Date |
Class Activities |
Homework Due |
R 9/8 online | See
Bb for instructions: Course + stud. intro.; Timeline + Geography; What is world literature? |
Tuesday's reading assignment is in the cell below. Acquire the textbooks for this class! See additional instructions for this class on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 9/13 | International Fairy Tales: Female Coming of Age; international persona assigned |
Read from Cole: "Cinderella" (3-8), "Blue Beard" (29-32), "Ashenputtel" (68-74), "Snow-White" (53-61), "LRR" (112-14), "Baba Yaga" (411-14), "Indian Cinderella" (694-96), "Magic Orange" (727-30), "Three Magic" (756-60); DISC. #1: Post 1 or more discussion questions about the readings on Blackboard/Discussion Forum/Fairy Tales, and bring a copy to class. These questions might include ones you would pose as an instructor of the class, things you are confused about in the reading, or a mix between the two. The purpose of discussion questions is to open a dialogue between you and me; to make this a student-centered classroom; and to help students become better writers by becoming critical thinkers, or people who question what they read. Discussion questions are not evaluated, are not mandatory, but are taken into consideration for your Participation Grade. Please feel free to respond to other students' queries if you feel inspired to answer; I will take such responses as extra credit for your Participation Grade (and enjoy reading them, of course). |
R 9/15 online asynchronous |
International Fairy Tales: Male Coming of
Age |
Read from Cole: "Hansel and Gretel" (145-151), "Jack and the Beanstalk" (193-98), "The Lad" (310-13), "The Forest" (387-94), "Aladdin" (467-77), "Raja's Son" (583-91), "Oni" (644-49), "Lucky" (760-63); BLOG #1 (Fairy Tales): Post a blog entry about an intriguing passage in one or two of the fairy tales we have read from the perspective of your international persona. How would your alter ego read a specific passage in one or two of these tales? You could compose this blog in the form of a letter, or a blog read by a specific audience (friends, family, special interest group, neighborhood). Consider this rough draft work for your journal entry due next class. Practice citing the fairy tales according to the MLA method (see "Anthology"). Additional instructions for this online class will be on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 9/20 | Review; Your Journals;
Rushdie bio; Haroun
and the Sea of Stories; Online
Meetings |
Rushdie 1-54 (through middle of ch. 3); JOURNAL #1 (Fairy Tales): Write 1-2 pages (250-400 words) on a passage from one or two of the fairy tales we have read (see assignment in Requirements section). You might focus your interpretation of a specific passage by answering one of your own or another student's interpretive questions from a previous class, or reflecting on a broader thematic issue supported by your close analysis of the text. Although each individual journal is not graded, I expect you to complete at least 4 of the 5 assigned journal entries, which will be graded when they are presented in a revised Journal Portfolio. Bring a copy to class (will be collected for instructor's feedback) and post your response to Blackboard/Discussion as well. I will NOT accept emailed journal entries. If you cannot attend class, I suggest you ask a fellow participant to bring your hard copy to class. |
R 9/22 online synchronous | Haroun and the Sea of
Stories |
Rushdie 54-110 (through ch. 6); Go to Blackboard for instructions on our first live Elluminate session. |
T 9/27 | Review;
Stud. Ques.; Women
in Haroun;
iTunesU; Journals returned |
Rushdie 113-56 (through ch. 9); DISC. #2: Write 1 or more orig. discussion ques., and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. |
R 9/29 online; asynchronous | Review;
the end of Haroun |
Rushdie 159-end; BLOG #2 (Rushdie): Post a blog entry about an intriguing passage in Rushdie from the perspective of your international persona or in your own voice. Additional instructions for this class will be on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 10/4 |
