1. Tuesday/
Thursday
EWRT-001B Reading, Writing, and
Research
Homework
Week One
January 6
Introduction Identity: Essay #1 The
Narrative
Class 1
Presentation: Green Sheet; Syllabus;
Website
Lecture: Identity and social expectation
Discussion: What is Identity? When do
we "pass" as someone different from
ourselves?
In-class writing: How do we express our
own identities? How much do we reveal
about ourselves? How do we decide?
Establish: Your Webpage or Username
Explore: The class webpage
Buy or Order: Your books
Post:#1 Finish in-class writing and post it.
Post #2: Write a paragraph or two describing a
time when you were unfairly judged on concrete
identity characteristics. OR
Write a paragraph or two describing a time when
you passed as someone or something you were not.
The passing can be either purposeful or
inadvertent.
Class 2
Presentation: Terms
Discussion: Personal Passing Experience
and Being judged by Concrete Identifiers
Lecture: Essay #1: writing Strategies for
in-class essay #1: The Personal Narrative
In-class writing: Basic Features:
dialogue, description, anecdote, framing,
outlining, significance
Post: #3 Finish in-class writing and post it: Basic
Features: dialogue, description, anecdote, framing,
outlining, significance
Studying: Terms
Presentation: Terms
Introduction to the QHQ
In-class writing exam 1: Narrative
Reading: Hughes: "Passing" and "Passing."
Studying: Terms
Post #4: QHQ: Either the poem or the short story.
Week Two
Jan 13
Class 3
Racial Passing: Essay #2 The Argument
Class 4
Presentation: Terms
Author Lecture: Langston Hughes
QHQ Discussion: Racial Passing:
"Passing" and "Passing"
Lecture: Writing a Directed Summary;
Paraphrasing Poetry
In-class writing: Directed Summary;
paraphrase
Reading: Kennedy "Racial Passing" Posted under
"Secondary Sources."
Post #5: Post directed summary of "Passing" and
paraphrase of "Passing."
Studying: Terms
Post #6: Discuss one story from Kennedy's article
that particularly spoke to you. How did it influence
you in your thinking about passing?

2. Week Three
January 20
Class 5
Class 6
Film Screeening: Racial Passing TBA
Author Lecture: Charles Chesnutt
Exam 1: Vocab and Terms
QHQ Discussion: Kennedy, "The
Passing of Grandison," Film.
Presentation: Introduction to Essay 2:
The Argument
In-Class Writing: Essay 2
Brainstorming
Reading: Chesnutt "The Passing of Grandison"
Post #7: QHQ film
Post #8: QHQ "Grandison"
Studying: Terms
Reading: Hughes: "Who's Passing for Who?"
Post #9 QHQ "Who's Passing for Who?"
Think about Pickens’s statement and whether you
agree with it or not. Consider which texts you
might use to support your beliefs.
Week Four
January 27
Class 7
Discussion: Hughes: "Who's Passing for
Who?"
Presentation: Essay 2: The Argument:
Brainstorming with FREECASH
In-Class Writing: Essay 2 Brainstorming
Author Lecture: Toni Morrison
Reading: Morrison: “Recitatif.”
Post #10: Write a paragraph defending "passing"
with at least three reasons. Write another paragraph
condemning passing using another three reasons.
Use evidence from our readings to defend your
reasons.
Post #11: QHQ "Recitatif"
Class 8
Presentation: Terms List 2
QHQ Discussion: "Recitatif"
Lecture: Thesis statements, outlining,
using evidence, introductions.
In-Class Writing: Essay #2
Reading: Begin Stone Butch Blues (1-65)
Post #12: Post Draft: Introduction, Thesis, Three
body paragraphs (with topic sentences, evidence,
and explanation)
Studying:Vocab/Terms
Presentation: Terms
Lecture: Counterarguments, Conclusions,
MLA format; in-text citations; works
cited page.
In-class writing: Essay 2
Reading: Stone Butch Blues (66-130)
Post #13: Post best 250 words of your essay.
Bring three copies to our next meeting.
Studying:Vocab/Terms
Week Five
February 3
Class 9
Thursday
February 6
Optional Individual Meetings
By Appointment in my office

3. Week Six
February 10
Finishing Essay #2
Class 10
Reading: Stone Butch Blues (131-195)
Post #14: Finish and post essay #2
Presentation: Terms
Post #15: Choose a few lines from Stone Butch
In-class writing: Global Revsion Writing
Blues and explain how and why they stood out to
Workshop Essay 2
you. Be sure to post your quotation above your
Author Lecture: Leslie Feinberg
response
Studying:Terms
Class 11
Edit Essay #2: Submit your essay electronically
before our next class by emailing a copy saved
Surface Revision: Essay #2
in MS word to palmorekim@fhda.edu
Discussion: QHQ: SBB
Reading: Stone Butch Blues (196-End)
In-class writing: Explore a moment
Post #16: Finish in-class writing;
when Jess intentionally passes. How does Post #17: Jess interacts with medical personnel in
this experience change who ze is? How
various ways throughout the novel. Explore an
do you know? Then pick one when ze
experience Jess has with a medical professional.
unintentionally passes. Does this affect hir Does her gender identity influence the treatment
in the same way? How do you know?
she receives or doesn’t receive? Include a
quotation.
Studying: Terms
Week Seven
February 17
Sex/Gender/Orientation Passing: Essay #3
Reponse to literature
Reading: and the Prompt for Essay #3 (find it on
the website)
Post #18: Choose ONE: Find and discuss a
moment Jess resists the larger social construct.
How and why does ze do it? How does it
contribute to the person Jess ultimately becomes?
Do you have evidence? or Find and write about
an instance when Jess is forced to conform to the
dominant social paradigm. How does conforming
(or trying to conform) change hir? What is your
evidence?
Studying: Terms: Exam at next meeting
Class 12
Essay #2 was due before class. If you
did not submit your essay, please see
me after class.
Presentation:Terms
In-class discussion/writing: The Game
Class 13
Exam 2: Terms
Presentation: Introduction to Essay #3
Reading: Begin M Butterfly
How to write a response to literature.
Post # 19: Finish and post in-class writing.
Discussion: Stone Butch Blues
tentative thesis, body paragraphs (topic sentences
In-class writing: thesis and outline; topic and evidence; quotations with explanations).
sentences and paragraphs.

