📌 Course Contents - “The Iroquois Creation Story” - “The Winnebago Trickster Cycle” - Christopher Columbus, “Letter of Discovery” - Captain John Smith, *General History of Virginia* - John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” - William Bradford, *Of Plymouth Plantation* - Anne Bradstreet, selected poems - Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” - Cotton Mather, *Wonders of the Invisible World* - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer - Philip Freneau, “The Indian Burying Ground” - Phillis Wheatley, selected poems - Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography - Thomas Paine, “The Crisis, No. 1” - Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” - Washington Irving, “The Author’s Account of Himself” and “Rip Van Winkle” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” - Charles Brockden Brown*, Somnambulism. A Fragment* 最後一週的文本老師會提出幾個選項,最後由同學投票決定要讀哪個,這學期的Somnambulism. A Fragment正好與老師下學期要教的課相關,老師感覺很開心大家選到這個
δ 課程大概內容 期中考範圍 早期~獨立前 “The Iroquois Creation Story”‧ “The Winnebago Trickster Cycle”‧ Christopher Columbus, “Letter of Discovery”‧ Captain John Smith, General History of Virginia‧ John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation‧ Anne Bradstreet, selected poems‧ Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‧ Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World‧ J. Hector St. John de Cre vecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer‧ Philip Freneau, “The Indian Burying Ground”‧ Phillis Wheatley, selected poems.
期末考範圍 獨立~南北戰爭 Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography‧ Thomas Paine, “The Crisis, No. 1”‧ Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence”‧ Phillis Wheatley, “To His Excellency General Washington”‧ Washington Irving, “The Author’s Account of Himself” and “Rip Van Winkle” ‧ Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” and Nature‧ Henry David Thoreau, Walden