CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN STUDIES
October 2007 (subject to change)

 

10/1 (E)

 

-Mr. Norton and Dr. Bledsoe

 

HW: Read Chapter 5 

10/2 (F)

-The Imagery of Appearance

HW: Read Chapters 6/7

10/3 (G)

-Clowns, Fools, and the Game

 

HW: Read Chapters 8/9

10/4 (A)
 

NO CLASS

10/5 (S)

 

NO CLASS

 

10/8 (B)


-Emerson v. Emerson

 

HW: Read Chapter 10

10/9 (C)

 

-In Class Writing (Essay Grade)

 

HW: Read Chapters 11/12

10/10 (D)

 

-Tracking the Anger

 

HW: Read Chapter 13

10/11 (E)

 

-Dispossession

 

HW: Read Chapters 14-16

10/12

 

NO SCHOOL

 

10/15

 

NO SCHOOL

 

10/16 (F)

 

-Introducing the Brotherhood

 

HW: Read Chapter 17, one page response

10/17 (G)

 

-Control and the Masses

 

HW: Read Chapter 18, one page response

10/18 (A)

 

NO CLASS

10/19 (B)

 

-Peer Pressure

 

HW: Read Chapters 19/20

10/22 (C)

 

TBA
 

HW: Begin Chapters 21/22

10/23 (D)

 

-Harlem

 

HW: Read Chapters 21/22

10/24 (E)
End of First Quarter

 

-Our Hope Shot Down

 

HW: Read Chapter 23
Begin thinking about your paper

10/25 (F)

 

-Deception

 

HW: Read Chapter 24
Work on your paper

10/26 (S)
Blue-Gold Field Day
Homecoming

 

NO CLASS

 

10/29 (G)

 

-Revolution and Rinehartism

 

HW: Read Chapter 25/"Epilogue"; paper due Friday

10/30 (A)

 

NO CLASS

10/31 (B)

 

-And Then There Was Light...

Also: Field Trip to see The Women of Brewster Place

 

 

HW: Paper on Invisible Man due Friday

11/1 (C)

 

-Discuss Naylor's play in terms of Invisible Man

 

HW: Paper due tomorrow

 

11/2 (S)

 

Wrap up Invisible Man

 

HW: TBA