Monday/ Wednesday EWRT-001B Reading, Writing, and Research Homework Week One January 6 Introduction Identity: Essay #1 The Narrative Class 1 Presentation: Green Sheet; Syllabus; Website Lecture: Identity and social expectation Discussion: What is Identity? When do we "pass" as someone different from ourselves? In-class writing: How do we express our own identities? How much do we reveal about ourselves? How do we decide? Establish: Your Webpage or Username Explore: The class webpage Buy or Order: Your books Post:#1 Finish in-class writing and post it. Post #2: Write a paragraph or two describing a time when you were unfairly judged on concrete identity characteristics. OR Write a paragraph or two describing a time when you passed as someone or something you were not. The passing can be either purposeful or inadvertent. Class 2 Presentation: Terms Discussion: Personal Passing Experience and Being judged by Concrete Identifiers Lecture: Essay #1: writing Strategies for in-class essay #1: The Personal Narrative In-class writing: Basic Features: dialogue, description, anecdote, framing, outlining, significance Post: #3 Finish in-class writing and post it: Basic Features: dialogue, description, anecdote, framing, outlining, significance Studying: Terms Week Two Jan 13 Class 3 Presentation: Terms Introduction to the QHQ In-class writing exam 1: Narrative Reading: Hughes: "Passing" and "Passing." Studying: Terms Post #4: QHQ: Either the poem or the short story. Racial Passing: Essay #2 The Argument Class 4 Presentation: Terms Author Lecture: Langston Hughes QHQ Discussion: Racial Passing: "Passing" and "Passing" Lecture: Writing a Directed Summary; Paraphrasing Poetry In-class writing: Directed Summary; paraphrase Reading: Kennedy "Racial Passing" Posted under "Secondary Sources." Post #5: Post directed summary of "Passing" and paraphrase of "Passing." Studying: Terms Post #6: Discuss one story from Kennedy's article that particularly spoke to you. How did it influence you in your thinking about passing?
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Monday/ Wednesday
EWRT-001B Reading, Writing, and Research Homework
Week One January 6
Introduction Identity: Essay #1 The Narrative
Class 1
Presentation: Green Sheet; Syllabus; Website Lecture: Identity and social expectation Discussion: What is Identity? When do we "pass" as someone different from ourselves? In-class writing: How do we express our own identities? How much do we reveal about ourselves? How do we decide?
Establish: Your Webpage or Username Explore: The class webpage Buy or Order: Your books Post:#1 Finish in-class writing and post it. Post #2: Write a paragraph or two describing a time when you were unfairly judged on concrete identity characteristics. ORWrite a paragraph or two describing a time when you passed as someone or something you were not. The passing can be either purposeful or inadvertent.
Class 2
Presentation: Terms Discussion: Personal Passing Experience and Being judged by Concrete Identifiers Lecture: Essay #1: writing Strategies for in-class essay #1: The Personal Narrative In-class writing: Basic Features: dialogue, description, anecdote, framing, outlining, significance
Post: #3 Finish in-class writing and post it: Basic Features: dialogue, description, anecdote, framing, outlining, significance Studying: Terms
Week Two Jan 13
Class 3Presentation: Terms Introduction to the QHQ In-class writing exam 1: Narrative
Reading: Hughes: "Passing" and "Passing." Studying: Terms Post #4: QHQ: Either the poem or the short story.
Reading: Kennedy "Racial Passing" Posted under "Secondary Sources." Post #5: Post directed summary of "Passing" and paraphrase of "Passing." Studying: Terms Post #6: Discuss one story from Kennedy's article that particularly spoke to you. How did it influence you in your thinking about passing?
Week Three January 20
MLK day Holiday No Class Meeting
Class 5 Film Screeening: Racial Passing TBA Author Lecture: Charles Chesnutt
Reading: Chesnutt "The Passing of Grandison" Post #7: QHQ film Post #8: QHQ "Grandison" Studying: Terms
Week Four January 27
Class 6
Exam 1: Vocab and Terms QHQ Discussion: Kennedy, "The Passing of Grandison," Film. Presentation: Introduction to Essay 2: The Argument In-Class Writing: Essay 2 Brainstorming
Reading: Hughes: "Who's Passing for Who?" Post #9 QHQ "Who's Passing for Who?" Think about Pickens’s statement and whether you agree with it or not. Consider which texts you might use to support your beliefs.
Class 7
Discussion: Hughes: "Who's Passing for Who?" Presentation: Essay 2: The Argument: Brainstorming with FREECASH In-Class Writing: Essay 2 Brainstorming Author Lecture: Toni Morrison
Reading: Morrison: “Recitatif.” Post #10: Write a paragraph defending "passing" with at least three reasons. Write another paragraph condemning passing using another three reasons. Use evidence from our readings to defend your reasons. Post #11: QHQ "Recitatif"
Week Five February 3
Class 8
Presentation: Terms List 2 QHQ Discussion: "Recitatif" Lecture: Thesis statements, outlining, using evidence, introductions. In-Class Writing: Essay #2
Reading: Begin Stone Butch Blues (1-65) Post #12: Post Draft: Introduction, Thesis, Three body paragraphs (with topic sentences, evidence, and explanation) Studying:Vocab/Terms
Reading: Stone Butch Blues (131-195) Post #14: Finish and post essay #2 Post #15: Choose a few lines from Stone Butch Blues and explain how and why they stood out to you. Be sure to post your quotation above your response Studying:Terms
Class 11
Surface Revision: Essay #2 Discussion: QHQ: SBB In-class writing: Explore a moment when Jess intentionally passes. How does this experience change who ze is? How do you know? Then pick one when ze unintentionally passes. Does this affect hir in the same way? How do you know?
