Week 1 (Jan 22-24): Sound and Rhythm
Listen to Mackey (in class)
Mackey
Braithwaite
Week 2 (Jan 29-31): Sound and Rhythm
Hughes
Reed
Taggart
Lange
Response 1 due Jan 31
Week 3 (Feb 5-7): Poetry as Performance
Coleman
Thomas
Baraka
Cortez
Response 2 due Feb 7
Friday Feb 8, 8:00 pm: Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
Week 4 (Feb 12-14): Sound and Rhythm
Hughes
Reed
Taggart
Lange
Essay 1 due Feb 14
Week 5 (Feb 19-21): Poetic Image
Spicer
Kaufman
Response 3 due Feb 21
Week 6 (Feb 26-28): Narrative Structure:Poetry
Harper
Narrative Structure:Fiction
Baldwin
Response 4 due Feb 28
Week 7 (March 4-6): Prep for Midterm exam
Midterm exam March 6
Sunday March 9, 7:00 pm: Monterey Jazz Festival. Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
Week 8 (March 11-13):Spring Break
Saturday, March 15, 3:00 pm: Army Blues Jazz Ensemble National Trumpet
Competition. Harris Theater.
Week 9 (March 18-20): Fiction: Novel
Begin Kerouac On the Road
Response 5 due March 20
Wednesday March 19, 8:00 pm: GMU Jazz Ensemble. Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
Week 10 (March 25-27): Fiction: Novel
Continue Kerouac On the Road
Response 6 due March 27
Week 11 (April 1-3):
Fiction: Novel
Finish Kerouac On the Road
Response 7 due April 3
Week 12 (April 8-10): Fiction: Memoir and nonfiction
Young
Dawson
Essay 2 Due April 10
Week 13 (April 15-17): Fiction: Novel
Powers "He Don't Plant Cotton"
Cartiér "Be-Bop, Re-Bop"
Response 8 due April 17
Week 14 (April 22-24)
Dual-Submission Essay Peer Review
Dual Submission Essay due April 24
Week 15 (April 29-May 1): Review
Prep for Final Exam
In class exam May 1st