1. Week 1
Set up Facebook
Introductions (profile and comments)
Week 2 – 1950’s
Teenage Revolution
Formation of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Race relations in the 1950’s
Due Friday: Kent State Journal
Week 3 – 1960’s
Introduction to civil rights and women’s rights movements
British Invasion
Motown
Woodstock
Due Monday: Teen Revolution Lyric Analysis
Due Wednesday: Kent State Journal
Due Friday: Reading Response Journal
Week 4 – 1960’s
Introduction to counterculture and anti-war movements
Folk revival
Due Monday: Civil Rights or Women’s Rights Movements Lyric Analysis
Due Wednesday: Kent State Journal
Due Friday: Reading Response Journal
Week 5 – 1970’s
Punk Movement Philosophies
Due Monday: Counterculture or Anti-War Movement Lyric Analysis
Due Wednesday: Kent State Journal
Due Friday: Reading Response Journal
Week 6 – 1980’s/1990’s
Hip Hop Culture
Due Monday: Choose a punk movement philosophy lyric analysis
Due Wednesday: Kent State Journal
Due Friday: Reading Response Journal
Week 7 – Wrap up Rock ‘n’ Roll / Transition to lit. circles
Introduce Critical Lenses/How to read with lenses
Feminism
Choose Lit. Circle Books
Due Monday: Hip Hop movement philosophy lyric analysis
Due Friday: Biography video review
Week 8 – Lit. Circles
2. Psychoanalysis
Due Monday: Final Project for Rock ‘n’ Roll Movements
Due Wednesday: Feminist lyric analysis
Due Friday: Online Lit. Circles responses
Psychoanalytic response to a film (TBD)
Week 9 – Lit. Circles
Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction
Due Monday:
Due Wednesday: Post-Structuralist lyric analysis
Due Friday: Online Lit. Circles responses
Post-Structuralist response to a film (TBD)
Week 10 – Lit. Circles
Existentialism
Assign final exam for lit. circles
Due Monday: Final Project for Rock ‘n’ Roll Movements
Due Wednesday: Existentialist lyric analysis
Due Friday: Online Lit. Circles responses
Existentialist response to a film (TBD)
Week 11 – Film Study
Marxism
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Due Friday: Online Lit. Circles take-home exam due
Marxist response to CCF
Week 12 – Finals
Divide up critical lenses
Matrix
Critical Lens Matrix Response
Final reflective piece on identity (due last day)
