WEDNESDAY 8/30 -- Introduction DISCUSSION -- Powers' "Greek Slave" MONDAY 9/4 -- Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin   (CHAPS 1-28) WEDNESDAY 9/6 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin   (FINISH) DISCUSSION -- Audio Video MONDAY 9/11 -- Longfellow's Evangeline WEDNESDAY 9/13 -- Longfellow: Selected Poems & Kavanagh DISCUSSION -- Illustrating Evangeline MONDAY 9/18 -- Douglass' Narrative of the Life WEDNESDAY 9/20 -- Douglass' Heroic Slave DISCUSSION -- MONDAY 9/25 -- Wilson's Our Nig WEDNESDAY 9/27 -- Wilson's Our Nig DISCUSSION --   FIRST ESSAY DUE             ADVICE ON WRITING IT       |       ESSAY FORMAT MONDAY 10/2 -- Emerson's "American Scholar" & "Divinity School Address"         GET MICROSOFT READER     GET EMERSON'S ADDRESSES (DOWNLOAD NATURE, ADDRESSES & LECTURES WEDNESDAY 10/4 -- Emerson's "Self-Reliance" & "Experience"     GET "SELF-RELIANCE" (DOWNLOAD ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES)     GET "EXPERIENCE" (DOWNLOAD ESSAYS, SECOND SERIES) DISCUSSION -- MONDAY 10/9 -- Poe: Selected Essays & Tales (1) WEDNESDAY 10/11 -- Poe: Selected Tales (2) DISCUSSION -- MONDAY 10/16 -- Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter   (CHAPS 1-20) WEDNESDAY 10/18 -- The Scarlet Letter   (FINISH) DISCUSSION --           SECOND ESSAY DUE             ADVICE ON WRITING IT     |     ESSAY FORMAT     |     A GOOD EXAMPLE MONDAY 10/13 -- FALL BREAK WEDNESDAY 10/25-- Thoreau's Walden   (CHAPS 1-2) DISCUSSION -- Emerson's "The Transcendentalist" MONDAY 10/30 -- Walden   (CHAPS 3-10)           TWO CABINS WEDNESDAY 11/1 -- Walden   (FINISH) DISCUSSION -- MONDAY 11/6 -- Melville's Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 1-25) &           "Hawthorne and His Mosses" WEDNESDAY 11/8 -- Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 26-42) DISCUSSION -- Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 43-60) MONDAY 11/13 -- Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 61-99) WEDNESDAY 11/15 -- Moby-Dick   (FINISH) DISCUSSION -- I said finish! MONDAY 11/20 -- Emerson's "The Poet"           THIRD ESSAY DUE (or see below) WEDNESDAY 11/22 -- THANKSGIVING BREAK MONDAY 11/27 -- Whitman's "Song of Myself" WEDNESDAY 11/29 -- Whitman's 1855 "Preface" DISCUSSION --           WHITMAN ESSAYS DUE MONDAY 12/4 -- Dickinson: Selected Poems (1) WEDNESDAY 12/6 -- Dickinson: Selected Poems (2) DISCUSSION --           DICKINSON ESSAYS DUE MONDAY 12/18 -- FINAL EXAM Search the texts