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  • Unit 1 – Native American Oral Traditions & Myths
  • Unit 2 – Colonial Literature: Puritan Encounters
  • Unit 3 – Colonial Captivity Tales and Verse
  • Unit 4 – Great Awakening & Enlightenment in America
  • Unit 5 – Revolutionary Era: Political Pamphlets
  • Unit 6 – Early Republic: Federalist vs Anti-Federalist
  • Unit 7 – Early American Fiction: Rise of the Novel
  • Unit 8 – Emerson & Thoreau: American Romantics
  • Unit 9 – Gothic Lit: Poe and Hawthorne in America
  • Unit 10 – Slave Narratives & Abolitionist Writing
  • Unit 11 – Women's Lit & Domestic Fiction in Early America
  • Unit 12 – Antebellum South: Plantation & Local Color
  • Unit 13 – Whitman & Dickinson: American Poetry Icons
  • Unit 14 – Melville's Maritime Literature

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