Week 1 -- Introduction

T, Jan. 8 – Course Introduction 

R, Jan. 10 – Syllabus Quiz and Description and Definition

Week 2-3  -- "A Stitch in Time": Origins/Herstory of Quilts

*Bring your quilt materials to class during both Weeks 2 and 3* 

Week 2

T, Jan. 15 – Essay 1: Clothing Style Definition & Description Essay Due and selections from Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens"

 R, Jan. 17 – Selections from Finley's Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them

Week 3

T, Jan. 22 – Chapter 1 of Parker's Subversive Stitches (on reserve at Library West), Katherine Anne Porter's "The Old Order," and "Analyzing Fiction"

R, Jan. 24 – Elizabeth Gaspell's Trifles and "Analyzing Drama"

Week 5-6  -- A Different Sort of Reading: Subversive Knowledges in Quilts

Week 4

T, Jan. 29 – Peer Review Essay 2: Material Mini-Quilt Analysis and discussion of quilt squares

R, Jan. 31 – Essay 2: Material Mini-Quilt Analysis Due and MOO Introduction- read all sections of the NWE MOO Introduction http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/moo/intro/

MOO Quiz

Week 5

T, Feb. 5 – MOO workshop day

R, Feb. 7 – Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," Alice Nelson- Dunbar's "I Sit and Sew," Elaine Hedges' essay from Made to Remember (on reserve at Library West), and "Analyzing Poetry"

Week 6

T, Feb. 12 – MOO Pattern Room Project, Part I Due  and exploration of rooms

R, Feb. 14 – Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," Melvin Dixon's "Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt," and Holstein's Introduction to Kentucky Quilts

Week 7 -- Stitching the Bonds Among Women

T, Feb. 19 – "Chapter 12: Analysis of the Whole Film" and How to Make an American Quilt (film)

R, Feb. 21 – Cathy Song's "The Grammar of Silk" and discussion of the film

Week 8-9: Quilt as Artifact

Week 8

T, Feb. 26 – Chapter 8 from Parker's The Subversive Stitch (on reserve at Library West)

R, Feb. 28 – Conferences

Week 9

T, March 5 – NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK

R, March 7 – NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK

Weeks 10-12: Text as Quilt

Week 10

T, March 12 – MOO Pattern Room Project, Part II Due and Web design workshop (basic HTML, images, links, and tables) – NWE HTML tutorial before class http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/web/authoring/tutorial/

R, March 14 – Pages 1-134 of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Week 11

T, March 19 – Pages 135-232 of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Elaine Showalter's "Piecing and Writing" from Nancy K. Miller's The Poetics of Gender

R, March 21 – Pages 233-283 of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Week 12

T, March 26 – Pages 283-390 of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and web workshop

R, March 28 – Web Virtual Quilt Project Due and pages 391-460 of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Web Quilt Response Questions

Weeks 13-16 --Contemporary Quilts (the Materially Literary)

Week 13

T, April 2 – L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Example Images of Jackson's Patchwork Girl

R, April 4 – Shelly Jackson's Patchwork Girl (purchase online at http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/PatchworkGirl.html)  

Patchwork Girl Response

Patchwork Girl Web Assignment

Week 14

T, April 9 – Shelly Jackson's Patchwork Girl cont. and

R, April 11 – Shelley Jackson's "Stitch Bitch" (http://media-in -transition.mit.edu/articles/jackson.html),  selections from Mattera's The Quiltmaker's Art: Contemporary Quilts and Their Makers, and my LAE site about Patchwork Girl – useful in showing what an "academic" website does http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~lhager/lae/6947mouth.html

Week 15

T, April 16 – Peer Review Essay 3/ Final Essay: Comparison between Web Square and Material Square

Final Essay Peer Review Questions

R, April 18 – Conferences

Week 16

M, April 29 – Essay 3 due to my mailbox or my email inbox by 4p.m. (4301 Turlington)