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American Literature 201August 25
Michael SimpsonSection 051
“(Massachusett thus was the name both of a language and of one of the groups that spoke it). In Massachusett, the name for the New England shore was the Dawnland, the place where the sun rose. The inhabitants of the Dawnland were the People of the First Light.” (40)
Charles C. Mann *
* Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.Vintage Books: New York. 2006
Class Summary
Next Week’s Assignments
Before and After
William Bradford Topics
Next Week’s Assignments
August 30Identify blog to be graded
ReviseIdentify by “Grade” in title
Read Thomas Morton selection
September 1Deadline for 3rd blog
Three authors in sequence by interestReason you are interested in them
Read 1st half of Mary Rowlandson
Before and After
Example 1 and 2
Importance of revising
Questions about blogs
William Bradford Topics
Social IssuesIndians
Servants
PoliticsMayflower Compact
Business and trade
ReligionGod’s Providence
God’s Truth
Last QuestionsRemember for August 30
Read Thomas Morton
Identify blog for grading
It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson *
* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.
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