Date | Reading | Paper | Project | Post |
Monday, Aug. 31 | ||||
Wednesday, Sept. 2 | Bach, Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar (excerpt from Kindle Preview Beginning through “High School Dropout” | Theory Think | Weekly Post Check-In* | |
Wednesday Sept 9 | Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” parts 1- 4Locke, “…Human Understanding” (this link is already an excerpted version of the super long essay) | Theory Think | Weekly Post | |
Wednesday, Sept 16(last day to drop without a W) | Rousseau, Emile | Theory Think | Weekly Post | |
Monday, Sept. 21 | CLASS ON MONDAYMary Shelley, Frankenstein Part 1 | Weekly Post | ||
Wednesday, Sept 23 | NO CLASS | Brainstorming Exercise #1
DUE MONDAY SEPT 28 @ 9am |
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Wednesday, Sept. 30 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Part 2 | Brainstorming What | Weekly Post Check-In | |
Wednesday, Oct 7 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
Handout on Thesis, UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center |
Thesis 1
Due Monday Oct 11 at 9am |
Theory Think
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Weekly Post |
Wednesday, October 14 | “What is Enlightenment” Immanuel Kant(excerpts) The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapters 1-7(excerpts) My Bondage and My Freedom (slave narrative) Chapters 1-2, 9-11, 20 & 21 | Introduction and/or First Paragraph 1(Provisional Grade)
Due Monday Oct 19 at NOON |
Theory Think | Weekly Post |
Wednesday, Oct 21 | (excerpts) Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection”(Excerpt) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapters 4, 20, & 21 | Theory Check In
Due Monday Oct 26 at NOON |
Weekly Post Check In | |
Wednesday, Oct 28 | Black Shack Alley Joseph Zobel (Trinidad) p 61-137 | “The What + Why Check In
Due Monday Nov 2 at NOON |
Weekly Post | |
Wednesday, Nov 4 | Movie: To Sir with Love E.R. Brathwaite (British) (autobiography) | Brainstorming Exercise # 2
Due Saturday, Nov 7 at 10:00am |
Weekly Post | |
Monday, Nov 9 | (last day to drop with a grade of W) | Thesis Exercise # 2
Due Thursday Nov 12 at 9am |
Methodology Check In
Due Monday 9th at 9pm |
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Wednesday, Nov 11 |
Earnest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying |
Introduction and/or First Paragraph 2(provisional grade) Due Saturday November 13 at Noon | Weekly Post | |
Wednesday, Nov 18 | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban#IfHogwartswasblackKey & Peele Sketch
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Draft(graded by peers)
Due Sunday Nov 22nd at NOON |
Weekly Post | |
Wednesday, Nov 25 | Peer Review | Weekly Post Check In
Saturday December 28th by 10:00 am |
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Wednesday, Dec 2 | Final Draft(graded)
Due Thursday, December 3rd at 12 noon. Group Meetings with Professor 12:25-12:45
Belissa
12:45-1:05 MD
1:05-1:25
Ronghui
1:25-1:45
Robert
1:45-2:05
Farzana
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Draft of Project Write Up (sans results)(provisional grade)
Due Saturday December 5th by 8 pm. |
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Wednesday, Dec 9 | LAST DAY OF CLASS
*presentations *evaluations *key and peele education sketch |
Presentations(graded by peers and professor) | ||
Wednesday, Dec 16 | Beginning of Exams | Final Project Due(graded) by 10 pm | ||
Saturday, Dec 19 | Group/Self Project Evaluations Due(graded) by 5pm | |||
Wednesday, Dec 23 | End of Semester |