SCHEDULE

Date		Assignment
August	27	Introduction: John Smith and Pocahontas John Smith and Pocahontas: Changing Views (Power Point Presentation)
September	3	LABOR DAY MAKEUP DAY (Monday Classes Meet)
	10	Frances Hill, ed., The Salem Witch Trials Reader From Part I, “The Background”: Increase Mather, from An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences , 11-17; Cotton Mather, from Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions , 17-21. Part II, “The Witch Hunt,” 59-108.
	17	Frances Hill, ed., The Salem Witch Trials Reader From Part IV, “The Historians”: Cotton Mather, from The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phipp, Knt., 215-16; Thomas Hutchinson, from The History of the Colony of Massachusetts, 216-19; George Bancroft, from The History of the United States of America, 219-27. Part V, “Fiction,” 307-90.
	24	John J. O'Meara, trans., The Voyage of St. Brendan
October	1	Brendan Galvin, Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boats
	8	Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación
	15	FALL BREAK
	22	Cabeza de Vaca CLOSE READING DUE
	29	Daniel Boone, "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone, Formerly a Hunter, Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky," in Daniel Boone and Francis L. Hawks, Daniel Boone, His Own Story, and The Adventures of Daniel Boone , 1-26. [See also, John Filson, The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone, Formerly a Hunter, Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky ( online / alternate )] Julie K. Rose, "Daniel Boone: Myth and Reality in American Consciousness" ( online ).
November	5	Francis Lister Hawks, Adventures of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Rifleman in Daniel Boone and Francis L. Hawks, Daniel Boone, His Own Story, and The Adventures of Daniel Boone , 27-126. "Ken-Tuck-E," Daniel Boone
	12	Ebenezer Cook, The Sot-Weed Factor ( online / alternate )
	19	John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
	26	John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor Thanks (TV Show)
December	3	John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
	10	STUDENT PRESENTATIONS RESEARCH PAPERS DUE
	17	FINAL EXAM PERIOD (6:30-9:30 pm)