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CLASS #	READINGS	IMPORTANT DATES


1	Introduction	Journals due weekly.


2	Ender's Game.


3	Ender's Game.


4	Machiavelli. The Prince.


5	Machiavelli. The Prince.


6	Sahagún. The War of Conquest.	Writing Conferences.


7	Sahagún. The War of Conquest. Cortés. Second Letter. (CP)	Paper #1 due, a day prior to Class #8.


8	Voltaire. Candide.


9	Voltaire. Candide.	Revision of Paper #1 due.


10	Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience.


11	Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience.	NOTE: Makeup class - time TBA.


12	Williams. Letters from France.	Draft #2 due, a day prior to Class #13.


13	Williams. Letters from France.


14	Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.


15	Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.* P


16	Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.	Paper #2 due.


17	Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.* P


18	Whitman. Drum Taps.


19	Whitman. Drum Taps. P


20	Lincoln. Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural.


21	Field trip: Levinson. Written in Stone.


22	Card. Speaker for the Dead.*


23	Card. Speaker for the Dead.*


24	Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott. P	Paper #3 due.


25	Ondaatje. Anil's Ghost.* P


26	Ondaatje. Anil's Ghost.*

P = Possible group presentation dates
* = Longer readings