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Hope in the dark
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| Date | 03.05.2017 | | Size | 46.28 Kb. |
| HOPE IN THE DARK
SCHEDULE - Subject to Change. Check in class/on web for updates.
Week 1
Liberty
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Mon Jan 4
Introductions
Historical changes in our lifetime
What’s in a seminar/seminar video
First chapter of Solnit
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Wed Jan 6
Seminar on Solnit 1
Freewriting
Our learning community
DUE: READ Solnit 1-56
LOOK UP historical reference in Solnit
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Fri Jan 8
Seminar on Solnit 2
Film: The 11th Hour
Paraphrasing: a first look
DUE: READ Solnit 56-end
WRITE Seminar Prep on Solnit
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Week 2
Liberty
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Mon Jan 11
Assign Essay 1
Look at ProjectGutenberg
Intro to Women Studies/History
Seminar on Griffin 1
DUE: READ Griffin 1-52 (Liberty)
WRITE Seminar prep 2 Griffin Liberty
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Wed Jan 13
Jefferson and the Declaration
Letters of John & Abigail Adams
“Remember the Ladies”
Paraphrasing Practice
DUE: READ Declaration of Independence
See Project Gutenberg
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Fri Jan 15
Seminar on Griffin 2
Writing workshop
DUE: READ Griffin 53-139
WRITE Seminar prep 3 on Griffin “Yosemite”
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Week 3
Liberty -
Freedom
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Mon Jan 18
ML King HOLIDAY – No Class
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Wed Jan 20
Essay 1 – Small Group work
What is Patriotism?
DUE: READ True Patriot, 1-51 + Pictures
WRITE Essay 1 ROUGH DRAFT
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Fri Jan 22
Seminar on Thoreau
Writing Workshop – Strong Verbs
DUE: READ Thoreau (selections)
WRITE Seminar prep on Thoreau
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Week 4
Freedom
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Mon Jan 25
Abolition and Suffrage speeches
Film: Not for Ourselves Alone
Essay 1: Peer Review
DUE: READ: Suffrage & Abolition selections – Course Reader
WRITE Essay 1 REVISED DRFT
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Wed Jan 27
Abolition and Suffrage
Whitman in Context (with reading)
Film: The Civil War 1 (selected)
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Fri Jan 29
Seminar – Whitman + Jordan
Freedom Songs
DUE: READ Whitman + Jordan
WRITE: Seminar prep on Whitman
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Week 5
Freedom
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Mon Feb 1
Film: Not for Ourselves Alone
Films and Synthesis work
Assign Essay 2
DUE: Essay 1 FINAL
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Wed Feb 3
Guest Speaker-- Eric Liu
Work on Essay 2
DUE: READ True Patriot, 69-end
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Fri Feb 5
Fishbowl Seminar: Solnit, Griffin, Thoreau, Whitman, Jordan, Liu, synthesis.
Arts and the Harlem Renaissance
PREPARE for Fishbowl Seminar
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Week 6
Rights
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Mon Feb 8
Essay 2: Small Group Work
PIE, Thesis workshop, Transitions, etc.
Report back on Harlem Renaissance
DUE: WRITE Essay 2 Rough Draft
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Wed Feb 10
Mini-seminar: Griffin 140-194 “Blue Jeans”
DUE: READ Griffin 140-194
WRITE: Mid-Quarter Self Evaluation
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Fri Feb 12
Seminar: Griffin 2 (Blue Jeans, Jazz, Song)
Film: Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
DUE: READ Griffin 140-286
WRITE Seminar prep on Griffin 2
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Week 7
Rights
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Mon Feb 15
President’s day holiday – No Class
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Wed Feb 17
Essay 2: Peer Review
Guest speaker – Beverly Naidus
DUE: WRITE Essay 2 Revised draft
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Fri Feb 19
Seminar: Ginsberg
Bob Dylan
DUE: READ Ginsberg Howl whole book
WRITE Seminar prep on Ginsberg
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Week 8
Rights
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Mon Feb 22
Diane di Prima – video and poems
Film: Eyes on the Prize
DUE: Essay 2 FINAL
READ: di Prima from Course Reader
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Wed Feb 24
Civil Rights Movement
Leila Steinberg – Hip Hop and Empowerment
Assign Essay 3
DUE: READ Freshwater Road… (at least first half)
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Fri Feb 26
Seminar: Freshwater Road
Library research 1
DUE: READ Freshwater Road
WRITE: Seminar prep – Freshwater Rd.
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Week 9
Justice
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Mon Mar 1
Chavez & the Chicano Movement
Film: Struggle in the Fields
Essay 3: Brainstorm ideas
DUE: READ Moraga (course reader)
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Wed Mar 3
Guest Speaker--Paul Loeb
American Indian Movement
Film: Wounded Knee/We Shall Remain
READ: Loeb Intro and…
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Fri Mar 5
Seminar: Poets and Feminists
Second Wave Women’s Rights Movement
DUE: READ Poets: Rich, Lorde, Rose, Piercy, Levertov.
WRITE Seminar prep (selected poet)
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Week 10
Justice
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Mon Mar 8
The Sixties…
Essay 2 – Small Group Work
Library research 2
DUE: WRITE Essay 3 Rough Draft
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Wed Mar 10
Impossible Will Take a Little While
Jigsaw seminar
DUE: Read, Impossible, as assigned
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Fri Mar 12
Fishbowl Seminar: Loeb, Poets, Moraga, Ginsberg, Nicholas, di Prima…
Film: This is What Democracy Looks Like
DUE: Prep for Fishbowl Seminar
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Week 11
Justice
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Mon Mar 15
Essay 3 – Peer Review
Group Presentations
Film: Made in LA
DUE: Essay 3 REVISED
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Wed Mar 17
Group Presentations
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Fri Mar 19
Last class: Potluck
Group Presentations
Essay 3 – FINAL DUE
Final Self Evaluation Due
No work will be accepted after this class!
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Week 12
Finals
week
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Mon March 22
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March 24
Winter quarter ends
Happy spring…..
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