Overview of Assignments:

These assignments are due in class on the dates indicated. There will be NO LATE assignments accepted. Also, there will be additional assignments and materials not indicated on this sheet (I will announce them in class), and both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change. All readings are in the Mercury Reader unless otherwise noted (CP = course packet).

 

 

Week 1
R, Aug. 23 – Course introduction and syllabus review

 

 

Week 2

  

Richard Wright from corbis.com   Richard Wright

Malcolm X (image from corbis.com) Malcolm X 

 Maya Angelou (image from corbis.com) Maya Angelou
T, Aug. 28 – Syllabus quiz, Narration, Description, Richard Wright's "The Library Card"and sign up for grammar panels
R, Aug. 30 – Malcolm X's "A Homemade Education"and Maya Angelou's "Finishing School”

 

 

Week 3

Gloria Anzaldúa Gloria Anzaldúa
T, Sept. 4 – Gloria Anzaldúa "How to Tame a Wild Tongue,"Richard Rodriguez's "Public and Private Language,"and work on grammar panels (in class)
R, Sept. 6 – Grammar Panels

 

 

Week 4

image of man with chalk (from MS clipart gallery)
T, Sept. 11 – Grammar Panels
R, Sept. 13 – Grammar Panels

 

Week 5

image of an open book and clock (from MS clipart gallery)
T, Sept. 18 – Grammar Panels
R, Sept. 20 – Draft of Essay 1 Due, peer review

 

 

Week 6

 Margaret Atwood (from corbis.com)

Gloria Steinem (from corbis.com) Gloria Steinem
T, Sept. 25 – Essay 1 Due, "Example,""Definition,"and Margaret Atwood's "Pornography”
R, Sept. 27 – "Comparison and Contrast,"Gloria Steinem's "Erotica and Pornography," and MLA works cited pages

 

 

Week 7

 Miss America (from corbis.com)  

Miss America
T, Oct. 2 – Margaret Atwood's "The Female Body," Studs Terkel "Miss U.S.A.," and "Classification and Division”
R, Oct. 4 – Magazine discussion day (everyone must bring 1 magazine with images of women to class)

 

 

Week 8
T, Oct. 9 – Draft of Essay 2 Due, peer review

R, Oct. 11 – Essay 2 Due, "Process Analysis," "Cause and Effect," and Langdon Winner's "Mythinformation” 

Week 9

Animated GIF of a computer surfing (from gifworks.com)

Where do you like to surf the web?

 
T, Oct. 16 – Amy Bruckman's "Finding One's own Space in Cyberspace,"M Kadi's "Welcome to Cyberia, "Shelley Jackson's "stitch bitch" (http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/jackson.html)
R, Oct. 18 – Pavel Curtis's "Not Just a Game: How LambdaMOO Came to Exist and What it Did to Get Back at Me" (CP)

 

 

Week 10

Animated GIF of a cow mooing

The cow says moooooo!
T, Oct. 23 – Julian Dribbell's "Rape in Cyberspace or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society" (http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle.html)
R, Oct. 25 – Draft of Essay 3 Due, peer review

 

 

Week 11
T, Oct. 30 – Essay 3 Due
R, Nov. 1 – "Persuasion" and Basile's "The Cat Cinderella" (CP)

 

Week 12

 cover of Walt Disney's Cinderella
T, Nov. 6 – Grimm Brothers' "Cinderella" (CP) and Disney's "Cinderella" (CP)
R, Nov. 8 – "Chapter 12: Analysis of the Whole Film"( CP) and Ever After (film)

 

 

Week 13

 cover of Ever After: A Cinderella Story
T, Nov. 13 – Ever After (movie) cont. and discussion of movie
R, Nov. 15 – Library Workshop (meet in room 148 of Library West)

 

 

Week 14
T, Nov. 20 – Research Day
R, Nov. 22 – No Class (Thanksgiving Break)

 

Week 15
T, Nov. 27 – Conferences
R, Nov. 29 – Draft of Essay 4 Due, peer review

 

Week 16
T, Dec. 4 – Essay 4 Due to my mailbox by 4 p.m.

 

 

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