Reading List for American Literature class for 2024-2025
Rabbit Holes: https://holden.cwmars.org/MyAccount/MyList/13642
Main text: Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present (WNE) ed. by A. Delbanco (can get on used market too) Amazon link
Pre-American roots
- 9/9, 9/16, John Bunyan one edition here The Pilgrim’s Progress
- 9/23, Indigenous Writers (mostly Nipmuc and Wampanoag) reference From Dawnland Voices pages 374-375, 423-424, 435-438 packet “Chief Powhatan's Address to Captain John Smith” pages 5-6 “Big Mouth, Onondaga Chief to De la Barre, Governor of Canada”(from Great American speeches for young) pages 7-8 packet
- 9/30, 10/7, Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac
Seventeenth century
- 9/23, William Bradford (selections - take out of Humanitas) Of Plymouth Plantation selection on page 139-154 (no page 143, is timeline) - email
- 10/21, John Winthrop (in WNE) Model of Christian Charity and Letter to His Wife p. 3 p. 259
- 10/21, Anne Bradstreet (in WNE) Poetry: Before the Birth of One of her Children p. 115, --(will email copies of following): The Prologue, The Author to her Book, The Flesh and the Spirit, To My Dear and Loving Husband, Upon the Burning of Our House
- 10/28, Mary Rowlandson A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson (library?)
- 11/4, 11/18, Elizabeth George Speare here Witch of Blackbird Pond (library?)
- 11/25, Lydia Maria Child Selections from: Hobomok (supplied)
Eighteenth century
- 12/2, Olaudah Equiano Interesting Narrative (library?)
- 12/9, Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (library?)
- 12/16, William Apess (in WNE) Eulogy on King Philip (selection) p. 346
- 12/16, Phillis Wheatley Poetry: On being brought from Africa to America, On the Death of a young And Lady of Five Years of Age, Letter to John Thornton (will email)
Revolution and First Fruits
- Jean Lee Latham here Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
- George Washington “First Inaugural Address” (Living Book press - pdf will be provided) and “Observe Good Faith and Justice towards all Nations”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry “Jewish Cemetery,” “Hiawatha,” “Evangeline” “Wreck of Hesperus” and “the Village Blacksmith" (Harp & Laurel)
- James Fennimore Cooper Selection from Leatherstocking Tales (eg The Pilot? Or Pioneers? Or The Spy? Or the Deerslayer? Or his short story the Lake Gun? Or his John Paul Jones: American Naval Officers. Looking here for something appropriate….).
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (in WNE) from Nature + poems: Earth-Song and Fable (from Boston History book) or selections from his Essays (still looking into this)
- Henry David Thoreau Walden
- Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Louisa May Alcott here Eight Cousins
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice Told Tales or/with “Young Goodman Brown”
- Herman Melville “I and my Chimney” (TBD)
Planned Dates (Mondays 12:45-2:15):
September 9, 16, 23, 30
October 7, 21, 28
November 4, 18, 25
December 2, 9, 16
Monday holidays, 10/14, 11/11 could be field trip dates (if open)
January 13, 27
February 3, 10, 24
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
April 7, 28
May 5, 12 (snow date)
Monday holiday/Field trip dates: 1/20, 2/17, 4/14 and possible End of Year wrap up Lunch May 12th or 19th.
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