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ENGL 2363.001 World Literature since Renaissance
American Immigrant Literature
Spring 2014 (Tues & Thurs 3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.)
Class Calendar of Readings & Major Assignments
BB = BlackBoard Weekly Assignment Folder
GUE= Growing Up Ethnic in America
JM= Journeys Home
Unit One: European American Voices
Week one (August 24-28)
August 25
In class
Homework for August 27
In class
Homework for August 27
Introduction to course
Spiegelman, Maus, Part I, chapters 1-2
Read Art Spiegelman’s biography (BB)
Complete the worksheet (BB)
Assigned reading + Introduction to the Unit
Maus, Part I, chapters 3-4
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
In Class
Maus, Part I, chapters 5-6
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Week Two (Sept 1-4)
Tuesday , Sept 1
In class
Homework for January 23
Thursday, Sept. 3
In class
WEEK 3 (Sept 7- 11)
Tuesday, Sept. 8
In class
Assigned reading
Maus, Part II, chapter 3-4
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Assigned reading
Maus, Part II, Chapter 5
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Assigned reading + documentary Night and Fog
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Rich “Prospective immigrants Please Note”(BB Wk.3)
Ferrarelli, “Emigrant/ Immigrant I & Emigrant/
Immigrant II” (BB Wk. 3 Asst.)
Read Rich’s and Ferrarellis biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Assigned reading
Mazziotti Gillan, “Carlton Fredericks and My Mother”
(GUE 260-267)
Read Gillian’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Week Four (Sept 14- 18)
In class
Assigned reading
Homework for Sept. 15
Puzo “Choosing a Dream” (BB Wk 4 Asst.)
Gold, “Bananas” (BB Wk. 5 Asst.)
Read Duggin’s and Boss’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Sept. 17
in class
HOMEWORK for February 9
In class
HOMEWORK for February 11
WEEK FIVE (Sept 21 – Sept. 25)
Assigned reading
(BB Wk. 5 Asst.)
In class
HOMEWORK for Sept. 22
Assigned reading
Duggin, ”Learning My Father’s Language” (BB Wk. 4 Asst
Boss, “Myrna and Me” (GUE 197-199)
Read Duggin’s and Boss’s biography (BB)
Complete the worksheet (BB)
Assigned reading
Papashviy, “The First Day” (BB Wk. 5 Asst.)
Read Papashvily’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Pupin, “The Hardship of a Greenhorn”
Read Pupin’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Assigned reading
Mary Antin, Selections from The Promised Land (BB Wk. 5 Asst.)
Read Antin’s autobiography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
In class
HOMEWORK for Sept 24
Assigned reading + Unit Test # 1
TEST # 1
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UNIT TWO: ASIAN AMERICAN VOICES
http://www.kged.org/w/pacificlink/history/angelisland/poetry/
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
WEEK SIX (Sept. 28- Oct 1)
HOMEWORK for Sept. 29
The Poetry of Angel Island: Introduction and
four poems
In class
HOMEWORK for Oct. 1
Assigned reading + Introduction to the Unit
Sui Sin Far, “In the Land of Free” (BB Wk. 6 Asst.)
Read Sui Sin Far’s biography (BB)
Read Chinese Exclusion Act as a background for
this story (BB Wk. 6 Asst.)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
In class
HOMEWORK
Assignment reading
Sui Sin Far, “The Smuggling of Tie Co” (BB Wk. 7 Asst.)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Week 7 (Oct. 5- 9)
Assignment reading
Jen, “What Means Switch” (GUE 175 – 196)
Read Jen’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
In class
HOMEWORK
In class
HOMEWORK for Oct. 8
In class
HOMEWORK
In class
HOMEWORK
Assignment reading
Selections from Interpreter of Maladies by Lahiri,
“When Mr. Prizada Came to Dine” (BB Wk. 7 Asst.)
