Texts
We will read and discuss these texts in the following order. Any changes made will be addressed to you all as quickly as possible via Remind.
The Creation or Age of Beginning (Navajo Creation Story)
Powhatan's Speech to John Smith (1607)
Of Plymouth Plantation
Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Last of the Mohicans (excerpt)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Moby Dick (excerpt)
Walden (excerpt)
Nature (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (excerpts)
Read "Childhood" and "The New Master and Mistress."
William Lloyd Garrison
Walt Whitman
Little Women (excerpt)
Read Chapter One, "Playing Pilgrims."
President Abraham Lincoln