週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
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Introduction to Early American Literature |
第3週 |
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The Iroquois Creation Story (version by David Cusick)
Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World (version by J. W. Lloyd)
The Story of Creation |
第4週 |
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John Smith (The General History of Virginia); William Bradford (Of Plymouth Plantation) |
第5週 |
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John Winthrop (A Model of Christian Charity); Anne Bradstreet (“The Author to Her Book”; “To My Dear and Loving Husband”; “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment”; “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet. . . .”; “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House. . . .” |
第6週 |
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Mary White Rowlandson; Edward Taylor (All selections) |
第8週 |
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Cotton Mather ("The Life of William Bradford"); Jonathan Edwards (Personal Narrative; "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God") |
第9週 |
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Benjamin Franklin (The Way to Wealth) |
第10週 |
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Crevecoeur ("What Is an American") |
第11週 |
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Philip Freneau (On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country); Phillis Wheatley (“On Being Brought from Africa to America”; “Thoughts on the Works of Providence”; “To His Excellency General Washington”; “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”) |
第12週 |
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Washington Irving (Rip Van Winkle) |
第13週 |
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James Fenimore Cooper (The Pioneers); William Cullen Bryant |
第14週 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays); Henry David Thoreau (Walden) |
第15週 |
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Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass) |
第17週 |
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Emily Dickinson |
第18週 |
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Final Exam |