EN 209-03: Schedule of Assignments

Be sure to remember that OBSERVATIONS/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS are due by 6 pm of the day before the class in which we will discuss the readings you are commenting on meets (see the main page for details).

Paradigms of Migration

T 8/29 Introductions
Th 8/31 Genesis 1-16, 20-21, 24-35, 37-50

T 9/5 Exodus 1-19 [skim 20-40]; Numbers 20-25, 31-34; Deuteronomy 1-3 [skim 4-27], 28-33; Joshua 1-14 [skim 15-21], 22-24
Th 9/7 Judges 1-21; Esther 1-10; Ruth 1-4; Psalms 60, 78, 83, 114, 124, 135, 137; Ezekiel 11-12, 20-21

New World Migrations

T 9/12 Naipaul, A Way in the World 1-43
Th 9/14 Naipaul, A Way in the World 162-243

T 9/19 Naipaul, A Way in the World 244-351
Th 9/21 Phillips, Crossing the River 1-70

T 9/26 Phillips, Crossing the River 71-124
Th 9/28 Phillips, Crossing the River 125-237

Migrating Religions

T 10/3 Ghosh, In an Antique Land 11-105
Th 10/5 Ghosh, In an Antique Land 106-237; in-class peer writing conference: bring draft of your ANALYTICAL ESSAY to class today!

M 10/9 ANALYTICAL ESSAY due by 5 pm
T 10/10 Ghosh, In an Antique Land 238-353
W 10/11 copy of Salgado photograph with brief explanation of your choice of it for your RESEARCH/CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT on back of copy and short email explaining the reasons behind your choice of an individual to focus on for the FAMILY/COMMUNITY MIGRATION NARRATIVE PROJECT both due before 5 pm (or before you leave for October Break, if you are making a mini-migration of your own for the long weekend)
Th 10/12 NO CLASS: October Break

T 10/17 Sam, Jesus Is Indian 1-38
Th 10/19 Sam, Jesus Is Indian 39-44, 116-131

Departures and Returns

T 10/24 Salih, Season of Migration to the North 1-44
Th 10/26 Salih, Season of Migration to the North 45-87; guest lecture by Professor Carine Mardorossian, Department of English, SUNY Buffalo
F 10/27 4:30 pm, McEwen G26: "From Literature of Exile to Migrant Literature," public lecture by Carine Mardorossian, Department of English, SUNY Buffalo

T 10/31 Salih, Season of Migration to the North 88-133
Th 11/2 Salih, Season of Migration to the North 134-169
F 11/3 by 5 pm, you must send me an email in which you list key questions the photograph you have chosen for your RESEARCH/CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT provokes for you and give me your preliminary sense of the kinds of stories that emerge from it which you might tell.

T 11/7 Sebald, The Emigrants 1-63
Th 11/9 Sebald, The Emigrants 64-145

T 11/14 Sebald, The Emigrants 146-193
Th 11/16 Sebald, The Emigrants 193-237
F 11/17 By 5 pm, you must turn in or email me a concise annotated bibliography of works you have consulted for your PHOTO RESEARCH/CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT to provide you with historical/social/cultural/political context on the situation portrayed in the photograph, along with your best sense of what possible focuses your story might have (protagonist, characters, plot, conflict, what you hope to convey or accomplish in it, etc.); also, before you leave for break you must send to me a second email on your FAMILY/COMMUNITY MIGRATION NARRATIVE PROJECT in which you discuss how your focus has narrowed/developed and discuss possible ways of making comparisons between issues in the course readings and in the family/community migration(s) you're finding out about. You should also give me a sense of how you plan to use the Thanksgiving break to make progress on either aspect (the family/community detective work; the comparing/contrasting/finding connections work) of the project.

M 11/20-F 11/24 NO CLASSES: Thanksgiving Break [Note: it is in your best interest to read ahead in LeGuin's The Dispossessed over the break so that you can focus on the three writing assignments due in December; this is also your best chance to corner relatives or neighbors and hence make serious progress on the FAMILY/COMMUNITY MIGRATION NARRATIVE PROJECT you've been working on steadily since October break]

Please note that you must have emailed me before our Tuesday class (the earlier the better) your proposal for your COMPARATIVE ESSAY, in which explain and justify your choice of texts and mode of comparative analysis in the essay
T 11/28 LeGuin, The Dispossessed 1-90
Th 11/30 LeGuin, The Dispossessed 91-191; bring rough draft of COMPARATIVE ESSAY to class for peer review/assessment workshop

M 12/4 COMPARATIVE ESSAY due by 5 pm; EXTRA-CREDIT panel discussion of the Kinzua Dam and the forced migration of the Allegany Senecas at 6:30 pm in S-104 Williams Center (see the news page for details)
T 12/5 LeGuin, The Dispossessed 192-270
Th 12/7 LeGuin, The Dispossessed 271-335; bring rough draft of FAMILY/COMMUNITY MIGRATION NARRATIVE PROJECT to class for peer review/assessment workshop

M 12/11 by 5 pm, you must send me a concise email in which you list writers, narrative strategies, and literary techniques that you are planning to incorporate into the form and structure of the story you tell in your RESEARCH/CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT, and give me a much more focused sense of what you want to convey or accomplish through the writing of this story.
T 12/12 LeGuin, The Dispossessed 336-387; bring rough draft of PHOTOGRAPH RESEARCH/CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT to class for peer review/assessment workshop
Th 12/14 wrap up course
F 12/15 FAMILY/COMMUNITY MIGRATION NARRATIVE PROJECT due by 5 pm

M 12/18 - Th 12/21 meet for writing conferences
F 12/22 PHOTOGRAPH RESEARCH/CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT due by 5 pm

EN 209: Novels and Tales, Fall 2000
Created: 8/31/00, 3:38 pm
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