American Literature Module 3.3
The Last of the Mohicans
Study Guide: American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3)
Focus Text: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Audiobook: https://amzn.to/3cZCEHX
Honors Text: The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
Context Resource Links
These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.
Readings
- https://jfcoopersociety.org/introduction/reading.html
- http://www.dickshovel.com/Mahican.html
- http://www.mohican.com/
- Mohican Indian fact sheet
- http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Indians/main.html
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/fenimore-coopers-literary-offenses-by-mark-twain/
- https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/septemberoctober/feature/in-defense-cooper
The Author’s Life
Poetry
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/my-brigantine-by-james-fenimore-cooper
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/solitude-an-ode-by-alexander-pope/
- https://www.bartleby.com/248/
Audio
Video
- https://www.c-span.org/series/?americanWriters
- https://archive.org/details/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/
Historic Context
- http://www.militaryheritage.com/7yrswar.htm
- https://www.pbs.org/thewarthatmadeamerica/timeline.html
- http://www.berkshistory.org/multimedia/articles/hochstetler-massacre/
- https://mrnussbaum.com/search?q=french+and+indian+war
Visual Arts
- https://collections.fenimoreart.org/collections
- http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam854/lompix.html
- https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/cooper.htm
- https://www.mohicanpress.com/mo06030.html
Music
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/cooper-and-berlioz-overture-le-corsaire-rouge
- http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo11100.html
- https://www.professorcarol.com/composer-schubert/
- https://www.professorcarol.com/2019/08/02/schubert-trout-quintet/
- http://www.americanrevolution.org/songs.html
- https://www.laudemont.org/a-stp.pdf
- http://pdmusic.org/1800s.html
Places to Go
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