LIT 2030 African-American Literature
Tentative Course Schedule
Winter 2015-2016
NOTE: This schedule may change as needed. Your presence in class ensures correct assignments
Week 1
T 12/1 Review syllabus/policies; intro to course; Assign partners;
FW: What is "home?"; Add Today's FW to Your Blog;
Reminder: Bring Electronic Device to Class Each Day;
Group discussion; Examine a Hughe's poem, written 1919,
published 1926; Responding to Poetry
For Next Time:
- Complete Syllabus Quiz in Ulearn (see quizzes link)
- Set Up Your Blog; email Web address to Prof. Harmon by class
time: [email protected]; Address begins: http://
- Read "A Plate of Bones" by Hayes (See Handouts in Ulearn)
- Read "A Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chestnutt (be
prepared for quiz)
- Complete Diagnostic Essay
- Upload completed essay to Ulearn before class time; Go to:
SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS > ESSAYS > DIAGNOSTIC
R 12/3 Quiz; Blog Post 1: Watching the Good Train Go By (Romare
Bearden); Discuss Angelou's poem in comparison to Hughes';
Discuss Hayes; Intro to Fiction; Making Connections: Hayes &
Chestnutt
For Next Time:
- Read "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston
- Complete Reader Response #1 by responding to the following
question in a minimum of 300 words: What do you see as the most
significant symbol within this story and how is it related to the
overall theme? Support your argument with quotes from the texts.
Week 2
T 12/8 Preview Essay 1; Watch The Color Purple (1985)
For Next time:
- Come to class with a possible topic for Essay 1
- Read Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial
- Read "Ars Poetica: Nov. 7, 2008" by L. Lamar Wilson (See
Handouts)
- Read "To a Dark Girl" by Gwendolyn Bennett (1927)
- Complete Reader Response #2 by responding to the
following question in a minimum of 300 words: What connections
do you see between Hughe's ideas of what it means to be an artist
of color and the central messages of the Wilson & Bennett poems?
R 12/10 Blog Post 2; Complete The Color Purple; Discuss Hurston, Wilson,
& Bennett in context of Hughes; Make connections to The Color
Purple
For Next time:
- First Draft of Essay 1 Due; Must Submit to Ulearn by Class
Time;
GO TO: SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS > ESSAYS> ESSAY 1,
1st Draft
- Submit 1st draft of Essay 1 to SmartThinking Tutor; Upload
report and revision plan before class time; upload report and
revision plan as one MS Word file; TO SUBMIT, GO TO: SUBMIT
ESSAY/ASSIGNMENTS > SMARTTHINKING REPORT & REVISION
PLAN
Week 3
T 12/15 First Draft of Essay 1 Due; Exchange for Critique; Why Critique?
Conferences/Work on Paper; Bring Laptop
For Next Time:
- Complete typed peer critique of partner's paper; upload to
Ulearnbefore class time; Use this for film, drama, and fiction
- If partner is writing about poetry, use this critique
- Go To: SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS >
PEER CRITIQUES > ESSAY 1, PEER CRITIQUE
R 12/17 Peer Critique; Conferences
For Next Time:
- Read Morrison's Home, pp. 1-37, and do Reader Response #3:
- Read poem?
- Final Draft of Essay 1 Due with Reflection
HOLIDAY BREAK: 12/18-1/3
Week 4
Quiz: Morrison; Discuss Morrison
For Next Time:
- Read Morrison's Home, pp. 38-66, and do Reader Response #4:
R 1/7 Quiz: Discuss Morrrison
For Next Time:
- Read Morrison's Home, pp. 67-96
Week 5
T 1/12 Quiz: Discuss Morrrison
For Next Time:
- Complete midterm course evaluation
- Read Morrison's Home, pp. 97-132, and do Reader Response
#5:
R 1/14 Quiz: Discuss Morrrison
For Next Time:
Read Morrison's Home, pp. 133-145, and do Reader Response #6
- 1st Draft of Essay 2 Due
- Submit 1st draft of Essay 2 to SmartThinking Tutor; Upload report and revision plan before class time (note: 24 hours before SmartThinking report received): upload report and revision plan as one MS Word file; Go to SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS > SMARTHINKING REPORTS & REVISION PLANS
- NOTE 1st Draft & ST Report & Revision plan are submitted to TWO separate Ulearn folders
Week 6
T 1/19 MEET WITH MW CLASSES ONLY!!!!
For Next Time:
- Read Morrison's Home, pp. 133-145
- 1st Draft of Essay 2 Due
R 1/21 1st Draft of Essay 2 Due; Exhange for Peer Critique;
For Next Time:
- Complete typed critique of partner's Essay 2 and upload to
Ulearn;
Go To: SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS >
PEER CRITIQUES > ESSAY 2, PEER CRITIQUE
- Read Wilson's Fences, pp. 1-28, and do Reader Response #7:
Week 7
T 1/26 Peer Critique; Conferences
For Next Time:
- Read Wilson's Fences, pp. 29-58, and do Reader Response #8
R 1/28 Discuss Wilson; Meet with Groups to Exchange Info; Discuss
Annotated Bibliography
For Next Time: - Final Draft of Essay 2 due with reflection;
- Read Wilson's Fences, pp. 59-101
Week 8
Form groups for project; Set up documents in Google Docs
For Next Time:
- Work on Group Project
For Next Time:
- Work on Group Project
Week 9
T 2/9 Work on Group Project
For Next Time: - Submit 1st Draft of Group Project to Ulearn
- Also EACH MEMBER of your group should submit a copy of the
group project to the SmartThinking tutor and each student should
develop a revision plan before class time; upload report and revision
plan as one MS Word file;
- Work on Portfolio
R 2/11 1st Draft of Group Project Due; Share SmartThinking Feedback and
Revision Plans with Your Group
For Next Time:
- Continue to revise group project
- Work on Portfolio
Week 10
T 2/16 Work Revisions for Group Project based on SmartThinking feedback and your Revision Plan
For Next Time:
- Final Draft of Group Project due w/ Reflection; Upload one
copy for the group; each member does their own individual
reflection
For Next Time:
- Work on Portfolio
Week 11
T 2/23 Reading Day (Day to Work on Portfolio)
R 2/25 Portfolio Due
