Tentative Course Outline

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  Selections can be found from your textbook list, the class website or as otherwise noted. When noted ahead of time, students are required to print any readings placed online and bring their copy to class for discussion. We will do everything we can to stick to this schedule but any changes made will be announced in class as needed.


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  A writing assignment can be expected at the conclusion of each Unit.


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  All Units will have a class where background information about the Unit is given.

Unit 1 – A Meeting of Old and New Worlds: Beginnings to 1750

Course and Theme Intro

Department Wide Diagnostic Test on Literature Terms

Summer Reading Assignment

Native American Literary Tradition

Native American Origin Stories p. 192

Native American Trickster Stories p. 196

From The Iroquois Constitution, Iroquois Confederacy, p. 204

The Becoming of the Native (1993) - Momaday, p. 198

Trudell Film

Article - "1491"

European Contact

From The Relacion of Cabeza de Vaca - Cabeza de Vaca, p.209

From Of Plymouth Plantation – Bradford, Website

From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano – Equiano, Website

The Prologue - Bradstreet, p. 222

From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson - Rowlandson p. 231

Puritan World View

Wonders of the Invisible World: A Hortatory and Necessary Address to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum’d by the Wrath of the Devil - Mather p. 243

From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Edwards, p. 257

The Crucible Film

Vocabulary Units I and II

Unit 2 – The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

Vocabulary Units III and IV

Unit 3 – A New Republic: 1750 - 1830

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention – Henry, p. 373

From Common Sense - Paine, p. 375

From The Crisis I - Paine, p. 378

From The Final Crisis, XIII - Paine, p. 380

From The Age of Reason - Paine, p. 383

The Declaration of Independence  - Jefferson, p. 389

Declaration of SentimentsI (1848) - Cady Stanton, p. 393

What is an American? – de Crevecoeur, p. 399

Preamble to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, p. 412

Address to Governor William Henry Harrison - Chief Tecumseh, p. 430

Rip Wan Winkle - Irving, p. 435

The Persuasive Speech

Vocabulary Unit V and VI

Unit 4 - America in Conflict: 1830 - 1865

My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Hawthorne, p. 558

The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe, p. 576

The Pit and the Pendulum  - Poe, Website

From Self-Reliance – Emerson, p. 590

From Walden – Thoreau, p. 763

Civil Disobedience – Thoreau, Website

nto the Wild – Krakauer, Website

Into the Wild Film

From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave – Douglass, p. 614

There Was a Child Went Forth  - Whitman, p. 657

O Captain! Mt Captain! - Whitman, p. 659

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry - Whitman, p. 660

Inaugural Address - Davis, p. 668

The Emaciation Proclamation - Lincoln, p. 690

The Gettysburg Address - Lincoln, p. 692

Second Inaugural Address - Lincoln, p. 695

Vocabulary Units VII and VIII

Unit 5 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain

Semester Final Exam