Syllabus

DATE

CLASSWORK

HOMEWORK DUE

UNIT I -

Rhetorical Analysis / Questioning Women’s Roles

Mon

14 Jan

FIRST CLASS DAY

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Wed

16 Jan

Computer etiquette - Intro to Feminism

WRITING ASSIGNMENT - Am I a Feminist?  Why / Why not? 
READING -  Pisan - City of Ladies - pkt.

Fri

18 Jan

Intro to Rhetoric & Does/Says analysis

READING - Rhetoric - Reading Arguments (NOT "Reading & Writing Arguments", which comes from a different textbook!)- pkt.

Mon

21 Jan

MLK DAY - NO CLASS

Wed

23 Jan

 Misogyny & Wollstonecraft

READING - Wollstonecraft - Ch 4 & 6 - pkt. WRITING ASSIGNMENT - complete does/says analysis of pg 33-34 (the last paragraph on pg 34 continues onto the next page - finish it) from your Wollstonecraft reading in the pkt.  (pg #s are my own)

Fri

25 Jan

Wollstonecraft cont'd - brief intro to Lines of Argument

Make a 1-paragraph summary of the section of Wollstonecraft that you analyzed last night; then make a 1-sentence summary.  Use the procedure described on page 272 of your pkt.

Mon

28 Jan

Lines of Argument

READING - C. Bronte - Jane Eyre - online  
A. Grimke - "Human Rights" - pkt.
Rhetoric - Lines of Argument - pkt.

Wed

30 Jan

Lines of Argument / Sexual Codes / Morality

WRITING ASSIGNMENT - identify the predominant line of argument in each paragraph of the Claflin text.  Provide a brief justification for your identification. READING - Gaskell - Ruth - pkt.
Claflin - "The Elixir of Life" - FEHW

Fri

1 Feb

Mon

4 Feb

Logical Fallacies / Intra-Sex Misogyny

READING - Eliot - "Silly Novels" - pkt
Martineau on Wollstonecraft - pkt.
Gissing - Odd Women 214-7 - pkt.

Wed

6 Feb

Logical Fallacies / Anti-Feminism

READING - Linton - "The Modern Revolt" - pkt.
Edgeworth - Belinda - pkt
Chapter 8 - Logical Fallacies - Elements of Reasoning

Fri

8 Feb

Logical Fallacies

WRITING ASSIGNMENT - Locate any 6 logical fallacies in any of the readings from Eliot to Powhele.  Provide a quotation and a sentence of justification.  READING - Powhele - "The Unsex'd Female" - online  
Linton - Wild Women series - pkt.

Mon

11 Feb

Tone & Language / Radicalism

WRITING ASSIGNMENT - Does/Says Analysis for Rhet Analy paper    READING - Pankhurst - "I Incite this Meeting to Rebellion" & "When Civil War is Waged by Women" - FEHW

Wed

13 Feb

Plagiarism

WRITING ASSIGNMENT - Write 1 paragraph for each Pankhurst article, discussing its tone & language.  READING - 
Tennyson - The Princess - pkt.

Fri

15 Feb

Peer Evals

ROUGH DRAFTS DUE

Mon

18 Feb

Tone & Language / Education

READING - Wollstonecraft - pg 24-34 - pkt.
C Macaulay - pkt.
Browning - Aurora Leigh - pkt.  

Wed

20 Feb

Visual Arguments - Writing Assignment / Clothes  

READING - Amelia Bloomer - pkt.
Linton - "The Girl of the Period" - pkt.  

Fri

22 Feb

 Visual Arguments / Writing Assignment - analyze one piece of your wardrobe

FINAL DRAFTS DUE

UNIT II – Definitional Arguments / What is a Woman?

Mon

25 Feb

What is a definitional argument?

READING - William Lloyd Garrison letter - pkt.
Declaration of Rights and Sentiments - FEHW

Wed

27 Feb

More intro to definitional - brainstorm important definitional issues for feminism

Definitional Arguments in Elements of Reasoning

Fri

1 Mar

Selecting Criteria / Being Single

READING - Stanton - "Solitary Self" - FEHW
Frances Power Cobbe - "Celibacy v Marriage" - pkt.

Mon

4 Mar

Toulmin / Birth Control

READING - Sanger - Woman & the New Race - FEHW

Wed

6 Mar

READING - Butler - Autobiography & "Lovers of the Lost" - pkt.

Fri

8 Mar

Logical Fallacies Review

Mon

11 Mar

SPRING BREAK

Wed

13 Mar

SPRING BREAK

Fri

15 Mar

SPRING BREAK

Mon

18 Mar

Research Resources

Wed

20 Mar

Vocation

READING - Browning - Aurora Leigh - pkt.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT - Prospectus for Definitional Argument

Fri

22 Mar

Mon

25 Mar

Religion

Women's Studies tour of the PCL - meet at the Information Desk in the lobby of the PCL at 10 sharp!

Wed

27 Mar

Rough Drafts / Peer Evals

Fri

29 Mar

Web Work

Mon

1 Apr

Web Work

Wed

3 Apr

Final Drafts Due / Web Work

UNIT III – Research / Questioning Women’s Status

Fri

5 Apr

Web Work & Issues

Mon

8 Apr

Abolition / Class Webpage Design

READING - Sojourner Truth - "Keeping Things Going" (p128) & "Ain't I a Woman?" (p93) - FEHW
Martineau - Autobiography - pkt.
ASSIGNMENT - Complete Webpage Design Assignment 1

Wed

10 Apr

Web Research / Marriage Laws

READING - Mill - from Ch 2 - pkt.  
Petition 1856 - pkt.

Fri

12 Apr

Marriage Laws 

READING - Caroline Norton - Appeal to Queen Vic - pkt.
Caird - "Marriage" - pkt. ASSIGNMENT - complete Web 3 (& make sure your portal page contains a link to the new page so I can get to it.)

Mon

15 Apr

Men & Feminism   

  READING - Wm Thompson - Appeal of 1-Half of the Human Race - pkt.
Thos. Holcroft - Anna St. Ives - pkt.

Wed

17 Apr

Organizations, Charities, Educational Opportunities...

Fri

19 Apr

Web work

ASSIGNMENT - turn in completed Web 4 by end of day

Mon

22 Apr

Group Work on Web Design

Wed

24 Apr

Web work / Presenations

  2 presentations / vote on web design

Fri

26 Apr

Student Presentations

  5 presentations

Mon

29 Apr

Student Presentations

  5 presentations

Wed

1 May

Student Presentations

  5 presentations

Fri

3 May

Student Presentations

  5 presentations / HTML pages due & Web  5

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