CHICANO LITERATURE
COURSE OUTLINE & ASSIGNMENTS –FALL 2013
Semester Week
Lecture Topics
Week 1
Monday, August 26, 2013
Course Introduction:
August 26-28, 2013
What is Chicano Literature, And Why is
It Important in
Contemporary Society?

Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Review & Discuss:
Dr, Luis Leal, Father of Chicano
Literature
Essays by Luis Leal:
1. What Is Literature?
2.“A Historical Perspective”
3. “The Problem of Identifying
chicano Literature”
4. “In Search of Aztlan, Luis Leal
Luis Troncoso:. Why It is Important to
Write your Own Story”
Autobiographical Sketch Due
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Prof. Alberto Juarez & friend
Labor Day Holiday
Monday
September 2-4, 2013
Week 2
Mendoza Codex
Shown Below
Dresden Codex
shown to the Right
Look up each
Codex –write 1
page Extra Credit
Report
Assignment
Read, analyze and critique the
following articles and essays posted
on our class web
Dr. Luis Leal: Mexican, Chicano
and Latin American literature”
Essays by Luis Leal:
1. “A Historical Perspective”
2. “The Problem of Identifying
Chicano Literature”
3. “In Search of Aztlan, Luis
Leal
4. What is Literature?
Luis Troncoso:. “Why It is Important to
Write your Own Story”
Read and
Prepare to
Discuss:
“George
Washington
Gomez”
Labor Day Holiday Monday
September 2
Read and study George
Washington Gomez”

Wednesday,
September
4, 2013
“What are Elements of
a Civilization”
Precolumbian
Civilizations
Olmec Culture
Maya Empire
Aztec Empire
Video: Dawn of the
Maya
(National Geographic
Video: “Tlaquilos”
Submit:
Autobiographical
Sketch Due
Wednesday, September
4, 2013
Americo Paredes
1915 - 1999
Read and Prepare to Discuss and
critique
Washington Gomez “
Part I & II
Pages 9-105
“ George Washington Gomez”
Part III Old Gringo School Days”
Pages 107-175
CHICANO LITERATURE
COURSE OUTLINE & ASSIGNMENTS –FALL 2013
September 9-11, 2013
Week 3
Monday, September 9,
2013 
Review September
& Discuss:
Wednesday,
14, 2013
“George Washington
Gomez “
Part I & II

Pages 9-105
Read and Prepare to Discuss and
critique Reading Assignment
George Washington Gomez”
Part IV La Chilla
Pages 177-280
“ George Washington Gomez”
Henry
Part III OldColumn
Gringo by
School
Days”
Tobar “Lives That
Pages
107-175
Shame
a City; Los
Angeles times, Tuesday
October 13, 2009
Video: “Seguin”
LOS
ANGELES
TIMES
:
Write
one page
video
report
Henry Tobar’s Column On Literacy
Temple of Quetzalcoatl
San Juan Teotihucan
Diego Rivera’s Depiction of the Fight for
Tehnochtitlan
http://www.diegorivera.org/diego-rivera-murals.jsp
September 16-18, 2013
Week 4
Mexican Independence
Day
Monday, September 16, 2013
“ George Washington Gomez”
Part III Old Gringo School Days”
Pages 107-175

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Continue Review & Discussion:
Read and Prepare to Discuss
and critique Reading Assignment
in Class
“George Washinton Gomez “
Part V Leader of His People
Pages 281-302
View and Read
“Yo Soy Joaquin” (I am joaquin)
by Rodolfo “Corky”Gonzales
George Washington Gomez”
Part IV La Chilla
Pages 177-280

Video: Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Write one page video report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U“
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CHICANO LITERATURE
COURSE OUTLINE & ASSIGNMENTS –FALL 2013
September 23-25, 2013
Week 4
Monday, September 23, 2013
Week 4
“George Washington Gomez”
Part V
Leader of His People
Pages 281-302

Video: The West
Monday, September 23, 2013
Discuss
Yo Soy Joaquin” (I am joaquin)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
-1527
Read and Prepare to Discuss and
critique Reading Assignment in
Class
“Bless, Mi Ultima”


Part 1 - Los Sediciosos/ The
Seditionists,
pages 9-34
Part 2 -Jonesville on the
Grande pages 35-105
Territories
Ceeded by
Mexico to the
United States
Imder the Terms
of the Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo 1848
after the
Mexican
American War
Californio
Vacqueros rout
Coronado Expedition in the
American Southwest February
23, 1540,
September 30-October 2
2013
Week 5
Texian Defeat at the
Alamo 1836 by
Mexican Forces
Monday, September 30
Review and critique
“Bless, Mi Ultima”
Part 1 - Los Sediciosos/
The Seditionists, pages 9-34
American
Forces at the
Battle of Buena
Vista
(San Diego,
California 1848
Read, analyze and critique
“Bless, Mi Ultima”
Chapter 11-17
Pages 106-202

Wednesday, October 2
Part 2 -Jonesville on the Grande
Pages 35-105
:
Rodolfo” Rudy”
Anaya
Northern New Mexico –Land of Enchantment