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American Literature Syllabus

Mr. Steffens 2008-2009

Week Subject
1
Intro and "American"
2-3
- The American Land and its influences on its people
The Native Americans
- Introduction
4-6
The Puritans
- Introduction
- Bradford, Anonymous
- Edwards
- Salem
- Review and test
7-8
The American Revolution
- Introduction
- Paine's "Common Sense"
9-10
- The Declaration of Independence
11-12
- Crevecourer, Franklin
- Review and test
13
Developing a National Literature
- Introduction
- The Frontier
13-15
- The Short Story (Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe)
16-17
- Poetry (Poe, Longfellow, Emerson)
- Thoreau
18
- Review and Midterm
19-23
- The Scarlet Letter
24
- Review and test
25-29
A National Conscience
- Introduction
- The Civil War (Douglas, Lincoln, Bierce, Cranc, Whitman)
30
- Poetry (Dickinson, Whitman)
- Review and test
31-35
- The Short Story (Harte, Twain, Chopin, Cather)
- James
36
- Review and Final
The Short Story
- Introduction
- Fitzgerald
- Hemingway
- Steinbeck
- Faulkner
- Welty
- Malamud
- Thurber
- O'Connor
- Baldwin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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