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ENGL 200 C: Reading Literary Forms

Meeting Time: 
MTWTh 11:30am - 12:20pm
Location: 
LOW 106
SLN: 
14316
Instructor:
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D.E. Roberts

Syllabus Description:

English 200 C: Reading Literary Forms

Winter 2022

The Promises of Monsters

To the monsters, we’re the monsters.

–Station Eleven

train to busan.jpg

Train to Busan (2016)

Class Meets: M/T/W/Th 11:30-12:20

Classroom: LOW 106

Instructor: Daniel Elliot Roberts (he/him)

Email: derob@uw.edu

Office: Padelford B-36

Office Hours: T/Th 2:00-3:00pm (and by appointment); Office hours are entirely virtual for the time being. 

To attend office hours virtually, use my Zoom meeting ID: 206 739 8399. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Welcome to English 200 C, Reading Literary Forms! In this course we will be exploring and learning to analyze different forms of literature-–from poetry, to prose, to film-–all collected around our theme: the promises of monsters. This theme is inspired by and borrowed from an article by Donna Haraway with the same name. Monsters are quite literally the stuff of horror, and are often framed as the antithesis of the human, those villainous creatures that threaten humanity at every turn. This quarter we will be facing the grotesque and fiendish, the preposterous and inhuman, and considering whether there might be potential in these various affronts to the figure of the human. Do monsters reconfigure the self and its attendant identity formations, or obliterate humanist conceptions of the self and identity altogether? Is there something liberatory about this annihilation…might it not be welcome? In what circumstances is the figure of the human represented as interchangeable with that of the monster, and what might we make of this construction? More broadly and succinctly, what promise might the monster and the monstrous have to offer?

As a “W” course, this quarter you will be writing two formal essays, each with a first (rough) draft and a final draft. You will also be asked to engage in a series of informal Question/Answer discussion posts and replies, which will provide you with low-stakes opportunities to practice developing your analyses of the texts we will be spending so much time with this quarter. Though this is a literature course, our emphasis on composition and analytical skills will serve you throughout your academic and professional career. 

REQUIRED TEXTS (in the order we will be reading/viewing them)

The below texts should be available in the UW bookstore, with the exception of the film Train to Busan, which we will be watching in class. If you plan to write about Train to Busan, you will need to check it out from the library, purchase your own copy, or watch it using Amazon prime. It is very important that we all have the same, print copy of the books we will be reading, as we will be referring to specific passages in class, and everyone needs to be able to follow along. Additionally, all of the page numbers on the syllabus will be from these specific editions. Please ensure that the ISBN-13 of the books you order is the same as the ISBN-13 of the books below. The two other (shorter) texts we will be reading not listed below will be posted in Canvas>Files.

  • Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu; ISBN-13: 978-1938584985
  • Zone One by Colson Whitehead; ISBN-13: 978-0307455178
  • Train to Busan (2016) dir. by Yeon Sang-ho 
  • Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich;
    ISBN-13: 978-1938900174
  • The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez; ISBN-13: 978-0872866744
  • Dawn by Octavia Butler; ISBN-13: 978-1538753712 

 

ASSESSMENT

Essay One 1st Draft: 5%

Essay One Final Draft: 20%

Essay Two 1st Draft: 5%

Essay Two Final Draft: 20%

Discussion Leading: 15%

Participation: 15%

Q/A Posts and Replies (8 of each due over the quarter): 20%

8 Q/A Posts: 12%

8 Q/A Replies: 8%

 

Please note that the assignments are not weighted on Canvas, therefore you will need to calculate your grade using the above weight distribution. As I input assignment grades, Canvas will automatically compute your course grade according to the following scale.:

 

97% or higher: 4.0

95-96: 3.9

93-94: 3.8

92: 3.7

91: 3.6

90: 3.5

89: 3.4

88: 3.3

87: 3.2

86: 3.1

85: 3.0

84: 2.9

83: 2.8

82: 2.7

81: 2.6

80: 2.5

79: 2.4

78: 2.3

77: 2.2

76: 2.1

75: 2.0

74: 1.9

73: 1.8

72: 1.7

71: 1.6

70: 1.5

69: 1.4

68: 1.3

67: 1.2

66: 1.1

65: 1.0

65% or lower: 0


ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTIONS

Discussion Leading: 

