Catherine Bacon
Assistant Instructor, English Department
Office: PAR 408
Office Hours: T/TH 12:30-1:45 and by appointment
cbacon@mail.utexas.edu
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Catherine Bacon's blogRevisions Exercise (Take 2)You have the same options for your revision exercise this time. The first focuses on organizational issues, and the second on illustrating whether you are providing enough analysis in your paper. Please download the instructions here.
Doll TestThis first clip is a dramatization of the work that Kenneth B. Clark did to show the negative psychological effect which segregation caused to black children. This evidence was important in the Supreme Courts Decision in Brown vs the Board of Education which legally ended segregation in 1954. This is a news clip from recent years of a high-school student that re-enacted the test:
Shirley Temple Dancing with BojanglesReferenced on p. 19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkoT-I5cyVs&feature=related
Revision WorkshopThere are two different options for this exercise. The first focuses on organizational issues, and the second on illustrating whether you are providing enough analysis in your paper. Please download the instructions here.
Creating New Computer AccountsWe will be doing this in-class. Log into a computer using: CWRL 1. Open a browser and go to http://intranet.cwrl.utexas.edu. 2. Click on the link for the actual password change, 3. You should enter your EID, your current password (d3F0lt) and then your own new password according to the page's form. 4. Then click Change password.
First Day Checklist1. Create an account on this website. For instructions click here. 2. Post Introduction to Blog. For details click here. 3. Familiarize yourself with the website. Make sure you know how to find the syllabus, assignments, and guidelines. I will not be handing out paper copies of these items.
Holtby on VirginityWinifred Holtby writes in Women (1934):
SpinstersOne of the topics we are going to spend a lot of time talking about in our discussions of Lolly Willowes is how Spinsters are generally depicted. We will of course want to be grounding our ideas in the right historical time period, but to get us started, here is am modern interpretation of spinsterhood:
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