Our first unit familiarizes us with various American cultural themes and modes of reading early American texts. It is titled

American Stories.

Most of the texts for this unit are online and have been annotated with student comments or linked to sites containing transcripts of student discussions or compilations of student analyses. This unit contains...

a Rip Van Winkle site.

This site contains the online text and links to student analyses.

a Legend of Sleepy Hollow site.

This site contains an interactive online text.

a White Heron site.

This site contains the online text and links to student papers and analyses.

a Major Molineaux site.

This site contains the online text, student essays and transcripts of student discussion.

a Young Goodman Brown site.

This site contains the online text, student essays and transcripts of student discussion.

a Bartleby site.

This site contains an interactive online textand student essays.