Read Lahiri’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Assignment reading
Selections from interpreter of Maladies: “The
Third and Final Continent” (BB Wk. 8 Asst.)
WEEK EIGHT (Oct. 12- 16)
Assignment reading
Rustomji, “Thanksgiving in Monsoonless Land”
(GUE 326-341)
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Read Rustomji’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
In class
HOMEWORK
Assigned reading
Naomi Nye, “Red Velvet Dress” (GUE 312-319)
Nellie Wong, “How a Girl Got Her Chinese
Name” (BB Wk. 8 Asst)
Read Nye’s and Wong’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
HOMEWORK for Oct. 15
Yamada, “I Learning to Sew” (BB Wk. 9 Asst.)
Read Yamada’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
WEEK NINE (Oct 19- 23)
Oct 20
In class
HOMEWORK for March 19
Assigned reading
Uchida, “Tears of Autumn” (Bb Wk. 9 Asst.)
Read Uchida’s biography
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
Oct 22
In class
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK
Assigned reading
Tan, “Rules of the Game” (GUE 18-31)
Read Tan’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet
Assigned reading
Otsuka Buddha in the Attic, “Come Jappanese!”
(3-18) “Whites” (23-54)
Read Otsuka’s biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
WEEK TEN (Oct 26 - 30)
Assigned reading
Assigned reading
Otsuka, Buddha in the Attic, “The Children”
(61-79) “Traitors” (81-104)
Complete Worksheet (BB)
Otsuka, Buddha in the Attic,“Last Day”(105-114)
“A Disappearance” (115-129)
Complete worksheet (BB)
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Prepare for unit test #2
WEEK ELEVEN (November 1- 6)
Tuesday, November 3
Unit test #2
UNIT THREE: AFRICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AND HISPANIC
AMERICAN VOICES
Thursday Nov 6 in class
Homework for
Morrison, from “The Bluest Eye”(GUE 115-121)
Read Morrison’s biography (BB)
Complete the worksheet (BB)
Pinkney, “The New Negro” (GUE 64-67)
Wednesday, April 2
in class
Assigned reading + Introduction to the unit
Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
(BB Wk. 11 Asst.) Listen to Hughes read his poem
http;//www.youtube.com/watch?v=V425SdNWIJU
HOMEEWORK
Complete Worksheet (BB)
Assigned Reading:
Hughes, “Theme for English B” (BB Wk. 12 Asst.)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
WEEK TWELVE (8- 13 ) (Journeys Home- JH)
Tuesday, April 7
in class
HOMEOWORK
Assigned Reading
HOMEOWORK
Assigned Reading:
HOMEWORK
Assigned reading
Sheikh Umarr Kamarrah “Singing in Exile”
“ A Lost Generation” (60-65)
Emmanuel Ngwang, “The Lost Generation’’ (2014)
Read Zatkala-Sa’s biography (BB)
Complete the worksheet (BB)
Chief Seattle, “This We Know” (BB Wk. 13Asst.)
Sherman Alexie, “How to Write the great American
Indian Novel” (BB Wk. 13 Asst.)
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Read Alexie’s biography (BB)
Complete Worksheet (BB)
WEEK THIRTEEN (Nov16- 20)
Nov 17
In class
HOMEWORK for
Assigned reading
Assigned reading
Unoma N. Azuah, “Alien”
“A Tale Out of Ohio” (pp. 104-106)
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HOMEOWORK
Assigned reading
Wadzanai Mhute “What’s in a Name?” (pp. 74)
Ortiz, “To Change in a Good Way” (GUE 342-348)
Read Ortiz biography (BB)
Complete the Worksheet (BB)
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WEEK FOURTEEN: (Nov 23- 27)
Thanksgiving Break
WEEK FIFTEEN: NOV 30- Dec 4
In Class: Tinashe Mushakavahu: “Inside Outside: The Politics of Exile”
“Stray Dog” (46-49)
Review for Unit Test #3
UNIT TEST 3
PREPARE FOR