ENGL
389.001, MWF 10:00-10:50 a.m. John
D. Kalb
ENGL 389.002, MWF 11:00-11:50 a.m. Office: 350 Holloway Hall, 410-543-6049
CH 111 Hours:
MW 1:00-2:50, TR 1:00-3:15 & by appt.
Fall 2005 email:
jdkalb@salisbury.edu
Topics in
Native American Literature: Native Autobiography & Non-Fiction
Texts: Ella Deloria (Yankton
Sioux), Speaking of Indians
N. Scott
Momaday (Kiowa), The Way to Rainy Mountain
Joseph
Bruchac (Abenaki), Bowman’s Store
Mary Crow
Dog (Lakota) with Richard Erdoes, Lakota Woman
Leslie
Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Linda
Hogan (Chickasaw), Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Jim
Northrup (Anishinaabe), The Rez Road Follies
one
additional text from a list to be distributed to you soon
Course
Objectives: The objectives of the course include:
1) to acquaint students with the autobiographical and
non-fiction writings of some Native American writers and activists;
2) to help students understand some of the historical,
sociological, and philosophical background of the issues of these texts;
3) to foster discussion and active intellectual engagement
with the issues of growing up “Indian” and maintaining one’s “Indianness” in 20th
century America;
4) to introduce students to the fundamental differences
between Native peoples worldview and the common “American” one (especially with
regard to relationship with family, community, the natural and spiritual world,
ceremony and story);
5) to foster interest in additional works by Native writers.
Course
Requirements: You will need to read all assignments before coming to class and come to
class prepared to discuss them. You must bring the text(s) we are reading and
discussing to class. Course grades will be based on the following required
aspects of the course: class preparation & participation, 15 reading
quizzes, two 3-4 page essays, one 5-7 page essay, and a 5-7 minute presentation. Please
note: Failure to complete any of the course requirements may mean failing
the course. None of these requirements
is optional.
Grading: Class
Preparation/Participation 100
total points possible
15
Quizzes @ 10 points possible each 150
total points possible
Two
3-4 page essays @ 150 points possible each 300
total points possible
5-7
page essay 200
total points possible
Presentation 100
total points possible
765-850 = A, 680-764 points = B, 595-679 points = C; 510-594
points = D
Class
Preparation/Participation: The best ways to illustrate that you are an
active, engaged, and interested student are reading all assignments before
coming to class and contributing regularly to class discussions.
Quizzes: You can expect a
brief quiz on any day for which there is a reading assignment. There will be
quizzes on 15 of those dates. Quizzes will consist of questions which should be
easily answerable by anyone who has read the assignment carefully. If you wish
to take a quiz, you must arrive on
time. There will be no make-up quizzes.
If you do not attend class on the day of a quiz or arrive too late to take a
quiz, you forfeit those 10 possible points.
Essays: The first 3-4 page essay, due on Friday, September 23, will
describe and analyze an aspect or issue in one (or both) of the first works–Speaking
of Indians and/or The Way to Rainy Mountain. The second 3-4 page essay, due on Wednesday,
October 19, will describe and analyze an aspect or issue in one (or both) of
the next two texts–Bowman’s Store and/or Lakota Woman. The final
5-7 page essay, due on Friday, December 2, will analytically compare an aspect
or two common to the additional text you read and one of the required texts of
the class. During the final days of the semester, students will make a 5-7
minute presentation about the additional text and the resulting essay. I will
provide more details in separate handouts for each essay assignment.
All of the
essays you submit must be typed, double-spaced, with inch margins on all sides,
and stapled (once) in the upper left hand corner. (PLEASE: No folders, paper clips, ripped and folded corners, or other
"fancy" methods of binding.) These papers should be as error free
as possible. Please carefully proofread
your papers before you turn them in. I prefer that you correct the typos in pen
or pencil yourself rather than leave that task to me.
All papers are
to be turned in on the day indicated on the calendar which follows. Late papers will be graded 10 points lower for
each day they are late. Failure to turn in a paper means failing the
course.
The
numerous writing activities--both informal and formal--indicate that the
instructor is a firm supporter of writing as a means of learning and of SU's
Writing Across the Curriculum policy.
Special Note: All students taking this course to fulfill their
English/Secondary Education [or TESOL] requirement must begin a technology
portfolio and must include at least one paper/project from this course in the
portfolio.
Plagiarism: The English Department takes plagiarism, the unacknowledged
use of other people's ideas, very seriously indeed. As outlined in the Student
Handbook under the "Policy on Student Academic Integrity," plagiarism
may receive such penalties as failure on a paper or failure in the course. The
English Department recognizes that plagiarism is a very serious offense and
professors make their decisions regarding sanctions accordingly. Each of the
following constitutes plagiarism:
1. Turning in as your own work a paper or part of a paper
that anyone other than you wrote. This would include but is not limited to work
taken from another student, from a published author, or from an Internet
contributor.
