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Asian American Literature Winter 2012

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Asian American Literature Winter 2012 Class Schedule

Week	Date	This Week's Topics	Assignments Due
Unit I: Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Histories and Struggles
1	1/9/12	Intros Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, "Making Guacamole" The Latehomecomer up to the end of Part III "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine"	Blogs
2	1/16/12	Individual, Family and Collective Stories Holiday Monday, January 16 Finish The Latehomecomer Quiz on Wednesday, January 18	Blogs
3	1/23/12	Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Struggles "For the Women," "Without Names," and "Sa-I-Gu" Excerpt from Stealing Buddha's Dinner Excerpt from Rolling The R's, "Apologies," and "Hawai'i and the United Nations" Quiz on Wednesday, January 25	Blogs
4	1/30/12	You, Your Family, and History Essay on The Latehomecomer due on Monday, January 30 Quiz on Monday, January 30 Telling Your Story Part I presentations on Wednesday, February 1 Telling Your Story Part I write-up due on Wednesday, February 1 Form research groups for analytical essays/oral histories	Essay on The Latehomecomer Telling Your Story Part I Blogs
5	2/6/12	Discrimination, Prison, ICE Angel Island Poems, excerpt from Citizen 13660, "Breaking Silence," "Concentration Constellation," and excerpt from Legends from Camp Excerpt from America is in the Heart, "Still Good at Sitting Down" Quiz on Wednesday, February 8	Blogs
6	2/13/12	Migrant Labor and the Asian American Movement Excerpt from I-Hotel, "Slicing Silence," "When I Was Growing Up," and "In Search of the Self As Hero" Quiz on Wednesday, February 15	Blogs
7	2/20/12	Post-1965 Holiday Monday, 2/20 "War Zone," "A Seeker and a Fighter," "No Spokesperson," "Koreans: Population, Gender Ratio, and Family Formation," and "From Refugees to Americans: Thirty Years of Vietnamese Immigration to the United States" Exam Review	Blogs
8	2/27/12	Mid-Term Exam and Analytical Essays/Oral Histories Midterm exam on Monday, February 27	Midterm Exam Analytical Essay Oral Histories Blogs
Unit II: Making Our Cultures
9	3/5/12	New Media and Self-Expression Analytical Essays due Wednesday, March 7 YouTube presentations on Wednesday, March 7	YouTube Assignment
10	3/12/12	New Media and Self-Expression YouTube presentations on Monday, March 12 Oral History screenings Monday, March 12 and Wednesday, March 17	Oral History Projects
11	3/19/12	Telling Your Story Part II Presentations Monday, March 19 and Wednesday, March 21	Telling Your Story Part II
12	3/28/12	Course Wrap-up Exam Review Monday, March 26 Final Exam Wednesday, March 28, 11:30-1:30	Final Exam