Janis Patterson

AMERICAN LITERATURE I (ENG 2223) JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS

ASSIGNMENT SHEET FOR UNI

Journal # Writer(s)               Reading

   2                      Native Americans                  “The Chief’s Daughters”                                                                                                11-14

                                                                                 “Coyote and Bear”

                                                                                  “Twelfth Song of the Thunder”

   3                John Smith (33)              from The General History of Virginia                                                                      34-42

   4           William Bradford (42-43)                         from Of Plymouth Plantation                                                                                      43-58

   5           John Winthrop (58)                                 from The Journal of John Winthrop                                                         59-66

   6            Anne Bradstreet     (69)                             “To My Dear and Loving Husband”                                                                    " Upon the Burning of Our House”                                                                             78

7              Edward Taylor (105-106)                         “Upon Wedlock and Death of Children”                                                                            105-108

                                                                                      “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly”                                                                                  110-111

   8         Cotton Mather  (117-118)                        The Wonders of the Invisible World                                                         118-124                                               

   9         Samuel Sewall                                             “A Witchcraft Judge’s Confession of Guilt”                                                          116

   10      Jonathan Edwards   (160-161)              “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”                                                                168-179

NOTES

*Journal 1:  Introductory letter to readers

*Journals should be kept in a separate section of your 3-ring notebook for class.

*Always read and make note of the biographical information concerning each writer.

*React to prose but analyze poetry.                                                                  

EXAM DATE FOR UNIT I:_______________________________

React to prose but analyze poetry.  

*Journal 12 is a chart.

*Read the biographical info for each writer.

AMERICAN LITERATURE I (ENG 2223)

ASSIGNMENT SHEET FOR UNIT II

Journal #            Writer                                Reading Assignment                                                                                                             11            Crevecoeur       Letters from an American Farmer           127-41                                                                          

12             Benjamin Franklin   The Autobiography                             213-16

13                                          from Poor Richard’s Almanack                222                                                             

14              Thomas Paine     from Common Sense                           240-51                                                                                

                                             from The American Crisis                          251-57

 15             Thomas Jefferson  The Declaration of Independence   259-62                                                         

16             Lucy Terry       (Look on the library's webpage under "Classnotes")                              

17           Jupiter Hammon (Look on the library's webpage under "Classnotes")                            

18        Phillis Wheatley                            “On Being Brought From Africa to America”   283                                                                 “To  S. M. a Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works”    284-85

19      Phillip Freneau                                “To the Memory of the Brave Americans”         288-89                                                                                         "The Indian Burying Ground”                               290-91                                                                                                                                                                                      

20       Olaudah Equiano                          from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of    OlaudahEquiano             270-80    

EXAM DATE FOR UNIT II:_____________________________

PRESENTATION DATE__________________________________

AMERICAN LITERATURE I (ENG 2223)

ASSIGNMENT SHEET FOR UNIT III

(Romanticism, Part I)

Journal #          Writer                                Reading Assignment                                            Page #

21                    Irving                                  “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”                           301-14                

22                   Native Americans           ““Speech of Red Jacket”                                        358-61

23                    Poe                                    “The Purloined Letter”                                563-65; 604-16

24                    Poe                                    “The Raven”                                                             574-77

25                   Longfellow                       “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls                               830

26                    Whittier                            “Telling the Bees”                                                       835-36

                                                                    “Ichabod”                                                                     833

27                    Holmes                               “My Aunt”                                                                  842-43                

                                                                       “The Chambered Nautilus”                                843-28                  Jacobs                                From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl            860-874

Transcendentalism Part II

 29                                                    Emerson                           “Self Reliance”                 365-67; 419-36      

30                                                    Thoreau                            “Civil Disobedience”         478-81;545-60                   

Closing Journal

*DUE DATES*

JOURNAL NOTEBOOKS DUE:          ___________________________

PRESENTATION DATE:                         ___________________________

EXAM DATE FOR UNIT III:       ___________________________

FINAL EXAM                                                   ___________________________

*Notes/Reminders

• The late penalty for journals is five points per day.
• Don’t forget to place the date on your journals.

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