Week Nine: SPRING BREAK (4/3-4/7) Week Ten: M 4/10 Transcendentalism and the New American-ness of American Literature: Emerson Introduce Essay 3 HW: Read in and Norton Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” (619-628) “The Minister’s Black Veil” (636-645) W 4/12 Hawthorne Read in Poe HW: Norton “The Raven” (688-691), “Annabel Lee” (691-692), Tell-Tale “The Heart” (714-717) Journal 13: Hawthorne/Poe: Can we read any as if Poe’s stories allegorically, we might read Hawthorne? To what extent can we read these stories and poems as being fundamentally about the mind, mental states, and/or emotions? Week Eleven: M 4/17 Hawthorne / Poe HW: Read in Poe Norton “The Raven” (688-691), “Annabel Lee” (691-692), Tell-Tale “The Heart” (714-717) Poe W 4/19 HW: Read in and the Making of American Norton “Slavery, Race, Literature” (761-778) and in the Life of a Jacobs “Incidents Slave Girl” (818-838) Jacobs: In Chapter XXI, Jacobs uses the intriguing metaphor of the Journal 14: loophole; explain how a metaphor works and then explain of the Jacob’s use loophole metaphor. What do we learn about the specific condition of enslaved women in Jacobs’ narrative? Week Twelve: M 4/24 Essay 3 Rough Plan OR Outline + thesis due Literature of Slavery and the Civil War: Jacobs HW: Read in to Civil Norton Thoreau “Resistance Government” (843-858) W 4/26 Thoreau HW: Read in of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An Norton Douglass “Narrative American Ch. V, VI, VII, VIII (957-968) and Slave” “Preface” (938-943), “What to the Slave is Fourth of July?” (1002-1005)
Week Nine: SPRING BREAK (4/3-4/7) Week Ten: M 4/10 Transcendentalism and the New American-ness of American Literature: Emerson Introduce Essay 3 HW: Read in Norton Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” (619-628) and “The Minister’s Black Veil” (636-645) W 4/12 Hawthorne HW: Read in Norton Poe “The Raven” (688-691), “Annabel Lee” (691-692), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (714-717) Journal 13: Hawthorne/Poe: Can we read any if Poe’s stories allegorically, as we might read Hawthorne? To what extent can we read these stories and poems as being fundamentally about the mind, mental states, and/or emotions? Week Eleven: M 4/17 Hawthorne / Poe HW: Read in Norton Poe “The Raven” (688-691), “Annabel Lee” (691-692), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (714-717) W 4/19 Poe HW: Read in Norton “Slavery, Race, and the Making of American Literature” (761-778) and Jacobs “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (818-838) Journal 14: Jacobs: In Chapter XXI, Jacobs uses the intriguing metaphor of the loophole; explain how a metaphor works and then explain Jacob’s use of the loophole metaphor. What do we learn about the specific condition of enslaved women in Jacobs’ narrative? Week Twelve: M 4/24 Essay 3 Rough Plan OR Outline + thesis due Literature of Slavery and the Civil War: Jacobs HW: Read in Norton Thoreau “Resistance to Civil Government” (843-858) W 4/26 Thoreau HW: Read in Norton Douglass “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” “Preface” (938-943), Ch. V, VI, VII, VIII (957-968) and “What to the Slave is Fourth of July?” (1002-1005)
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