Calendar

P = Possible group presentation dates
* = Longer readings


Class # Readings Important Dates
1

Introduction

Journals due weekly.
2

Ender's Game.

3

Ender's Game.

4

Machiavelli. The Prince.

5

Machiavelli. The Prince.

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.

9

Voltaire. Candide.

Revision of Paper #1 due.
10

Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience.

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.

14

Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

15

*Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. P

16

Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Paper #2 due.
17

*Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. P

18

Whitman. Drum Taps.

19

Whitman. Drum Taps. P

20

Lincoln. Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural.

21

Field trip: Levinson. Written in Stone.

22

*Card. Speaker for the Dead.

23

*Card. Speaker for the Dead.

24

Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott. P

Paper #3 due.
25

*Ondaatje. Anil's Ghost. P

26

*Ondaatje. Anil's Ghost.