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Introduction to the Course, Goals, Assignments, Schedule, Criteria, Policies “We arrived a New Land” by Amerigo Vespucci |
Lecture |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“The Journal of the First Voyage” by Christopher Columbus “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” by Benjamin Franklin “Chief Seatle’s 1854 Oration” “On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake” by Alexander L. Posey |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“City upon a Hill” by John Winthrop “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner “Eve's Diary” by Mark Twain “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“The Tell-Tale Heart ” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Hills Like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemingway “The Snake” by John Steinbeck |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston “Nothing New” by Marita Bonner |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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MID-TERM EXAM |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
“Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston “Nothing New” by Marita Bonner |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
American Poetry “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I died” by Emily Dickinson “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe “I walk alone” by Lonnie Poco “I, Too”, “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes “Incident,” “A Brown Girl Dead” Countee Cullen “Power” by Audre Lorde “Jailhouse Blues” by Bessie Smith |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
American Poetry “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I died” by Emily Dickinson “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe “I walk alone” by Lonnie Poco “I, Too”, “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes “Incident,” “A Brown Girl Dead” Countee Cullen “Power” by Audre Lorde “Jailhouse Blues” by Bessie Smith |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
Trifles by Susan Glaspell Color Struck by Zora Neale Hurston |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
| 14 |
Reading the Material Assigned |
Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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Reading the Material Assigned |
The Help by Kathryn Stockett |
Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning |
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FINAL EXAM |
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FINAL EXAM |
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