Reading with Tim

 Reading List for American Literature class for 2024-2025

Library List: https://holden.cwmars.org/MyAccount/MyList/13619

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 (finish Ben Franklin Autobiography and Writer's tea)

Revolution and First Fruits 

• January 13 and January 27: Jean Lee Latham Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

• February 3: George Washington “First Inaugural Address” (Living Book press - pdf will be provided) and “Observe Good Faith and Justice towards all Nations”
  
  
• February 3: Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin excerpt 
• February 10: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry “Jewish Cemetery,” “Hiawatha,” “Evangeline” “Wreck of Hesperus” and “the Village Blacksmith" (Harp & Laurel)

• February 24, March 3 and March 10: James Fennimore Cooper Selection from Leatherstocking Tales (eg Last of the Mohicans). 
  
   
• March 17: Ralph Waldo Emerson (in WNE) from Nature + poems: Earth-Song and Fable (from Boston History book) or selections from his Essays 
  
  
• March 17: Henry David Thoreau Walden selections
  
  
• March 24: Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  
  
• March 24, March 31, April 7, April 28: Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
  
  
• May 5:  Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice Told Tales or/with “Young Goodman Brown”
  
  
• May 5/12: Herman Melville “I and my Chimney” (TBD)

Planned Dates (Mondays 12:45-2:15 in the Fall; in the Spring term 2:30-4): 

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.