P = Possible group presentation dates
* = Longer readings
Class # | Readings | Important Dates |
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1 |
Introduction |
Journals due weekly. |
2 |
Ender's Game. |
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3 |
Ender's Game. |
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4 |
Machiavelli. The Prince. |
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5 |
Machiavelli. The Prince. |
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6 |
Sahagún. The War of Conquest. |
Writing Conferences. |
7 |
Sahagún. The War of Conquest. Cortés. Second Letter. (CP) |
Paper #1 due, a day prior to Class #8. |
8 |
Voltaire. Candide. |
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9 |
Voltaire. Candide. |
Revision of Paper #1 due. |
10 |
Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience. |
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11 |
Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience. |
NOTE: Makeup class - time TBA. |
12 |
Williams. Letters from France. |
Draft #2 due, a day prior to Class #13. |
13 |
Williams. Letters from France. |
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14 |
Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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15 |
*Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. P |
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16 |
Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
Paper #2 due. |
17 |
*Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. P |
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18 |
Whitman. Drum Taps. |
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19 |
Whitman. Drum Taps. P |
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20 |
Lincoln. Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural. |
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21 |
Field trip: Levinson. Written in Stone. |
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22 |
*Card. Speaker for the Dead. |
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23 |
*Card. Speaker for the Dead. |
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24 |
Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott. P |
Paper #3 due. |
25 |
*Ondaatje. Anil's Ghost. P |
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26 |
*Ondaatje. Anil's Ghost. |