Edit Essay #2: Submit your essay electronically before our next class by emailing a copy saved in MS word to [email protected] Reading: Stone Butch Blues (196-End) Post #16: Finish in-class writing; Post #17: Jess interacts with medical personnel in various ways throughout the novel. Explore an experience Jess has with a medical professional. Does her gender identity influence the treatment she receives or doesn’t receive? Include a quotation. Studying: Terms
Week Seven February 17
Washingtons BD Holiday
Class 12
Essay #2 was due before class. If you did not submit your essay, please see me after class. Presentation:Terms In-class discussion/writing: The Game
Reading: and the Prompt for Essay #3 (find it on the website) Post #18: Choose ONE: Find and discuss a moment Jess resists the larger social construct. How and why does ze do it? How does it contribute to the person Jess ultimately becomes? Do you have evidence? or Find and write about an instance when Jess is forced to conform to the dominant social paradigm. How does conforming (or trying to conform) change hir? What is your evidence? Studying: Terms: Exam at next meeting
Week Eight February 24 Finish Essay #3 The Trickster: Essay #4 Research Paper
Class 13
Exam 2: Terms Presentation: Introduction to Essay #3 How to write a response to literature. Discussion: Stone Butch Blues In-class writing: thesis and outline; topic sentences and paragraphs.
Reading: Begin M Butterfly Post # 19: Finish and post in-class writing. tentative thesis, body paragraphs (topic sentences and evidence; quotations with explanations).
Class 14
Presentation: Terms list 3 Discussion: Essay #3 In-class writing: Essay #3 Directed Summary, Counterargument, conclusion Author Lecture: David Henry Hwang
Reading: M Butterfly Finish in-class writing: Introduction,Counterargument, and ConclusionPost #20 Post your counter argumentBring three complete copies of your draft to our next meeting.
Week Nine March 3
Class 15
Presentation: Terms Peer Revision: You must have three copies of your essay. If you do not, you may leave now to print or copy them.
Writing: Revise Essay 3: Submit your essay electronically before our next class by emailing a copy saved in MS word to [email protected] Studying: Vocab/terms for ExamReading: Hwang's M Butterfly Reading: Helen Lock "Transformation of the Trickster." A link to the article is posted on our webpage. Post # 22 QHQ M Butterfly: the Play
The Trickster: Essay #4 Research Paper
Class 16
Essay #3 Due Presentation: Terms for Exam 3Film Screening: TBA
Reading: Defining the Trickster: This is posted under "Secondary Readings" Post # 23 QHQ Film Studying: Terms
Week Ten March 10
Class 17
Exam 3: Terms Presentation: Introduction to Essay #4 Discussion: M Butterfly: Film "Defining the Trickster" and Locke: "Transformation of the Trickster." In-class writing: Evaluating Song as a Trickster Character
Reading: Review primary texts you might use in your essay.Post #24: Discuss one or more characters in terms of one of the traits we discussed in class today. For example, Jess Goldberg as a “shape shifter” or “cultural hero”; Grandison as “intellectually weak”; or Song as “physically weak”; maybe even the Iowans as “teachers.” Any of them might be discussed as “agents of change.” Or discuss “Grandison,” “Recitatif,” and “Who’s Passing as Who” as Trickster tales in the African American tradition. Studying: Terms Next Class: We will meet in Library Lobby for a
Class 18 Library workshop
Research for Essay #4 Find two or more articles that will likely work as support for your essay. If you are feeling benevolent, post the citation for your article and add a few words about it so others can decide if it might work for them. Post #25: Library Project Post #26: Identify two characters from our reading who share a common trait or traits. How are they alike? How might you use them to create a single thesis that answers the essay 4 prompt?
Week Eleven March 17th Reverse/Refusing to Pass Essay #5
Class 19
Vocab Exam Re-take or Make-up Presentation: Terms List #4 Discussion: Trickster Characters from our reading In-class writing: Essay 4: Outline and thesis Author Lecture: Sui Sin Far
Reading: Far “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian” Post #27 Outline and thesis for Essay #4 Studying: terms
Class 20 Film Screening: Reverse Passing: TBA
Reading: Research Writing: Essay #4 Post #28 QHQ: Far or Film Studying: Terms
Week Twelve March 24 Finish Essay #4 Reverse/Refusing to Pass Essay #5
Class 21
Presentation: Terms Discussion: QHQ Far and Film How and why does Far resist?What are the social implications of her doing so? Why do people reverse pass? Assessing Blogging Responses Discussion/Writing: Essay #4
Reading: Research Writing: Finish your research paper! Submit your essay electronically before the final by emailing a copy saved in MS word to [email protected] Evaluate your blogging responses. Submit your evaluation electronically before our next class by emailing a copy saved in MS word to [email protected]
Class 22: Final Regular class starts 8:30 a.m. Exam on Thursday, March 27: 7:00-9:00 a.m.
Exam: Terms (Comprehensive) In-Class Essay #5 (Refusing to Pass/Reverse Passing) Research Paper Essay #4 Due Revision of essay 2 or 3 due Self-evaluation of blogging responses Due
