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.