Second+Life+Tours

Welcome to the Second Life part of our course!
For those of you who choose this option for the class, each week, we'll be touring a virtual site or two that corresponds to what we're covering in class.

(Before choosing this option, please consult the [|Second Life System Requirements] page to make sure your computer and internet connection is technically viable. If it isn't, please choose another option from the Academic Contract as your fellow students cannot be delayed in their tours due to your technical difficulties in-world.)

An in-world tutorial session is required of all students participating in the Second Life tours, whether it is with the class meeting on the second week of the course or on the student's own time. This will teach you the basics of how to get around and communicate in Second Life.

Topics will be posted here each week in the schedule below. Upon arriving at the Bay Boat, students will be given an in-world notecard with the tour information for that week. Student thoughts, opinions and responses will be posted in the Discussion area of this page.

Criteria for the Second Life Tours can be found here.


 * Week 1 || Course Overview, Introduction to Course Wiki, Background for literature of Colonial America to 1700. || No tour ||
 * Week 2 || John Smith, "The General History of Virginia"; William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I, Chapter IX. || Intro to SL tour--Oxbridge Tutorial Session ||
 * Week 3 || William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I, Chapter XI and "The New England Primer" ||  ||
 * Week 4 || Anne Bradstreet, "Contemplations," "The Flesh and the Spirit," "To My Dear and Loving Husband"; Mary Rowlandson, "Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration" ||  ||
 * Week 5 || Cotton Mather, "A People of God in the Devil's Territories"; Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" ||  ||
 * Week 6 || The Literature of Reason and Revolution. Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography" Part 2; J. de Crevecoeur, "What is an American?"; Thomas Jefferson, "Declaration of Independence" ||  ||
 * Week 7 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Phyllis Wheatley "on Being Brought from Africa to America"; William Bryant, "Thanatopsis," "To a Waterfowl"; Olaudah Equiano from his Autobiography ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 8 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Age of Romanticism. Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"; Ralph Emerson, "Nature"
 * Mid-Term Exam** ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 9 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Henry Thoreau from Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Live For," "On Civil Disobedience"; Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 10 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Frederick Douglas, //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">, "Letter to His Old Master"; Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," "Young Goodman Brown" ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 11 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"; Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Cask of Amontillado //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 12 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 13 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Whitman, "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 14 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed," "I'm Nobody! Who are you?," "I felt a funeral in my Brain," "Because I could not stop for Death," "I heard a Fly buzz," and "A narrow fellow in the grass" ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finals Week || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Final Exam** ||  ||