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HU 6149 Voices Behind Bars: 
The Literature of Prisons

DATE   IN CLASS WORK

READING/WRITING DUE
1

9/6

  In Class: Introduction to Course/Syllabus/Journal
Freewrite
Introduction: Who�s in Prison?

Get Handouts: MCI Framingham selections

2

9/11:








9/13:

 

In Class: Review Literary Terms/
readings

Get handouts: Douglas/Brent

                                            

In class: Discuss readings
Get handouts: Cleaver & Knight

 Due:MCI Framingham selections

 


Due: Douglas, The.Nature.of.Slavery

Brent..Incident.in.the.Life of.a.Slave.Girl

3
9/18:




9/20:

In class discuss handouts- Cleaver, SOUL ON ICE selections
Etheridge Knight: poetry selections

Introduction to Cheever�s THE FALCONER



Due:AMERICA�S.PRISONS Chapter.1,WHAT.IS.THE PURPOSE.OF.PRISONS?

Journal.Due(#1)
Due:Read.THE.FALCONER(3-41)

4

9/25

9/27:



In class:  Discuss book

No Class

Due:THE.FALCONER(43-133)
5
10/2:


10/4:

  


In class:  Discuss book
paper #1


In class Film
Due:THE.FALCONER.(133-end)
Read.Chap.2.AMERICA'S
PRISON

  

6

10/9:

10/11:

 

 In Class Film

In class: Intro to SHORT EYES (bring book to class)





Paper#1.Due:10/12/01
7

10/16

10/18:

 

In class:  Discuss play

In class: scenes
Get handouts on Kate O'Hare&political prison
poetry

Due:SHORT.EYES.(through Act II)
 Due:SHORT.EYES(Epilogue)
8
10/23:


10/25:


In class film


In class film

 

   

 

Due:AMERICA'S.PRISONS
Chap.3.and.4
Due:handout.political.prison.poetry
JOURNAL.DUE(#2)             

9

10/30:


  

Intro to Women's Issues in class

TO BE CONTINUED

Due:Kate.O'Hare selection.IN.PRISON
 
 
       

9

10/31:In class film

11/2: In class film

10

11/7: Paper #2 due

Get handouts: political prisons

In class-Political prison intro/read poetry and discuss

11/9: Due-Read chapter 2, HOW DO PRISONS AFFECT CRIMINALS?

AMERICA�S PRISONS

Journal Due (#2)

11

11/14: Due-Read handout: O�hare, IN PRISON selections

11/16: Due-Read Political prison handouts: poems from political prisons

12

11/21:Read handout: PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A

NUMBER (Timmerman selection)

Discuss Final Project/Paper

13

11/28:Intro to GETTING OUT & Women�s Issues

Due: Read GETTING OUT (Act I)

12/1: Due: GETTING OUT (Act II &III)

14

12/5: In Class Film

12/7:In Class Film

15

12/12:Chapters 3 &4, AMERICA�S PRISONS

Journal Due(#3) 12/12

12/14: summing up/Framingham video

***FINAL PAPER DUE AT EXAM TIME***