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PRESENTATION SIGN-UP SHEET Please note, these topics are only suggestions. You are free to do your presentation on any aspect of the reading that interests you. You need not choose your specific topic now, but you must get your topic approved by me within a week before you're due to make your presentation. Date
Reading
1
9/8
On the Road, part I
2
9/10
On the Road, part II
3
9/15
4
9/17
On the Road, part III On the Road, parts IV-V Blue Highways
5
9/22
6
9/22
7
10/14
8
10/15
9
10/15
"Why I Ride" "The Annihilation of Time and Space"
"Lessons of the Golden Spike"
John Henry Days 10 10/20
Possible Topics Jack Kerouac (biographical information), the "Beat Generation" including info about Allen Ginsburg and other Kerouac contemporaries, be-bop and jazz music of the 1950s, mainstream culture in the 1950s (growth of suburbs, post-War return to domesticity and pre-war gender roles) Heat-Moon (biographical information), "Ghost Dancing" rituals in Native American culture the role of women in Mormon life, the Mormon Trail The actual building of the railroad (how was track laid? How did tunnels get built through mountains?), the various private railroad companies (Union Pacific, Western Pacific, etc), A.J. Russel's famous photograph, Chinese immigration and the building of the railroad, Sitting Bull's protest in battle Convict leasing and the building of the railroads, John Henry (the song), John Henry (the person)
Name
Jon DeLorme Justin Wu
Adele Kibbe India Greene Tiffany Riley
Hai Yung Chen
O'Dalys Grenald
11 10/22
Housekeeping, ch 1-3
12 10/27
Housekeeping, ch 4-6
13 10/29 14 11/3
Housekeeping, ch 7-8 Housekeeping, ch 9-11
15 11/12
Aloft, ch 1-2
16 11/17
Aloft, ch 3-5
17 11/19
Aloft, ch 6-8
18 11/24
Aloft, ch 9-10
19 11/26
Aloft, ch 11-end
Marilynne Robinson (biographical info), Robinson's classical allusions (the fall of ancient Carthage, mythology of ancient Sparta) and/or Biblical allusions, the life of "tramps" and hoboes and drifters, the symbolism of the train, the lake, the midwestern landscape Chang-rae Lee (biographical info), Skyhawk airplanes, the Italian migration from the city to Long Island, Lee's use of symbolism (distance, travel, viewing from afar), postmodernism/Theresa's literary influences, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, bipolar disorder, Lee's narrative approach to race
Sephoen Tsang Monique Simpson Rinzin Thapa Magar Stephanie Grullon Edward Ayzenburg Kenny Chen David Segal Keli Cooper Yolexia Rogers
Reading
1
9/8
On the Road, part I
2
9/10
On the Road, part II
3
9/15
4
9/17
On the Road, part III On the Road, parts IV-V Blue Highways
5
9/22
6
9/22
7
10/14
8
10/15
9
10/15
"Why I Ride" "The Annihilation of Time and Space"
"Lessons of the Golden Spike"
John Henry Days 10 10/20
Possible Topics Jack Kerouac (biographical information), the "Beat Generation" including info about Allen Ginsburg and other Kerouac contemporaries, be-bop and jazz music of the 1950s, mainstream culture in the 1950s (growth of suburbs, post-War return to domesticity and pre-war gender roles) Heat-Moon (biographical information), "Ghost Dancing" rituals in Native American culture the role of women in Mormon life, the Mormon Trail The actual building of the railroad (how was track laid? How did tunnels get built through mountains?), the various private railroad companies (Union Pacific, Western Pacific, etc), A.J. Russel's famous photograph, Chinese immigration and the building of the railroad, Sitting Bull's protest in battle Convict leasing and the building of the railroads, John Henry (the song), John Henry (the person)
Name
Jon DeLorme Justin Wu
Adele Kibbe India Greene Tiffany Riley
Hai Yung Chen
O'Dalys Grenald
11 10/22
Housekeeping, ch 1-3
12 10/27
Housekeeping, ch 4-6
13 10/29 14 11/3
Housekeeping, ch 7-8 Housekeeping, ch 9-11
15 11/12
Aloft, ch 1-2
16 11/17
Aloft, ch 3-5
17 11/19
Aloft, ch 6-8
18 11/24
Aloft, ch 9-10
19 11/26
Aloft, ch 11-end
Marilynne Robinson (biographical info), Robinson's classical allusions (the fall of ancient Carthage, mythology of ancient Sparta) and/or Biblical allusions, the life of "tramps" and hoboes and drifters, the symbolism of the train, the lake, the midwestern landscape Chang-rae Lee (biographical info), Skyhawk airplanes, the Italian migration from the city to Long Island, Lee's use of symbolism (distance, travel, viewing from afar), postmodernism/Theresa's literary influences, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, bipolar disorder, Lee's narrative approach to race
Sephoen Tsang Monique Simpson Rinzin Thapa Magar Stephanie Grullon Edward Ayzenburg Kenny Chen David Segal Keli Cooper Yolexia Rogers
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