WebCTWeek 4
Reading: Truth, pp. 246-47; Douglass, pp. 452-456; 474-483.
Writing: DISCUSSION #4; Research Projects.
Week 5:
Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro
Renaissance: 1865-1919
Reading: Douglass, continued; B.T. Washington, pp. 594-602; W.E.B. DuBois, pp. 699-708. Writing: DISCUSSION #5; PAPER 1 (topics to be given in WebCT Assignments).
Week 6
Reading: Washington, DuBois, continued.
Writing: DISCUSSION #6; Quiz; Research Projects.
Week 7
Reading: Chesnutt, pp. 624-632. Beg
in discussion of NOVEL: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, by Zora Neale Hurston. Writing: DISCUSSION #7;Research Projects.
SPRING BREAK: MAR. 4-12, 2006
Week 8
Reading: Chesnutt, continued; Dunbar, pp. 916-918;
Writing: DISCUSSION #8; Research Projects.
Week 9: Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940
Reading: Garvey, pp. 997-1000; Hurston, 1030-1033.
Complete the novel this week! Writing: DISCUSSION #9. MID-TERM EXAM.
Week 10
Reading: Hurston, (continued); Langston Hughes, excerpts.
Writing: DISCUSSION #10; Quiz; Research Projects.
Week 11: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism (1940-1960)
Reading: Wright, p. 1436-71; Petry, 1497-1504; Hayden, excerpts.
Writing: Paper due (topics to be assigned). Research Projects.
Week 12
Reading: Ellison, excerpts; Walker, excerpts; Brooks, pp. 1625-1627.
Writing: Quiz. Research Projects.
Week 13: The Black Arts Movement: 1960-1975
Reading: King, pp. 1896-1908; Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones), excerpts; Giovanni, excerpts.
Week 14: Literature Since 1975
Reading: Angelou, pp. 2156-2158 and online poetry; Morrison, “Sula,” (online); Walker, pp. 2454-2457.