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American Literature EE 51
Spragins
Fall
2014
In 1931, a popular historian named James Truslow Adams published a one-volume history of the United States called The Epic of America.
In the epilogue he coined the term “the American dream,” which he
defined as "a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman
shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are
innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are,
regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." This
dream, he wrote, “has been realized more fully in actual life here than
anywhere else, though very imperfectly even among ourselves.” -- Nicholas Lemann |
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1st Period: Even Days, Drop Down Day 5
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Office Hours 2:15-3:30 p.m. (daily)
jspragins@gilman.edu
(410) 337-9060
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 The arriual of the Englishmen in Virginia Debry Woodcut (1590) (Description)
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| The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare |
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The Autobiography
of Ben Franklin (1771-90)
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Project: The American West as Symbol and Myth
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The American
Renaissance:
Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1876-83) by MarkTwain
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Gilman School Computer Network Resources:
Summer
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Discussion: Essay
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Spain's New World Empire, 1600
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Portrait of Self as a Writer
(Semester Goals) due at 3:30 pm
Summer Reading Table
Complete Grammar Pre-test
Vocabulary Unit One
First
Encounters in the New World (Powerpoint) PARAGRAPH: Columbus' first reaction to his encounter with the natives of Hispaniola. The
English sought to do something entirely different. The Spanish were
their enemies. They dreamed of setting those enslaved by the Spanish
free and living with them. from Terence Malik's The New World (2005)
Essay on The Tempest due Monday, October 6th at 3:30 pm
Homework:
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The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia
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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)
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Vocabulary Exercise, Unit One pp. 24-25 Completing the Sentence; "Remuneration!" Discussion of "Dreams of Liberation" chapter one
of American Slavery...American Freedom (1975) by Edmund Morgan; Study
Guide Quiz on Morgan (closed book on paper)
Paragraph: "What if....."
Homework:
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Vocabulary Exercise "Remuneration!"
Discussion:
“The Lost Colony"; Study
Guide; (Quiz)
Paragraph: What doomed the Roanoke Colony and with it a
vision of English liberty which included both Blacks and
Native Americans? Homework: For Further Reading:
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of North Carolina (1584) | | excerpts from Montaigne: "On
Cannibals" (first published in
England in 1603, translated by John Florio) (Study
Guide) (answers)
- How does Montaigne define "barbarism" and "wild"?
- What, then, according to Montaigne, allows societies of the New World to surpass the Golden Age? Why?
- Why do these natives engage in cannibalism? Why does he consider this form of cruelty less harsh than the punishments practiced in 'civilized' Europe?
Paragraph: What is Montaigne right about? Or is he too being sucked into the utopian vision of America?
Homework:
Roanoke
Reports:
In
1585 John White sailed to America with the Roanoke colonists and then
spent thirteen months living with the Arawak tribe that lived in the
rea where the English tried to launch their multi-racial colony. Choose
one of the paintings and write a brief report about your impressions of
his or her life. Go ahead and be creative. But do the following first:
- Carefully observe a White watercolor;
- Compare the picture with its narrative description
(written by Thomas Hariot, who also lived in the Roanoke colony).
- Take a look as well at the DeBrys woodcut made to help promote colonization in Virginia.(DeBrys had
never been to the New World)
- Read the detailed annotations linked to the picture.
- Write a creative report about your impressions of this person's life. (Use the 1st person if you like.)
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The Chandos Portrait
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The True Pictures and Fashions of
the People in That Parte of America Now Called Virginia (1585)
(from Virtual
Jamestown) (Assignment Table)
- What purpose do these texts and images serve?
- What preconceptions did the English bring to bear on
their understanding of the natives?
- What are the Indians really up to?
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Summary of Roanoke
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Why
We Study Shakespeare:
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Background Notes to Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611)
Essay on The Tempest due Wednesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm
Discussion:
Homework:
Character Report (Powerpoint Presentations) on
Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Sycorax, Caliban, or Ferdinand
- Choose your favorite character so far:
- Study the following speeches by (ar about) your character from Act I scene 2:
- Imagine a brief biography for your character.
- Find imagery on the internet to illustrate your story.
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Background Notes to Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611)
Essay on The Tempest due Wednesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm
Character Reports on
Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Sycorax, Caliban, and Ferdinand (due by 3:30 p.m.)
