Honors 4920 Weber Reads Douglas

Honors 4920 Weber Reads Douglass and Jacobs
Class Schedule

(subject to change with notification)

Class Sessions

Campus Presentations

12:30 PM in Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein Room

Activities

January 4 --Introductions
	January 11 "Slave Narratives"
January 18		response paper, peer reviewed. Final due: January 25 lunch in the Wildcat Room
	January 25 "Harlem Renaissance" post-presentation discussion

February 2		response paper, peer reviewed. Final due: February 8 discussion of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
	February 8 "Slavery and the Law in America" post-presentation discussion
February 15		response paper, peer reviewed. Final due: February 22 oral presentations From the National Humanities Center: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs: American Slave Narrators and How to Read a Slave Narrative *Campbell, Donna M. "The Slave Narrative." Literary Movements. Dept. of English, Washington State University* PBS series Slavery in America
	February 22 "Traditions in African American Education" post-presentation discussion

March 1

The Atlantic Monthly collected in 1995 several articles published in that magazine including those by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. duBois.

March 8 "New Scholarship on Harriet Jacobs"

Spring Break

March 22 "Readers' Theater"

post-presentation discussion

March 29

Frederick Douglass, When the Lion Wrote History

April 5 "Reconstruction"

post-presentation discussion

April 12

Lunch at 1:00 at Karen's -- 25th Street, Ogden

Yellen, Harriet Jacobs, A Life