Kenzaburo Oe; Introduction, “The Crazy Iris” ; Map of Japan; “Human Ashes” | Oe and Ibuse 9-35; Oda in Oe 63-84; JOURNAL #2 (Rushdie): Bring a hard copy for instructor and post to Bb. DISC. #3: Write 1 or more orig. discussion ques.: bring a copy for yourself to discuss in class, and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. |
R 10/6 online; synchronous | Review; “The Colorless Paintings”; "The Empty Can" | Sata in Oe 113-25; Hayashi in Oe 127-43; BLOG #3 (Oe): Post a blog entry about an intriguing passage in Oe from the perspective of your international persona or in your own voice. See other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes for our Elluminate session. |
T 10/11 |
Review; Hiroshima Mon Amour (DVD #1847); Discussion of Hiroshima Mon Amour | Read Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour; JOURNAL #3 (Oe): Bring a hard
copy for instructor and post to Bb. |
R 10/13 online; asynchronous | Lecture about Hiroshima Mon Amour | DISC #4: Write 1 or more orig. discussion ques., and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. See other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 10/18 | Review;
RQ Hiroshima?; Midterm Review |
Bring questions and your
texts. |
R 10/20 online asynchronous | Take-home midterm posted by
Wed. 10/19, due Thurs. 10/20 by 2:30pm |
Posting through Safe-Assign mandatory. See other instructions on Blackboard/Assignments. |
Unit II: Women and the Postcolonial
World |
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T 10/25 | Scarlet Song: Ba
bio + Ques.; BUBL Link on
Senegal; Research Synopsis |
Read Bâ, 1-44 |
R 10/27 online; asynchronous | Scarlet Song | Read Bâ, 45-87; BLOG #4 (Bâ): Post a blog entry
about an intriguing passage in Bâ from the
perspective of your international persona or in your own
voice. See other instructions on Blackboard/Online Classes. |
T 11/1 | Review; Scarlet Song | Read Bâ, 88-123; JOURNAL #4 (Bâ): Bring a hard copy for instructor and post to Bb. |
R 11/3 online; synchronous | Scarlet Song | Read Bâ, 124-end; DISC #5: Write 1 or more orig. discussion ques., and post them to Blackboard/Discussion Board. Go to Blackboard for instructions on how to access Elluminate session. |
T 11/8 | Library Tutorial in Sprague 203 |
Read Menchu, 1-57; Post Research Question for Research Synopsis |
R 11/10 online; synchronous | Review; I, Rigoberta Menchu | Read Menchu, 58-107; DISC #6: Write 1 or more orig.
discussion ques., and post them to Blackboard/Discussion
Board. |
T 11/15 | Menchu |
Read Menchu, 108-65 |
R 11/17 online; asynchronous | I, Rigoberta Menchu | Read Menchu, 165-219; Post at least 1 peer-reviewed source (MLA style) for Research Synopsis; BLOG #5 (Menchu): Post a blog entry about an intriguing passage in Menchu from the perspective of your international persona or in your own voice. |
T 11/22 | I, Rigoberta Menchu; Gender; Final Exam Topics | Read Menchu, 220-77; JOURNAL #5 (Menchu): Bring a hard copy for instructor and post to Bb. |
R 11/24 |
No class | Happy Thanksgiving! |
T 11/29 | Review; I, Rigoberta Menchu; Final Exam Topics | Read Menchu, 277-end, intro
(xi-xxiii), and Damrosch
(Bb) |
R 12/1 online asynchronous | Drafts of Research
Synopsis due |
See Bb for instructions;
Start revising your journals for the Journal Portfolio |
T 12/6 | Presentation
of Research Synopses; Journal Revision |
Research Synopsis due as hard
copy for instructor, and on Blackboard/Assignments/Final
Draft for presentation. Be prepared to give a 2 - 3 min.
executive summary of your research ques. and findings. Bring
journals you'd like to revise. |
R 12/8 online asynchronous | Peer Review of Journal
Portfolios |
See Bb for instructions;
Finish revising your journals for the Journal Portfolio |
T 12/13 |
Discussion of Journals; Final Exam Review (mostly Unit
II) |
Journal Portfolios due--hard copy in class, and upload to Safe Assign; Optional: Participation Packet due (staple/print all discussion questions and online responses) |
T 12/20 in class; F 12/16
2:15pm online |
Final Exam mostly on Unit II 3:15-5:15pm |
Journal Portfolios returned |