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Discussion:
"Zane Grey on a Carousel in Indian Territory" |
Identities reflection due |
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Discussion:
"Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart" |
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| 3 |
Attend One of the Talks at the MIT Women's Studies 20th Anniversary Symposium |
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| 4 |
Discussion:
"Notes of a Native Son" |
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| 5 |
Discussion:
"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision"
"Gender in a Time of Holy War: Fundamentalist Femiphobia and Post-9/11 Masculinity" |
First essay submission day |
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Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 5 |
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| 7 |
Discussion:
Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Excerpts) |
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| 8 |
Discussion:
"Notes on My Mother"
"Reflections on Race and Sex" |
Second essay submission day |
| 9 |
Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 8 |
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| 10 |
Discussion:
"On Seeing England for the First Time"
"Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee"
"Mother Tongue" |
Third essay submission day |
| 11 |
Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 10 |
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| 12 |
Silent Reading Session |
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| 13 |
Discussion:
"Nothing Personal"
"On Being the Object of Property"
"Text and Context: The Essay and the Politics of Disjunctive Form" |
Fourth essay submission day |
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Discussion:
"Whose War"
"Father Stories"
"Looking at Emmett Till" |
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| 15 |
Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 14 |
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| 16 |
Discussion:
"My House"
"Where I Lived and What I Lived For" |
Fifth essay submission day |
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Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 16 |
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| 18 |
Discussion:
"Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli"
"Prisoner of the Wired World"
"Quitting the Paint Factory" |
Sixth essay submission day |
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Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session18 |
Seventh essay submission day |
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Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 19
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| 21 |
Discussion:
"Essayists on the Essay" |
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| 22 |
Oral Presentations:
"A Modest Proposal and The Satirical Essay"
"The Travel Essay"
Discussion:
"Cat People" |
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| 23 |
Oral Presentations:
"Self-Reliance"
"The Female Chromosome" |
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| 24 |
Discussion:
"Learning to Drive"
"Here Be Dragons" |
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Last Class Meeting: Tea and Celebratory Reading at Rebecca's |
Final portfolios due |