WWOC - DUE ON 4/5

Part I: Print and Read "A White Woman of Color" by Julia Alvarez
The Story is posted as a gadget to the right →

Who is Julia Alvarez? - A Dominican American Writer who focused on the hardships of assimilation, acceptance, culture and oppression from a severe and totalitarian government. Her work highlights discrimination, racial barriers and acculturation.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Alvarez-Julia.html
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Part II:
Prepare for Fishbowl 4/5

Please Re-read (ACTIVELY READ) "A White Woman of Color" by Julia Alvarez

Please add the following themes to your notebook in regards to " A White Woman of Color", 
As you read - connect themes to passages in the story!Color as a form of oppression

Cultural Aesthetics
The Dominican Divide
Marginalization
Institutional Racism
America's Racial Limiting Pattern

IN YOUR NOTEBOOK: For Fishbowl:
1. CHOOSE ONE THEME AND RELATE it to ONE Passage in the story.
2.Choose a form of oppression from my "Egalitarianism" lecture and find two concrete examples of this in the story. Provide quotes and in-text


3.Prepare a two paragraph response:
EQ- In what ways can silencing or fear rob us from the very essence of our human story? How does oppression affect an individual or group of people on an emotional and or physical level?

PRINT PUB 3 - It is DUE on Friday 4/13 by Midnight

Timeline:

Thursday 4/5
In Class:

Prepare Yourselves! 
Introduction to PUB #3- Due 4/13 by Midnight! 
Alvarez Fishbowl
Hw: HW: Read "Children of The Sea" by Dandicat
Click on the photo of Dandicat and her book Krik? Krack! This story will focus on political oppression in Haiti.
Print Paper 2 - I will go over it in class on 4/10

Tuesday 4/10
In Class - Introduction to Paper 2 - With Sample Thesis and Outline DUE: 4/24
Pub 3 Q&A
Fishbowl: Duvalier as it relates to "Children of The Sea" Themes and Conflicts in Haiti

HW: Hemingway - "Hills Like White Elephants" He is in the Text book. Writing Assignment will be posted on our class blog.

Thursday 4/12
Paper 2 Q&A-
Pub 3 Q&A
Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" Fishbowl.

HW: "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Tuesday 4/17
Post -Modernism in Lahiri's "Interpreter Of Maladies"
Mini Lecture & Fishbowl
HW- Transcendentalism & Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
Read PPT Notes (posted on class blog) and the Short Story (in the text) for Thursday 4/19.

Thursday 4/19
Transcendental Lecture: Class will be held outside in between Roosevelt & Knapp Hall at the Main Fountain! Weather Permitting

Tuesday 4/24
Paper 2 Is Due Today- In Class on Time
*Introduction to the Final Project
*Introduction to Poetry

Note to Scholars- Thursday , May 10th is our last day of class.
Final Projects are Due on 5/10.
I will post the Final Exam Schedule when FSC publishes it.   Informal presentations & Final Presentation Grades (including Pub 5) will take place finals week.