- Choose your favorite character so far:
- Study speeches by (ar about) your character from Act I scene 2
- Imagine a brief biography for your character.
- Find imagery on the internet to illustrate your story.
Discussion: Prospero's Rage (and its cure?) - Antonio
- Ariel
- Sycorax
- Caliban
- Miranda and Ferdinand
Paragraphs:
- Describe Prospero's state
of mind at the outset of the action. From what past experiences in
Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- How does the imagery of Ariel's Song relate to
Prospero's revenge?
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Paul Falconer. Scene
from "The Tempest" (1856)
Stephano and the Beast
Trinculo Vented
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Essay on The Tempest due Wednesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm
Paragraphs:
- How might
the
original English model
of colonization, if it had been
successfully implemented, have changed American history? How did
this Utopian model go awry?
- Describe Prospero's state
of mind at the outset of the action. From what past experiences in
Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- How does the imagery of Ariel's Song relate to
Prospero's revenge?
The Tempest
(Act I, scene ii) "Prospero’s Cell", Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Sycorax, Caliban, Ferdinand
The Tempest, Act II, scene i "What's Past is
Prologue"; (Quiz) Study Guide
Act II, scene ii: "O
brave monster!" (Effects) (Taymor 33:19)- First Encounter (II ii 15-35) between Trinculo and Caliban
- First Encounter (II ii 52-70) between Stephano and 'the Two Headed Monster'
- Trinculo is born (II ii 75-90) from the beast after it is fed the magic elixir. .
- Caliban's Song (II ii 155-163) (Des McAnuff version)
- Paragraph: How does this comic scene relate thematically
to the central ideas of the play as a whole?
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Ferdinand and Miranda
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Act III Scene i: Admired Miranda! (Video: Taymor 46:22)
Act III, scene ii: When
Prospero is destroyed; (Video: Taymor 1:00:40); Study
Guide (Quiz) - What is significant about the fact that Miranda proposes to Ferdinand?
- Anything worry you about the perfection of Miranda and
Ferdinand's budding relationship?
- Is there any difference between Antonio's plot and
Caliban's? What is the way of the world according to
Machiavelli?
- Consider Caliban's
great speech
describing the wonders of Prospero's island. Would he have been
better off never meeting the Europeans and learning how to speak? (See Taymor 1:07:20)
vertu- instead of defining virtue
according to Christian values, Machiavelli defined vertu as
the ingenuity which combines with fortune to lead to success.
Paragraph: Can you propose a solution to
Prospero's dilemma?
- Antonio (Machiavelli's bleak vision of
human
nature)
Can you devise a government which will contain the ruthless
ambition of immoral people? (Must Prospero turn himself into
Machiavelli's Prince?)
- Caliban (Colonialism) Must
the interaction between modern and undeveloped cultures be one way? (Should
Caliban have been taught how to speak?)
- Miranda (Patriarchy) How can a parent protect a
child from the dangers of the real world? (Should Prospero
intervene in the budding relationship between Miranda and
Ferdinand-- as he did earlier between Miranda and Caliban? If so, how?)
- Ariel (Power) (Is there really any magic which exists to help
Prospero with these dilemmas?)
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Costume design for A Star from
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Essay on The Tempest due Wednesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm
Quiz
on Reading Assignment Act III, scene iii: The
Deep and Dreadful Name of Prosper (Effects) (Video: Taymor 1:18:24)
- Have you ever had a dream which flipped suddenly from wish
fulfillment to nightmare? When does this scene change? Why does
Shakespeare construct this climactic scene in this way? (Taymor 1:10:26)
- What does Ariel actually do to Alonso, Antonio and
Sebastian? Can you imagine a worse punishment? What kind of
vengeance has Prospero chosen to take? (Could such a punishment
be meted out to a prisoner today?)
Act IV, scene i: The
Masque: A Most Majestic Vision Study
Guide (Video: Taymor 1:16:30)
- How has Ferdinand passed Prospero's
test?
- Use your imagination and conjure up a
suitable spectacle to celebrate such a moment. What spirits would you summon to the
scene? (Masque
Powerpoint)
- What causes the celebration to
suddenly evaporate?
