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American Literature EE 51
Section 4
Spragins
Fall
2019
In
1931, a popular historian named James Truslow Adams published a
one-volume history of the United States called The Epic of America.
In the epilogue he coined the term “the American dream,” which he
defined as "a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman
shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are
innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are,
regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." This
dream, he wrote, “has been realized more fully in actual life here than
anywhere else, though very imperfectly even among ourselves.”
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The arriual of the
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Debry Woodcut (1590)
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The
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The Autobiography
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The American
Renaissance:
Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson
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The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
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Summer
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Discussion: Essay
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Complete Grammar Pre-test
Vocabulary Unit One
Discussion: Essay
Process
First
Encounters in the New World (Powerpoint)
PARAGRAPH: Columbus' first reaction to his
encounter with the natives of Hispaniola.
The
English sought to do something entirely different. The Spanish were
their enemies. They dreamed of setting those enslaved by the Spanish
free and living with them.
from Terence Malik's The
New World (2005)
Essay
on The Tempest due Monday,
October 6th at 3:30 pm
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The arrival of the
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Encounters in the New World (Powerpoint)
- Columbus' first reaction to his
encounter with the natives of Hispaniola?
- The
English sought to do something entirely different. The Spanish were
their enemies. They dreamed of setting those enslaved by the Spanish
free and living with them.
Discussion of "Dreams
of Liberation" chapter one of American
Slavery...American Freedom (1975) by Edmund Morgan; Study Guide
Paragraph: "What if....."
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Discussion: “The
Lost Colony"; Study Guide;
(Quiz)
Paragraph: What doomed the Roanoke Colony and with
it a vision of English liberty which included both Blacks and Native
Americans?
Homework:
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excerpts from Montaigne:
"On
Cannibals" (first published in England in 1603,
translated by John Florio) (Study
Guide) (answers) (Video)
- How does Montaigne define "barbarism"
and "wild"? Which, then, is the superior shaping force: nature or nurture?
- In Montaigne's opinion, how did the societies of the New World surpass the
Golden Age?
- Why do these natives engage in cannibalism?
(Why does Montaigne consider this behavior more civilized than European warfare?)
Paragraph: What is Montaigne right about? Or is he too being sucked
into the utopian vision of America?
Homework:
Roanoke
Reports:
In
1585 John White sailed to America with the Roanoke colonists and then lived for thirteen months with the Arawak tribe in the
area where the English tried to launch their multi-racial colony. Choose
one of the paintings and write a brief report about your impressions of
his or her life. Go ahead and be creative. But do the
following first:
DIRECTIONS:
- Carefully observe a White
watercolor;
- Compare the picture with its
narrative description (written by Thomas Hariot, who also lived in the
Roanoke colony).
- Take a look as well at the DeBrys
woodcut made to help promote colonization in Virginia. (DeBrys had never
been to the New World)
- Read the detailed annotations linked to the
picture.
- Write a creative report about your impressions
of this person's life. (Use the 1st person if you like.)
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Reports due by 3:30 p.m.:
The
True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Parte of America Now
Called Virginia (1585) (from Virtual
Jamestown) (Assignment
Table)
- What purpose do these texts and images serve?
- What preconceptions did the English bring to
bear on their understanding of the natives?
- What are the Indians really up to?
- Summary of Roanoke
Experiment
Why We Study
Shakespeare:
Homework:
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In
1609, the ship Sea
Venture wrecked
near the Bermudas on its way to Jamestown. Hear more about its possible
link to The
Tempest in this
excerpt
from the Shakespeare
in American Life radio
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Background Notes to
Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611)
Essay
on The Tempest due Thursday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Discussion:
Homework:
Character Report: (Google Slides Presentations) on
Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, or Caliban: To understand Shakespeare's purpose in The Tempest, it is essential that we use our critical imagination to discover the back story involving each of key characters. - Imagine a brief biography for your character.
- Find imagery on the internet to illustrate your
story.
- Support your conclusions with evidence from the text.
- Be prepared to present next class.
Prospero: - How did he lose his dukedom?
- What kind of magic has he mastered? (Are there any limits to his power?)
- What kind of society did he try to create during the fifteen years he has lived on the island?
- When and why did things go so terribly wrong on the island?
