Final Action List

• Email Opinion Essay Five to me by noon on Wednesday, May 5; I will not accept late essays for any reason.

Action List for Wednesday, April 28

• "Playing Dress-Up: Digital Fashion and Gamic Extensions of Televisual Exper
  ience in Gossip Girl's Second Life" by Louisa Stein
• Complete DWA #14.
• Decide which of the first three opinion essays you want to revise and start revising; do not forget the instructions in the prompt.
• Decide if you are going to attend the final extra credit opportunities next week or not.

Action List for Monday, April 26

• Read "Fashioning Race for the Free Market on America’s Next Top Model" by Amy Adele Hasinoff.
• Complete DWA #13.
• Decide which of the first three opinion essays you want to revise and start revising; do not forget the instructions in the prompt.
• Decide if you are going to attend the final extra credit opportunities next week or not.

Action List for Wednesday, April 21

• Read "Barbie-Q" by Sandra Cisneros, "Soft Targets" by Essex Hemphill, "Call Me Barbie" by Gregg Shapiro, "Barbie Hunts through Medical Books Looking for What is Wrong with Her When She Sees Her Birth Date in a Book, Knows She's over 30" by Lyn Lifshin, and "Barbie Wonders about Buying a Coffin" by Lyn Lifshin.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #10 (the last reading quiz of the course!).
• Decide which of the first three opinion essays you want to revise and start revising.
• Decide if you are going to attend the final extra credit opportunities next week or not.

Action List for Monday, April 19

• Email Opinion Essay Four to me by noon on Friday, April 16.
• Read "Men with a Message" by Alessandra Stanley and "Masculinity in a Spray Can" by Jan Hoffman.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #9.

Action List for Wednesday, April 14

• Read "A Down Low Dirty Shame" by Joshunda Sanders and Chapter One from Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America by Keith Boykin. 
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #8.
• Find the article you plan to use for Opinion Essay Four (due this Friday).

Action List for Monday, April 12

• Read Robert E. Jensen's Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (to end).
• Complete DWA #12.
• Find an article for and begin planning Opinion Essay Four.

Action List for Wednesday, April 7

• Remember that the last day to drop a class, change from P/NP to a grade, or change from a grade to P/NP is Tuesday, April 6.
• Read Robert Jensen's Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (to pg. 77).
• Complete DWA #11.

Action List for Monday, April 5

• Email Opinion Essay Three to me by noon on Friday, April 2.
• Read chapters one and twelve from Stiffed by Susan Faludi (on Blackboard).
• Complete DWA #10.

Action List for Wednesday, March 31

• Read The Complete Persepolis (to the end).
• Complete DWA #9.
• Draft your third opinion essay and ask me any relevant questions that arise for you.
• Download or print the sections of Getting Off for next Wednesday (the DWA that day will be a DEJ).

Action List for Monday, March 29

• Read The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (to pg. 179).
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #7 (pay attention to family members and those who are killed or die as well as major events).
• Start searching for articles for Opinion Essay Three.
• Email me or stop by my office to find out where you stand with quizzes and DWA grades. 
• If you wish to complete next Wednesday's DWA early, I have posted it with the other DWA prompts.

Action List for Wednesday, March 24

• Read The Abandoned Baobab (to the end).
• Complete DWA #8.
• Start searching for articles for Opinion Essay Three.
• Email me or stop by my office to find out where you stand with quizzes and DWA grades.

Action List for Monday, March 22

• Read The Abandoned Baobab (to pg. 86).  Be aware that we are reading two books right after break. While neither is that difficult (and one is more pictures than words), you may want to read more over the break than what is due for Monday.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #6.

Action List for Wednesday, March 10

• Read "Eating the Other" by bell hooks.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #5.

Action List for Monday, March 8

There is no class meeting on Wednesday, March 3; that was the catch-up day I built into the course that we have not needed.

• Email Opinion Essay Two to me anytime from 2:45 PM on Monday, March 1, to noon on Friday, March 5.
• Read "Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism" by Chandra Talpade Mohanty.
• Complete DWA #7.

Action List for Monday, March 1

• Decide how you are going to get Getting Off and get it.
• Read "Introduction" by Rebecca Walker, "And Then We Were Poly" by Jenny Block, and "Like Family" by Min Jin Lee.
• Complete DWA #6.

Action List for Wednesday, February 24

• Read "La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" by Gloria Anzaldúa and "Playfullness, 'World'-Traveling, and Loving Perception" by María Lugones.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #4.

Action List for Mnday, February 22

• Email Opinion Essay One to me at any point after class on Wednesday, February 17, but before noon on Friday, February 19 (after that, my late policy as described on the syllabus kicks in).
• Read "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance" by Cheryl Clarke, "A Black Feminist Statement" by The Combahee River Collective, and "Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement" by Barbara Smith.
• Complete DWA #5.

Action List for Wednesday, February 17

• Read "An Open Letter to Mary Daly" by Audre Lorde, "Letter to Ma" by Merle Woo, and "I Paid Very Hard for My Immigrant Ignorance" by Mirtha Quintanales.
• Complete DWA #4.

Action List for Monday, February 15

Even with the canceled class on February 10, I've decided to stick with the course schedule as it is with one change: Opinion Essay One is now due by noon on Friday, February 19.  With all that said, for this coming Monday, everyone needs to do the following things.

• Read the essays by Maria Miller Stewart and Sojourner Truth on Blackboard; bring printed copies or written notes to class (remember that you can print them in Auerbach 109 for free on Thursday from 12:15-1:45 unless campus is closed again).
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #3.
• Draft your opinion essay and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.