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Below you'll find weekly lesson plans. These include discussion questions, background material, and images that should help place you into the world of the individual texts. You'll also find copies of the syllabus (Course Information Sheet), the Course Packet and general notes for the course.

Introductory Lesson

Sample Student Work 

Religion and Literature

Contact: "Native" Americans

Rationality and Nationalism: Franklin and Irving

Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau

The American Bard: Whitman

The American Bard: Dickinson

Domesticity and Sentimentality: Stowe and Hawthorne

Wealth and Morality: Melville

Mr. Gothic: Poe

Slave Narrative: Jacobs

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Last Revised January 2008
David Bordelon