Miranda:
- Has she ever seen her father so angry before?
- What does she know about who she is?
- Who was her mother?
- What has her life been like on the island for fifteen years?
- What has her relationship with Caliban been like until very recently?
Ariel:
- Who or what is Ariel?
- What was his role when he served Sycorax, Caliban's mother?
- How long was he imrisoned in a tree?
- What kind of magic powers does he possess?
- What is his relationship like with Prospero?
Caliban:
- What was his life like before Prospero came to the island?
- How old was he when his mother died?
- For fifteen years, what was his relationship like with Prospero and Miranda?
- What went wrong? (Do you blame him?)
Study the following speeches by (ar about) your
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Background Notes to
Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) Essay
on The Tempest due Thursday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Character Reports on Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Sycorax,
Caliban, and Ferdinand (due by 3:30 p.m.)
- Imagine a brief biography for your character.
- Find imagery on the internet to illustrate your
story.
- Support your conclusions with evidence from the text.
- Be prepared to present next class
Discussion: Prospero's Rage (and its cure?)
- Prospero
- Ariel
- Sycorax
- Caliban
- Miranda and Ferdinand
Paragraphs:
- Describe
Prospero's state of mind at the outset of the action. From what past
experiences in Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- How does the
imagery of
Ariel's Song relate to Prospero's revenge?
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Paul Falconer. Scene
from "The Tempest" (1856)
Stephano
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Trinculo Vented
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on The Tempest due Thursday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Paragraphs:
- How might the
original English model of colonization, if it had been
successfully implemented, have changed American history? How did this
Utopian model go awry?
- Describe
Prospero's state of mind at the outset of the action. From what past
experiences in Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- How does the
imagery of
Ariel's Song relate to Prospero's revenge?
- How do people like Antonio make utopia impossible?
- In
the very next scene, Caliban believes he has been given a magical
opportunity to take revenge on Prospero. What is Shakespeare's take on
Caliban's desire for vengeance?
The
Tempest (Act I, scene ii) "Prospero’s Cell",
Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Sycorax, Caliban, Ferdinand
The
Tempest, Act II, scene i "What's Past
is Prologue"; (Quiz) Study Guide
Paragraph: How do people like Antonio make utopia impossible?
Act II, scene ii: "O brave
monster!" (Effects)
(Taymor)
Paragraph: How does this comic scene make Shakespeare's point about what went wrong at Roanoke?
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Ferdinand and Miranda
Stephano, Trinculo
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Essay
on The Tempest due Thursday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Paragraphs:
- How might the
original English model of colonization, if it had been
successfully implemented, have changed American history? How did this
Utopian model go awry?
- Describe
Prospero's state of mind at the outset of the action. From what past
experiences in Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- How does the
imagery of
Ariel's Song relate to Prospero's revenge?
- How do people like Antonio make utopia impossible?
- In
the very next scene, Caliban believes he has been given a magical
opportunity to take revenge on Prospero. What is Shakespeare's take on
Caliban's desire for vengeance?
Act III Scene i:
Admired Miranda!
- What is significant about the fact that Miranda
proposes
to Ferdinand?
- Anything worry you about the perfection of
Miranda and Ferdinand's budding relationship?
Act III, scene ii: When
Prospero is destroyed (Study
Guide) (Quiz) - Is there any difference between Antonio's plot
and Caliban's?
What is the way of the world according to Machiavelli?
- Consider Caliban's
great speech
describing the wonders of Prospero's island. Would he have
been
better off never meeting the Europeans and learning how to speak?
Reviewing Caliban: - First Encounters:
- Act I scene ii:
- Act II scene ii:
- Act III scene ii
Paragraph: What is Shakespeare's vision of Caliban's character? Is he a victim or a villain?
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Costume design for A
Star from
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on The Tempest due Thursday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Paragraph: Can you
propose a solution to Prospero's dilemma?
- Antonio (Machiavelli's bleak
vision of human
nature) Can you devise a government which will contain the
ruthless ambition of immoral people? (Must Prospero turn himself into
Machiavelli's Prince?)
- Caliban (Colonialism) Must
the interaction between modern and undeveloped cultures be one way?
(Should Caliban have been taught how to speak English?)