For one class meeting you will be appointed discussion leader (or co-leader). You should be prepared to lead discussion for 30 minutes. This will allow you more agency in shaping class discussion/activities and will encourage deeper, more careful class preparation from you. Each discussion leader (or co-leaders) will be required to submit a discussion guide, and will be asked to distribute paper copies of this guide to students and me on the day that they lead discussion (please bring 41 copies). If we will be meeting over Zoom during your discussion leading session, please email me your discussion guide ahead of time (24 hours ahead of time is great, but please email these no less than 1 hour before your session). Discussion guides should include some variation of the following components, and these components should incorporate and reflect on the Q/A Posts/Replies:

  • Informative heading (name, date, title, etc.)
  • Relevant texts
  • Class agenda
  • Learning goals/outcomes
  • Planned activity(ies), with rough time increments 
  • Discussion questions (which may be used in planned activities above, or for unstructured discussion)
  • Related external research, which can include some combination of:
    • Relevant information about the text, author, critical reception of the text, or setting 
    • Contribution to the literary concepts that will be discussed across the course

 

Q/A Posts and Replies (8 posts and 8 replies):

Q/A Posts: Due by 5pm the night before the reading is due—see syllabus for exact deadlines. (250-350 words each)

Q/A Post Responses: Due by 10am the morning the reading is due (150-200 words each)

Post your Q/A post as a "comment" on my discussion post on our Canvas Discussion board. Make sure the post you respond to corresponds to the name on the syllabus.

Note: Late Q/A Posts and Replies will not be accepted

Q/A Posts (250-350 words): Question/Answer blog posts are a vital virtual extension of our learning community. Throughout the quarter you are required to submit 8 blog posts to Canvas. You may select which weeks/days to contribute, but you must post by the deadline on the syllabus.  Each blog post must engage with the section of the reading we will be discussing in class the following day (always refer to the syllabus for these reading and Q/A deadlines). While your Q/A post can refer back to previous sections of the book, the majority of your post should focus on analyzing (a) passage(s) from the reading due the next day. Your Q/A post should cite directly from this section of reading, and include the page numbers where the passages appear. You can only submit one Q/A post per week, but you can choose which 8 weeks you want to contribute.

Your blog posts should open with a critical question you have about the assigned reading for the day. Some possible models of questions include:

What is the relationship between A and B (according to the reading and to me)?

How does this text invite us to think about X and why is this significant?

What does Z symbolize in this book? What are the stakes of Z? 

How can we use this text to help us understand X [current event]?

These are only a few examples--you can shape your questions however you want. In responding to your question (or seeking to "answer" it) you should turn to, and incorporate, evidence from that particular section of reading while responding to them with your own perspective. You do not need to arrive at a thesis by the end of your post--the purpose of these blog posts is to provide you low-stakes opportunities to practice textual analysis, and test your ideas out on your peers and I. You may revise and extend the questions you pursue in these blog posts in your formal essays and projects, but you do not have to. Q/A posts will receive a completion grade. If your post does not meet the required word count, does not engage with direct quotations from the text, or is not primarily focused on the section of reading assigned for the next day, you will lose points. You will not receive written feedback from me on these posts. If you plan to extend an analysis from one of your Q/A posts into one of your essays, please come to my office hours for verbal feedback on this post.

Q/A Responses (150-200 words): In addition to submitting a total of 8 Q/A posts to Canvas, you are required to respond to at least one of your classmates' Q/A posts weekly, for a total of 8 responses over the course of the quarter.  Like your Q/A posts, you can choose which 8 weeks you want to engage one of your classmates' posts (you do not have to write a post and a response for the same day, but you are welcome to). Your responses should speak to the question posed by your peer and the way they sought to "answer" this question. Be sure to go beyond saying you "agree" or "disagree" with the assertions made by your peer--ideally you should challenge, extend, and otherwise build on your classmate's post by furthering the conversation they take up in their Q/A post.

