Thursday, January 24	definition of pastoral Golden Ages Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" Nature's Nation images
Tuesday, January 29:  American Pastoral:  History and Theory	Leo Mark, The Machine in the Garden, chapter 1 (handout) Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, pp. 31-52 (e)
Thursday, January 31:  American Pastoral:  History and Theory	Brief essay due. See assignment.
Tuesday, February 5:  Explorations 1	Selections from Columbus, Bradford, Hakluyt (p) Annette Kolodny, "Surveying the Virgin Land" (e) Susan Griffin, "Land" (e)
Thursday, February 7:  Explorations 2    I	Filson,    (p) Annette Kolodny on Rebecca Bryan Boone (e) Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of a Jar" (p) (link) Slotkin excerpts (link)
Tuesday, February 12:  Explorations 3    II	Caroline Kirkland, A New Home, Who'll Follow? excerpts (p) study  guide
Thursday, February 14:  Explorations 4    III	William Bartram,  Travels excerpts (p) study guide Pamela Regis on William Bartram (e) [recommended, esp. pp. 5-25] Link to Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia
Tuesday, February 19:  Explorations 5    IV	Susan Cooper, "Spring" from Rural Hours (p) essay an natural history from Orion (e) study guide Cooper on farming Cooper on Indians
Thursday, February 21:  Explorations 6    I	Henry David Thoreau,  "Ktaadn" (p) Randall Roorda, "'Where the Summit Bears'" (e) [recommended] study guide
Tuesday, February 26:  Explorations 7    II	Barry Lopez, Crossing Open Ground  "A Stone Horse" "A Reflection on White Geese" "Trying the Land" "Landscape and Narrative" "Yukon-Charley" study guide
Thursday, February 28:  Explorations 8    III	Barry Lopez, Crossing Open Ground  "Borders" "The Lives of Seals" "Searching for Ancestors" "The Passing Wisdom of Birds" "Hot Springs" "The Search for the Heron" "The Blue Mound People" study guide Annie Dillard, "Heaven and Earth in Jest" from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (p)
Tuesday, March 5:  Farming 1  IV	Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia  excerpts (p) Frederick Douglass, Narrative  excerpts (p) Melvin Dixon, "We'll Stand the Storm" (e) study guide
Thursday, March 7:  Farming 2          I	Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer selections (p) study guide
BREAK
Tuesday, March 26:  Transcendental Farming    II	Thoreau, "Economy," "Bean-Fields," "Conclusion" from Walden study guide
Thursday, March 28:  Farming in the Reconstruction South III	Charles Waddell Chesnutt, selected stories study guide
Tuesday, April 2:  Prairie Farming 1     IV	Willa Cather, My Ántonia, books 1-2 study guide
Thursday, April 4:                                  I	Willa Cather, My Ántonia,books 3-5 William Howarth, "Ego or Eco Criticism?" Mike Fischer, "Pastoralism and Its Discontents" study guide
Tuesday, April 9:  Hardscrabble Farming in the Midwest  II	Hamlin Garland. from Main-Travelled Roads" "Up the Coolly" "Under the Lion's Paw" "God's Ravens" Bonney MacDonald, "Eastern Imaginings of the West" study guide
Wednesday, April 10	Showing of "Days of Heaven"  7:00 p.m., Judd 113
Thursday, April 11:  Prairie Farming 3    III	Film:  "Days of Heaven"  [PAPER TOPIC DUE] study guide
Tuesday, April 16:  Living on the Land in the 20c:  Going Back   IV	Nearing, Scott and Helen.  Living The Good Life, Preface, ch. 1, 2 Thoreau, Walden, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" study guide
Thursday, April 18                                     I	Nearing, Scott and Helen.  Living The Good Life,  ch. 4, 6, 7, 8. Jacob, Jeffrey.  New Pioneers,  Intro. and Ch. 3. (recommended) debate instructions
Tuesday, April 23:  Living on the Land in the 20c: Heartland Lear II	Jane Smiley. A Thousand Acres resource page on King Lear passages from King Lear website on nitrates in water (you'll see why)
Thursday, April 25:                                     III	continued  [THESIS AND OUTLINE DUE] samples
Tuesday, April 30:  Living on the Landin the 20c:  At Laguna Pueblo  IV	Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Thursday, May 2:	continued
Tuesday, May 7:  Conclusion
FRIDAY, MAY 10	TERM PAPER DUE [ASSIGNMENT]