Date                      Topic/Assignment/Reading

9/20

Unit One:  Exploration, Colonization, Puritanism

Introduction--Film:  The Crucible (based on the play by Arthur Miller)

PPT file: “Calvinism” and “Puritanism in New England”

Links on Calvinism and Puritanism　

9/27

Columbus, Letters ((11-14/ A34, both letters);

Harriot, from A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia  (31-37/A81); 

Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Chapters IX, XI, XII;

Wint Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” part II (116-18); Journals (118-21)

“American Journeys” – ” –A Map of Virginia (John Smith)

10/4

Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment,” “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet”  PPT File: Anne Bradstreet

Taylor, Meditations 8 and 16; “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children,” “Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold,” “Huswifery”

10/11

Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Opening narrative, First, Second, Third, and Twentieth Removes (147-64 A309)

Links on Mary Rowlandson and the work　

10/18

Edwards, “Personal Narrative” (176-78/A466-468 only); “A Divine and Supernatural Light” (186-190/A 481-484 only); “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (200-204/A498-502 and 209-211/A507-509)“

Links on Jonathan Edwards and The Great Awakening

Unit Two:  Revolution and Early Republic   More links in This Period

Franklin, “The Way to Wealth, (213-219/A 516-522);

Links on Benjamin Franklin and his works

10/25

Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, Letter III (292-302/A 657-667)

Paine, “The Crisis, No.1” (316-22 /A712-718)

Jefferson, from The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (325-329/A728-732)

Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” (360/ A810),  “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth” (362/A812) The PowerPoint File

11/1

Irving, “  Rip Van Winkle”  (428-40/ B980- )  PPT File 1 and 2

Links  on Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle

Cooper, from The Pioneers, Chapter III (440-42/B1023-29)  PPT File 1 and 2

Links on James Fenimore Cooper and His Works

Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”  (587-600/ B1250- ) PPT File 1 and 2

**Essay 1 due in class**