What is Literature?
English 239, Section 10
Winter 2000

Professor Alisse Theodore
Email Address: alisse@umich.edu

Schedule of Assignments

January February March April

What is Literature?

English 239 Home Course Information Grading Criteria Announcements and Updates Contact Information

Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed. Please note that this schedule of assignments is subject to change. Changes will be announced in class and posted on the course website, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alisse/ENGL239w00.html. You are responsible for all changes announced in class.

DateDayAssignments Due
January 5WednesdayFirst day of class.
Welcome and introductions.
January 10Monday Douglass, pages vii-59.
Course Information read, Schedule of Assignments reviewed.
January 12Wednesday Douglass, pages 59-76.
January 17Monday 13th Annual University of Michigan Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium (a brief preview is on line; for the full three-week schedule, choose "Registered Events" on the Symposium website). Instead of a formal class session, attend at least one event scheduled for the MLK Symposium. Be sure to choose an event which gives you enough time to complete the exercise, and choose an event which will feature language (rather than, say, dance or visual arts). Use that event as the topic for the writing exercise due January 19.
January 19Wednesday Douglass.
Writing Exercise on MLK event due.
(Other deadlines for writing exercises will be announced in class and posted here during the semester.)
January 24Monday Austin, pages 1-61.
January 26Wednesday Austin, pages 91-99, 131-149.
Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
January 31Monday Austin, pages 151-222.
February 2Wednesday Austin, pages 223-262.
February 7Monday Austin.
Writing Exercise about Lost Borders due.
February 9Wednesday What is Literature?
Paper #1 due.
February 14Monday Stein, pages 1-117.
February 16Wednesday Stein, pages 117-167.
February 21Monday Stein, pages 169-200.
February 23Wednesday Stein.
Writing Exercise about your second paper due.
Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
February 28Monday Spring Break: No Class.
March 1Wednesday Spring Break: No Class.
March 6Monday Ellison, pages 1-195.
Study Questions for IM.
March 8Wednesday Ellison (no reading due).
Paper #2 due.
March 13Monday Ellison, pages 196-295.
March 15Wednesday Ellison, pages 296-355.
March 20Monday Ellison, pages 356-512.
March 22Wednesday Ellison, pages 513-581.
March 27Monday Percy, pages 1-149.
March 29Wednesday Percy, pages 149-200.
April 3Monday Percy, pages 200-355.
April 5Wednesday Percy, pages 355-409.
April 10Monday Draft Workshop.
Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due.
April 12Wednesday Last day of class.
Paper #3 due.

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January February March April

What is Literature?

English 239 Home Course Information Grading Criteria Announcements and Updates Contact Information

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alisse