English 207 Main
Instructor: Ann Warren
Office: NEA 273
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 310-233-4247
E-Mail: annw708@earthlink.net 		Course Schedule: Week 1
Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5
Course Schedule: Weeks 6-8
Writing Assignments
Discussion Questions

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1 June 15 INTRODUCTION
Themes and issues in American Literature
Writing About Literature
Go to Lecture 1
No Discussion Questions due today

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Week 1 June 16
American Indian Literature
Go to Lecture 2
Go to Discussion Questions 1		 Reading: Read any 5 tales from the Native American section of the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Week 1 June 17
The Explorers and the Colonists
Go to Lecture 3
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Extracts from the Diario of Christopher Columbus
From The Settlement of Jamestown by Captain John Smith
The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
Week 1 June 18
The Explorers and the Colonists
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Extracts from the Diario of Christopher Columbus
From The Settlement of Jamestown by Captain John Smith
The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
Week 2 June 22
The Puritans
Go to Lecture 4
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: From History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop
Week 2 June 23
The Puritans
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 3		 Reading: From History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop
Week 2 June 24
The Influence of The Puritans
Go to Lecture 5
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Week 2 June 25
The Influence of The Puritans
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 4		 Reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Week 3 June 29
Witchcraft
Go to Lecture 6
No Discussion Questions due today

paper Paper 1 due 		Reading: Interactive Salem Witch Hunt
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
Week 3 June 30
Witchcraft
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Interactive Salem Witch Hunt
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
Week 3 July 1
The Democratic Revolution
Go to Lecture 7
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: Religion by Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: Manners by Thomas Jefferson
Week 3 July 2
The Democratic Revolution
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: Religion by Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: Manners by Thomas Jefferson
Week 4 July 6
The Democratic Revolution
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 5		 Reading: The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: Religion by Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia: Manners by Thomas Jefferson
Week 4 July 7
Slavery
Go to Lecture 8
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Choose any one of the following three narratives to read; read the entire work:
Week 4 July 8
Slavery
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Choose any one of the following three narratives to read; read the entire work:
Week 4 July 9
Slavery
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 6		 Reading: Choose any one of the following three narratives to read; read the entire work:
Week 5 July 13
The American Gothic
Go to Lecture 9
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 5 July 14
The American Gothic
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 7		 Reading: "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 5 July 15
Transcendentalism
Go to Lecture 10
No Discussion Questions due today
paper Paper 2 due 		Reading: "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Resistance to Civil Government" by Henry David Thoreau
Week 5 July 16
Transcendentalism
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Resistance to Civil Government" by Henry David Thoreau
Week 6 July 20
Transcendentalism
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Resistance to Civil Government" by Henry David Thoreau
Week 6 July 21
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Go to Lecture 11
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Week 6 July 22
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Week 6 July 23
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 8		 Reading: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Week 7 July 27
Herman Melville
Go to Lecture 12
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Week 7 July 28
Herman Melville
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 9 		Reading: Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Week 7 July 29
Walt Whitman
Go to Lecture 13
No Discussion Questions due today
paper Paper 3 due		 Reading: "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
Week 7 July 30
Walt Whitman
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
Week 8 August 3
Whitman in the 21st Century
Go to Lecture 14
No Discussion Questions due today
Reading: Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham
Week 8 August 4
Whitman in the 21st Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 10		 Reading: Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham
Week 8 August 5 CATCH YOUR BREATH DAY No reading assignment for this week
Week 8 August 6 FINAL EXAM

paper Final Exam due		 The final exam is due on or before Thursday, August 6, by midnight.

No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.

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