Syllabus

Tentative Schedule of Assignments

[Blog Group Designations are in Bold.  University Deadlines are bold and underline.  For a color coded pdf copy of this schedule, click the following link: YAL 2015 Tentative Schedule of Assignments.  Please note that updates may be made to the online version below that have not been made to the pdf version.]

WEEK 1

Jan 28

INTRODUCTION “A Hood Project”

WEEK 2

Feb 2

  • Turner, Victor. “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage.” Reprinted from The Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society (1964). Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion, pp4-20.  Victor Turner Betwixt and Between
  • Baxter, Kent. “Introduction.” The Modern Age: Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P., 2011.  Introduction is here in 2 parts: Baxter Intro Part One  AND Baxter Intro Part 2

Feb 4 [Summary Blog: Whole Class]

  • Till Packet (2 articles one from Slate Magazine and the other from PBS’s American Experience: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_look_confession.html)  Till Packet

[Summary Blog: Group A]

  • Trayvon Packet (1 article and a time line of headlines on The Daily Beast) Trayvon Packet
  • Patton, Stacey. “In America, Black Children Don’t Get to Be Children” Washington Post (November 26, 2014) Accessed online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-america-black-children-dont-get-to-be-children/2014/11/26/a9e24756-74ee-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html

[Summary Blog: Group B]

  • “Transcript of Grand Jury V. 5” State of Missouri v. Darren Wilson (September 16, 2014) Testimony. p195 line 20 – p230 line 4) Found online at http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/read-darren-wilsons-full-grand-jury-testimony/1472/

[Summary Blog: Group C]

Further Reading:

  • Rosenblatt, Roger. “Welcome to the Works of the Trench Coat” Time 17 (1999): 88 Military & Government Collection Web 25 Jan. 20015 http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login Note: You will need your Baruch library information to access this link.

WEEK 3

Feb 9 [Comparative Blog Group A]

  • Frankenstein

Feb 11

  • Frankenstein

WEEK 4

Feb 16 [Comparative Blog Group B]

NO CLASS President’s Day

**TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17 LAST DAY TO DROP W/O A “W” **

Feb 18 [Comparative Blog Group C]

  • Frankenstein

WEEK 5

Feb 23

  • Frankenstein
  • “Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity, Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by David A Hedrich Hirsh in Monster Theory: Reading Culture Ed by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen p115

Feb 25

  • Project Day

[Saturday, February 28th at 9am :: Ten F1 papers Due]

WEEK 6

[Sunday, Mar 1st: Five F2 Papers due on The Outsiders]

Mar 2

  • The Outsiders

Mar 4 [Close Reading Blog Group A]

  • The Outsiders

WEEK 7

Mar 9

  • The Outsiders

[Tuesday March 10th, Five F2 Papers due on The Bluest Eye]

Mar 11

  • The Bluest Eye

WEEK 8

Mar 16 [Close Reading Blog Group B]

  • The Bluest Eye

Mar 18

  • The Bluest Eye

WEEK 9

[Monday March 22nd : Five F2 Papers due on American Born Chinese]

Mar 23

  • American Born Chinese

Mar 25[Close Reading Blog Group C]

  • American Born Chinese

WEEK 10

Mar 30

  • American Born Chinese

[Tuesday March 31st  at 5pm: Five and F2 Papers due on A Lesson Before Dying AND 5 F2 papers due on Monster]

Apr 1

  • Project Day [first go over close reading paper assignment, then meet in groups, and lastly work on graphic projects if there is time]

[First Round of Close Reading Papers Due Saturday, April 4th at noon. First Round includes all those who did an F1 paper and those who did an F2 paper for The Outsiders and The Bluest Eye]

WEEK 11

Apr 6

  • NO CLASS Spring Break

Apr 8

  • NO CLASS Spring Break

WEEK 12

[Second Round of Close Reading Papers Due Monday, April 13th at 8am. Second Round Includes all those who did an F2 paper for American Born Chinese, A Lesson Before Dying, or Monster]

