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Teaching Methods |
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The goal of this course is to help students see the respective cultural configuration of each historical period and have a better grasp of how American culture has come to what it is today.
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| Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule |
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Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Orientation |
| Week 2 |
Beginnings to 1820
“Beginnings to 1820” (Introduction, Part 1)
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| Week 3 |
Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford (Book II, Chapter XI The Remainder of Anno 1620)
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| Week 4 |
”The Prologue,” “The Author to Her Book,” ”In Memory of My Dear Grandchild,” ”To My Dear Children” by Anne Bradstreet
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| Week 5 |
”To My Dear Children” by Anne Bradstreet
“A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration” of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
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| Week 6 |
“A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration” of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
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| Week 7 |
“Beginnings to 1820” (Introduction, Part 2)
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| Week 8 |
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards |
| Week 9 |
Midterm Exam |
| Week 10 |
“The Way to Wealth,” The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
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| Week 11 |
“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
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| Week 12 |
“The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson” by Thomas Jefferson
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| Week 13 |
“American Literature 1820-1865” (Introduction)
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| Week 14 |
“Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
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| Week 15 |
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Week 16 |
“The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Week 17 |
Recapitulation |
| Week 18 |
Final Exam |
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| Evaluation |
Attendance: 30% (*Students are supposed to follow all rules closely or points will be taken off from the final scores.)
Exams (given in Weeks 9 and 18 respectively): 70% (*No makeup exams for any excuses.)
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| Textbook & other References |
The Norton Anthology of American Literature(Shorter Tenth Edition)
*No e-text is allowed.
A Glossary of Literary Terms (Eleventh Edition)
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| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website |
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| Office Hours |
By appointment.
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| Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs |
| 04.Quality Education 05.Gender Equality 08.Decent Work and Economic Growth 09.Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 10.Reduced Inequalities 16.Peace and Justice 17.Partnerships for the Goals | include experience courses：N |
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