E3H Unit I Itinerary

Week 5 -

Monday 9/16: Franklin's adages: interpreting rhetorical devices and figures of speech
HW: BF Autobiography Part I (pp 248-292) and vocab

Tuesday 9/17: Discuss reading/vocab
HW: excerpts from Crevecoeur, pp 308-323

Wednesday 9/18: Discuss Crevecoeur excerpts
HW: Read Common Sense (pp 3424-331) & outline Paine's argument

Thursday 9/19: In-class Reading Quiz: The Crisis, MC and SA, 30 pts.
HW: Thomas Jefferson excerpts (pp 337-345) and vocab

Friday 9/20: Discuss quizzes/TJ excerpts and vocab
HW: Read The Federalist #1(pp 345-348) & outline Hamilton's argument

Week 6 -

Monday 9/23: Discuss The Federalist #1
HW: Read Federalist #10 (pp 348-354) and vocab

Tuesday 9/24: Discuss Federalist #10 and vocab
HW: Olaudah Equiano excerpts (pp 354-366)

Wednesday 9/25: Discuss Equiano excerpts
HW: review vocab: BF, TJ, Madison

Thursday 9/26: Vocab Quiz (30 pts.)
HW: Judith Sargent Murray excerpts (pp387-397)

Friday 9/27: Discuss Murray excerpts
HW: Charles Brockden Brown excerpts (pp 412-433)

Week 7 -

Monday 9/30: Discuss Brown excerpts

Tuesday 10/1-Friday 10/4 will be poetry days. We will be going back in the text to read Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Philip Freneau, and Phillis Wheatley. Homework and other assignment for the week will be determined as we proceed.

Week 8 -

Monday 10/7-Friday 10/11:   In-class: Intro/vocab, Irving, Cooper, NA excerpts
                                               HW: work on Unit 1 Take-home test due Friday 10/11