A Road Course in Early American Literature
Preface: Starting from Ebo Landing | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Flying African
Introduction: Starting from Solomons Store | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Lewis & Clark | What Was (and Is) Early American Literature?
Chapter 1: Hallock – Shell Mounds and Indianness (pdf) | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Cabeza de Vaca | How to Write Place-Based Literary Criticism (video)
Chapter 2: Into the Swamp with El Inca Garcilaso | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: La Florida del Inca
Chapter 3: A Walk in Penn’s Woods | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Franklin’s Autobiography | Incorporating Quotes Worksheet
Chapter 4: Coyote and the Kid | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Coyote on the Columbia
Chapter 5: Wheatley in Flight | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Phillis Wheatley
Chapter 6: Root | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Olaudah Equiano
Chapter 7: Three Crows and a Raven | Bibliographic Essay | How to Read Bartram’s Travels (video)
Chapter 8: Oro de Oaxaca | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Tira de la Peregrinación | Tira de la Peregrinacion (power point)
Chapter 9: “A” is for Acronym | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Hawthorne’s Subjunctive
Chapter 10: Emerson on the Hutch | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Trial of Anne Hutchinson (or how to get banished from Beantown)
Chapter 11: ‘Now Has that Dreadful Hour Come’: Mary Rowlandson and the National Terror | Bibliographic Essay | Three Minute Lesson: Mary Rowlandson
Epilogue: “And Then a Plank in Reason Broke” | Three Minute Lesson: Emily Dickinson
Albrecht Durer, St. Jerome in the Wilderness (National Gallery, London)