Daily Plan

Page numbers refer to the coursepack unless the reading is from one of the textbooks.
Dates to
Remember - print out this page for a quick guide to important
course dates and deadlines Introduction to
Course Structure
Confronting
Stereotypes
Mon 25 Aug
Introduction;
Computer/Research Survey; Meyette, "Trading Post - Winslow, Arizona";
***get a university e-mail account***
Wed 27 Aug
Burns, "Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question" (199 and handout);
Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror (1-17; 21-50); research questions
- recorder post to list; Quiz on Takaki
Mon 1 Sept
Labor Day, HOLIDAY
Wed 3
Sept
Meet in Library, Room A315 and
another room TBA for a workshop on the Internet & Library.
Research groups are assigned.
Telling
Histories
Mon 8 Sept
"Created Equal: The Myth of
the Melting Pot" (4-6);Johnson, "For My Indian Daughter" (129-130); Coyote
Stories (142-147);Takaki (79-105, 225-245); Quiz on Takaki
Guest Speaker: Lynn Teague, Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State
Museum
Wed 10 Sept
Arizona State Museum, "Paths of
Life" exhibit, guided tour. Meet at the exhibit.
Homelands
Mon 15 Sept
Group 1 reports to the class list.
The Right to Be, film. Rose, "Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"
(15); Trask, "From a Native Daughter" (64-68); Allen, "Where I Come From
is Like This" (1-4); "Nature and Technology" (59-60); Lame Deer, "Talking
to the Owls and Butterflies" (74-78); Gordon & Suzuki, "How Did We
Come to This" (69-74)
Wed 17 Sept
LaDuke, "Keynote Address"
(222-?); Revard, "Driving in Oklahoma" (197); begin Ceremony
(1-49); Silko, "Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective"
(110-114); Quiz on Silko essay
Voices
of the Spirits
Mon 22 Sept
Groups 1 & 2
report to the class list.
Meet in
Library, Room A315 and SEL 311 for an Introduction to
Building Web Sites.
Wed 24 Sept
read Ceremony
(100-213); Momaday, from House Made of Dawn (136-141); skim
listserv postings; Quiz on Ceremony
Imagining
Culture
Mon 29 Sep
Group 3 reports to the
class list. Guest speaker: Martha Seikaly, Native American music. Finish
Ceremony. Hand in Q-paper on postings from Groups 1 & 2.
Wed 1 Oct
***1st Cultural Event Paper due; slide
presentation on Native American art; Midnight Sun, "Sex/Gender Systems in
Native North America" (148-155); Owlfeather, "Children of Grandmother
Moon" (156-160); Pahe, "Speaking Up" (161-164); take-home quiz on readings
and postings
Confronting
Stereotypes
Mon 6 Oct
Group 4 reports to the
class list. Take-home quiz due. Isasi-Diaz, "Hispanic in America: Starting
Points" (114-116); "A Gathering of Tribes" (97-101); Omi & Winant,
"Racial Formation" (18-22); Takaki, Chapter 7 (166-190)
Wed 8
Oct
Anzaldua, "La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New
Consciousness" (40-44); Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman" (121-123);
Parrillo, "Causes of Prejudice" (22-28); read Group 4 postings;
Quiz
Telling
Histories
Mon 13 Oct
Group 5 reports to the list.
Valdez, Los Vendidos (131-135); Takaki, Chapter 13 (311-339)
Wed 15 Oct
Guest speaker. Cervantes, "Freeway 280" (197);
Moraga, "The Breakdown of the Bicultural Mind" (207-216); read listserv
postings; take-home Quiz
Homelands
Mon 20 Oct
Group 6 reports to the list.
Work on websites in CCIT 311.
Wed 22 Oct
Heart of Aztlan (1-61)
Mon
27 Oct
Group 7 reports to the list. Heart of Aztlan
(111-166); Hernandez, "Para Teresa"; George, "Gray Boys, Funky Aztecs, and
Honorary Homegirls" (34-40); turn in web text for your site
Wed 29
Oct
Guest speaker; finish Heart of Aztlan ((167-209);
Cisneros, "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn" (205-206); read listserv
postings; Quiz
Work on
websites in CCIT 311. Be sure to bring diskettes.
Work on websites in CCIT 311. Bring
diskettes. Final Exam
December 12, Friday,
2-4pm, Harvill 302 ? , Tuesday, 8-10am, Harvill 302