First-Year Seminar: |
English 140 Winter 2005 Professor Portnoy Email Address: alisse@umich.edu |
Schedule of Assignments Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed. |
January | February | March | April |
Date | Day | Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due |
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January 6 | Thursday | Language and Power: Getting Started First day of class Welcome and introductions Perspectives on Elephants Declaration of Independence |
January 11 | Tuesday | Course Information, Schedule of Assignments Exercise due: Ideologies and Commonplaces |
January 13 | Thursday | Discussions Continue Exercise due: Revisions, Remixes, Translations |
January 14 | Friday | Field Trip! DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation at the Power Center Meet at 7:30 p.m. |
January 18 | Tuesday | Terministic Screens |
January 20 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Descriptions |
January 25 | Tuesday | Words, Words, Words |
January 27 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Words and Usage Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet? |
February 1 | Tuesday | Communities of Practice and Discourse Communities Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, "Communities of Practice" Bizzell, "What is a Discourse Community?" Fahnestock, "Accommodating Science" |
February 3 | Thursday | Discussions Continue Assignment due: First Paper |
February 8 | Tuesday | Rules, Rules, Rules Special Guest: Professor Anne Curzan |
February 10 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Words and Their Definitions |
February 15 | Tuesday | Identification Assignment due: Bring a magazine to class |
February 17 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Identification and Advertising |
February 22 | Tuesday | Gender |
February 24 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Gender Constructions |
March 1 | Tuesday | No Class: Winter/Spring Break |
March 3 | Thursday | No Class: Winter/Spring Break |
March 8 | Tuesday | Catching Up, Review |
March 10 | Thursday | First Exam Speech Codes |
March 15 | Tuesday | Bilingualism |
March 17 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Bilingualism Position Statements |
March 22 | Tuesday | Dialects |
March 24 | Thursday | Discussions continue |
March 29 | Tuesday | Dialects, continued Special Guest: Professor Richard Bailey |
March 31 | Thursday | Discussions continue Exercise due: Second paper summary or outline |
April 5 | Tuesday | Writing Workshop Assignment due: four typed copies of the completed draft of your second paper |
April 7 | Thursday | Constructions of Categories and History Assignment due: Second Paper |
April 12 | Tuesday | Tompkins,"'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" Dyer, "White" (excerpt) Baldwin, "On Being 'White' . . . And Other Lies" Fields, "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States" |
April 14 | Thursday | Discussions continue Assignment due: Category or History Constructions |
April 19 | Tuesday | Second Exam Speech Codes |
January | February | March | April |
Most recent update: March 19, 2005.
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