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American Literature 201September 29
Michael SimpsonSection 051
As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident. We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God. [974]
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”
Class Summary
Next Week’s Assignments
Some Useful Analogies
Frederick Douglass (Part 1) Topics
Next Week’s Assignments
October 4Read Frederick Douglass Narrative (VIII to end)Blog #8Email of 1 reading quote from each work we’ve read
October 6Review for mid-term exam
30 reading quotes to identify6-7 topics for comparison essay
Blog #9
Some Useful Analogies
How to Live
Fight – Battle of Good/Evil
Read – Search for Knowledge
Eat – Search for Spiritual Nourishment
Sing – Music = emotion + thought
Walk – Journey to find / to escape
Dance – Balance of action and emotion
Act – the role assigned
Frederick Douglass Topics
Based on topics sheet
Last QuestionsRemember for October 4
Read Frederick Douglass Narrative (VIII to end)
Blog #8
Email of reading quotes
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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