NCST 4000
Spring 2002

Dr. Tom Shields


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January
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7 Introduction
  9 A Brief Overview of Roanoke Colonization:
  • Quinn and Quinn, Preface and Introduction, The First Colonists, [iii]-[xv], vii-xvii.

  • In Search of History: The Roanoke Voyages (video)
     
  14 Background of the Voyages—The European Perspective
  • Quinn, Chapter 1, Set Fair for Roanoke, 3-19.

  • Noël Hume, Prologue and Chapter 1, The Virginia Adventure, xv-xviii, 3-19.
  16 Background of the Voyages—The European Perspective
  • Quinn, Chapter 1, Set Fair for Roanoke, 3-19.

  • Noël Hume, Prologue and Chapter 1, The Virginia Adventure, xv-xviii, 3-19.
     
  21 NO CLASS (Martin Luther King Day Makeup—Monday Classes meet)
  23 Background of Voyages—The Native American Perspective
     
  28 Exploring the Questions
  • Hudson, Chapters 1-4, Searching for Virginia Dare, 1-69.
  30 Exploring the Questions
  • Hudson, Chapters 5-7, Searching for Virginia Dare, 70-114.
     
February
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4 Exploring the Questions
  • Hudson, Chapters 8-10 and Epilogue, Searching for Virginia Dare, 115-73.
  6 The 1584 Voyage
  • Quinn and Quinn, eds., "Arthur Barlowe's Narrative of the 1584 Voyage," The First Colonists, 1-12.
     
  11 NO CLASS (Dr. Shields out of town)
  13 Meet with Marjorie Hudson
     
  18 The 1584 Voyage
  • Quinn, Chapters 2-3, Set Fair for Roanoke, 20-44.

  • Noël Hume, from Chapter 2, The Virginia Adventure, 20-28.
  20 The 1585 Colonization Attempt
  • Quinn, Chapters 4-9, Set Fair for Roanoke, 45-129.
     
  25 The 1585 Colonization Attempt
  • Quinn and Quinn, eds., "The names of Lane's Colonists," "Ralph Lane to Richard Hakluyt the Elder and Master H———— of the Middle Temple, 3 September 1585," and "Ralph Lane's Narrative of the Settlement of Roanoke Island, 1585-1586" The First Colonists, 20-45.
  27 The 1585 Colonization Attempt
  • The Riddle of Roanoke (Video)
BOOK REVIEW DUE
     
March
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4 NO CLASS (Spring Break)
  6 NO CLASS (Spring Break)
     
  11 The 1585 Colonization Attempt
  • Noël Hume, from Chapters 2-3, The Virginia Adventure, 28-96.
  13 Portraying the New World in Print
  • Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report, in Quinn and Quinn, eds., The First Colonists, 46-75.
     
  18 Drake's 1586 Rescue of Lane's men and Grenville's Resupply Attempt
  • Quinn and Quinn, eds., from A Summarie and True Discourse, "Depositions by Pedro Morales and Nicolas Burgoignon, 1586," and "Richard Hakluyt's Narrative of the 1586 Virginia Voyages," The First Colonists, 77-86.

  • Quinn, Chapters 10-11, Set Fair for Roanoke, 130-154.
  20 The 1587 Colonization Attempt
  • Quinn and Quinn, eds., "John White's Narrative of the 1587 Virginia Voyage," The First Colonists, 93-109.

  • Quinn, Chapters 15-16, Set Fair for Roanoke, 241-294.
     
  25 The 1587 Colonization Attempt
  • Quinn and Quinn, eds., "John White's Narrative of the 1587 Virginia Voyage," The First Colonists, 93-109.

  • Quinn, Chapters 15-16, Set Fair for Roanoke, 241-294.
  27 The Lost Colony
  • Quinn and Quinn, eds., "John White's Narrative of the Abortive Virginia Voyage, 1588," "John White to Richard Hakluyt, 4 February 1593," and "John White's Narrative of the 1590 Virginia Voyage," The First Colonists, 110-130.

  • Quinn, Chapters 17-18, Set Fair for Roanoke, 295-338.
     
April
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1 The Lost Colony
  • Quinn, Chapters 19-20, Set Fair for Roanoke, 341-412.

  • Noël Hume, from Chapter 3, The Virginia Adventure, 88-96.

  • John Lawson, from A New Voyage to Carolina (1709). Online.

  • John Lederer, from The Discoveries of John Lederer in Three Several Marches from Viginia, to the West of Carolina, and Other Parts of the Continent (1672). Online.
  3 The Lost Colony
  • Quinn, Chapters 19-20, Set Fair for Roanoke, 341-412.

  • Noël Hume, from Chapter 3, The Virginia Adventure, 88-96.

  • John Lawson, from A New Voyage to Carolina (1709). Online.

  • John Lederer, from The Discoveries of John Lederer in Three Several Marches from Viginia, to the West of Carolina, and Other Parts of the Continent (1672). Online.

  • In Search of the Lost Colony (video).
     
  8 Literary Approaches to Roanoke Island Colonization
  • Edward Ingle, "Roanoke: A Tale of Raleigh's Colony," The Overland Monthly Nov. 1886: 470-83. Online through the University of Michigan Making of America website.

  • Cornelia L. Tuthill, "Virginia Dare: or, The Colony of Roanoke," Southern Literary Messenger 6.9 (Sept. 1840): 585-595. Online through the University of Michigan Making of America website.
  10 NO CLASS (Dr. Shields Out of Town)
     
  15 Literary Approaches to Roanoke Island Colonization
  • Avery, Introduction and "A Note on the Text," The Lost Colony, by Paul Green, 1-24.

  • Green, Act 1, The Lost Colony, 31-72.
  17 Literary Approaches to Roanoke Island Colonization
  • Green, Act 2, The Lost Colony, 79-137.

  • Green, "Introduction (Dialogue at Evening)" and "The Beginning of The Lost Colony," The Lost Colony, 141-52.
     
  22 Popular Culture and Roanoke Island Colonization
  • "The Lost Colony," Lovejoy (video).
  24 Popular Culture and Roanoke Island Colonization
  • "The Lost Colony," Lovejoy (video).
     
  29 Student presentations of Research Projects
RESEARCH PROJECTS DUE
     
May
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8 FINAL EXAM (Thursday, 2:00-4:00 p.m.)


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