David Thoreau and His Works

11/22

Unit Four: Other American Romantics

Whitman, Song of Myself (1057-1100, B2232-) Preface to Leaves of Grass (1012-13 only, B2138-40); “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (1038-42/ B2212-16; “There Was a Child Went Forth” (1055/Handout)      PPT File     Student File

Links on Walt Whitman and His Works

11/29

Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”  (650-70/ B1313- ); The Scarlet Letter  (introduction/B1333-1358) Links on Hawthorne and His works

PPT 1: Rappuccini's Daughter  

PPT 2: Introduction to The Custom House

Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”  (1109-34/ B2330-2334 )

Links on Melville and Bartleby

12/6

No class

12/13

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter  (Cont’d/ B1358-1474)  

PPT: The Scarlet Letter  Video Segments of The Scarlet Letter 1 and 2

Links on Hawthorne and His works

12/20

Poe, “To Helen” (700/B1510); “The Raven” (701/B1518); “Annabel Lee” (707/ B1524); “The Fall of the House of Usher” (717-31/B1534-); “The Tell-Tale Heart” (731-34/B1572-); “The Philosophy of Composition” (754-60/B1599-)

Links on Edgar Allan Poe, His Works and Criticism  PPT File  

Handout on Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher

Handout 2 on Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka

12/27

Dickinson, #258, 303, 328, 341, 448, 449, 465, 501, 712, 754, 986, 1078, 1624 (1197/ B2508-); Letter [My Business is Circumference] (1210/ B2542) PPT File 1 and 2 

Links on Emily Dickinson and Her Work

Handouts of Emily Dickinson 1, 2 and 3

1/3

Unit Five: A House Divided

More Links of A House Divided  PPT File

Douglass, from Narrative of the Life (970-1001/ B2039-92)  PPT File

Other Links on Douglass

1/10

Stowe, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Chapter VII, “The Mother’s Struggle” (793-802/ B1676-85); Chapter XXXIV, “The Quadroon’s Story” (814-21/ B1739-)  PPT File   Student PPT File

Links on Harriet Beecher Stowe

Other Links on Uncle Tom's Cabin

Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural Address (762-64/ B1616-)

Other Links on Lincoln  Student PPT File

**Essay 2 due in class**

1/17

Final Exam