Fall Semester Syllabus

Week 1 - Sep. 6
Introduction to the course.

Week 2 – Sep. 13
National Beginnings
Read: Benjamin Franklin HAL p.10-15

Week 3- Sep. 20
Washington Irwing “Rip Van Winkle”
Read: SAL p.9-10 W.Irving’s short biography (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirwing.htm)

Week 4 – Sep.27 Washington Irwing, “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Read: “The Devil and Tom Walker” http://www.ffl.msu.ru/staff/stitova/amlit/tom%20walker.html

Week 5 – Oct.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne , “Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment” Read: HAL p.44, SAL p.10-11 “Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment” http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.196/
A Short Biography of N. Hawthorne: http://www.ffl.msu.ru/staff/stitova/amlit/NathanielHawthorne.doc

Week 6- Oct.11
Edgar Allen Poe – “The cask of Amontillado”
Read: HAL p.119, HAL p.135-139 “The cask of Amontillado”
Poe’s Chronology: http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poechron.htm
Short biography: http://poesss.narod.ru/
“The influence and reputation of Edgar Allan Poe in Europe”


Week 7 – Oct. 18 Edgar Allen Poe – “The Purloined Letter”
Read: “The Purloined Letter”
SAL p.13-14
Poe's Method of Narration

Week 8 – Oct. 25
Midterm test

Week 9 – Nov.1
H.Longfellow – “Hymn to the Night” and “The Secret of the Sea”
Read: HAL p.77-81, SAL p.35, p.53-56.

Week 10 – Nov.8
Transcendentalism

Week 11-Nov.15
Walt Whitman – “There was a Child” and “I hear America Singing”
Read: HAL p.82-86, SAL p.36
Whitman’s biography by E.Folsom and K.Price

Week 12 – Nov. 22
Walt Whitman – “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun”
Read: HAL 85-86, 87. SAL p.55-59

Week 13- Nov.29
Emily Dickinson – “Success”, “I taste a liquor never brewed”, “Much Madness is divinest sense” Read: HAL p.90-92, SAL p.37-38
“Emily Dickinson’s Life” by Paul Crumbley

Week 14 – Dec. 6 Cumulative Vocabulary test

Week 15 – Dec.13 Web Projects Presentation

Week 16 – Dec. 20 Presentation of the collaborative project proposal