 

Essays:

This quarter you will write two 6-8 (full) page essays that analyze and make an argument about one of the books (or films) we will be reading/viewing this quarter. Because this is a “W” course, each essay will have a first (rough) draft and a final draft. You will receive feedback from me and a peer on your rough drafts. I will also give you written feedback on your final drafts. Your rough drafts will be given a completion grade, while your final drafts will receive a formal grade from me (on the GPA scale). Due to the requirements of “W” courses, I will not be able to accept final drafts that do not meet the page count requirement.

 

Participation: 

As a discussion-based literature class, your participation is vital. You will receive participation points for participating in large class discussions, small group discussions, completing peer review for both essays, and finishing informal assignments. If there is anything I can do to make you feel more comfortable participating in our class discussions, please communicate this to me in your Get to Know You/Accessibility Survey. Additionally, if you miss class more than 2-3 times this quarter, your participation grade will be affected. If you miss class due to Covid-related issues, please get in touch with me so we can discuss alternate ways for you to make up lost participation points. That said, there is no good substitute for class discussion.

 

LATE WORK POLICY

If you feel that you may not be able to get an assignment in on time, please contact me immediately, preferably no less than 24 hours before the deadline. If you have a legitimate reason for submitting work late, I am happy to work with you to arrange a new deadline. Keep in mind that if you submit your essays late, peer review will be affected. You may not be assigned an essay to peer review (in which case you will lose those participation points), and you may not receive peer feedback on your essay. This is true whether or not we work out an alternate deadline for the assignment. All work submitted late without my approval will be subject to a point deduction of 5% for each day that it is late. 

 

ELECTRONICS POLICY

Phones should be turned off or to silent mode during class, unless there is an emergency that you have communicated with me about. There is no texting allowed during class. Please bring a charged laptop to class, as there may be class time devoted to working on informal assignments. I also recognize that some students prefer to take notes on their laptops. That said, computers should not become a distraction. Please do not use your computers to browse social media or other websites during our class time. This is not only distracting for you–it can impair your peers’ ability to stay focused on what is happening in the space of the classroom (as someone who has, as a student, sat next to another student who was planning their wedding during class discussion, I can personally attest to this!). If I find that you are using your laptop for one of these purposes during class, I will deduct points from your participation grade for the day.

 

CONTACTING ME

I will respond to emails within 24 hours of receiving them. If I have not responded to you in that time frame, please email me again—it is likely your email was buried in a host of others, and I did not see it. My email is derob@uw.edu

ACCESSIBILITY CLAUSE

If you need accommodation of any sort please let me know so that I can work with the UW Disability Resources for Students Office (DRS) to provide what you require. The syllabus is available in large print are as other course materials. More information about accommodation may be found at http://www.washington.edu/students/drs  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Outside of documented needs for accommodation, I expect that we can and do all think, communicate, and process information differently. For this reason, I recognize that any class activity or course structure will accommodate each student differently. For example, you might best learn when you are given visual aids like powerpoints, graphs and/or handouts, and you might class discussion tedious and difficult to focus on. Please begin thinking about your individual learning needs and communicate with me as soon as possible about how best this course can accommodate them.


RELIGIOUS ACCOMODATIONS

“Washington state law requires that UW develop a policy for accommodation of student absences or significant hardship due to reasons of faith or conscience, or for organized religious activities. The UW’s policy, including more information about how to request an accommodation, is available at Religious Accommodations Policy (Links to an external site.).  Accommodations must be requested within the first two weeks of this course using the Religious Accommodations Request form (Links to an external site.).


ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

The University of Washington Student Conduct Code (WAC 478-121) defines prohibited academic and behavioral conduct and describes how the University holds students accountable as they pursue their academic goals. Allegations of misconduct by students may be referred to the appropriate campus office for investigation and resolution. More information can be found online at https://www.washington.edu/studentconduct/ (Links to an external site.)

