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ENG 106 Spring 2023

Course Calendar

Readings and other assignments are due – meaning they should be completed – on the dates indicated. All readings except for Their Eyes Were Watching God are either linked to here or available via our shared Google drive folder. Please bring a copy of all readings listed for each day with you to class.

The most accurate and up-to-date version of this calendar can be found on our course site. Use the online calendar to check on reading assignments, rather than this print/pdf version, since the print/pdf version of this syllabus will not be updated throughout the semester.

I reserve the right to change the course calendar as needed; adequate advance notice will always be given of any changes.

Week 1

  • Wednesday, January 18: Introductions
  • Friday, January 20: Introductions

Week 2

  • Monday, January 23: Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer” from Writing Spaces, Vol 2 (2011)
  • Wednesday, January 25 (last day to add a course): Alice Walker, “Looking for Zora” (1975)
  • Friday, January 27: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 1-4
    • Journal entry 1 due (required for everyone)

Week 3

  • Monday, January 30: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ch 5-9; please also read the assigment page for Writing Project 1.
  • Wednesday, February 1 (last day to drop a course without a W): Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ch. 10-15
  • Friday, February 3: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, catch-up day
    • Journal entry 2 due

Week 4

  • Monday, February 6: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ch 15-20
  • Wednesday, February 8: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, catch-up day; In-class Assignment Planning and Prep
  • Friday, February 10: In-class Assignment Planning and Prep
    • Journal entry 3 due

Week 5

  • Monday, February 13: Peer Review Workshop 1
    • If participating in workshop: Writing Project 1: Close Reading Essay draft due by class
  • Wednesday, February 15: L. Lennie Irvin, “What is Academic Writing?”, from Writing Spaces Vol 1 (2010)
  • Friday, February 17: In-class Writing Day
    • Writing Project 1: Close Reading Essay due

Week 6

Week 7

  • Monday, February 27: Correspondence from Zora Neale Hurston to Carl Van Vechten (1930), from the Zora Neale Hurston Collection at Yale Archives, https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/363495; Correspondence from Langston Hughes to Carl Van Vechten (1931), from the Zora Neale Hurston Collection at Yale Archives, https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/363497
    • I have made a pdf version of these documents available in our Course Readings folder (with transcriptions).
  • Wednesday, March 1: Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men (1935), “Foreword” (by Arnold Rampersand), “Introduction,” Ch 1 (pg. xv-17)
  • Friday, March 3: In-class Assignment Planning and Prep
    • Journal entry 5 due

Week 8

  • Monday, March 6: In-class Assignment Planning and Prep
  • Wednesday, March 8: Peer Review Workshop 2
    • If participating in workshop: Writing Project 2: Historical Context Essay draft due by class
    • Please bring a laptop to class today
  • Friday, March 10: NO CLASS
    • Last-chance due date 1: Last chance to turn in journal entries 1-5 and writing project 1. These assignments will not be accepted after this date.

Week 9

  • Monday, March 13: NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
  • Wednesday, March 15: NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
  • Friday, March 17: NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK

Week 10

  • Monday, March 20: In-class Writing Day: CLASS CANCELLED!
  • Wednesday, March 22: Rosenberg, “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources,” from Writing Spaces Vol 2 (2011); please also read the Writing Project 3 assignment page
    • Writing Project 2: Historical Context Essay due
  • Friday, March 24: Research and Secondary Sources Workshop 1

Week 11

  • Monday, March 27: Daphne Lamothe, “Vodou Imagery, African American Tradition and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Callaloo 22.1 (1999): 157-175
  • Wednesday, March 29: Research and Secondary Sources Workshop 2
  • Friday, March 31: Lamothe, “Vodou Imagery,” con’t
    • Journal entry 6 due

Week 12

  • Monday, April 3: Mitchell, “Zora’s Politics: A Brief Introduction,” Journal of Transnational American Studies 5.1 (2013)
  • Wednesday, April 5: Mitchell, “Zora’s Politics,” con’t
  • Friday, April 7: In-class Assignment Planning and Prep
    • Please bring to class the 2 academic sources you will be writing about in journal entry 7/WP3
    • Journal entry 7 due

Week 13

  • Monday, April 10: In-class Assignment Planning and Prep
  • Wednesday, April 12: Peer Review Workshop 3
    • If participating in workshop: Writing Project 3: Research Conversation Essay draft due by class
  • Friday, April 14: In-class Writing Day
    • Writing Project 3: Research Conversation Essay due

Week 14

  • Monday, April 17: Final portfolio workshop
    • Please bring or be able to access 1 of the writing projects you will revise for your final portfolio (with my comments) to class
  • Wednesday, April 19: Final portfolio workshop
    • Please bring or be able to access 1 of the writing projects you will revise for your final portfolio (with my comments) to class
  • Friday, April 21: Final portfolio workshop
    • Please bring or be able to access 1 of the writing projects you will revise for your final portfolio (with my comments) to class
    • Last-chance due date 2: Last chance to turn in journal entries 6-7 and writing projects 2 and 3. These assignments will not be accepted after this date.
    • Course evaluations

Week 15

  • Monday, April 24: NO CLASS – Individual meetings
  • Wednesday, April 26: NO CLASS – Individual meetings
  • Friday, April 28: NO CLASS – Individual meetings

Week 16

  • Monday, May 1: NO CLASS – Individual meetings

Wednesday, May 3

  • Final Portfolio and Self-Assessment due