Eng 365 Schedule Wks 11-16
Eng 365 Schedule Wks 11-16
Week 10 [VERBAL FOLKLORE MODULE] Tuesday, 25 October Little Red Riding Hood. FNT: MaCaFA is due prior to class time. Use whatever submission method works best for your particular project: DVD, your personal Weebly page, shared Dropbox file, Google docs, or whatever the case may be. Thursday, 27 October Fairy Tales as verbal folklore. FNT: Halloween collecting assignment (details in class on the 27th). Planning ahead: for 3 November, read The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-mailed Humor distributed in class. Week 11[VERBAL FOLKLORE MODULE] Tuesday, 1 November Halloween celebrations as folklore. FNT: Remember to read The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-mailed Humor distributed in class on 27 October. Planning ahead: for Friday 4 November by midnight, remember you have a progress report due to me. Send the progress report as an email with progress report as your subject line. See your class notes for guidelines. Thursday, 3 November Fun with words, part I: emailed humor; intro. to concept of joke cycle and documenting joke cycles as collections. FNT: Read The Helen Keller Joke Cycle distributed in class; pick a joke cycle and document at least 10 different variants from multiple sources (i.e., not a list of 10 dead baby jokes you found on one website). Write up as a collection (guidelines provided in class in advance). Week 12 [FOODWAYS MODULE] Tuesday, 8 November Fun with words, part II: joke cycles as folklore. FNT: No reading assigned. I will introduce the concept of studying foodways as folklore. Planning ahead: annotated rough draft of fieldwork project is due to Blackboard Thursday, 10 November Intro to foodways module. Fieldwork project workshop guidelines and match-ups. FNT: Reading TBA (distributed 10 November). Post annotated rough draft of fieldwork project to Blackboard (yes, Blackboard) by 5:00 p.m. Friday 11 November. Workshop assigned drafts prior to class time on Thursday 17 November.
Week 13 [FOODWAYS MODULE] Tuesday, 15 November Foodways. Discuss assigned reading. FNT: Workshop assigned rough drafts prior to class time. Thursday, 17 November Discuss rough drafts and revision strategies. Week 14 Tuesday, 22 November NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break Week Thursday, 24 November NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break Week Week 15 [FOODWAYS MODULE] Tuesday, 29 November Conclude Foodways module. Assignments/activities TBD. FNT: work on revising your fieldwork project. Thursday, 1 December No class due to English and Linguistics Senior Seminar Conference. Either today or tomorrow, you must attend at least three presentations (typically one panel), with a folklore theme if possible. Post your summary/response to Weebly following guidelines.
Week 16 Tuesday, 6 December Revised Fieldwork project due. Fieldwork Prezis shared in class. Thursday, 8 December Fieldwork Prezis shared in class. Final exam prep. Course evaluations.