Asian American Literature Winter 2011

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Asian American Literature Winter 2011

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Community Service Learning Projects

Review Sheet for Exam 1

Review Sheet for Exam 2

Week	Date	This Week's Topics	Assignments Due
1	1/3/11	Intros Who are Asian Americans? Survey, Census Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, "Making Guacamole"	Blogs
Unit I: Immigrant Families, Struggles and Contributions
2	1/10/11	Historical Consciousness The Latehomecomer Prologue, Part I, Part II (pp. 1-210) Quiz on Wednesday, January 12 E-mail me which CSL project you want to do before Monday, January 17	Blogs
3	1/17/11	Immigrant Struggles and Contributions Holiday January 17 (no class) The Latehomecomer Part IV and Epilogue (pp. 211-274) Quiz on Wednesday, January 19	Blogs
4	1/24/11	You, Your Family and Historical Events R. Zamora Linmark and Li-Young Lee Telling Your Story Groups	Blogs Formal essay on The Latehomecomer Telling Your Story Part I Presentations
Unit II: Migration History
5	1/31/11	Discrimination, Prison, ICE Angel Island Poems Mine Okubo, Lawson Fusao Inada, Janice Mirikitani	Blogs Extra Credit Assignment 1
6	2/7/11	Migrant Labor and the Asian American Movement Carlos Bulosan, Philip Vera Cruz Daniel Tsang, Karen Yamashita	Blogs Extra Credit Assignment 2
7	2/14/11	Transition Marilyn Chin, Nellie Wong Mid-term exam on Wednesday, 2/16	Blogs
Unit III: New Social Movements and Decolonization
8	2/21/11	Community Organizing and Entrepreneurialism	Blogs
9	2/28/11	Mainstream Media and Media from Below le thi diem thuy, Dong Hwan Ku and Youn Jae Kim	Blogs Analytical Essay
10	3/7/11	Colonization and Decolonization	IWD CSL Reflection
11	3/14/11	Telling Your Story Part II	Telling Your Story Part II
12	3/21/11	Final Exam VOICES on Monday, March 21 Final exam on Friday, March 25, 11:30-1:30	VOICES VOICES CSL Reflection