Course Schedule for English 161 Spring 2001

wed 10

free-write #1: on academic writing

fri 12

close reading of Castillo hand out

mon 15

no class Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

wed 17

close reading of Ehrenhalt hand out

fri 19

visit CITY 2000 at the Chicago Cultural Center or visit their website

mon 22

Jon Lowenstein of CITY 2000 on day laborers and documenting a Chicago family's life. I've posted some of his images on the class web site here. Prepare a written response/critique to Jon's work.

wed 24

course packet reading: Stuart Dybek's "Hot Ice"
Elbow reading: Intro (optional) and Chapter 1 on free-writing exercises

fri 26

course packet: "Hot Ice" continued
Elbow reading: Chapter 2: Growing

mon 29

course packet reading: Jane Jacob's Introduction to The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Elbow reading: Chapter 3: Cooking

wed 31

course packet reading: Jacob's continued
Elbow reading: Chapter 4: The Teacherless Writing Class

fri 2

course packet reading: misc. city poets -- Plump, Whitman, Brooks and Castillo's "Golden Cockroach"
Elbow reading: Chapter 5: Thoughts on the teacherless writing class
"midterm" essay assignment

mon 5

course packet reading: Rob't Park "Human Migration"; "ethnic" OED;

wed 7

course packet reading: Raymond Williams. "Culture is Ordinary"

fri 9

course packet reading: Judith Ortiz Cofer "American History" and "Patterson Public Library"

mon 12

course packet reading: Ralph Ellison "What America Would Be Without Blacks"; Rob't Hayden poems

wed 14

course packet reading: Sandra Cisneros "Bien Pretty"

fri 16

midterm essay is due
screen a video: Halsted Street, U.S.A.

WEEK SEVEN

mon 19

topic development: see assignment page

wed 21

topic development

fri 23

meet inSCAILAB(Student Computer Aided Instruction Lab)

WEEK EIGHT

mon 26

library visit #1 meet in the "electronic classroom" 1st floor main library across from the circulation desk

wed 28

topic development
discuss narrative bibliography; primary and secondary sources; ethnographic and archival research.

fri 2

topic development and research clinics continued (henceforth "r and d")

WEEK NINE

mon 5

library visit #2 meet in the "electronic classroom" 1st floor main library across from the circulation desk
narrative biblio for 2 (or more) sources is due

wed 7

r and d

fri 9

r and d

Spring Break -- saturday 10 through sunday 18

WEEK TEN

mon 19

narrative biblio for next 2 (or more) sources is due

wed 21

r and d

fri 23

r and d

WEEK ELEVEN

mon 26

narrative biblio for next 2 (or more) sources is due

wed 28

r and d

fri 30

r and d

WEEK TWELVE

mon 2

narrative biblio for next 2 (or more) sources is due

wed 4

r and d

fri 6

r and d

WEEK THIRTEEN

mon 9

revised complete narrative biblio is due

wed 11

r and d

fri 13

r and d

mon 16

meet in scailab

wed 18

meet in scailab

fri 20

tba

WEEK FIFTEEN

mon 23

meet in scailab

wed 25

meet in scailab

fri 27

wrap up
last day of classes

May

FINALS -- WEEK SIXTEEN