{"id":338,"date":"2011-07-11T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeuwebpages.wpengine.com\/ajensen\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2011-11-29T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:55:07","slug":"course-calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/ajensen\/courses\/engl-313\/course-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

ENGL 313 Fall 2011 Calendar (Dr. Jensen)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This calendar is subject to revision during the semester. (Revised 31 Aug.) (Revised 28 Nov.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

?Week One (Aug. 25)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Th<\/strong>. Introduction to the course; historical background; read The Scarlet Letter<\/em><\/p>\n

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Week Two (Aug. 30-Sep. 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu.<\/strong> Historical, cultural, philosophical, and theological background; The Scarlet Letter<\/em><\/p>\n

Th.<\/strong> Pilgrims and Plymouth Plantation?120-130, 136-137; Morton v. Captain Shrimp?139-146<\/p>\n

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Week Three (Sep. 6-8)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu.<\/strong> Puritans arrive at Massachusetts Bay Colony?158-167; Bay Psalm Book<\/em> Psalm 23, Psalm 100; Goodwife Bradstreet??The Prologue,? ?The Author to Her Book,?<\/p>\n

Th.<\/strong> Bradstreet (continued) ?To My Dear?,? ?A Letter to Her Husband?,? ?In Reference to Her Children?,? ?Here Follows?,? As Weary Pilgrim?; ?Goodwife Rowlandson?A Narrative of the Captivity?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Week Four (Sep. 13-15)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu.<\/strong> Pastor Taylor??Upon Wedlock,? ?Huswifery,? ?A Fig,? ?The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended? see: http:\/\/www.puritansermons.com\/poetry\/taylor12.htm<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Puritan life in the New World?The New England Primer<\/em> and ?Hanah Dustan 343-355; daub and wattle, samp; talk about the research paper<\/p>\n

Th<\/strong>. Witchcraft in the Bible Commonwealth; the Rev. Cotton Mather 308-319; Research assignment?find and analyze an academic article on an American Puritan<\/p>\n

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Week Five (Sep. 20-22)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu. <\/strong>The Last Puritan?the Rev. Jonathan Edwards?386-389, 396-399; assign take-home essay one<\/p>\n

Th.<\/strong> Take-home essay one due<\/strong>; the first American?Ben Franklin?451-457, 473-496, 522-534<\/p>\n

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Week Six (Sep. 27-29)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu.<\/strong> The first American black poet?Wheatley??On Being,? ?University of Cambridge,? ?Death of Whitfield,? To ?S. M.,? ?To Washington?<\/p>\n

Th.<\/strong> Research assignment due at the beginning of class<\/strong>; Truth, Justice, and the American Way?Crevecoeur ?Charles-town?; Paine ?From Age of Reason<\/em>,? Jefferson ?Religion?<\/p>\n

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Week Seven (Oct. 4-6) CONVOCATION WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue.<\/strong> The transition to Romanticism?Freneau??Wild Honey Suckle,? ?Indian,? ?Mr. Paine?s,? ?New England Poet?; America?s first and worst?C. B. Brown?http:\/\/www.munseys.com\/diskone\/welnddex.htm<\/a> read Ch. VIII<\/p>\n

Th.<\/strong> Tongue in cheek in the early Republic?Irving??Sleepy Hollow?; ?Indians, pioneers, and some bad writing?Cooper?988-1002<\/p>\n

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Week Eight (Oct. 11-13)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu.<\/strong> First American Romantic poet?Bryant??Thanatopsis,? ?Waterfowl,? To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe (Additional Readings on this site and Internet); Schoolhouse poet 1?Holmes ?Old Ironsides,? ?My Aunt,? ?One Horse Shay,? ?Chambered Nautilus? all in Additional readings or on Internet<\/p>\n

Th.<\/strong> Schoolhouse poet 2?Whittier?all<\/p>\n

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Week Nine (Oct. 18) FALL BREAK Oct. 20-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tu.<\/strong> Schoolhouse poet 3?Longfellow??Psalm,? ?Slave?s,? ?The Arsenal at Springfield? (Additional readings or Internet), ?Cross of Snow? (Additional readings or Internet), ?Aftermath? (Additional readings or Internet);?Lincoln??Gettysburg Address,? ?Second Inaugural Address? assign take-home essay two<\/p>\n

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Week Ten (Oct. 25-27)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue.<\/strong> skim Frederick Douglass?s Narrative<\/em>; watch When the Lion Wrote History<\/em><\/p>\n

Thu.<\/strong> A wacky Transcendentalist?Emerson ?Nature?; Another wacky Transcendentalist?Thoreau ?Resistance?; Essay Two due<\/p>\n

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Week Eleven (Nov. 1-3)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue.<\/strong> Thoreau continued?from Walden<\/em> 1872-1924<\/p>\n

Thu.<\/strong> What is Whitman doing here? 2195-2197, bottom of page 2107-2109, Song<\/span> (1), ?Cavalry? 2220, ?Vigil? 2220-2221, ?O Captain? (Additional readings or Internet); a victim of Transcendentalism?L. M. Alcott??Transcendental?; assign take-home essay three<\/p>\n

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Week Twelve (Nov. 8-10) 2 November is the last day to drop a class.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue.<\/strong> Is it Poe or poo? ?Sonnet?To Science,? ?To Helen,? ?The Raven,? ?Annabelle Lee?; ?House of Usher,?<\/p>\n

Thu.<\/strong> Essay Three due; Nevermore! ?Red Death,? ?Philosophy of Composition?<\/p>\n

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Week Thirteen (Nov. 15-17)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue.<\/strong> What?s his problem with the Puritans? Hawthorne ?Maypole,? ?Young Goodman Brown,? ?Minister?s Black Veil?<\/p>\n

Thu.<\/strong> More Hawthorne ?Rappaccini?s,? ?My Kinsman,? ?Artist of the Beautiful? (Additional readings or Internet)<\/p>\n

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Week Fourteen (Nov. 22) THANKSGIVING Nov. 23-25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue.<\/strong> Melville for a change ?The Portent,? ?March into Virginia,? ?Utilitarian,? ?House-top,? ?Maldive Shark (Additional readings); assign take-home essay four?due 23 Nov.<\/p>\n

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Week Fifteen (Nov. 29-Dec 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue. Essay Four due<\/strong>; More Melville?Moby Dick<\/em> ch. I, XXVIII, XLII; ?anticipating Realism and Naturalism?Life in the Iron Mills<\/em>; research paper due at the beginning of class?late papers will not be accepted)<\/p>\n

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Thu.<\/strong> The lady in the white dress?Dickinson?poems number 67, 185, 216, 328, 449, 465, 632, 712, 754, 986, 1545<\/p>\n

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Week Sixteen (Dec. 6)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue. <\/strong>Review; assign final take-home essay<\/p>\n

Wed. Reading Day?no classes<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 13 Dec. FINAL EXAMINATION 10:15-12:15; take-home essay due<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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