Here's what you can do to cover yourself against plagiarism or collusion:

  • At any stage of your writing, keep your drafts, notes, papers, and research materials. If a question of plagiarism arises, you'll have a paper trail ( paper trails protect you in a variety of academic, public, and work-related contexts)
  • Don't use editing services. Don't ask anyone, even family or friends, to edit your paper or help you write it. You need to do that work yourself.
  • If you need additional help with your writing, contact the University Writing Center, UW Writes (Links to an external site.), where trained professionals are there to help you without colluding in plagiarism.
  • Last but not least, ask me if you have any questions about honesty.

 

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND JUSTICE

The UW English Department aims to help students become more incisive thinkers, effective communicators, and imaginative writers by acknowledging that language and its use are powerful and hold the potential to empower individuals and communities; to provide the means to engage in meaningful conversation and collaboration across differences and with those with whom we disagree; and to offer methods for exploring, understanding, problem solving, and responding to the many pressing collective issues we face in our world--skills that align with and support the University of Washington’s mission to educate “a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders through a challenging learning environment informed by cutting-edge scholarship.”

As a department, we begin with the conviction that language and texts play crucial roles in the constitution of cultures and communities, past, present, and future.  Our disciplinary commitments to the study of English (its history, multiplicity, and development; its literary and artistic uses; and its global role in shaping and changing cultures) require of us a willingness to engage openly and critically with questions of power and difference. As such, in our teaching, service, and scholarship we frequently initiate and encourage conversations about topics such as race and racism, immigration, gender, sexuality, class, indigeneity, and colonialisms. These topics are fundamental to the inquiry we pursue.  We are proud of this fact, and we are committed to creating an environment in which our faculty and students can do so confidently and securely, knowing that they have the backing of the department.

Towards that aim, we value the inherent dignity and uniqueness of individuals and communities. We acknowledge that our university is located on the shared lands and waters of the Coast Salish peoples. We aspire to be a place where human rights are respected and where any of us can seek support. This includes people of all ethnicities, faiths, gender identities, national and indigenous origins, political views, and citizenship status; nontheists; LGBQTIA+; those with disabilities; veterans; and anyone who has been targeted, abused, or disenfranchised.

 

STATEMENT ON NON-VERBALIZATION OF RACIAL SLURS AND THE N-WORD: CULTIVATING ANTIRACIST AND ANTICOLONIAL CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES

Over the past few months, students have written to the department chair, program directors, and more publicly about several incidents in which a white or non-Black English department instructor has verbalized the N-word as part of reading from or quoting a course text. BIPOC students in particular have shared their experience hearing the N-word read aloud in class and the alienation, harm, and lasting pain this has caused. As a department committed to antiracism and anticolonialism, we strive to cultivate supportive and productive classroom environments, and the verbalization of the N-word by white and non-Black faculty and students is harmful and pedagogically damaging. 

This is not a question of censorship or academic freedom. While our work requires at times that we engage with texts that use this language, either for historical, aesthetic, or political reasons, it also requires that we do so in a manner that does not harm our students. Thus, how we engage with such texts raises a question of power and what is given life and voice to, by whom, and when. It also raises a question of the kinds of emotional, intellectual, and welcoming spaces we create in our courses, and whether these spaces enable all of our students to learn. In the context of race and power, the verbalizing of the N-word and other racialized terms becomes experienced as slurs that not only harms students, especially students who disproportionately bear the weight and violence of the N-word's and other racist language’s history; it also significantly interrupts learning. BIPOC students repeatedly report that the verbalizing of racial slurs by white faculty and students harms them and their ability to learn in our classes. As importantly, the verbalizing of racial slurs keeps requiring of our students the exhausting need to speak up about and to explain to a predominantly white institution racist language’s harm, violence, and continued trauma. We cannot keep forcing our students to have to do this. 

