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Throughout this course, you'll be using these pages to gain a sense of the world surrounding the text and to prepare for class.
Each lesson will follow this plan:
I'll expect you to use these throughout the course and will refer to material posted on the web as well
And here our tale begins . . . .
And what a tale it is. We'll be covering a broad sweep of literature, from the colonial period on through the Civil War (what year was that? . . . )
I'd like to start off with a basic question: Okay . . . why American lit for teachers. I mean, if you’re teaching . . . say, business or biology, why both with American lit?
I want my course to explore two areas: how does literature create meaning and connected to this what did the text “mean” for its contemporary readers, and what can it mean for modern readers?
Last Revised August 2002
David Bordelon