WEEK 6: ENLIGHTENMENT

 

MONDAY 

Lecture: Franklin

Read: The Autobiography

 

TUESDAY

Lecture: Equiano

Read: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of…

 

WEDNESDAY

Film: America: The Story of Us (“Revolution”)

THURSDAY

Exam: Enlightenment

 

FRIDAY

Lecture: Romanticism

 

WEEKEND

Relax

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Course Orientation

Syllabus

Letter Home

Explore Your Book

Semester 1 Final Exam Study Guide

Semester 2 Final Exam Study Guide

 

Reading Selections

Pre-Columbian

• Walam Olum

• Columbus’ Journal

• “Walam Olum Hokum”

Colonialism

• Of Plymouth Plantation

• Bradstreet’s Poems

• Sinners in the Hands…

Enlightenment

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

• Ben Franklin

• Olaudah Equiano

Douglass and Truth

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Up from Slavery

The Souls of Black Folk

"Booker T. and W.E.B." (Poem)

Gatsby Book Review 

 

Graphic Organizers

My Mythology

Lit Terms

Puritan Theology: The Crucible

Observation vs. Insight

Annotative Bookmark

Indexed Notes

Distilled Notes

Pen Your Own Poem

 

Lectures

Pre-Columbian

Colonialism

Enlightenment

Romanticism

• Part 1

• Part 2

• Part 3

• Part 4

• Scarlet Letter

Division

Realism

Modernism

• The Great Gatsby

• Modern Poetry

• The Harlem Renaissance

Postmodernism

• Catcher Video 1

• Catcher Video 2

• Catcher Video 3

 

Research Handouts

Timetable

Guidelines

Working Bibliography

Cornell Notes

Working Thesis and Outline

 

Rubrics

Formal Outline

Rough Draft

Peer Review

 

Research Samples

Working Bibliography

Cornell Notes

Formal Outline

Formal Paper

 

Research Resources

The Scarlet Letter (Abridged)

Purdue Online Writing Lab

Department Guidelines (Unabridged)

Unusual Source Cards

 

WORK SAMPLES

My Mythology

• Clouds

Indexed Notes

• Devil and Tom Walker

• Fall of the House of Usher

• Catcher in the Rye

Distilled Notes

• Douglas and Truth

Annotation

• The Yellow Wallpaper

Pen Your Own Poem

• Example 1

• Example 2

• Example 3