- Even though Prospero and Ariel can
easily deal with the plot, what un-resolvable
philosophical problem does the rebellion present?
- How do you interepret Prospero's Great Speech: "Our
revels now are ended..."
- Do you agree with Prospero's
final
condemnation of Caliban?
- How does he punish him?
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Work on Rough Draft for Essay on The Tempest due Wednesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm |
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Miranda and Prospero on the Beach
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Essay on The Tempest due Wednesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm Act V, scene i: O
brave new world!; Epilogue
Answer Study
Guide Questions and Prepare Vocabulary (Quiz) (Tempest Spot Passages)
Homework:
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Essay Workshop:
Tempest Review:
- How might
the
original English model
of colonization, if it had been
successfully implemented, have changed American history? How did
this Utopian model go wrong?
- Describe Prospero's state
of mind at the outset of the action. From what past experiences in
Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- Paragraph: Can you propose a solution to
Prospero's dilemma? How does the imagery of Ariel's Song relate to
Prospero's revenge?
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Antonio (Machiavelli's bleak vision of
human
nature)
Can you devise a government which will contain the ruthless
ambition of immoral people? (Must Prospero turn himself into
Machiavelli's Prince?)
- Caliban (Colonialism) Must
the interaction between modern and undeveloped cultures be one way? (Should
Caliban have been taught how to speak?)
- Miranda (Patriarchy) How can a parent protect a
child from the dangers of the real world? (Should Prospero
intervene in the budding relationship between Miranda and
Ferdinand-- as he did earlier between Miranda and Caliban? If so, how?)
- Ariel (Power) (Is there really any magic which exists to help
Prospero with these dilemmas?)
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Backgrounds: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Deism: The
Enlightenment Dream: from Carl Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932)
- Man is not
born in a sinful, depraved state.
- The end of life is life itself: the good life on earth, not life
after death in heaven.
- Man is capable, guided solely by the light of reason and experience,
of perfecting life on earth.
- To accomplish this great goal, we must free our minds from the bonds
of ignorance and superstition and our bodies from the oppression of
corrupt social authorities.
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Paul Revere c.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Samuel Adams (1772) John Singleton Copley
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1770-90)
(introduction) 18th c. American Art
(Powerpoint)
Homework: Creative Writing
Assignment: - Choose
one of the paintings by Copley or West and make up a story about the
characters in it. (Read the background materials to find
ideas.)
OR...
- Imagine you are present at one of Franklin's scientific experiments and write a story about it:
- 1609 Benjamin Franklin's experiments in thermal radiation
- 510 Ben Franklin, electricity, and revolution
- 2192 Benjamin Franklin stirs up the new technology of flight
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(introduction) (Franklin Biography) (Wikipedia) The Enlightenment of the 18th Century (Julius Outline,
Notes) All ideas come from sensation or
reflection.
Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all
characters, without any ideas:- How comes it to be furnished? Whence
comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man
has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the
materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in
one word, from EXPERIENCE. John Locke, An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Essay on Franklin due Thursday, October 31st at 3:30 pm
Homework:
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Autobiography, part one
(1771) "Childhood
and Apprenticeship" (Notes)
(pp.45-75) Study Guide
One; Vocabulary
List One; Quiz
1; Lecture
Notes One
Franklin Essay Questions
Epigram- a pithy saying or remark
expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
Franklin Epigrams from "Poor Richard's Almanack"
Writing Exercise:
Write a letter to the editor of your school
newspaper on a controversial topic, but instead of revealing yourself
as the author, adopt the persona of someone who completely disagrees
with your position.
- Use modest rhetoric.
- Use some words from today's vocab list.
- Use an anecdote to spice your argument.
- Summarize your message with a moral epigram.
- Argue this person's case in such a ridiculous
manner that you wind up defending your own opinion.
- Franklin's
Model Writing Style
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Colonial
America 1754
William
Penn's plan for the City of Philadelphia
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Essay on Franklin due Thursday, October 31st at 3:30 pm Autobiography, part one
(1771) "Childhood
and Apprenticeship" (Notes)
(pp.45-75) Study Guide
One; Vocabulary
List One; Quiz
1; Lecture
Notes One Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London
(pp.76-106) (Notes)
Study Guide
Two; Vocab
List Two; Quiz
2; Lecture
Notes Two Franklin Essay Questions
Franklin's
Model Writing Style
- Franklin Epigrams from "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Epigram- a pithy saying or remark
expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.)
