Crt 205 Unit 1 Assignment
Spring 2013 / Kleinbart WRT 205: Conversations on Race / Unit 1
Course Calendar
This document is essential to your participation in Writing 205, so please keep it on hand at all times. The readings listed beneath each calendar date are the readings due for that class session. Please make sure to bring the appropriate texts with you to class in order to allow you to review the readings and analyze them in greater depth. Any written homework assignments will appear on the course calendar between classes
Tues. 1/15 Introductions / Syllabus / Analysis
Pat Parker, “For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend”
Homework: Pick up the course reader for this class at the Copy Center in Marshall Square Mall (required), and purchase text books at the bookstore in Schine (DK Handbook and Rewriting: see syllabus). Please make sure you have a dedicated notebook for this course. Re-read syllabus and jot down any questions you have about this course. Do course readings for Thursday’s class.
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1/24 Racial Identity and Power
Joseph Harris, Rewriting, beginning of Chapter 1, pp. 13-24
Beverly Tatum, “The Complexity of Identity: ‘Who Am I?’” (reader)
Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space” (reader)
Analytical Reflection Due
Writing Assignment: Read for Tuesday 1/29; then, using Mukhopadhyay & Henze’s essay as a central text, take up the project that Joseph Harris lays out on p. 24, “Translating a Text into Your Own Terms.” Write a 1-2 pp. critical summary and assessment of Mukhopadhyay & Henze’s project, in which you identify their aims, methods, materials, moves, and flashpoints (see Harris and refer to sample critical summary).
Tues. 1/29 Race as a Social Construction
DK Handbook, pp. 2-11, “What is Rhetoric?” + 84-91, “Understanding and Analyzing Texts”
Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze, “How Real is Race?” (reader)
Critical Summary Due ***In Class: Clip from African American Lives
Course Calendar
This document is essential to your participation in Writing 205, so please keep it on hand at all times. The readings listed beneath each calendar date are the readings due for that class session. Please make sure to bring the appropriate texts with you to class in order to allow you to review the readings and analyze them in greater depth. Any written homework assignments will appear on the course calendar between classes
Tues. 1/15 Introductions / Syllabus / Analysis
Pat Parker, “For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend”
Homework: Pick up the course reader for this class at the Copy Center in Marshall Square Mall (required), and purchase text books at the bookstore in Schine (DK Handbook and Rewriting: see syllabus). Please make sure you have a dedicated notebook for this course. Re-read syllabus and jot down any questions you have about this course. Do course readings for Thursday’s class.
Thurs. 1/17 …show more content…
1/24 Racial Identity and Power
Joseph Harris, Rewriting, beginning of Chapter 1, pp. 13-24
Beverly Tatum, “The Complexity of Identity: ‘Who Am I?’” (reader)
Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space” (reader)
Analytical Reflection Due
Writing Assignment: Read for Tuesday 1/29; then, using Mukhopadhyay & Henze’s essay as a central text, take up the project that Joseph Harris lays out on p. 24, “Translating a Text into Your Own Terms.” Write a 1-2 pp. critical summary and assessment of Mukhopadhyay & Henze’s project, in which you identify their aims, methods, materials, moves, and flashpoints (see Harris and refer to sample critical summary).
Tues. 1/29 Race as a Social Construction
DK Handbook, pp. 2-11, “What is Rhetoric?” + 84-91, “Understanding and Analyzing Texts”
Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze, “How Real is Race?” (reader)
Critical Summary Due ***In Class: Clip from African American Lives