Apr 13 [Further Reading Blog Group A]

  • A Lesson Before Dying

Apr 15

  • A Lesson Before Dying

**THURSDAY APRIL 16 LAST DAY TO DROP WITH A “W” **

WEEK 13

Apr 20

  • A Lesson Before Dying

Further Reading

  • “Black Aesthetics: Signifyin(g) in A Lesson Before Dying” by John N. Moore in Interpreting Young Adult Literature. Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1997 p

Apr 22 [Further Reading Blog Group B]

  • Monster

WEEK 14

Apr 27

  • Monster

Apr 29

  • Monster

Further Reading

  • “‘I Was Carrying the Burden of My Race’: Reading Matters of Race and Hope in YA Literature by Walter Dean Myers and Sherman Alexie” by KaaVonia Hinton & Rodrigo Joseph Rodriguez in The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature Crag Hill. New York: Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2014., 92-114

[First round creative project due April 29th at 5pm: Includes all those who opted to do a graphic creative project]

WEEK 15
May 4 [Further Reading Blog Group C]

  • Gwendolyn Brooks:  “The Birth in a Narrow Room” and “Maxie Allen” from Annie Allen  and “Description of Maud Martha” from Maud Martha  –>Gwendolyn Brooks Packet
  • Sandra Cisneros: “Louis, His Cousin, & His Other Cousin” & “Those Who Don’t Know” from The House on Mango Street.  Please note that the posted handout also includes “Marin,” which is the story that comes between the two assigned sections.  The whole thing is only six pages with a lot of white space, so it might be worth just reading all the way through.  —>House on Mango St Copy-of-Novel p23-29

May 6

  • CONTINUED

[Second round creative projects due Friday May 8th at 5pm. Includes all those who opted to do poetry project]

WEEK 16:

May 11

  • Project Day [ Meet in Computer Lab  VC 8-140]

May 13

  • Project Day [ Meet in Computer Lab  VC 8-140]

LAST DAY of Classes May 15th [all work excluding final, must be turned in]

Reading Day May 17th

Final Group Projects should be completed by Friday, May 17th at 5pm.   This means the group project should be fully loaded to the site and all individual reflections should be emailed to me by this time.  

*assignments are subject to change.*

 

 Blog Post Group Assignments ::

Group A

Jeffery

Thomas B.

Carolina

Ledia

Nicole S.

Irina

Jillian

Jahziel

Rushjeet

 

Group B

Lashawn

Jenny

Arielle

Jieren

Glendy

Genesses

Miguel

Ashley

Angelica

Jennafer

Nicole G.

 

Group C

Matthew

Alisa

Thomas

Maryann

Jonathan

Kayla

Renea

Julie

Yhan

Kye

Sophia

 

 

 

Frankenstein Papers Assignments

 

F1 Papers

Jeffery

Irina

Genesses

Miguel

Nicole S.

Matthew

Yhan

Sophia

Maryann

 

F2 Papers

The Outsiders

Julie

Angelica

Jennafer

The Bluest Eye

Glendy

Ashley

Kayla

Renea

American Born Chinese

Alisa

Ledia

Lashawn

Jieren

Rushjeet

A Lesson Before Dying

Jahziel

Arielle

Jenny

Monster

Carolina

Jillian

Nicole G.

 

Hood Project Groups by Theme

 

Violence

Jeffrey

Nicole S.

Yhan

Lashawn

Rushjeet

 

Race

Renea

Jahziel

Genesses

Kayla

Jenny

 

Gender

Carolina

Julie

Arielle

Ledia

 

Innocence

Glendy

Jennafer

Miguel

Angelica

Jieren

 

(Not) Fitting In

Maryann

Nicole G.

Irina

Ashley

 

The Body

Matthew

Jillian

Sophia

Alisa