FAll 2024 Prof L Overman's English 429

Essay 1 prep

bring all three novels we have read so far along with draft/notes of Essay

1. All 3 novels we have discussed
2. IN RESOURCES module download/review all the following:
   A complex thesis statement (on Canvas)
   Sample thesis statements (on Canvas)

Print, read, bring handouts from Projects link above:

1. Peer Review (handout #18)
2. Essays Expectations (handout #8)

Due PRIOR TO Class
• Essay 1: Rough Draft -
• upload in designated group discussions in Canvas

Due outside of class by SAT 1159P :

1. Essay 1 Due

   Upload final draft in turnitin.com via Canvas

On the Top 100 Most Challenged Books

Panel Discussion presenters Canvas -Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Homework:Readings done prior to Class

1. Alexie, The AbsolutelyTrue Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2. IN Additional Readings Module download all the following:
    
   a. Canvas:D. Sellnow, Chapter 6 "A Neo-Marxist Perspective" (135-143)
   b. Listen/read transcript: The Ghosts of a Football Past [a RADIOLAB podcast]----Carlisle Indian School, formed in 1879 to assimilate the children and grandchildren of the men who fought the final Plains Wars against the fathers and grandfathers of the Ivy Leaguers, starts challenging the best teams in the country.
   c. Click here for transcript.
   d.Movie Trailer Review "Designed to tear families apart’: a shocking film exposes abuse and infanticide"

    

Due PRIOR to class:

• Alexie Panel Post outcomes & Discussion questions in Canvas -Katherine Ornelas, Christopher Stewart,Dania Barajas
Due in class

Canvas [in Group Work Module]

At his reading at the Strand bookstore,

Sherman Alexie said the one thing he would

want students to take away from

this novel is “escaping and confronting familial and

tribal expectations.”

Respond to questions posited in Discussion

 

Due outside of class by FRI 1159pm:
• Shortwrite 4--in Canvas:
  Post in Discussion

Due outside of class by SAT 1159pm:
1. Reply to TWO classmates

Panel Discussion Presenters - Ness-A Monster Calls

Homework:Readings done prior to Class

1. Ness,A Monster Calls
2. IN Additional Readings Module download all the following:
   a. Canvas: "Using Literary Criticism in Your Writing"-Structuralism & Deconstruction (1671 & 1673)
   b. Canvas: Giskin Day's "Good Grief: bereavement literature for young adults and A Monster Calls"
   c. Canvas: Visual Rhetoric/Literacy
   d. Canvas: Nodleman's Words About Pictures

Due PRIOR to class:

• Ness Panel Post outcomes & discussion questions in Canvas-Grace Wellington, Jessica Sinisgalli, Diana Galan, Camila Mendez
Due in class

Canvas [in Group Work Module]

Identify & Analyze what literary element(s) is at work

in A MONSTER CALLS 

Apply Nodleman's Words About Pictures

along with the "Visual Rhetoric/ Literacy" handout

Discuss & respond in Discussion

 

 

Due outside of class by FRI 1159pm:
• Shortwrite 5--in Canvas:
  Post in Discussion

Due outside of class by SAT 1159pm:
1. Reply to TWO classmates

Mini Midterm-{no make-ups so do not miss!}

Greenbook/Bluebook --open book using 2 novels we have covered so far

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

1. Canvas: L. Stover, Chapter 9- "The Place of Young Adult Literature in Secondary Reading Programs" (115-138 --[note that pdf itself has stamped #'s 132-155])
2. Canvas: D. Gallo, “How Classics Create an Aliterate Society” (33)

Due PRIOR TO 645P:

• In class-Bluebook/Greenbook

TENTH on the Top 10 Most Challenged Book-2023

Panel Post findings in Discussion-Thomas The Hate U Give

1. Thomas, The Hate U Give
2. IN Additional Readings Module download all the following
a. Critical Race Theory-link
b. Canvas: Vincent Haddad, " Nobody's Protest Novel: Novelistic Strategies of the Black
Lives Matter Movement"

3. Canvas: Essay 2 in Major Essays module
4. 

Due PRIOR to class:

• Thomas Panel Post outcomes & discussion questions in Canvas-Hailey Pack, Susan Perez, Katie Garcia, Chris Rodriguez

Due in class

Canvas [in Group Work Module]

THE HATE U GIVE--What is THE TALK?

What does that phrase mean when you hear it?

VIEW a short video-respond to it

Due FRI 1159pm outside of class:

Due outside of class by FRI 1159pm:
• Shortwrite 6--in Canvas:
  Post in Discussion

Due outside of class by SAT 1159pm:
1. Reply to TWO classmates