• WEEK ONE: January 29, 2018​​

  • Monday - Introduction​, Anne Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts", In-Class Writing

  • Wednesday - Bring Materials to class; Read James Baldwin, "Letter To My Nephew"; Discuss Literary Criticism; DUE: Portfolio Assignment #1(Cultural Artifact Essay)

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• WEEK TWO: February 5, 2018

  • Monday - Read "Rhetorical Analysis" and "Literary Analysis" in Seagull; Read Alexander, New Jim Crow, Ch. 1: "Caste"; Discuss Basic Approaches to Analyzing Literature

  • Wednesday - In-class viewing: 13th

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• WEEK THREE: February 12, 2018

  • Monday - ​Baldwin, "Down at the Cross"

  • Wednesday - In-class viewing: I Am Not Your Negro; DUE: Portfolio Assignment #2 (13th Annotated Bibliography)

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• WEEK FOUR: February 19, 2018

  • Monday - NO CLASSES (Holiday)

  • Wednesday - Discuss Elements of (Non)Fiction; Bring typed rough draft of first literary analysis essay to class. Also, Bring Coates' Between the World and Me

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• WEEK FIVE: February 26, 2018

  • Monday - ​Coates, Between, "Prologue," and "Part One"; DUE: First Essay

  • Wednesday - Coates, "Part One," ctd. 

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• WEEK SIX: March 5, 2018

  • Monday -​ Finish Coates, Between; In-class viewing:  Do the Right Thing

  • Wednesday - Read for in-class discussion: Dyson, "Spike Lee's Neonationalist Vision"; McKelly, "The Double Truth, Ruth: Do the Right Thing and the Culture of Ambiguity"

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• WEEK SEVEN: March 12, 2018

  • Monday - ​Coates and McKelly, ctd.; DUE: Portfolio Assignment #3 (DRT Character Portrait)

  • Wednesday - In-class viewing: The Black Power Mixtape

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• WEEK EIGHT: March 19, 2018

  • Monday - Essay work-shopping; bring typed draft copies of second essay to class.

  • Wednesday - DUE: Second Essay

 

• SPRING BREAK: March 26, 2018

  • Monday - NO CLASSES (Holiday)​

  • Wednesday - NO CLASSES (Holiday)

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• WEEK NINE: April 2, 2018

  • Monday - ​Introduction to Neo-Slave Narrative; Read Angela Davis, "The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood"; Morrison, Beloved, "Forward" to p.100

  • Wednesday - Morrison, Beloved, pp. 101 - 195 (End of Part I)

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• WEEK TEN: April 9, 2018

  • Monday -​ Morrison, Beloved, Part II; Read "Elements of Short Fiction"

  • Wednesday - Morrison, Beloved, Part III; In-class reading/listening: Junot Diaz, "The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma," The New Yorker, April 16, 2018; In-class viewing: "Inside the Memorial to Victims of Lynching," 60 Minutes, April 8, 2018.   

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• WEEK ELEVEN: April 16, 2018

  • Monday - ​ In-class viewing: Beloved

  • Wednesday - Due: Portfolio Assignment #4; In-class viewing: Beloved

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• WEEK TWELVE: April 23, 2018

  • Monday - ​Essay work-shopping

  • Wednesday - Due: Third Essay

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• WEEK THIRTEEN: April 30, 2018

  • Monday - ​Dolores Williams, "Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voices" and "Black Women's Surrogacy Experience and the Christian Notion of Redemption"; Walker, The Color Purple

  • Wednesday - Walker, The Color Purple

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• WEEK FOURTEEN: May 7, 2018

  • Monday - ​Walker, The Color Purple 

  • Wednesday - CLASS CANCELED

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• WEEK FIFTEEN: May 14, 2018

  • Monday -​ Due: Portfolio Assignment #5; In-class viewing: The Color Purple.

  • Wednesday - In-class viewing: The Color Purple 

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• WEEK SIXTEEN: May 21, 2018

  • Monday -​ Essay work-shopping

  • Wednesday - DUE: Fourth Essay

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