There is a significant and consequential difference between reading slurs in a text and having the slurs verbalized aloud. In a text, they can be read and processed in one’s own voice. When verbalized, the slur is given life and voice, is energized, heard, embodied, and experienced in a public way that creates palpable harm. Especially if the slur is verbalized by a white instructor, its relation to power and violence is re-asserted, no matter how it might be framed. Also, and crucially, when verbalized rather than individually read, the slur is experienced in a public way. We have heard from BIPOC students about the feeling of alienation, exposure, and vulnerability this creates for them in predominantly white classrooms. 

A commitment to racial equity, to antiracist and anticolonial pedagogy, and to making our community one in which all students feel safe, welcome, supported, and can thrive starts by being attentive to the experiences of BIPOC students. It also requires attending to issues of power, racism, and whiteness embodied in the language we use and sanction. Attending to these issues should allow us to recognize the differences between our racial constitution through language and the ways that signifying practices can have liberating effects for BIPOC faculty and students, as Professor Vershawn Ashanti Young in “Banning the N-word on Campus Ain’t the Answer: It Censors Black Professors Like Me” explains. We call for an understanding of the complexity of Black language use by Black students and faculty, as Young and other scholars of Black language have articulated. We support Indigenous, Black, and students and faculty of color and will follow their lead in terms of what language they would like to use to speak of themselves, their experiences, and communities. 

Additionally and along with Professor Koritha Mitchell in “The N-Word in the Classroom: Just Say NO,” we acknowledge that giving embodied voice and life to the N-word and other racial slurs by white faculty and students directly undermines efforts to create a safe and broadly supportive learning environment. While we’re not advocating for a blanket prohibiting of the N-word as Mitchell suggests, we do oppose white and non-Black faculty and students’ use of the N-word, and agree that finding alternatives to verbalizing racial slurs (for example, saying “N” or “Ns” or simply pausing for students to read silently before reading on) does not diminish our and our students’ ability to engage in literary and cultural analysis of texts that include this language. Nor does it prevent us from addressing the historical contexts of racial and settler colonial violence, acknowledging their past and persistence. By finding alternatives, we affirm the necessity of cultivating supportive and productive classroom environments that are aligned with our antiracist and anticolonialist commitments.

 

CAMPUS RESOURCES

wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

Intellectual House is a longhouse-style facility on the UW Seattle campus. It provides a multi-service learning and gathering space for American Indian and Alaska Native students, faculty, and staff, as well as others from various cultures and communities to come together in a welcoming environment to share knowledge. https://www.washington.edu/diversity/tribal-relations/intellectual-house/

D Center

Not to be confused with Disability Services, the D Center is the Disability and d/Deaf Cultural Center at the UW. The D Center is a space where students can study, organize, rest, and attend events and programs focusing on supporting and celebrating disability and D/deaf communities at the UW and beyond! It is located in the Husky Union Building--Room 327. https://depts.washington.edu/dcenter/

Q Center

The University of Washington Q Center builds and facilitates queer (gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirit, trans, intersex, questioning, same-gender-loving, asexual, aromantic) academic and social community through education, advocacy, and support services to achieve a socially-just campus in which all people are valued. For more information, visit http://depts.washington.edu/qcenter

Odegaard Writing & Research Center

The Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC) offers free, one-to-one, 45-minute tutoring sessions for undergraduate, graduate, and professional writers in all fields at the UW. We will work with writers on any writing or research project, as well as personal projects such as applications or personal statements. Our tutors and librarians collaborate with writers at any stage of the writing and research process, from brainstorming and identifying sources to drafting and making final revisions. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please see our website (http://depts.washington.edu/owrc), or come visit us in person on the first floor of Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

CLUE Writing Center

The CLUE is a drop-in writing and tutoring center open from 7pm-midnight all days except Friday and Saturday throughout the quarter. For more info, check out their website:

http://depts.washington.edu/aspuw/clue/writing-center/

 

READING AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE

WEEK ONE

Monday Jan 3rd

Introductions (first week of classes on Zoom. Use my PMI (posted under office hours at the top of the syllabus). 

