Syllabus
January 12 Course introduction Avoiding plagiarism
January 14

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” MR 370-376

  
January 17 King Holiday  
January 19 Martin Luther King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” MR 376-390 Reading critically
January 21

Adam Fairclough, Teaching Equality, Ch. 1

  
January 24 Fairclough, Ch. 2  
January 26 Fairclough, Ch. 3 Writing process and Analysis
January 28 Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize, Ch. 1  
January 31 Brown decision, Southern Manifesto, Griffin decision Mississippi Burning
February 2 James C. Cobb, The Brown Decision, Ch. 1 Thesis statements
February 4 Cobb, Ch. 2  
February 7 Cobb, Ch. 3  
February 9 Draft workshop Hank Klibanoff Reading
February 11 Draft workshop Paper 1 due
February 14 Melba Patillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry, 1-51  
February 16 Beals, 52-105  
February 18 No class  
February 21

Beals, 106-154

  
February 23 Beals, 155-203 Paragraph development
February 25 Beals, 204-261  
February 28 Beals, 262-312  
March 2 Draft workshop  
March 4 Draft workshop Paper 2 due
March 7 Spring Break  
March 9 Spring Break  
March 11 Spring Break  
March 14 Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation, 1-62  
March 16 Kozol, 63-108  
March 18 Kozol, 109-160  
March 21 Kozol, 161-214 4 Little Girls
March 23 Kozol, 215-264 Common errors
March 25 Kozol, 265-317  
March 28 Draft workshop  
March 30 Draft workshop Paper 3 due
April 1 Library workshop  
April 4

Scavenger hunt

  
April 6

John Hope Franklin, “Jim Crow Goes to School”

 MLA Documentation
Tony Grooms Reading
April 8 Richard King, “The Brown Decades”  
April 11 Mary Doyle, “From Desegregation to Resegregation”  
April 13 Draft Workshop Annotated Bibliography Due
April 15 Oral History Workshop  
April 18 Washington Library  
April 20 Washington Library  
April 22 Good Friday  
April 25 Group Work  
April 27 Group Work  
April 29 Draft workshop Final project due