- Miranda (Patriarchy) How can
a parent protect a child from the dangers of the real world? (Should
Prospero intervene in the budding relationship between Miranda and
Ferdinand-- as he did earlier between Miranda and Caliban? If so, how?)
- Ariel (Power) (Is there
really any magic which exists to help Prospero with these dilemmas?)
Quiz
on Reading Assignment
Act III, scene iii: The Deep
and Dreadful Name of Prosper (Effects)
(Video: Taymor)
- Have you ever had a dream which flipped
suddenly from wish fulfillment to nightmare? When does this scene change? Why
does Shakespeare construct this climactic scene in this way?
- What does Ariel actually do to Alonso, Antonio
and Sebastian? Can you imagine a worse punishment?
What kind of vengeance has Prospero chosen to take? (Could such a
punishment be meted out to a prisoner today?)
Act IV, scene i: The Masque:
A Most Majestic Vision Study Guide
- How has Ferdinand passed Prospero's test?
- Use your imagination and conjure up a suitable
spectacle to celebrate such a moment. What spirits would you
summon to the scene? (Masque
Powerpoint)
- What causes the celebration to suddenly
evaporate?
- Even though Prospero and Ariel can easily deal
with the plot, what un-resolvable philosophical problem does the
rebellion present?
- How do you interepret Prospero's Great Speech: "Our revels now are
ended..."
- Do you agree with Prospero's final condemnation
of Caliban?
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Miranda and Prospero
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on The Tempest due Thursday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Act V, scene i: O brave new
world!; Epilogue Study Guide (Quiz) (Tempest Spot
Passages)
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Masque of Blackness
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Essay
Workshop:
Tempest
Review:
- How might the
original English model of colonization, if it had been
successfully implemented, have changed American history? How did this
Utopian model go wrong?
- Describe
Prospero's state of mind at the outset of the action. From what past
experiences in Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
- Can
you propose a solution to Prospero's dilemma? How does the
imagery of
Ariel's Song relate to Prospero's revenge?
- Antonio (Machiavelli's
bleak vision of human
nature) Can you devise a government which will contain the
ruthless ambition of immoral people? (Must Prospero turn himself into
Machiavelli's Prince?)
- Caliban (Colonialism) Must
the interaction between modern and undeveloped cultures be one way?
(Should Caliban have been taught how to speak?)
- Miranda (Patriarchy) How can
a parent protect a child from the dangers of the real world? (Should
Prospero intervene in the budding relationship between Miranda and
Ferdinand-- as he did earlier between Miranda and Caliban? If so, how?)
- Ariel (Power) (Is there
really any magic which exists to help Prospero with these dilemmas?)
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Essay on Franklin due Monday, November 4th at 3:30 p.m.
Backgrounds: The EnlightenmentDeism: The
Enlightenment Dream: from
Carl Becker, The
Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932)
- Man is not
born in a sinful, depraved state.
- The end of life is life itself: the good life
on earth, not life
after death in heaven.
- Man is capable, guided solely by the light of
reason and experience,
of perfecting life on earth.
- To accomplish this great goal, we must free our
minds from the bonds
of ignorance and superstition and our bodies from the oppression of
corrupt social authorities.
18th c. American Art
(Powerpoint) Homework: - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1770-90)
(introduction)
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1770-90)
(introduction)
(Franklin
Biography) (Wikipedia)
All
ideas come from sensation or
reflection.
Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all
characters, without any ideas:- How comes it to be furnished? Whence
comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man
has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the
materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in
one word, from EXPERIENCE. John Locke, An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Backgrounds: The Enlightenment
18th c. American Art
(Powerpoint) Creative Writing
Assignment: - Choose
one of the art works and make up a story about the
artist or the characters in it. (Read the background materials to find
ideas.)
Homework:
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Autobiography, part one
(1771) "Childhood
and Apprenticeship" (Notes)
(pp.45-75) Study Guide
One; Vocabulary
List One; Quiz
1; Lecture
Notes One
Franklin Essay Questions
Epigram-
a pithy saying or remark
expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
Franklin Epigrams
from "Poor Richard's Almanack"
Extra Credit Writing
Exercise:
Write a letter to the editor of your school
newspaper on a controversial topic, but instead of revealing yourself
as the author, adopt the persona of someone who completely disagrees
with your position.
