The document below details some of what students need to know to prosper in Parnassus. Click on the images to return to class or home pages.

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Americans and Religion

1800 - 1860 (Read a selection of shorter works as follows):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. First Series Essays, "Spiritual Laws." http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-1st_Series_04_Spiritual_Laws.htm
Edwards, Johnathon. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." (Sermon, 18th Century).
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil."
Period selections from American Sermons anthology available in the classroom.

1860 - 1899 (Again, a selction of shorter works is best)

Melville, Herman. "Bartleby the Scrivener."
Twain, Mark. "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg."
Period selections from American Sermons anthology available in the classroom.

1900 - 1919
Period selections from American Sermons anthology available in the classroom.

1920 - 1939
Period selections from American Sermons anthology available in the classroom.

1940 - 1959
Period selections from American Sermons anthology available in the classroom.

1960 - 1979
Period selections from American Sermons anthology available in the classroom.

1980 - 1999