| Week |
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
Recapitulation
Final Exam |
self-directed
learning |
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