- Use modest rhetoric.
- Use some words from today's vocab list.
- Use an anecdote to spice your argument.
- Summarize your message with a moral epigram.
- Argue this person's case in such a ridiculous
manner that you wind up defending your own opinion.
- Franklin's
Model Writing Style
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Franklin: Book
of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
by Jill Lepore NYRB
Oct 2013
Colonial
America 1754
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Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London
(pp.76-106) (Notes)
Study Guide
Two; Vocab
List Two; Quiz
2; Lecture
Notes Two
Franklin Essay Questions
Franklin's
Model Writing Style
- Franklin Epigrams
from "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Epigram-
a pithy saying or remark
expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.)
Writing
Exercise:
Write a letter to the editor of your school
newspaper on a controversial topic, but instead of revealing yourself
as the author, adopt the persona of someone who completely disagrees
with your position.
- Use modest rhetoric.
- Use some words from today's vocab list.
- Use an anecdote to spice your argument.
- Summarize your message with a moral epigram.
- Argue this person's case in such a ridiculous
manner that you wind up defending your own opinion.
- Franklin's
Model Writing Style
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from
Hogarth's A
Harlot's Progress (1731)
(Hogarth
at Smarthistory)
"The Rake at the
Rose Tavern"
from The
Rake's Progress,
William Hogarth 1735
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Essay on Franklin due Tuesday, November 5th at 3:30 p.m.
Key
Precepts of Good Writing
Autobiography, part one Philadelphia and London
(pp.76-106) (Notes)
Study Guide
Two; Vocab
List Two; Quiz 3; Lecture
Notes Two
Franklin
Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the
American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public
Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The
Pennsylvania Gazette
Franklin
in London: Hogarth Powerpoint: The Rake's Progress (1735)
PARAGRAPH:
- Even though Franklin did not make much money in
London, what great
lessons did he learn there? What plan did he draw up on his voyage home?
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Frederick Douglass Collaborative Projects Essay on Franklin due Tuesday, November 5th at 3:30 p.m.
Autobiography,
part one The Pennsylvania
Gazette (pp.
106-131) (Notes) Study
Guide Three; Vocab
List Three; Quiz 4; Lecture
Notes Three
Franklin
Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the
American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public
Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The
Pennsylvania Gazette
Review:
Dissenting Interpretations of Franklin's Autobiography:
Homework:
For further reading:
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D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
John Rawls (1921-2002)
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(pp.141-160) (1784) (Notes) Study Guide
Four (Chart
One, Chart
Two); (Quiz 4); Lecture Notes Four
A Rebuttal
to Franklin's Utilitarianism:
Franklin
Essay Questions
- Introduction: Tabula Rasa, Modesty and the
American Dream
- Parents and Education
- Anecdotes and Dinner Conversations
- The Art of the Deal
- Teaching Himself Reading, Writing, and Public
Speaking
- Errata
- Breaking Apprenticeship with Brother
- Handling Money and Debt
- Judgment of Character
- Treatment of Women
- Reaching Maturity in London
- The
Pennsylvania Gazette
- Conclusion
Review:
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Brief Biography of Frederick Douglass | | Essay on Franklin due Tuesday, November 5th at 3:30 p.m.
Frederick Douglass Collaborative Projects
Choose Project Topics:
Homework:
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
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Choose Project Topics:
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
Homework:
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
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| Frederick Douglass Collaborative Projects
Due Friday, November 22nd at 3:30 p.m.
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
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| Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
Homework:
Frederick Douglass Collaborative Projects
Due Friday, November 22nd at 3:30 p.m.
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| Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
Homework:
Frederick Douglass Collaborative Projects
Due Friday, November 22nd at 3:30 p.m.
