Morales, Aurora Levins. “Child of the Americas” (handout)
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Week Four:
Monday
9/15: Read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (Chapts 1-5)
Wednesday
9/17: Read Things Fall Apart (Chapts 6-10) - MEET ME OUTSIDE AT FENWICK LIBRARY
Friday
9/19: Read Things Fall Apart (Chapts 11-15) / Response Assignment # 3 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Five:
Monday
9/22: Read Things Fall Apart (Chapts 16-25) / Chinua Achebe – visiting GMU for Fall for the Book Festival this week; Click here to see event dates/times you can attend (and blog about) for extra credit.
* Essay # 1 drafts due to peer reviewers in class (bring four copies of your essay)
Wednesday
9/24: Essay # 1 – Peer Review Workshop (bring comments for colleague’s drafts to class for peer review workshop)
Friday
9/26: Read Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl (Section I: “The Shawl” pp 1-10) / Response Assignment # 4 DUE online at class blog.
*See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Six:
Monday
9/29: Final Essay #1 DUE / Discussion of The Shawl
10/3: Read The Shawl (Section II: “Rosa” pp 33-69/END)/ Response Assignment # 5 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Seven:
Monday
10/6: Read Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body (pgs 9-55).
Wednesday
10/8: Read Written on the Body (pgs 56-79)
Friday
10/10: Read Written on the Body (pgs 80-111) / Response Assignment # 6 DUE online at class blog (no later than 7 a.m.)
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Week Eight:
Monday
10/13: Read Written on the Body (pgs 115-190 / END)
Wednesday
10/15: Finish discussion of Written on the Body
Friday
10/17: Read Mary WollstonecraftShelley’s Frankenstein,or, the Modern Prometheus (Chapts 1-2) / Response Assignment # 7 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Nine:
Monday
10/20: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 3-4)
* Essay # 2 drafts DUE to peer reviewers in class (bring four copies of your essay)
Wednesday
10/22: Essay # 2 – Peer Review Workshop (bring comments for colleague’s drafts to class for peer review workshop)
Friday
10/24: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 5-7) / Response Assignment # 8 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Ten:
Monday
10/27: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 8-16) /Film excerpts from Frankenstein
Wednesday
10/29: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 17-21)
Friday
10/31: Read Frankenstein (Chapts 22-END) / Response Assignment # 9 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Eleven:
Monday
11/3: Final Essay #2 DUE / Finish discussion of Frankenstein
Wednesday
11/5: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 1-3)
Friday
11/7: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 4-5) / Response Assignment # 10 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Twelve:
Monday
11/10: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 6-8)
Wednesday
11/12: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 9-11) / Essay # 3 (Comparison/contrast paper) assigned
Friday
11/14: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 12-14) / Response Assignment # 11 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
Week Thirteen:
Monday
11/17: Read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chapts 15- 18 / END) / Essay # 3 paper proposal due (1-2 paragraphs that outline your intended thesis)
Wednesday
11/19: Finish discussion of Brave New World / Workshop & Discussion of Cyberliterature
Friday
11/21: Read: Chapter 1: “Lord Burleigh’s Kiss” (p. 13-26) & Chapter 3: “From Additive to Expressive Form” (p. 65-94) from Murray, Janet H. (1997) Hamlet and the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. / Response Assignment # 12 DUE online at class blog.
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
