Tuesday 2 September: Columbus, N 25-29; Selections from Genesis (handout); John Smith, N 42-53. Anne Bradstreet N 114-119, 124-131. Mary Rowlandson, N 135-152.

selection reader(s): Mary Arnold

discussion recorder: Nancy Gordy

Tuesday 9 September: Jonathan Edwards, N 182-194, 207-219; Thomas Jefferson, N 334-342; Susanna Rowson, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth (handout); Washington Irving, N 446-460 ("Rip Van Winkle"), "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (handout).

selection reader(s): Nancy Gordy

discussion recorder: Mary Arnold

  Tuesday 16 September: James Fenimore Cooper, N 460-469. Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through ch. 11 (through p. 110 Penguin edition); Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), N 1432-1440 (“Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences”); handout: D. H. Lawrence on Cooper's Leatherstocking novels. Selected Students start Cooper’s Deerslayer.

selection reader(s) (from Last of the Mohicans): Ashley Salter

discussion recorder: Yvonne Hopkins

  Tuesday 23 September: “The Iroquois Creation Story,” N 17-21; “The Cherokee Memorials,” N 571-581; William Apess, N 476-482. Complete The Last of the Mohicans.

selection reader(s) (“The Iroquois Creation Story”): Rosalyn Mack

discussion recorder: Ashley Salter

  Tuesday 30 September: Take-home midterm exam due within 72 hours of class meeting. Edgar Allan Poe, N 694-696, 696-7 (“Sonnet—To Science”), 703-04 (“Annabel Lee”), 704-727 (“Ligeia” & “Fall of the House of Usher”)

selection reader(s): (Poe stories): Chris Lucas

discussion recorder: April Patrick

  Tuesday 7 October: Nathaniel Hawthorne, N 579-584, 610-635 (“Young Goodman Brown,” “May-Pole of Merry Mount,” & “Minister’s Black Veil”)

selection reader(s): April Davis

discussion recorder: Sherry Evard

Tuesday 14 October: Research Proposal Due (within 72 hours of class). Ralph Waldo Emerson, N 482-497, 514-519, 527-533, 539-544 (introduction & opening sections of Nature, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, & Self-Reliance). (Each student should try to finish at least one of these essays.) Margaret Fuller, N 760-771.

selection reader(s): Kristy Pawlak

discussion recorder: April Davis

  Tuesday 21 October: Henry David Thoreau, selections from Walden, N 853-938. Annie Dillard, selections from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (read at least chapters 1-4, 6, 7, 10, 11)

selection reader(s) (for Walden): Sheila Newell

discussion recorder: Simone Rieck

selection reader(s) (for Pilgrim): Sawsan Sanjak

discussion recorder: Kristy Pawlak

Tuesday 28 October: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, N 812-834. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life . . . , N 939-973.

selection reader(s): Kina Lara

discussion recorder: Emily Masterson

Tuesday 4 November: Abraham Lincoln, N 757-760. Harriet Beecher Stowe, selections from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, N 771-806. Thoreau, N 837-853 (“Resistance to Civil Government”).

selection reader(s): Sherry Evard

discussion recorder: Kina Lara

  Tuesday 11 November: Walt Whitman, N 985-989, 1061-1066 (“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”), 1074-1080 (“When Lilacs . . . “); “There Was a Child Went Forth“ (handout). Carl Sandburg, N 1916-1919. Allen Ginsberg, N 2730-2740. Thomas Wolfe, “The Lost Boy” (handout).

selection reader(s): Theresa Matthews

discussion recorder: Emily Islam

  Tuesday 18 November: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), N 1237-1244 (“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”). Sarah Orne Jewett, N 1586-1594. Charles W. Chesnutt, N 1630-1647 (“The Goophered Grapevine”). Wovoka, N 1771-74. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa), N 1792-1807. Black Elk & John G. Neihardt, N 1823-1836. Research Project due (within 72 hours of class).

selection reader(s): Simone Rieck

discussion recorder: Sheila Newell

  Tuesday 2 December: Claude McKay, N 2082-2086. Zora Neal Hurston, N 2096-2109. Jean Toomer, N 2120-2126. Langston Hughes N 2225-2232. Countee Cullen, N 2245-2249. F. Scott Fitzgerald, N 2126-2143 (“Winter Dreams”).

selection reader (Fitzgerald): Yvonne Hopkins

discussion recorder: Theresa Matthews