Schedule of Assignments
Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed.
Be sure to look at the course's online
photogallery on days when
"Photo/Bio" is noted.
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.umich.edu/~alisse/ENGL319f02/index.html.
You are responsible
for all changes announced in class.
September | October | November | December |
Date | Day | Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due |
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September 4 | Wednesday | First day of class. Welcome and introductions. Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852. Photo/Bio |
September 9 | Monday |
Course Information, Schedule of Assignments. Declaration of Independence. United States Constitution. Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852. |
September 11 | Wednesday | Discussion of theory and texts continues from Monday. |
September 16 | Monday |
McKay, Remonstrating Against the Right of Suffrage, 1870. Anthony, Address on the Charge of Illegal Voting, 1872. Photo/Bio To read the Anthony online, follow the link. Look at pages i and iii. Read pages v-vii and 151-78. I know that it takes forever to load each page, but there is no way to shorten the process. |
September 18 | Wednesday | Discussion continues from Monday. |
September 23 | Monday |
Cleveland, "Would Woman Suffrage Be Unwise?", 1905.
Photo/Bio Shaw, "Fundamental Principle of a Republic," 1915. Photo/Bio |
September 25 | Wednesday |
Discussion continues from Wednesday. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet? |
September 30 | Monday |
Visit Africana.com. Do a search
for, and read about, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panthers, and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Kennedy, "To the American People on Civil Rights," 1963. Photo/Bio Wallace, " Segregation Forever," 1963. Photo/Bio |
October 2 | Wednesday | Discussion continues from Monday. |
October 7 | Monday |
King, "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," 1963.
Photo/Bio Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet," 1964. Photo/Bio |
October 9 | Wednesday |
Discussion continues from Monday. |
October 14 | Monday | No Class: Fall Break. |
October 16 | Wednesday |
SNCC, Black Power, 1966. Carmichael, Black Power, 1966. Photo/Bio Carmichael, Black Power, 1967. King, Black Power, 1967. |
October 21 | Monday | Discussion continues from Wednesday. |
October 23 | Wednesday |
Discussion continues from Monday. Mid-semester evaluation of the course. |
October 28 | Monday |
Cleaver, "A Word to Students," 1968.
Photo/Bio
Davis, "Get it Together," 1971. Photo/Bio |
October 30 | Wednesday |
Discussion continues from Monday. |
November 4 | Monday | First exam. |
November 6 | Wednesday |
Read the
National Organization for Women's
"Chronology of the
Equal Rights Amendment 1923-1996".
Read the Eagle Forum's "A Short History of ERA". National Council of Jewish Women, Statement in Opposition, 1970. National Council of Catholic Women, Statement in Opposition, 1970. |
November 11 | Monday |
Mainardi, "Politics of Housework," 1970. Syfers, "Why I Want a Wife," 1971. Friedan, "An Open Letter to True Men," 1974. Photo/Bio Falwell, "The Feminist Movement," 1980. Photo/Bio |
November 13 | Wednesday | Discussion continues from Monday. |
November 18 | Monday |
Chisholm, "The 51% Minority," 1970. Beale, "Double Jeopardy," 1970. |
November 20 | Wednesday | Discussion continues from Monday. |
November 25 | Monday |
Shelley, "Gay is Good," 1970. Milk, "The Hope Speech," 1978. Photo/Bio Measure Nine, Oregon, 1992. LaHaye, "One Man, One Woman," 1999. Photo/Bio (link updated 11/24/02) |
November 27 | Wednesday | No class: Thanksgiving recess. |
December 2 | Monday |
Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions," 1983.
Photo/Bio
Liebman, Letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1990. Buckley, Response, 1990. |
December 4 | Wednesday | Discussion continues from Monday. |
December 9 | Monday |
Steinem, "Words and Change," 1979/1982/1995.
Photo/Bio
Wrap-up, review, and class evaluation. Optional critical essay due at the start of class. |
December 11 | Wednesday | Second Exam. |
September | October | November | December |
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