Writing Exercise:
Write a letter to the editor of your school
newspaper on a controversial topic, but instead of revealing yourself
as the author, adopt the persona of someone who completely disagrees
with your position. - Use modest rhetoric.
- Use some words from today's vocab list.
- Use an anecdote to spice your argument.
- Summarize your message with a moral epigram.
- Argue this person's case in such a ridiculous
manner that you wind up defending your own opinion.
- Franklin's
Model Writing Style
Homework:
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from Hogarth's A
Harlot's Progress (1731) (Hogarth at Smarthistory) 
"The Rake at the
Rose Tavern"
from The
Rake's Progress,
William Hogarth 1735
John
Collet 'May
Morning', c. 1760.
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Essay on Franklin due Thursday, October 31st at 3:30 pm
Key
Precepts of Good Writing
Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London
(pp.76-106) (Notes)
Study Guide
Two; Vocab
List Two; Quiz 3; Lecture
Notes Two Franklin
Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
Franklin in London (Googledocs Page)
- Although
you'd think he would know better by now, what big mistakes does Ben
make during his first months in London? (answer each sentence in a
complete sentence or two.)
With whom does he continue to hang out in London? (43-44) What does Franklin consider to be his biggest mistake? (How does he mess up his relationship with Miss Read?) (43) What
advice does Mr. Denham give Franklin once the young man has realized
that Governor Keith has left him high and dry in London? (44) (How
later in life did Franklin learn to forgive Governor Keith?) How successful is Ralph the Poet at finding work? (Why?) (44) With whom does Franklin begin to make new friends after publishing his pamphlet at Palmer's Printing House? (45-46) Why did Ralph take Franklin's name? (46) What did Franklin do with Ralph's girl friend while he was out of town? (the consequence?) (46-47) How did Franklin manage to alienate his co-workers at Watt's Printing House? (Is Franklin an idiot or what?)(46-47) How did he finally manage to get on the good side of his co-workers? (46-47) How did Franklin finally start to get his life straightened out? (47-48) With whom did he hang out after work? (47-48) How did he pick up extra money outside of work? (48-49) - What
lesson did Franklin’s mentor Mr. Denham teach him about the best way to
deal with debt? (49-50)
- What job did Denham offer him? (49-50)
PARAGRAPH:
- Even though Franklin did not make much money in London, what great
lessons did he learn there? What plan did he draw up on his voyage home?
Homework:
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The Pennsylvania Gazette January 2, 1750
Philadelphia 18th c.Townhouses
Philadelphia Statehouse
Port of Philadelphia 1752
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Read Autobiography, part
one The Pennsylvania
Gazette (pp. 106-131); Study Guide Three;(Googledocs Version);Quiz
3; ; Vocab List Three ; Lecture
Notes Three
Franklin Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
Essay on Franklin due Friday, October 31st at 3:30 pm Extra
Credit Writing Exercises:
Homework:
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Philadelphia Independence Hall
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Essay on Franklin due Friday, October 31st at 3:30 pm
Autobiography, part one The Pennsylvania Gazette (pp. 106-131) (Notes) Study Guide Three; Vocab List Three; Quiz 3; Lecture Notes Three
Franklin Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
Paragraphs on Franklin's Return to Philadelphia
Dissenting Interpretations of Franklin's Autobiography:
Homework:
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D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
John Rawls (1921-2002)
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Autobiography, part two The Science of Virtue
(pp.141-160) (1784) (Notes)
Study Guide
Four (Chart
One, Chart
Two); (Quiz 4); Lecture Notes Four
A Rebuttal to Franklin's Utilitarianism:
Franklin Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
- Conclusion
Review:
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Destiny (1872)
1803 Map
Thomas Cole,
View
Near the Village of Catskill (1848)
1850 Map of the Southwest
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early 19th century? Independent
Project: The American West as Symbol and Myth
Homework
Cole,
Thomas, Falls of Kaaterskill (1826)
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CHURCH,
Frederic Edwin "Heart of the Andes"
1859
The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton)
(1832) Thomas Cole
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chapter four of Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Walt Whitman, Passage to India
Manifest
Destiny Project
Project List
Project Guidelines
Homework:
Start Your Research
Your essay is due on Friday, November 14th at 3:30 pm.
