Homeless to Harvard - The Liz Murray Story
Course intro.
Preliminary questions.
Initial research.
Small groups do online rhetorical analysis of Lifetime homepage.
Large-group preliminary questions about Homeless to Harvard. (See Blackboard "Discussion Board" for a copy of these.)
Before Class
Read all of Foxfire. Read also this forum on Oates.
Complete the reading discussion question sheet in Blackboard "Course Documents." Bring a hardcopy to class. (Do this each week.)
Also look at Questions about Homeless to Harvard.
Before Class
Read Lewis, The Unbeliever: all poems, pp. 1-59 (plus epigram).
Read additional (handouts) TBA.
In Class
Standard weekly quiz will include one question about Foxfire; others about Lewis.
Finish work with Foxfire and begin Lewis.
Before Class
Read Williams, Breaking and Entering: pp. 1-278 (aprx. 40-50 pp. per day).
Everyone selects a motif.
In Class
Finish Lewis, begin Williams. Report on motifs.
Before Class
Howe, The Wedding Dress:
"Introduction," pp. ix-xxvi.
"Bewilderment," pp. 5-23.
"Immanence," pp. 39-60.
"White Lines," pp. 61-72.
"The Contemporary Logos," pp. 73-81
"Catholic," pp. 107-122.
Before Class
Howe, One Crossed Out: read all poems, pp. 3-63. Continue your flash journal (this time on Howe's poems) and post by class.
And click here for a bit of heady theorizing about écriture féminine. This may help you think about your journal writing and your open projects.
Before Class
Proulx, Close Range: read all stories, pp. 15-285.
Special attention to: “The Half-Skinned Steer,” “The Mud Below,” “The Bunchgrass Edge of the World,” “The Blood Bay,” and “Brokeback Mountain.”
Post flash journal on Proulx stories and Howe imitation to BB by class time.
Cluster for this date is EML 377 (IACC 116 not available)
Before Class
Bishop, Geography III: read all poems, pp. 1-50 (plus epigram).
Read also poems at this link.
Spring
Break
Before Class
Robinson, Housekeeping: read pp. 3-108.
Before Class
Robinson, Housekeeping: read pp. 09-219.
Vagina Monologues rescheduled to April 6-9.
Before Class
One-Hundred-and-Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box:
Read all stories in Unferth, Minor Robberies, pp. 7-143,
and
all stories in Manguso, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, pp. 3-83.
Finish discussion of readings.
Work on essays and projects.
Peer Group-Lead Discussion
Sign up for Open Project presentations.
Complete peer-lead discussion.
Begin scheduled presentations. YOUR SCRIPT SHOULD BE SENT TO THE CLASS NO LATER THAN 3:30 ON APRIL 27TH.
Critical Essay topic check.
MEET IN IACC 116 TODAY
Draft of critical essay due. Post in Blackboard "Discussion Board," Forum titled, "CRITICAL ESSAY DRAFTS—POST HERE." Peer critiques.
Finish presentations. YOUR SCRIPT SHOULD BE SENT TO THE CLASS NO LATER THAN 3:30 ON MAY 4TH.
Essay and Project checklists?
Course evaluation.
May 11—2-5:00
May 13—1-3:00
May 14—12-3:00
Final essays and projects due no later than midnight, Thurs., May 14th.
If you'd like your critical essay returned to you, include with it an unsealed, self-addressed and self-stamped envelope.
If you like your open project back, include a self-addressed and self-stamped envelope, mailing container, or box. If it is too large for the mail, I will store it in my office for the summer. Contact me to pick it up sometime between May 15th and August 20th.
