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Mon, Aug. 19-Sun, Aug. 25
Week 1:
Week 1:
Orientation & Introductions
Orientation & Introductions
Read:
Getting Started Module Materials, Week 1 Materials
Attend:
Optional Meet and Greet with Prof B
Complete:
Icebreaker & Peer Replies, Getting to Know you Survey, Meet your Instructor assignment
Week 2:
Week 2:
Oral Tradition
Oral Tradition
Read/View:
Africa Pre-Colonization
African Oral Tradition
African Folktales
Complete:
Reading Activity #1
Sign up for Spotlight a Text Project
Mon, Aug. 26-Sun, Sept. 1
Note: Monday, August 26th is the last day to drop for a full refund and no "W"
Mon, Sept. 2-Sun, Sept. 8
"But, O my soul, sink not into despair,
Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand
Would now embrace thee, hovers o’er thine head."
― Philils Wheatley
Note: Tuesday, September 3rd is the last day to add the course or drop with no "W".
Week 3:
Week 3:
Literature of Africa, the Middle Passage, and Slavery: 1746-1830
Literature of Africa, the Middle Passage, and Slavery: 1746-1830
Read:
Literature of Africa, the Middle Passage, and Slavery Introduction
Introduction to Literary Theory
Introduction to Poetry & Metaphor
Phillis Wheatley selected poems
David Walker Essay
View/Listen: Music of the Era
Complete:
Critical Race Theory Quiz
Reading Activity #2
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Week 4:
Week 4:
Slavery & Freedom 1830-1865
Slavery & Freedom 1830-1865
Read/View:
The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom Introduction
Optional: Smithsonian Tour
Reader-Response Theory
New Criticism Theory
Sentimentalism
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James Earl Jones perform Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #3
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Mon, Sept. 9-Sun, Sept. 15
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
― Frederick Douglass
Mon, Sept. 16-Sun, Sept. 22
"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
― Booker T. Washington
Week 5:
Week 5:
Reconstruction & Racial Uplift 1865-1920
Reconstruction & Racial Uplift 1865-1920
Read:
Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, & "The New Negro" Introduction
New Historicism Literary Theory
Sojourner Truth
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Complete:
Reading Activity #4
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Week 6:
Week 6:
The "New Negro" Renaissance 1920-1940
The "New Negro" Renaissance 1920-1940
Read:
"The New Negro" Renaissance Introduction
Optional Smithsonian Tour
Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies Theories
Elements of a Story
W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
View/Listen:
Music of the Era
Complete:
Reading Activity #5
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Mon, Sept. 23-Sun, Sept. 29
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
― W.E.B. Du Bois
Mon, Sept. 30-Sun, Oct. 6
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise."
― Gwendolyn Brooks
Week 7:
Week 7:
Modernism & Civil Rights 1940-1965 (Women)
Modernism & Civil Rights 1940-1965 (Women)
Read:
Intro to the Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: 1940-1965
Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ann Petry
Complete:
Feminist Literary Theory Quiz
Reading Activity #6
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Week 8:
Week 8:
Modernism & Civil Rights 1940-1965 (Men)
Modernism & Civil Rights 1940-1965 (Men)
Read:
Robert Hayden
James Baldwin
View/Listen:
Music of the Era
Complete:
Reading Activity #7
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Mon, Oct. 7-Sun, Oct. 13
"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
― James Baldwin
Mon, Oct. 14-Sun, Oct. 20
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
Note: Saturday, October 19th is the last day to drop with a "W"
Week 9:
Week 9:
Nationalism, Militancy, & Black Arts Era 1960-1975
Nationalism, Militancy, & Black Arts Era 1960-1975
Read:
Intro to Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and The Black Arts Era: 1960-1975
Theoretical Frameworks Materials
Amiri Baraka
Lucille Clifton
June Jordan
View/Listen:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Complete:
Reading Activity #8
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Week 10:
Week 10:
Contemporary Literature: 1975-Present
Contemporary Literature: 1975-Present
Read:
Intro to the Contemporary Period: 1975-Present
Optional Smithsonian Tour
Queer Theory
Audre Lorde
Maya Angelou
Walter Mosley
Toni Morrison
Amanda Gorman
View/Listen:
Bonus: Selected Contemporary Slam Poems
Complete:
Reading Activity #9
Submit your Spotlight a Text Project if you signed up for this week
Mon, Oct. 21-Sun, Oct. 27
"You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise."
― Maya Angelou
Mon, Oct. 28-Sun, Nov. 3
Week 11:
Week 11:
Peer Review & Final Project Submissions
Peer Review & Final Project Submissions
Complete:
Celebration of Knowledge #1 Peer Review
Submit Celebration of Knowledge #1 (Essay or Video Recording)
Week 12:
Week 12:
Revisions & Self-Assessment
Revisions & Self-Assessment
Complete:
Celebration of Knowledge #1 Revisions (if necessary)
Submit Celebration of Knowledge #2 (Creative Project)
Submit Final Course Self-Assessment
Course Evaluation
Mon, Nov. 4-Sat, Nov. 9
Final Grades are Due November 15th
Don't forget to vote on November 5th! Or send in your absentee ballot!
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