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*Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
-The most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.

*The Declaration of Independence
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' __Thomas Jefferson
  

*movie: American Dream in China 海闊天空
 
*About American Dream?

*American Renaissance
→In American literature, the American Renaissance was a period during which many of the literary works most widely considered American masterpieces were produced. The period is generally defined as the mid-19th century but especially the years roughly from 1850 to 1855. For example, major works from those years include Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and so on.

1. Pilgrim and Puritan
*五月花號(Mayflower) 1620
→(The Mayflower was the ship that transported mostly English Puritans and Separatists, collectively known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth England to the New World.)

*Notice:
1.到全民書局買書、預習下一周進度

2.下載 syllabus
3. Highlight 18 titles about syllabus
4.有效利用 Sara’s Blog
(http://blog.udn.com/tysunnhcue/article?f_ART_CATE=638673)

§Fiction:
→the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not real, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author.

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1.Who am I ?
2. What’s my place in the universe?

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Period→英國文學、美國文學
Genre→ 兒童文學、青少年小說、文學作品導讀
 

§ <Lord of the Flies> - Sir William Gerald Golding
   
*fly  (1)看的到的(屍體上的)  (2)聽得到的 (3)象徵性的