Assignment due: Sign up for Discussion Leading by 5pm (edit the Google doc posted in the "Week 1" module on this Canvas site)


Tuesday Jan 4th

Introductions continue

Assignment due: Get to Know You/Accessibility Survey due to Canvas by 11:59pm

Assignment due: Week 1 Q/A Posts over Monsters I Have Been (1-51) Due by 5pm

 

Wednesday Jan 5th

Reading due: Liu, Monsters I Have Been (1-51)

Assignment due: Week 1 Q/A Reply Due by 10am

 

Thursday Jan 6th

Finish discussion of Monsters I Have Been (1-51)

 

WEEK TWO

Sunday Jan 9th

Assignment due: Week 2a Q/A Post over Monsters I Have Been (52-96) Due by 5pm

 

Monday Jan 10th

Reading due: Liu, Monsters I Have Been (52-96)

Assignment due: Week 2a Q/A Reply over Monsters I Have Been (52-96) Due by 10am

 

Tuesday Jan 11th

Finish Discussing Monsters I Have Been (52-96) 

Assignment due: Week 2b Q/A Post over Gordon Due by 5pm

 

Wednesday Jan 12th

Reading due: Gordon, selections from Ghostly Matters (vii-28)

Assignment due: Week 2b Q/A Reply over Gordon due by 10am

 

Thursday Jan 13th

Finish discussing Gordon (vii-28)

 

WEEK THREE

Monday Jan 17th

CLASS CANCELED FOR MLK JR. DAY

Assignment due: Week 3a Q/A Post over Zone One (1-103) due by 5pm

 

Tuesday Jan 18th

Reading due: Whitehead, Zone One (1-103)

Assignment due: Week 3a Q/A Reply over Zone One (1-103) due by 10am

 

Wednesday Jan 19th

Finish discussing Zone One (1-103)

Assignment due: Week 3b Q/A Post over Zone One (103-166) due by 5pm

 

Thursday Jan 20th

Reading due: Whitehead, Zone One (103-166)

Assignment due: Week 3b Q/A Reply over Zone One (103-166) due by 10am

 

WEEK FOUR

Monday Jan 24th

Finish discussing Zone One (103-166)

Assignment due: Week 4a Q/A Post over Zone One (166-271) due by 5pm

 

Tuesday Jan 25th

Reading due: Zone One (166-271)

Assignment due: Week 4a Q/A Reply over Zone One (166-271) due by 10am

 

Wednesday Jan 26th

Finish discussing Zone One (166-271)

Assignment due: Week 4b Q/A Post over Zone One (273-322) due by 5pm

 

Thursday Jan 27th

Reading due: Zone One (273-322)

Assignment due: Week 4b Q/A Reply over Zone One (273-322) due by 10am

 

WEEK FIVE

Monday Jan 31st

Finish discussing Zone One (273-322)

Begin in-class screening of Train to Busan (2016)

 

Tuesday Feb 1st

Reading due: Corrigan, “Film Terms and Topics”

In-class screening of Train to Busan (2016)

 

Wednesday Feb 2nd

In-class screening of Train to Busan

Assignment due: Week 5 Q/A Post over Train to Busan due by 5pm

 

Thursday Feb 3rd

Assignment due: Week 5 Q/A Reply over Train to Busan due by 10am

Discuss Train to Busan in class

 

Friday Feb 4th

Assignment due: Essay One 1st Draft due to Canvas by 11:59pm



WEEK SIX

Sunday Feb 6th

Assignment due: Week 6a Q/A Post over Sympathetic Little Monster (1-38) Due by 5pm

 

Monday Feb 7th

Reading due: Awkward-Rich, Sympathetic Little Monster (1-38)

Assignment due: Week 6a Q/A Reply over Sympathetic Little Monster (1-38) Due by 10am

 

Tuesday Feb 8th

Finish discussing Sympathetic Little Monster (1-38)

Assignment Due: Week 6b Q/A Post over Sympathetic Little Monster (39-74) Due by 5pm

 

Wednesday Feb 9th

Reading due: Sympathetic Little Monster (39-74)

Assignment due: Week 6b Q/A Reply over Sympathetic Little Monster (39-74) Due by 10am

Assignment due: Peer Review of Essay One 1st Draft due to Canvas by 11:59pm

 