4. Week Eight
February 24
Finish Essay #3
The Trickster: Essay #4 Research Paper
Class 14
Presentation: Terms list 3
Discussion: Essay #3
In-class writing: Essay #3 Directed
Summary, Counterargument, conclusion
Author Lecture: David Henry Hwang
Reading: M Butterfly
Finish in-class writing: Introduction,
Counterargument, and Conclusion
Post #20 Post your counterargument
Bring three complete copies of your draft to our
next meeting.
Class 15
Writing: Revise Essay 3: Submit your essay
electronically before our next class by emailing a
Presentation: Terms
copy saved in MS word to palmorekim@fhda.edu
Peer Revision: You must have three
Studying: Vocab/terms for Exam
copies of your essay. If you do not, you Reading: Hwang's M Butterfly
may leave now to print or copy them. Reading: Helen Lock "Transformation of the
Trickster." A link to the article is posted on our
webpage.
Post # 22 QHQ M Butterfly:
Week Nine
March 3
Class 16
Class 17
The Trickster: Essay #4 Research Paper
Essay #3 Due
Presentation: Terms for Exam 3
Film Screening: TBA
Exam 3: Terms
Presentation: Introduction to Essay #4
Discussion: M Butterfly: Film
"Defining the Trickster" and Locke:
"Transformation of the Trickster."
In-class writing: Evaluating Song as a
Trickster Character
Reading: Defining the Trickster: This is posted
under "Secondary Readings"
Post # 23 QHQ Film
Studying: Terms
Reading: Review primary texts you might use in
your essay.
Post #24: Discuss one or more characters in terms
of one of the traits we discussed in class today. For
example, Jess Goldberg as a “shape shifter” or
“cultural hero”; Grandison as “intellectually
weak”; or Song as “physically weak”; maybe even
the Iowans as “teachers.” Any of them might be
discussed as “agents of change.” Or discuss
“Grandison,” “Recitatif,” and “Who’s Passing as
Who” as Trickster tales in the African American
tradition.
Studying: Terms
Next Class: We will meet in Library Lobby for a
library orientation and an opportunity to do
research for your paper. Please do not be late.

5. Week Ten
March 10
Class 18
Library workshop
Research for Essay #4 Find two or more articles
that will likely work as support for your essay. If
you are feeling benevolent, post the citation for
your article and add a few words about it so others
can decide if it might work for them.
Post #25: Library Project
Post #26: Identify two characters from our
reading who share a common trait or traits. How
are they alike? How might you use them to create a
single thesis that answers the essay 4 prompt?
Reverse/Refusing to Pass Essay #5
Class 19
Vocab Exam Re-take or Make-up
Presentation: Terms List #4
Discussion: Trickster Characters from our
reading
In-class writing: Essay 4: Outline and
thesis
Author Lecture: Sui Sin Far
Reading: Far “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio
of an Eurasian”
Post #27 Outline and thesis for Essay #4
Studying: terms
Film Screening: Reverse Passing: TBA
Reading: Research
Writing: Essay #4
Post #28 QHQ: Far or Film
Studying: Terms
Week Eleven
March 17th
Class 20
Class 21
Presentation: Terms
Discussion: QHQ Far and Film
How and why does Far resist?What are
the social implications of her doing so?
Why do people reverse pass?
Assessing Blogging Responses
Discussion/Writing: Essay #4
Reading: Research
Writing: Finish your research paper! Submit
your essay electronically before the final by
emailing a copy saved in MS word to
palmorekim@fhda.edu
Evaluate your blogging responses. Submit your
evaluation electronically before our next class by
emailing a copy saved in MS word to
palmorekim@fhda.edu
Prepare revision of essay #2 or #3 Submit your
essay electronically before our next class by
emailing a copy saved in MS word to
palmorekim@fhda.edu
Studying: Terms

6. Week Twelve
March 24
Finish Essay #4
Reverse/Refusing to Pass Essay #5
Class 22: Final
Regular class
starts 11:00 a.m.
:: Exam on
Thursday, March
27th: 9:1511:15a.m.
Exam: Terms (Comprehensive)
In-Class Essay #5 (Refusing to
Pass/Reverse Passing)
Research Paper Essay #4 Due
Revision of essay 2 or 3 due
Self-evaluation of blogging responses
Due
NO MORE HOMEWORK FOR 1B!