Writing 2
Fall 2006
Instructor: Martinsen
UNIT 3: ART AND LITERATURE (Race, Gender and Oppression)
Date
Weds. 11/15
In Class
Finish Unit 2
Film: Smoke Signals (1998)
Track motifs in film
Mon. 11/20
Introduction to Unit 3
View key scenes in Smoke
Signals and discuss motifs
How does Mihelich interpret
the film?
Close reading strategies:
Harjo poem
Essay #3 Thematic
Synthesis; discuss
expectations
Discussion of Memmi,
Neruda and Dunbar
How to make thematic
connections?
Discussion of de Beauvoir,
Jordan and Oskooii
Thesis statement workshop
In-class writing on personal
experiences in ethnic
communities
Discussion of Kingston,
Hongo and Birjepantil
How to find reliable sources
for research?
MLA citation style
Jigsaw discussion of Race,
Gender and Oppression
Groups: Brainstorm ideas
and develop outlines for
papers
Peer Review of Interpretative
Analysis
Class Evaluations
THEMATIC SYNTHESIS
DUE
PORTFOLIO #3 DUE BY 4
PM (MAILBOX)
Weds. 11/22
Mon. 11/27
Weds. 11/29
Mon. 12/4
Weds. 12/6
Mon. 12/11
For Next Time
Read: Mihelich “Smoke or Signals?”
(eRES); Joy Harjo, The Woman
Hanging from the 13th Floor Window
Write: a one-page response on a motif
in Smoke Signals
Read: Albert Memmi, Racism and
Oppression; Pablo Neruda, The United
Fruit Co.; Paul Laurence Dunbar, We
Wear the Mask
Write: a one-page close reading of
Neruda or Dunbar
Read: Simone de Beauvoir, Women as
Other; June Jordan, A Poem about
Intelligence for My Brothers and
Sisters; Marzieh Ahmadi Oskooii, I’m
a Woman
Write: a one-page close reading of
Jordan or Oskooii
Read: Maxine Hong Kinston, No Name
Woman; Garrett Hongo, Yellow Light
(eRes); J. Birjepantil, The
Secunderabad Club (eRes)
Write: a one-page close reading of
Hongo or Birjepantil
Read: Critical piece assigned in class
and one outside source of your choice
Write: a one-page analysis of critical
piece (see options on “Guide to the
Thematic Synthesis Essay”)
Write: first draft of your Interpretative
Analysis and MLA Works Cited due
12/6
Write: final draft of Thematic
Synthesis due 12/11 before 4 PM in
the instructor’s mailbox (South Hall)
Have a great holiday!
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change. Readings and assignments are due on the date given. Bring the assigned books
and/or materials needed for each class session, and save all your work.