Topic: LIT Project

Topic: LIT Project Order Description Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca Samuel de Champlain, from Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyages of 1604-1607 Christopher Columbus, Report of the First Voyage John Smith, from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, Chapter II: What Happened Till the First Supply Week 2: William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I & Book II Puritanism Anne Bradstreet, Contemplations Puritanism, Indians and Witchcraft Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Edward Taylor, Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children Cotton Mather, from Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good The South and the Middle Colonies St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer, What is an American? Week 3: Reason and Revolution, Part 1 Reason and Revolution Benjamin Franklin, Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations Benjamin Franklin, from Information to Those Who Would Remove to America Thomas Paine, from Common Sense Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African Olaudah Equiano: A Critical Biography PAL: Perspectives in American Literature/Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) PAL: Perspectives in American Literature/Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784) Week 4: The Romantic the Real and the American Indian Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle The Romantic, the Real, and the American Indian James Fenimore Cooper: "Author Bio"—220 James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers — Chapter I James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers — Chapter III James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers — Chapter IV Week 5: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ode to Beauty Ralph Waldo Emerson, Waldeinsamkeit Transcendentalism, Women, and Social Ideas Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Visitors Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience Week 6: The Romantics Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gable Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ambitious Guest Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener The Fireside Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My Lost Youth Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes: My Aunt Week 7: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin — Chapter VII: The Mother's Struggle Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin — Chapter XIX: Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, Continued Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin — Chapter XL: The Martyr Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin — Chapter XLI: The Young Master Slave Narratives Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Week 8: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Preface Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter I Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter VI Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter VII Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter XI http://www.frederickdouglass.org/ https://