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| Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
Homework:
Frederick Douglass Collaborative Projects
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Douglass Collaborative Projects Due at 3:30 p.m
Transcendentalism:
from Emerson:
On Intuition in "Self-Reliance"
(1841) (notes)
Thomas Cole, The Ox-Bow (1836); The Hunter's Return (1841) (Smarthistory) (American Romanticism) American Romantic Poetry:
Journal Entry #1 (Natalie Goldberg's Rules) (prompt) (prompt2) (Goldberg 10-11)
Homework:
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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I Lived and What I Lived For" from Walden
or Life
in the Woods (1854) (quiz)
Discussion: Thoreau's
Purpose and Method
Journal
Entry #2: (Natalie
Goldberg's Rules) (prompt 1)
(Goldberg 145) (prompt
2) (Goldberg 166)
Homework:
For
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13th
at 3:30 pm
"A
Christmas Memory" (1956) by Truman Capote (1924-84)
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Emily Dickinson Archive
Emily
Dickinson Electronic Archives | | Douglass Projects Gallery
Creative Writing Project Due: Friday, December
13th
at 3:30 pm
Emily
Dickinson (1830-1886):
Dickinson's Influence:
Homework: For further reading;
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Walt Whitman Archive | | Douglass Projects Gallery Creative Writing Project Due: Friday, December
13th
at 3:30 pm Creative
Writing
Project: Evaluation
Journal
Entry #4: (prompt 1)
(prompt
2) (Goldberg 134)
Conventional 19th Century Poetry:
Walt Whitman,
from "Song
of Myself" (1855) (In
depth biography)
Discussion:
- Call out images that you remember from the poem.
- Describe the perspective from which the poem is
written (space and time).
- To whom
is the poem addressed?
- Take a shot at explaining Whitman's purpose.
Whitman's Influence:
Homework:
- Creative Writing: Whitman-esque
Song of Myself (poem1)
(poem2)
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Creative
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Creative
Writing
Project: Evaluation
Creative Writing Option : Thoreau Journal
Creative Writing Option : Capote
and Family Memory
Creative Writing Option : Dickinson
Poetry Imitation
Creative Writing Option : Whitman-esque
Song of Myself (poem1)
(poem2) Creative
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Douglass Projects Gallery
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
That Word:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
remains controversial more than one hundred years after its publication
because of the troubling racial issues that lie at the heart of the
novel. Many readers are particularly put off by the widespread use of
the N-word throughout the book. You might watch this video from the news program 60 Minutes
that tells about one publisher's attempt to address the controversy by
removing the N-Word from the text and subsitutiing the word 'slave'. In
the video, educator David Bradley argues that we should face this
controversy head-on, rather than avoiding it. (AP English)
- Representing
Jim (UVA)
Homework:
for further
reading:
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Missouri (1841)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Slave vs.
Free States in 1860
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- Backgrounds
to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1876-85)
Reading Twain: Compare to "reading" a Winslow
Homer painting
Section 1: Huck's
Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13- 63 (On-
Line Edition)
- 'sivilising
Huck
- Tom's Gang
- Huck's Ghosts
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Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13- 63 (On-
Line Edition)
- 'sivilising
Huck
- Huck's Ghosts
- Tom's Gang
- Jim
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Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13- 63 (On-
Line Edition)
- 'sivilising
Huck
- Huck's Ghosts
- Tom's Gang
What kind of relationship does Huck have with Jim at the beginning of the action?
- When
Tom Sawyer and Huck sneak out to meet with their gang, they first stop
and decide to play a trick on the sleeping slave Jim. After stealing
some candles, Tom leaves a coin on Jim's table and then removes Jim's
hat and hangs it on a tree over his head. When Jim waks up, he believes
that he has been visited by witches.
- What does Huck make of the hat story
(19)? Note Huck's extreme use of the n-word in this passage.
- Look deeper: Is Huck's racist denigration of Jim accurate? How does slave religion make use of the supernatural? Tom's
attitude? Huck's? Twain's point? (Slave Religion)
- When Huck sees a heelprint in the snow
with a cross in it, he realizes that his father is still alive and back
in town. He runs immediately to Judge Thatcher's to make sure that his
money is safe, but then he goes to see Jim.
- What does Huck make of the hair ball story (29) How does Jim comfort Huck when Huck tells him of the return of his father? Is his advice good?
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Slave vs. Free
States in 1860
Student Perspective Survey
America's Situation: Huck's
Situation: Chapters
One to Eight, pp. 13-63 (On-
Line Edition) (Notes
on Slavery) (Quiz)
Life
With Pap: America in 1876 (allegory):
- first mention
of Pap: the drowned man (24)
- a heel
print in the snow with a cross on it (27-28) (Huck's first
reaction to seeing it?)
- first description
of Pap; Why does Pap want Huck back?
