Journal # 6 - Optional For Extra Credit :

The purpose of Journal Writing #6 is to give you an experience with the historical presence of American literature in our world.

Directions:

1. In approximately 300 words, discuss a trip to one of the locations listed below.

   Your discussion should include the following:

   l. Brief description of what you saw

   2. Explanation of its relationship to your readings

   3. Explanation of your feelings about what you saw
2. Save your file as: [your last name]_journal6.doc (example: Riggin_journal6.doc)
3. Attach document to an email and email as directed below:

   Email instructions:

   Email to jriggin@nvcc.edu

   subject line should read:

   [your last name] Journal # 6

   Example: Riggin Journal # 6

SUGGESTED FIELD TRIPS: (Call or email me for prior approval if you want credit for a trip to any site not listed below, or if you need some directions to get to any site.)

Related to Colonial Writing

Jamestown , Virginia (Smith, Powhatan, Frethorne)

Plymouth Plantation or Salem , Massachusetts (Puritans)

Westover Plantation , Virginia (Byrd's home--only the grounds are open, but you could visit the nearby Berkeley Plantation, home of the Harrisons and site of the first Thanksgiving in 1619)

Williamsburg , Virginia (Byrd, Jefferson)

Winterthur Museum , Delaware (restored period rooms, dating from 1640 to 1840--relates to entire course)

Museum of American Frontier Culture, Staunton , Virginia (working farms reflect 17th, 18th, 19th century--relates to entire course)

Pamunkey and Mattaponi Indian Reservations - east of Richmond near West Point , VA

Third Haven Meeting House, Easton , MD (Quakers)

Claude Moore Colonial Farm, McLean , VA (working farm of colonial VA)

Related to Writing of the Enlightenment

Yorktown Battlefield and Yorktown Victory Center , VA

Richmond, Virginia (founded by Byrd; Capitol Bdg. designed by Jefferson; capital during the Revolution; Poe Museum; capital of the Confederacy; Civil War battlefields)

Monticello , Virginia ( Jefferson 's home)

Poplar Forest , Virginia ( Jefferson 's country retreat)

National Archives, Washington , D.C. (display of Decl. of Ind.)

Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ( Independence Historical Park ; Franklin ; Poe's house)

Jefferson Memorial, Washington , D.C.

Smithsonian Museum of American History , D.C.: any or all of these exhibits: "Within these Walls," "Communities in a Changing Nation: The Promise of Nineteenth-Century America," or "Engines of Change; The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860."

Gunston Hall , Virginia (George Mason's home--ideals of Revolution)

Related to Writings of Romantic Period and Civil War

The Catskill Mountains and Tarrytown , New York ( Irving )

Baltimore , Maryland ( Poe Museum and Poe's grave)

Concord , Massachusetts , and nearby Walden Pond (Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau)

Cedar Hill (Frederick Douglass home and museum), 1411 W. Street, S.E., Washington , D.C.

Banneker-Douglass Museum of Afro-American Life and History, Annapolis , MD

Any site of major Civil War battle in Maryland , Virginia , Pennsylvania (Whitman, Melville poems)

Grading Criteria:

This writing will earn thirteen (13) points when submitted, regardless of content or style. It will earn an additional seven (7) points if it meets these criteria:

•  The connection to literature is illustrated by at least two brief quotations from the literary work(s) being discussed. (Quotes from the editor's introductory material don't count!)

•  Your writing is virtually free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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