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Unit 1: American Literature Through a Biblical Lens
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Lesson 1: Puritan Literature
Matthew 5:14-16 | Primary Source: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
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Lesson 2: Revolutionary Literature
Galatians 5:1 | Primary Source: Patrick Henry, 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death' (1775)
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Lesson 3: Transcendentalism vs. Biblical Orthodoxy
Colossians 2:8 | Primary Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Self-Reliance' (1841)
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Lesson 4: Civil War Era Literature
Galatians 3:28 | Primary Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
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Lesson 5: The American Renaissance
Romans 3:23 | Primary Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter 1 excerpt
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Lesson 6: Modern American Literature
Romans 1:21-22 | Primary Source: T.S. Eliot, 'The Waste Land' (1922), selected stanzas
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