Moran, Mountain of the Holy Cross (1875)
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Project List
Project Guidelines
Homework:
American landscape painters engaged with the Civil
War on a metaphorical level, none more so that Frederic Church’s
“Cotopaxi.”
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Fur Traders on the Missouri (1846)
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Manifest Destiny Project
Project List
Project Guidelines
Homework:
Write your rough draft.
Your essay is due on Friday, November 14th at 3:30 pm.
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Yellowstone 1872
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German Idealism
Manifest Destiny Project
Project List
Project Guidelines
Homework:
Write your essay.
Your essay is due on Friday, November 14th at 3:30 pm.
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Homework:
Your essay is due on Friday, November 14th at 3:30 pm.
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Backgrounds
to Transcendentalism and the American Renaissance:
Journal Entry #1 (Natalie
Goldberg's Rules) (prompt)
(prompt2)
(Goldberg 10-11)
Homework:
for further reading:
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Entry #2: (Natalie
Goldberg's Rules) prompt (3) Transcendentalism:
from Emerson:
On Intuition in "Self-Reliance" (1841) (notes) Romantic Poetry:
Journal Entry #3: (prompt 1) (Goldberg 145) (prompt
2) (Goldberg 166)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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I Lived and What I Lived For" from Walden or Life
in the Woods (1854) (quiz)
Discussion: Thoreau's
Purpose and Method
Homework:
For further reading:
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Jest" from Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek (1974) (Dillard Discussion) (Quiz)
Journal Entry #4: (prompt 1) (prompt 2) (Goldberg 47)
Homework:
For Further Reading:
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Rorschach Test
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at 3:30 pm Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1804-1864):
Blake "The
Sick Rose" (1789) (image)
Keats, "On the Vale of Soul-Making" (1819)
Wordsworth,"We Are Seven" (1789)
Journal Entry #4 (Hawthorne prompt 3) (prompt 1)
Creative Writing Option Two: Hawthorne
Stylistic Imitation Symbol
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"A Christmas Memory"
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Creative Writing Project Due: December 15th
at 3:30 pm
"A
Christmas Memory" (1956) by Truman Capote (1924-84)
Homework:
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Goya, The sleep
of reason produces monsters 1797
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Homework:
Dore "The Terraces" from London
(1860)
Creative Writing Project Due: December 15th
at 3:30 pm
Workshopping Writing
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Walt Whitman Archive
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Creative Writing Project Due: December 15th
at 3:30 pm Conventional 19th Century Poetry:
Walt Whitman, from "Song
of Myself" (1855) (In depth biography) Discussion:
- Call out images that you remember from the poem.
- Describe the perspective from which the poem is
written (space and time).
- To whom
is the poem addressed?
- Take a shot at explaining Whitman's purpose.
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Emily Dickinson Archive
Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives | | Creative Writing Project Due: December 15th
at 3:30 pm
Emily
Dickinson (1830-1886): Selected
Poems (Dickinson
Notes) More poems
by Dickinson
Homework:
Creative
Writing Six: Dickinson
Poetry Imitation
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Creative Writing Option One: Thoreau Journal
Creative Writing Option Two: Hawthorne
Stylistic Imitation
Creative Writing Option Three: Capote and Family Memory
Creative Writing Option Four: Poe Creative Writing
Creative Writing Option Five: Whitman-esque
Song of Myself (poem1)
(poem2)
Creative Writing Option Six: Dickinson
Poetry Imitation
Creative Writing Workshop One
Creative Writing Workshop Two
Homework: Creative Writing Project Due: December 15th
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) (Chronology)
Does Twain get it right? Homework:
for further reading: 
Jim
(Barry Moser's 1985 illustration)
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Slave vs.
