ENGL 300 Weekly Schedule

Course Schedule

Week 1

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
Jan. 26  TUCourse Introduction    
Jan. 28TR Rhetorical Listening: Chapters 1-2  Reading Response
Syllabus Quiz
 

Week 2

DateDayTopicReading
& Viewing Due
Writing DueClass Activities
Feb. 2  TURhetorical AnalysisWhat Writing Does and How It Does It Chapter 10 Rhetorical AnalysisReading Response 
Feb. 4  TRThe American Institution of Slavery and the rhetoric of race  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapters 1-6   Watch: 13th (Free on YouTube)  Reading Response 


Week 3

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
Feb. 9  TUThe American Institution of Slavery and the Rhetoric of Race  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapters 7-11 and Appendix  Proposal for Essay #1 Due by Midnight   Reading Response 
Feb. 11  TRIntegration vs. SegregationWhat Writing Does and How It Does It Chapter 2 (Poetics and Narrativity: How Texts Tell Stories)  Reading Response 

Week 4

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
Feb. 16TUIntegration vs. SegregationIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Link posted on Blackboard) Chapters 1-20 by Harriet Ann Jacobs  Reading Response 
Feb. 18TRArguments from the Civil Rights Movement  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Chapters 21-41 by Harriet Ann JacobsReading Response 


Week 5

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
Feb. 23  TUArguments from the Civil Rights Movement“The 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech” by Booker T. Washington”  

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois Chapter 1-7  
Reading Response 
Feb. 25  TRArguments from the Civil Rights Movement  The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois Chapter 8-14Reading Response 


Week 6

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
March 2  TUMultimedia and Race during the early 20th centuryWhat Writing Does and How It Does It: Chapter 11 (Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems)  

Watch Film: 4 Little Girls Location: Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase)  
Reading Response 
March 4  TRMultimedia and Race during the late 20th centuryInaugural Address (1963) The “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” Speech Governor George Wallace of Alabama Video Recording can be found here: Link  

“An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense” by Eight Alabama Clergymen. January 16, 1965.  

“A Call for Unity”- The “Good Friday” letter criticizing King’s actions in Birmingham, April 12, 1963  

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. (This reading is posted on Blackboard)  

“The Case against the Civil Rights Bill” by George S. Schuyler (This reading is posted on Blackboard)  

“Dr. King: Nonviolence Always Ends Violently” by George S. Schuyler (This reading is posted on Blackboard)
Reading Response 


Week 7

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
March 9  TUArguments from the Civil Rights Movement  Rough Draft of Essay #1, Peer Review DayPeer Review Essay #1   Rough Draft Due in Box    Peer Review Essay #1
March 11  TR Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapters 1 and 2.Essay #1 Due by Midnight   Reading Response   Proposal for Essay #2 Due by Midnight 

Week 8

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
March 16  TU No Class- Spring Break  
March 18TR No Class- Spring Break  


Week 9

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
March 23TU Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapters 3 and 4.  Reading Response 
  March 25TR Ebony Magazine Activity (A link to this reading is posted on Blackboard)  

What Writing Does and How it Does it: Chapter 1 (Content Analysis: What Texts Talk About)

Chapter 6 (The Multiple Media of Texts)  

Watch: Ethnic Notions Location: Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase)
Reading Response 


Week 10

DateDayTopicReading
& Viewing Due
Writing DueClass Activities
March 30  TU What Writing Does and How It Does It: Chapter 3 Linguistic Discourse AnalysisReading Response 
April 1  TR Speeches by Malcolm X: OAAU Founding Rally (June 28, 1964)

Oxford Union Debate (December 3, 1964)  

London School of Economics (February 11, 1965)
 
Not Just an American Problem, But a World Problem (Feb. 16, 1965)  

Watch: Make It Plain (Located on Vimeo)  
Reading Response 

Week 11

DateDayTopicReading
& Viewing Due
Writing DueClass Activities
April 6TU Larry Neal, “The Black Arts Movement,” essay, Drama Review, Summer 1968, excerpt  

Spoken Word by Haki Madhubuti ( Rise Vision Comin LP)  

Resonance of Resistance: The Spoken Word Albums of Haki R. Madhubuti By Earl Brooks (This reading is posted on Blackboard)  

Watch: Black Power Mixtape (Rent on YouTube for 2.99)      
Reading Response 
April 8TR Race Matters by Cornel West (Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2)  

Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality by Thomas Sowell Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 (This reading is posted on Blackboard)  

Watch: LA 92 (Located for free on YouTube)    
Reading Response 

Week 12

DateDayTopicReading
& Viewing Due
Writing DueClass Activities
April 13  TU Rough Draft of Essay #2  Peer Review Essay #2 Rough Draft Due in BoxPeer Review Essay #2
April 15  TRBlack Feminist ArgumentsRace Matters By Cornel West (Chapters 3-8)  
What Writing Does and How it Does it: Chapter 4 Intertextuality: How Texts Rely on Other Texts
Essay #2 Due by Midnight   Reading Response   


Week 13

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
April 20  TUBlack Feminist Arguments“The Last Taboo” by Paula Giddings (Located on Blackboard)    

“African American Women in Defense of Ourselves” by Elsa Barkley Brown, Deborah K. King, and Barbara Ransby (Located on Blackboard)    

“Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory” by bell hooks (Located on Blackboard)  

Watch: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power Location: Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase)  
Reading Response    Essay #3 Proposal 
April 22  TR The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” by Audre Lorde (Located on Blackboard)  

“Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counter-discourse, and African American Nationalism” by E. Frances White (Located on Blackboard)  
Reading Response 


Week 14

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
April 27  TUBlack Feminist ArgumentsThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Autumn: Chapter 1 to Spring: Chapter 7)Reading Response 
April 29  TRBlack Feminist ArgumentsThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Spring: Chapter 8 to Summer: Chapter 11)  Reading Response 

Week 15

DateDayTopicReading
& Viewing Due
Writing DueClass Activities
May 4  TULanguage and CultureArticulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. by Geneva Smitherman and H. Samy Alim (Chapters 1 and 2)  

Watch: Do You Speak American? (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)  
Reading Response 
May 6  TRLanguage and CultureArticulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. by Geneva Smitherman and H. Samy Alim (Chapters 3 through 6)  Reading Response 

Week 16

DateDayTopicReading DueWriting DueClass Activities
May 11  TU Peer Review- At Least First 5 Pages of Final EssayRough Draft Due in Box Final Essay Due May 17thPeer Review