Schedule of Readings and Assignments

revised SCHEDULE OF READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS

(all readings are from the Writing New York Anthology unless otherwise noted)

Wednesday, April 3

Readings to Discuss: Zora Neal Hurston, “Story in Harlem Slang” (pages 680-686), James Baldwin, from The Fire Next Time (pages 831-838)
Writing Due: FINAL DRAFT, Paper #2 Due (3-5 pages typed)–Please remember to hand in all previous drafts and cover letters with your final draft**

Week Eleven

Monday, April 8

Readings to Discuss: Langston Hughes, “When the Negro was in Vogue” (pages 632-639), Ralph Ellison, “New York, 1936” (pages 995-1003), Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not A Luxury” (course site)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice/Reading Log)

Wednesday, April 10

Readings to Discuss: Frank O’Hara (all selections, pages 785-789), James Schuyler (all selections, pages 916-925), Allen Ginsberg (all selections, pages 926-930), New York School Packet 1 (course site)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice/Reading Log)

Week Twelve

Monday, April 15

Readings to Discuss: New York School Packet 1 (course site), Frank O’Hara, “Personism” (course site)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice/Reading Log)

Wednesday, April 17–CLASS CANCELLED!!!

Writing Due: Response Paper 4 (Paper #3, Preparation 1)–email to Professor Kaufman ([email protected]) by 3PM.

Week Thirteen

Monday, April 22

Readings to Discuss: New York School Packet 2 (course site), Charles Bernstein, “The Difficult Poem” (course site)
Writing Due: Response Paper 5 (Paper #3, Preparation 2)

Wednesday, April 24

Readings to Discuss: New York School Packet 2 (course site)
Writing Due: Annotated Bibliography (Paper #3, Preparation 3)

Week Fourteen

Monday, April 29

Readings to Discuss: New York School Packet 3 (course site)
Writing Due: ROUGH DRAFT, Paper #3 Due (5-7 pages typed, bring 3 COPIES to class)

Wednesday, May 1

INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES NO REGULAR CLASS PERIOD—Please come to my office—VC6-248 at your assigned time & Bring a copy of your most recent draft of Paper #3!

**Poetry Reading at The Poetry Project, 8PM—Jean Day & Larry Fagin**

Week Fifteen

Monday, May 6

Readings to Discuss: Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That” (pages 886-895)
Writing Due: Blog (Reflective Writing Log)

Wednesday, May 8

Readings to Discuss: Isaac Bashevis Singer, “The Cafeteria” (pages 896-912)

Writing Due: FINAL DRAFT PAPER #3 (5-7 pages typed)–Please remember to hand in all previous drafts and cover letters with your final draft**

Week Sixteen

Monday, May 13

Readings to Discuss: TBD
Presentations of digital essays (part one)
Writing Due: Blog (Reflective Writing Log)—Use this blog entry as a space to share your digital essay process—describe and reflect on how and why you created what you did. Feel free to include images and a slideshow if appropriate. I’d also like to suggest that you also reflect on how the digital essay process impacted the writing of your “formal” paper.

Wednesday, May 15

Readings to Discuss: TBD
Presentations of digital essays (part two)

LAST CLASS/ Grades

Good Luck!

Week One

Monday, January 28

Introduction, Review of Syllabus
Readings to Discuss: from “Here is New York” by E.B. White (handout)

Wednesday, January 30

Readings to Discuss: from “Here is New York” by E.B. White (handout)
Poems by Anselm Berrigan and Jayne Cortez (handout)
Writing Diagnostic

Week Two

Monday, February 4

Readings to Discuss: “Introduction” (pages xvii-xxii), Jane Jacobs, from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (pages 811-815)
Writing Due: Response Paper 1 (1-2 pages typed, to be handed in)

Wednesday, February 6

Readings to Discuss: Alfred Kazin, from A Walker in the City (pages 731-737)

Week Three

Monday, February 11

Readings to Discuss: George Templeton Strong, from The Diaries (pages 191-240)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice/Reading Log)

Wednesday, February 13

Readings to Discuss: Henry David Thoreau, “Letters from Staten Island” (pages 65-73), Jacob Riis, “The Down Town Back-Alleys” (pages 294-307) (supplementary images on course site)
Writing Due: Response Paper 2 (1-2 pages typed, to be handed in)

Week Four

Monday, February 18

NO CLASS (President’s Day!)

Wednesday, February 20

Readings to Discuss: Anzia Yezierska, “The Lost Beautifulness” and “Soap and Water” (course site), Fanny Fern, “Tyrants of the Shop” (pages 255-256)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice/Reading Log)

Week Five

Monday, February 25

Readings to Discuss: Terrance Hayes, “New York Poem” (course site), Marianne Moore, “New York” (pages 461-462)
Writing Due: ROUGH DRAFT, Paper #1 Due (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 COPIES to class)
Peer Review/In-class Writing Workshop

Wednesday, February 27

INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES: NO REGULAR CLASS PERIOD—Please come to my office—VC6-248 at your assigned time & Bring a copy of your most recent draft of Paper #1!

Week Six

Monday, March 4 : MAKEY MAKEY!

Writing Due: FINAL DRAFT, Paper #1 Due (3-5 pages typed)–Please remember to hand in all previous drafts and cover letters with your final draft**

Wednesday, March 6 : MAKEY MAKEY!
(Meet in Room 323, 137 East 25th Street, building next to the Newman Library)

Week Seven

Monday, March 11

Readings to Discuss: Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (pages 138-144), Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Brooklyn Bridge” (pages 479-484), Hart Crane, “To Brooklyn Bridge” (pages 485-486), Charles Reznikoff, “[On Brooklyn bridge I saw a man drop dead]” (course site)
Writing Due: Response Paper 3 (1-2 pages typed, to be handed in)

Wednesday, March 13

Readings to Discuss: Brooklyn Poems continued… (Whitman, Mayakovsky, Crane, Reznikoff), Charles Reznikoff, from Autobiography: New York (page 621), Luc Sante, “Preface” (to Low Life) (course site)
Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice/Reading Log)

Week Eight

Monday, March 18

Readings to Discuss: Julia Alvarez, “Queens, 1963” (course site), John D’Agata, Selections (course site), Woo Chin Foo, “Experience of a Chinese Journalist” (pages 268-270)
Writing Due: ROUGH DRAFT, Paper #2 Due (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 COPIES to class)
Peer Review/In-class Writing Workshop

Wednesday, March 20

Readings to Discuss: Zora Neal Hurston, “Story in Harlem Slang” (pages 680-686), James Baldwin, from The Fire Next Time (pages 831-838)
Writing Due: Blog (Reflective Writing Log)—Use this blog entry as your opportunity to post your questions, concerns, status, etc. with regards to Paper #2. How is your revising going? What are you struggling with? What are you excited about? This post should be at least two well-developed paragraphs. Please also try to comment on your classmates’ posts—the blog is here to help us with our writing processes!

Week Nine

Monday, March 25

NO CLASS—Spring Break!

Wednesday, March 27

NO CLASS—Spring Break!

Week Ten

Monday, April 1

NO CLASS—Spring Break!