ENGL 386.001/002 Assignments
8/29-9/9/05 (Weeks 1-2)
Assignments can be updated at needs/speed of the class; you will be notified of
updates by e-mail, and are responsible for checking the page after notification.
Course Reserve Materials: For reasons of time, convenience, and
expense -- especially expense -- I have placed additional course readings on one-hour course reserve in the Blackwell
Library. (I will eventually have most of these materials also available online
in the form of PDFs, and will advise you of their availability.) Accessing library reserve materials for this class is easy:
- know before you go to the library which Collection you're looking for (I
list this in the schedule updates; see the example in the update below), as well
as for what class (ENGL 386) and what professor (Dr.
Melczarek) -- don't embarrass both of us by going in without knowing this
information! TAKE YOUR SU ID card to
check out materials.
- go to the main desk in the library, and look for the binders labeled
"Course Reserve" (or something like that); go to M (for "Melczarek"), and
indicate to the desk staff which collection for this class you need
- you have one hour with this material before you must return it to the
desk, and you cannot leave the library with the material -- TAKE THE MATERIALS TO
THE NEAREST PHOTOCOPIER, COPY THE MATERIAL, AND RETURN THE MATERIAL TO THE DESK
YOU GOT IT FROM. I tell you to photocopy the material because that's the only way
you can have it with you in class, to read and to take notes on. DO NOT WRITE ON
THE ORIGINALS AS OTHER STUDENTS NEED TO PHOTCOPY THEM. Do not try to read and
memorize the material for class; there's simply too much.
Do not wait until the last minute to check out and photocopy these items. If the
necessary items are all checked out, go to the photocopiers and ask the other
students there whether any of them are photocopying materials for my class.
»»WEEK 1 (8/29 - 9/2/0)
for MONDAY August 29 -- (start reading ahead on The Woman Warrior for next week)
-- introduction and description of course & course content
for WEDNESDAY August 31
-- initial terms/concepts
-- have read Lorde "Age, Race, Class, Sex" (handout)
for FRIDAY September 2
-- initial terms/concepts
-- have read poems "Those Tears" by Chrystos, "What the Gypsy Said to her Children" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and
"Into Such Assembly" by Kim (handouts; all other poetry will be available in the library reserve Collecions, or online as announced)
»»WEEK 2 (9/5 - 9/9/05)
for MONDAY September 5 -- off for Labor day
for WEDNESDAY September 7
-- have read and be ready to discuss the essays/autobiographies "The World of Our Grandmothers" by Connie Young Yu (also available online),
and "Asian Pacific American Women and Racialized Sexual Harassment" by Cho (in library reserve Collection 1)-- also available online!
for FRIDAY September 9
-- have read and be ready to discuss The Woman Warrior (first three sections: "No Name Woman," "White Tigers," "Shaman")
-- keep reading The Woman Warrior for us to finish next week
»» Links:
Schedule for
Weeks 3-4
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