(31)
- What can be done to protect
Huck
from him? (33) (anything in Tom's books? Miss Watson's book? Judge
Thatcher's law books?) Huck goes to Jim for help: the hair ball
story (29)
- What does Pap do when the Widow takes out a restraining
order against him? What can be done about people like him? (33)
- What comes of Pap's
attempt
to get off the jug? (33-34)
- The nightmare: life
with
Pap (the saddest thing: what does Huck think of it? What
doesn't he realize?) (36-37)
- What does Huck plan
to do with himself once he has escaped? (38-39)
- Pap on the nigger
and the
guv'ment (39) (What is the link between poverty and racism?)
- the D.T.'s
(41)
Huck's Escape:
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and Jim: Chapters
Nine to Sixteen, pp. 64- 116 (Googledocs) (Quiz)
Outline:
- What is Huck's Situation at
the beginning of the action?
- What is the relation between Huck's
situation
and America's situation in 1876?
- What does Huck need? What psychological
obstacles stand in his way? How can they be overcome? What new
morality is Huck learning from Jim?
Deconstructing
Racism: How
have Huck's attitudes about blacks been formed? (conscience)
Huck's Escape:
Jim and Huck on Jackson's Island
(Twain's use of the
uncanny to represent psychological states. See Freud on "The Uncanny".)
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Nine to Sixteen, pp. 64- 116 (Googledocs) (Quiz) Jim
and Huck on the Big River
(Mood shift)
- Life on
the
River (75): Passing St. Louis at night; stealing mushmelons
and chickens
- Stealing
Chickens
(vs. conventional morality) (75-76) How do Jim and Huck come to moral
terms with stealing from the farms along the river bank? Is right and
wrong as simple as the Widow Douglas would have it?
- The Wrecked
Steamboat Walter Scott
(76-81): What is happening on it? What kind of folk
do they run into every time the raft brushes up against civilization?
How do Huck and Jim escape? Why does Huck decide to
save the rapscallions on the boat? (81) Twain's point?
- Huck's Orphan
Story #2: about pap and mam and sis
and Miss Hooker stranded on the Walter
Scott.
- Huck and Jim on King
Sollermun and 'dat chile dat he 'uz gwyne to chop in two'
(87) What is the point of this Bible story?
What is
Jim's interpretation of it? Why does Twain include this story at this
moment in Huck's development?
- What is Jim's problem with "Polly-voo-franzy"?
(89-90) (Isn't it strange that a Duke and Dauphin will join Huck and
Jim on the raft a little farther dowriver? What is Twain up to?)
To
Cairo and Beyond (Huck's
Crisis: Fog and Lies) (How long can this friendship last?)
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Section 4: Huck
and Jim Drift South: Chapters
Seventeen to Twenty-Five, pp. 117-183 (Quiz)
What vision of America
emerges as Huck and Jim drift South? What is at the root of America's
problems according to Twain? How can they be overcome? Is a happy
ending possible?
The Feud Between
the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons:
Huck
and Jim on the Big
River
(135-137)
Homework:
Read The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1885) Mark Twain,
For further reading:
- Why We Don't Read Chapters Thirty-Four to
Forty-One: "Mark Twain vs.
Tom Sawyer" by Nick Gillespie in Reason Online (Feb
2006)
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Section 3: Huck
and Jim Drift South: Chapters
Seventeen to Twenty-Five, pp. 117-183; Google Docs Version (Quiz)
What vision of America
emerges as Huck and Jim drift South? What is at the root of America's
problems according to Twain? How can they be overcome? Is a happy
ending possible? Huck
and Jim on the Big
River
(135-137)
Scamming America with The
Duke and The
Dauphin:
Homework:
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1885) Mark Twain,
For further reading:
- Why We Don't Read Chapters Thirty-Four to
Forty-One: "Mark Twain vs.
Tom Sawyer" by Nick Gillespie in Reason Online (Feb
2006)
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Huck Finn Review:
The Long Lost Uncles of the Wilks Family:
Climax of the Action:
Ending:
What was he thinking?!
Forty-Two
to Chapter the Last, pp. 287-296; (On-
Line Edition):
Critical Comments:
Homework: - Essay on Huck Finn due Thursday, February 6th at 3:30 p.m.
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