back to Fil-Am Lit.

reading schedule:

Tues. 2/3 read: "Talk to Me Milagros" p. 31 HWAS

Thurs. 2/5 read: "Her Wild American Self" p 67, "Lectures on How You Never Lived Back Home" p 83 HWAS

Tues. 2/10 read: "Figures" p 87,"Our Fathers" p 109, "Contravida" p 123  HWAS

Thurs. 2/12 read: "Miss Teenage Sampaguita" p 139, "Filming Sausage" p 157

Reading Journal #1 due (from above readings)

Tues. 2/17 read, "The Look-Alike Women" p 11, "Rose Colored" p 13, "Mix Like Stir Fry" p 181

Reading Journal #2 due (from above readings)

Thurs. 2/19 read first chapter in When the Elephants Dance

Tues. 2/24 read chapter two in When the Elephants Dance

Thurs. 2/26 finish section I in When the Elephants Dance

Reading Journal #3 due from When the Elephants Dance (100 words, post to weblog)

Tues. 3/2  in class read:  "Tongue Tied" p 141 (from RABT)

Thurs. 3/4 read:  "Alphabet Soup (Mimicry as a Second Language)" p 147, "Unlearning English" p. 152, "Scrambled Eggs and Garlic Pork" p. 159 (all in RABT) Reading Journal #4 from poems (post 100 to weblog for your journal and then 100 words in comments on other journals)

Tues. 3/8

Thurs. 3/11

Tues. 3/16  WTED read to page 207, RABT read poems pp. 3-10, 12-13

Topic card due for Oral/Visual Project, essay proposal due (plus 2 or 3 rough thesis statements)

Happy Birthday to Joanne and Stephen!

Thurs. 3/18  WTED read to page to page 235 (up to "The Twilight People")

Tues. 3/23 WTED read to page 266 (up to "Carlito's Journey")--last day to submit journal blog # 5 (the 100 word commentary should  be for any journal posted between Wed. 3/17 and today)

Rough draft of essay #1(bring 3 copies for peer review)

Thurs. 3/25 WTED read to page 300

Tues. 3/30 WTED read to page 368 (congratulations, you've finished the book!)--last day to submit journal blog # 6 (the 100 word commentary should be for any journal posted between Wed. 3/24 and today)

Final draft of essay #1

Thurs. 3/31 Read short story and poetry handouts

Tues. 4/6  Read short story and poetry handouts--last day to submit journal blog # 7 (the 100 word commentary should be for any journal posted between Wed. 3/31 and today)

Wed. 4/7   "Meet Me in St. Louis: Filipinos at the 1904 World's Fair"   2 to 4 pm • Room 1-111

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Tues. 4/20 Read handouts--last day to submit journal blog # 8  (400 word journal entry and 100 word commentary on any journal posted between Wed. 4/7 and today)

first project presentations:  Stephen, Hazel and Virtue

Thurs. 4/22 read handouts "Be American" and "Quicker with Arrows" meet in class, discuss the readings

Tues. 4/27  read handouts:  "Song of Pajaro" "Tobera"  "Mussle Rock/Lowtide--Santa Cruz, California 1959" and "Alan Valeriano Sees a Lynch Mob" meet in regular computer lab for part I of midterm quiz 

Thurs. 4/29 read handouts:  "Beauty Lesson" "Heaven is Just Another Country" meet in classroom for part II of midterm quiz part III of midterm quiz

Tues. 5/3  presentations:

Thurs. 5/6

Tues. 5/11 go over poems and midterm in class

Thurs. 5/13 The following people will present their projects:

Tues. 5/18 prep for final exam

Thurs. 5/20 The following people will present their projects:

Thursday 5/27 8:10-10:40 Final Exam