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Reading Twain: Compare to "reading" a Winslow
Homer painting
Section 1: Huck's
Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13- 63 (On-
Line Edition)
- 'sivilising
Huck
- Tom's Gang
- Huck's Ghosts
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One to Eight, pp. 13- 63 (On-
Line Edition)
- 'sivilising
Huck
- Tom's Gang
- Huck's Ghosts
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Section 1: Huck's
Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13- 63 (On-
Line Edition)
- 'sivilising
Huck
- Tom's Gang
- Huck's Ghosts
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Slave vs. Free
States in 1860
Paragraph 2: America's Situation:
Huck's
Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13-63 (On-
Line Edition) (Notes
on Slavery) (Quiz)
Life
With Pap: America in 1876 (allegory):
- first mention of Pap: the drowned man (24)
- a heel
print in the snow with a cross on it (27-28) (Huck's first
reaction to seeing it?)
- first description of Pap; Why does Pap want Huck back?
(31)
- What can be done to protect Huck
from him? (33) (anything in Tom's books? Miss Watson's book? Judge Thatcher's law books?) Huck goes to Jim for help: the hair ball story (29)
- What comes of Pap's attempt
to get off the jug? (33-34)
- What does Pap do when the Widow takes out a restraining
order against him? What can be done about people like him?
- The nightmare: life with
Pap (the saddest thing: what does Huck think of it? What
doesn't he realize?)
- What does Huck plan
to do with himself once he has escaped?(38-39)
- Pap on the nigger and the
guv'ment (39) (What is the link between poverty and racism?)
- the D.T.'s
(41)
Huck's Escape:
Homework:
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Huck and Jim:
Chapters
Nine to Sixteen, pp. 64- 116 (Googledocs )
Outline:
- Section 1: What is Huck's Situation at
the beginning of the action?
- Section 2: What is the relation between Huck's situation
and America's situation in 1876?
- Section 3: What does Huck need? What psychological
obstacles stand in his way? How can they be overcome? What new
morality is Huck learning from Jim?
Deconstructing Race: How have Huck's attitudes about blacks been formed? (conscience)
Jim and Huck on Jackson's Island
(Twain's use of the
uncanny to represent psychological states. See Freud on "The Uncanny".)
-Jim and Huck on the Big River
(Mood shift)
- Life on the
River (75): Passing St. Louis at night; stealing mushmelons and chickens
- Stealing Chickens
(vs. conventional morality) (75-76) How do Jim and Huck come to moral
terms with stealing from the farms along the river bank? Is right and
wrong as simple as the Widow Douglas would have it?
- The Wrecked
Steamboat Walter Scott (76-81): What is happening on it? What kind of folk
do they run into every time the raft brushes up against civilization?
How do Huck and Jim escape? Why does Huck decide to
save the rapscallions on the boat? (81) Twain's point?
- Huck's Orphan Story #2: about pap and mam and sis
and Miss Hooker stranded on the Walter Scott.
- Huck and Jim on King
Sollermun and 'dat chile dat he 'uz gwyne to chop in two' (87) What is the point of this Bible story? What is
Jim's interpretation of it? Why does Twain include this story at this
moment in Huck's development?
- What is Jim's problem with "Polly-voo-franzy"?
(89-90) (Isn't it strange that a Duke and Dauphin will join Huck and
Jim on the raft a little farther dowriver? What is Twain up to?)
-To Cairo and Beyond (Huck's
Crisis: Fog and Lies) (How long can this friendship last?)
Homework:
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Mid-Year Exam 2014-15 (Exam Schedule) (Exam Location)
Huck Finn Review:
Section 4: Huck
and Jim Drift South: Chapters
Seventeen to Twenty-Five, pp. 117-183
What vision of America
emerges as Huck and Jim drift South? What is at the root of America's
problems according to Twain? How can they be overcome? Is a happy
ending possible? The Feud Between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons:
Huck and Jim on the Big
River (135-137)
Scamming America with The
Duke and The Dauphin:
Homework:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain,
For further reading:
- Why We Don't Read Chapters Thirty-Four to
Forty-One: "Mark Twain vs.
Tom Sawyer" by Nick Gillespie in Reason Online (Feb
2006)
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Mid-Year Exam 2014-15 (Exam Schedule) (Exam Location)
Huck Finn Review:
The Long Lost Uncles of the Wilks Family:
Climax of the Action:
Ending: What was he thinking?! Forty-Two
to Chapter the Last, pp. 287-296; (On-
Line Edition):
Critical Comments:
Homework:
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