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Sp 2025 Prof L Overman's English 477

WEEKLY SCHEDULE 11-16
Class Day What We Will Do in Class Today Homework:Readings done prior to Class Writing Projects

Wk 11

4/3

huckjim

Panel Discussion presenters -Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter 26-end

Homework:Readings done prior to Class
    1. Seawolf Press: Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 197-the last (Chapter XXVI-Chap the Last)
    2. Toni Morrison, [This Amazing,Troubling Book] (in Additional Readings module)
    3. Critical Race Theory (in Additional Readings Module)
 Due Sat 1159pm outside of class:
  • Shortwrite 8--Log on toCanvas
    Post in Shortwrite Module
    • Due outside of class by Sun 1159pm:
  • Reply to TWO classmates in Shortwrite Module
    Due PRIOR to class:
  • Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Panel Discussion presenters Chap 26-end -- Beckett Folwell, Lindsay Grimm, Max Levin

Due in class

  • Respond to Panel in Panel Discussion Module
Wk 12: 4/10

Essay 2 Rough draft workshop
    Due In Class
  • Bring all relevant novels- James,Twain

Print, read, bring handouts from Projects link above:

  1. Peer review format

 

Due Sat 1159pm outside of class:

  • Essay 2
    Upload final draft in turnitin.com via Canvas

Due Prior toClass

  • Essay 2: Rough Draft -
  • upload in designated group discussions in Canvas
Wk 13: 4/17

 

Panel Discussion presenters -Melville's Billy Budd pp.614-635

 

 

 Homework:Readings done prior to Class
    1. Melville's "Billy Budd" Concise Anthology of American Literature, Chapters 1-10 (614-633) (in Canvas)
    2. Queer Theory-link and Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell "Using Literary Criticism in Your Writing "Queer Theory" (1678-1680)
    3. Christopher Looby, "Of Billy's Time: Temporality in Melville's Billy Budd"(23-35) (in Canvas Additional Readings module)

    Review & Bring Handouts from Projects link above:

    1. Essay 3
    Due Sat 1159pm outside of class:
    • Shortwrite 9--Log on to Canvas
      Post in Shortwrite Module
      • Due outside of class by Sun 1159pm:
    • Reply to TWO classmates in Shortwrite Module
       
    Due PRIOR to class:
  • Melville "Billy Budd" Preface & Chapters 1-X Panel Discussion presenters-Laisha Martinez Navarro, Owen Ford, Yasmine Torres

Due in class

  • Respond to Panel in Panel Discussion Module

 

Wk 14:

4/24

Panel Discussion presenters -Melville's Billy Budd pp. 635-667

Homework:Readings done prior to Class
    1. Melville's "Billy Budd" Concise Anthology of American Literture, Chapters 11-30 (633-667) (in Canvas)
    2. Donna Sellnow: Neo-Marxist Perspective (115-126) (in Additional Readings module)
    3. Gregg Crane, "The Hard Case: Billy Budd and the Judgement Intuitive" (889-906) (in Additional Readings module)

     Due Sat 1159pm outside of class:

    • Shortwrite 10--Log on toCanvas
      Post in Shortwrite Module
      • Due outside of class by Sun 1159pm:
    • Reply to TWO classmates in Shortwrite Module
    Due PRIOR to class:
  • Melville "Billy Budd" Chapters XI-XXVI Panel Discussion presenters- Yvan Tanael, Daniel Tavarez, Gwen Heynssens

 Due in class

  • Respond to Panel in Panel Discussion Module

Wk 15: 5/1

 

katechopin

Panel Discussion presenters -Chopin's The Awakening

 

 Homework:Readings done prior to Class
    1. Norton: Chopin'sThe Awakening(in Canvas)
    2. Kirszner & Mandell-Using Literary Criticism in Your Writing ---"Psychological Criticism" (1669-71) (on Canvas)
    3. Norton: Ann Heilmann, "From The Awakening and New Woman Fiction" 328 (in same text as novel) & in (Additional Readings module)
    4. Staszak, Jean-François. "Other/otherness."  Publié dans International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier,  2008. pp. 1-7. (Additional Readings module)
    Due Sat 1159pm outside of class:
    • Shortwrite 11--Log on toCanvas
      Post in Shortwrite Module
      • Due outside of class by Sun 1159pm:
    • Reply to TWO classmates in Shortwrite Module
    Due PRIOR to class:
  • Chopin Panel discussion presenters-The Awakening -Lily Cendejas- Martinez, Vynsint Mills, Neydeline Pinedo, Miriam Murcia

Due in class

  • Respond to Panel in Panel Discussion Module

 
Wk 16: 5/8
  • Essay 3 : Prep/Peer Review

 

 

Homework:Readings done prior to Class

    1. All novels we have discussed this semester

     
    Due Prior to Class
    • Essay 3: Rough Draft -
    • upload in designated group discussions in Canvas

 

 

Finals Week

5/15

 

    Class meets asynchronously only

      Due Thursday 10:00 PM:

    • Essay 3
      Upload final draft in turnitin.com via Canvas
Happy Summer Break