|
Date |
Reading
Assignment (all
pages numbers refer to the reader except where noted) |
Written Assignments/ Class
Activities
|
January 8 |
|
Introduction
to course materials
Introduction
to poetry |
January 10 |
"Reading"
1-6.
“Fiction”
15-17.
Elie
Wiesel, "The Watch" 21-22.
Kate
Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" 3-5. |
Quiz
on Class Description
Sheet
Diagnostic
Essay due.
|
January 17 |
Amy
Tan, “Rice Husband” 23-32.
Frank
O'Connor, "First Confession" 33-35. |
|
January 18-23 |
|
Group
response conference
in
my office.
Bring
enough copies of your
paper
for all group
members (including
yourself)
and me. |
|
January 22 |
"Writing"
6-14.
Kate
Chopin, "A Respectable Woman" 36-37.
Wilkins,
"The Revolt of 'Mother'" 38-43.
Optional
Reading:
Alice Walker, “Roselily” 44-46.
Mahwash Shoaib, “The Silk Carpet” 47-48.
Robert Frost, “Home Burial” 49-50. |
|
January 23 |
|
Optional
viewing of Death
of a Salesman
Place:
156 Voorhies
Time:
6:30pm |
January 24 |
Daniel
Meier, "One's Man's Kids" 51-52.
Sanders,
“The Men We Carry in Our Minds" 53-55.
Paul
Theroux, "Being a Man" 56-58.
Arthur
Miller, Death of a Salesman 59-99. |
Final
draft of essay #1 due. |
|
January 29 |
"Poetry"
17-20.
Browning,
"My Last Duchess" 100-101.
Andrew
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” 102-103.
Optional
Reading:
Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” 101-102. |
Group
presentation: Early
Women’s
Movement and
Modern
Feminisms
|
|
January 31 |
John
Donne, "Song" 104.
Thomas
Campion, "There Is a Garden..." 104.
Sor
Juana Ines de la Cruz, "She Proves..." 105.
Optional
reading:
“My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun"
106.
Barbara L. Greenberg, “The Faithful Wife” 107. |
Group
Presentation: Conflict in Ireland
|
February 5 |
Jonathan
Swift, "A Modest Proposal" 108-112.
Sean
O’Casey, Juno and the Paycock 113-137. |
Rough
draft (3 copies) of
essay
#2 due for critiques
|
|
February 7 |
Liam
O'Flaherty, "The Sniper" 138-139.
Frank
O'Conner, "Guests of the Nation" 140-145. |
Critiques
of essay #2 due.
Peer
response workshop.
Group
presentation: Marxism
and
class struggle.
|
|
February 12 |
August
Strindberg, Miss Julie
146-160.
Gilbraith,
"How to Get the Poor off Our
Conscience"
198-200.
Mike
Rose, “’I Just Wanna Be Average’,” 161-164.
Optional
Reading:
Jonathan Kozol, “Distancing the Homeless”
165-171. |
Final
draft of essay #2 due.
Group
Presentation: Civil
Rights
Movement.
|
|
February 14 |
Walt
Whitman "I hear America Singing" 172.
Langston
Hughes "I, Too" 145.
Henry
David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" 173-
182. |
Midterm
Exam. |
|
February 21 |
Ralph
Ellison, "Battle Royal" 183-188.
Langston
Hughes, "Theme for English B" 189.
Jeffers
"My Blackness Is the Beauty…" 190.
Margaret
Walker, “On Being Female, Black, and Free
191-195.
Optional
Reading:
Sharon Olds, “On the Subway” 196. |
Group
Presentation: Chicano
Movement
|
February 26 |
Liliana
Heker, “The Stolen Party” 201-202.
Luis
Valdez, Las Dos Caras del Patroncito
203-210.
Rodolfo
Gonzales, “Yo Soy Joaquin” 211.
Van
Dusen, "Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of
Democracy”
212-215.
Alma
Luz Villanueva, “An Act of Creation”
216-217.
Optional
reading:
Diana Garcia, “When Living Was a Labor Camp Called Montgomery”
218.
Luis
J. Rodriguez, “They Come to Dance”
219-220.
Deborah Salazar, “For Carrie” 221. |
Rough
draft (3 copies) of
essay
#3 due.
Group
Presentation:
Apartheid
|
February 28 |
Chinua
Achebe, "Dead Men's Path" 222-223.
Maishe
Mapoyna, Gangsters 224-242. |
Critiques of essay #3 due.
Peer response workshop. |
|
March 1 |
|
Optional
viewing of
Master
Harold
and the Boys
Place:
156 Voorhies
Time:
6:30pm |
|
March 5 |
Athol Fugard, Master Harold and the Boys 243-262. |
Group Presentation: Aphra Behn
Final draft on Essay #3 due.
|
|
March 7 |
Oroonoko
(in
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, The
Rover
and Other Works) |
|
March 12 |
Oroonoko
(in
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, The
Rover
and Other Works) |
|
March 14 |
King, "Letter From Birmingham City Jail" 263-271. |
Rough draft (3 copies) of essay #4
due.
All Revisions of Essays 1-3 due.
|
March 15 |
|
Peer Response Workshop.
Critiques of essay #4 due.
In-class Debate |
March 20 |
|
Final Exam: 8-10am
Group Evaluations.
Final draft of essay #4 due.
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