Unit One: Colonialism

John Smith: The General History Of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation

Anne Bradstreet
Due Monday, Jan. 30, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Feb 1, Blog posted on Facebook

Unit Two: The Making of a Nation: The Age of Reason Enlightenment Transcendentalism
Jonathan Edwards
Due Monday, Feb. 6, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Feb 8, 9:00 am Blog posted on Facebook NO CLASS SESSION ON FRIDAY will deal with the possibility of forming new groups and selecting a work for group study.

Project Options: Benjamin Franklin

The Way to Wealth

Thomas Paine
Due Monday, Feb. 13, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Feb 15, 9:000 am Blog posted on Facebook NO CLASS SESSION ON FRIDAY

Project Option: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Self Reliance

Margaret Fuller & Henry David Thoreau

Due Monday, Feb 20, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Mar. 21, 9:000 am Blog posted on Facebook

Unit Three: Americans in Captivity

Phillis Wheatley
Due Monday, Feb. 20, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Feb 22, 9:000 am Blog posted on Facebook NO CLASS SESSION ON FRIDAY

Project Option: Mary Rowlandson

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Harriet Jacobs & Frederick Douglass

Due Monday, Feb. 27, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Feb 29, 9:000 am Blog posted on Facebook

Unit Four: Romanticism

Washington Irving
Due Monday, Mar. 5, 9:00 am Read & Mark The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Mar. 7, 9:000 am Blog posted on Facebook

Project Options: Nathaniel Hawthorne

My Kinsman, Major Molineux Young Goodman Brown The May-Pole of Merry Mount

The Ministers Black Veil The Birth-Mark Rappaccinis Daughter NOTE: Pick 1 story

Edgar Allan Poe

Due Monday, Mar.12, 9:00 am Read & Mark Fall of the House of Usher & Liegia Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Mar. 14, 9:00 am Blog posted on Facebook

Project Options: Edgar Allan Poe William Wilson The Masques of the Red Death The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Purloined Letter The Cask of Amontillado

Unit Five: The Bridge to Realism

Walt Whitman
Due Monday, Apr. 2, 9:00 am Read & Mark Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking & When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Apr. 4, 9:000 am Blog posted

Project Option: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass: Song of Myself

Emily Dickinson
Due Monday, Apr. 9, 9:00 am Read & Mark all reading selections in the author folder Submit Literature Circle to Group Wiki Due Wednesday, Apr. 11, 9:000 am Blog posted on Facebook

WEEK 16, 18, 20 GROUP PRESENTATONS