2. Turning in a paper that includes unquoted and / or
undocumented passages someone else wrote.
3. Including in a paper someone else's original ideas,
opinions or research results without attribution.
4. Paraphrasing without attribution.
5. Turning in
the same paper for credit in more than one class.
A few changes in wording do not make a passage your
property. As a precaution, if you are in doubt, cite the source. Moreover, if
you have gone to the trouble to investigate secondary sources, you should give
yourself credit for having done so by citing those sources in your essay and by
providing a list of Works Cited or Works Consulted at the conclusion of the
essay. In any case, failure to provide proper attribution could result in a
severe penalty and is never worth the risk.
In addition to
the submission of actual printed essays for grading, students in this course
will also be required to submit their formal essays electronically to www.turnitin.com.
Attendance: I expect to be here
every day and hope you will do the same. Your success in the course will be
contingent upon your preparation for and participation in class sessions. You
may miss three classes (for whatever reason) without direct penalty. Each day
you miss beyond those three “freebies” will reduce your overall points as
follows: : -25 points for the third day, - 50 for the fourth, -75 for the
fifth, and so on. (That’s not minus 75 points for missing those three extra
days; that’s minus 150 points. So if you have a schedule conflict with this
course, you should select a course that better fits your schedule.) Remember
that YOU are responsible for meeting deadlines and making up any missed work.
I will, of
course, also expect you to arrive promptly for class and stay for the duration
of each session. Schedule your other
activities around this course, not vice versa.
In addition, students who come to class ill-prepared (i.e., without the
novel we’re discussing, having not read the assignment) may be asked to leave
the classroom and invited to return another day on which they are better
prepared. Please turn your cell phones and pagers OFF before entering the
classroom.
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:50, TR
1:00-3:15. These times are set aside for
you; don't hesitate to take full advantage of my availability at that time. Please feel free to speak with me about any
concerns or interests during those hours or, if those times are inconvenient,
by appointment.
Assignment
Calendar
Aug. 29 Introduction to course
31 Introduction ctd.
Sept. 2 Deloria, Speaking of Indians
(Introduction and Part I; through page 23)
5 Labor Day – No Class
7 Speaking of Indians (Part II;
through page 74)
9 Speaking of Indians (Part III;
through page 135)
12 Speaking of Indians (to end)
14 Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
(Preface, Prologue, Introduction
&
“The Setting Out”; through page 41)
16 The Way to Rainy Mountain (“The
Going On”; through page 63)
19 The Way to Rainy Mountain (to end)
21 Last Stand at Little Big Horn (video)
23 Last Stand at Little Big Horn
(video)
Paper #1 Due
26 Bruchac, Bowman’s Store (Foreward
and chapters 1-4; through page 44)
28 Bowman’s Store (through chapter
12; through page 114)
30 Bowman’s Store (through chapter
20; through page 173)
Oct. 3 Bowman’s Store (through chapter
28; through page 237)
5 Bowman’s
Store (to end)
7 Crow Dog, Lakota Woman (through
chapter 4; through page 54)
10 Lakota Woman (through chapter 8;
through page 127)
12 Lakota Woman (through chapter 13;
through page 198)
14 Lakota Woman (to end)
17 Incident at Oglala (video)
19 Incident at Oglala (video)
Paper #2 Due
21 Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of
the Spirit (Introduction through page 47)
24 Yellow Woman (through page 91)
26 Yellow Woman (through page 123)
28 Yellow Woman (through page 165)
31 Yellow Woman (to end)
Nov. 2 Surviving Columbus (video)
4 Surviving Columbus (video)
7 Hogan, Dwellings (Preface through
page 46)
9 Dwellings (through page 98)
10 Dwellings (through page124)
14 Dwellings (to end)
In
the Light of Reverence (video)
16 In the Light of Reverence (video)
18 Northrup, The Rez Road Follies
(through page 97)
21 Rez Road Follies (through page
155)
23 Thanksgiving Break – No Class
25 Thanksgiving Break – No Class
28 Rez Road Follies (through page
207)
30 Rez Road Follies (to end)
Dec. 2 Paper
#3 Due
Presentations
5 Presentations
7 Presentations
9 Presentations
Final Exam period (Although we won’t have a final exam, we
will meet for remaining presentations during this time):
ENGL 389.001, Friday,
December 16, 8:00 -
ENGL
389.002, Monday, December 12,
This schedule
of assignments is, of course, subject to change.