Thursday Feb 10th

Finish discussing Sympathetic Little Monster (39-74)

 

WEEK SEVEN

Sunday Feb 13th

Assignment due: Week 7a Q/A Post over The Gilda Stories (XI-101) Due by 5pm

 

Monday Feb 14th

Reading due: Gomez, The Gilda Stories (XI-101; Foreword through Chapter 2)

Assignment Due: Week 7a Q/A Reply over The Gilda Stories (XI-101) Due by 10am

 

Tuesday Feb 15th

Finish Discussing The Gilda Stories (XI-101)

Assignment Due: Week 7b Q/A Post over The Gilda Stories (103-166; Chapters 3 & 4) Due by 5pm

 

Wednesday Feb 16th

Reading due: The Gilda Stories (103-166; Chapters 3 & 4)

Assignment due: Week 7b Q/A Reply over The Gilda Stories (103-166; Chapters 3 & 4) Due by 10am

 

Thursday Feb 17th

Finish discussing The Gilda Stories Chapters 3 & 4 

 

Sunday Feb 20th

Assignment due: Essay One Final Draft Due by 11:59pm

 

WEEK EIGHT

Monday Feb 21st

CLASS CANCELED FOR HOLIDAY

Assignment due: Week 8a Q/A Post over The Gilda Stories (167-231; Chapters 5 through 7) Due by 5pm

 

Tuesday Feb 22nd

Reading due: The Gilda Stories (167-231; Chapter 5 through 7) Due by 5pm

Assignment due: Week 8a Q/A Reply over The Gilda Stories (167-231; Chapters 5 through 7) Due by 10am

Assignment due: Week 8b Q/A Post over The Gilda Stories (233-259; Chapter 8 through Afterword) Due by 5pm

 

Wednesday Feb 23rd

Reading due: The Gilda Stories (233-259; Chapter 8 through Afterword) 

Assignment due: Week 8b Q/A Reply over The Gilda Stories (233-259; Chapter 8 through Afterword) Due by 10am

 

Thursday Feb 24th

Finish discussing The Gilda Stories (233-259)

 

WEEK NINE

Sunday Feb 27th

Assignment due: Week 9a Q/A Post over Dawn (Part I: Womb) due by 5pm

 

Monday Feb 28th

Reading due: Butler, Dawn (Part I: Womb)

Assignment due: Week 9a Q/A Reply over Dawn (Part I: Womb) due by 10am

 

Tuesday March 1st

Finish discussing Dawn (Part I: Womb)

Assignment due: Week 9b Q/A Post over Dawn (Part II: Family) due by 5pm

 

Wednesday March 2nd

Reading due: Dawn (Part II: Family)

Assignment due: Week 9b Q/A Reply over Dawn (Part II: Family) due by 10am

 

Thursday March 3rd

Finish discussing Dawn (Part II: Family)

 

Saturday March 5th

Assignment due: Essay Two 1st Draft due by 5pm

 

WEEK TEN

Sunday March 6th

Assignment due: Week 10a Q/A Post over Dawn (Part III: Nursery) due by 5pm

 

Monday March 7th

Reading due: Dawn (Part III: Nursery)

Assignment due: Week 10a Q/A Reply over Dawn (Part III: Nursery) due by 10am

 

Tuesday March 8th

Finish discussing Dawn (Part III: Nursery)

Assignment due: Week 10b Q/A Post over Dawn (Part IV: The Training Floor) due by 5pm

 

Wednesday March 9th

Reading due: Dawn (Part IV: The Training Floor) 

Assignment due: Week 10b Q/A Post over Dawn (Part IV: The Training Floor) due by 10am

Assignment due: Peer Review of Essay Two 1st Draft due to Canvas by 11:59pm 

 

Thursday March 10th

Finish discussing Dawn (all)

 

FINALS WEEK

Tuesday March 15th

Assignment due: Essay Two Final Draft due by 11:59pm

Catalog Description: 
Covers techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film. Examines such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense. Offered: AWSp.
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Arts and Humanities (A&H)
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