Seminar 1 texts
- Reader (XanEdu, ISBN TBA)
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Tredennick, (Penguin Classics, ISBN 9780140449495)
- Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, (One World, TBA)
- Spiegelman, Maus I & II (Random House, Maus I (9780394747231) and Maus II (9780679729778)
- Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, trans. Fagles (Penguin Classics, 9780140444254)
- Additional readings by Trimble on Moodle
- Online readings: Jemisin
FEBRUARY
TUESDAY 8 Seminar Classroom Mission Statement (2019)
THURSDAY 10 Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973)
TUESDAY 15 Jemisin “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” (2018)
THURSDAY 17 Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence” (1775) Stanton “Declaration of Sentiments.” (1848)
TUESDAY 22 Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own“, ch. 3 (1929)
THURSDAY 24 Morrison, “Lecture and Speech” (1993)
MARCH
TUESDAY 1 Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave” (360 BC)
THURSDAY 3 Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” (1984)
TUESDAY 8 Goodall, “The Mind of a Chimpanzee,” “Power,” “Change,” and “War” (1990)
THURSDAY 10 Sophocles, Antigone (440 BC)
TUESDAY 15 King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
THURSDAY 17 Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964)
THURSDAY 22 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 1 (330 BC)
TUESDAY 24 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 2
THURSDAY 29 Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, chs. 1-3 (2019))
THURSDAY 31 Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, chs. 4-5
APRIL
TUESDAY 5 Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, chs. 10-11
THURSDAY 7 Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, chs. 12-13
TUESDAY 12 EASTER
THURSDAY 14 RECESS
THURSDAY 19 Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, chs. 14-15
TUESDAY 21 US Supreme Court, Korematsu v. United States (1944)
THURSDAY 26 Borges “The South” (1953)
THURSDAY 28 Spiegelman, Maus (Vol. 1) (1980)
MAY
TUESDAY 3 Spiegelman, Maus (Vol 2) (1991)
THURSDAY 5 Five poems about education
TUESDAY 10 Galileo, The Starry Messenger (1610)
THURSDAY 19 Confucius, The Analects, Books 1, 2, 4 & 5 (479 – 221 BC)