Catherine Bacon's blog

Revisions 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 Test

This 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-EC_nDlpY

This is a news clip from recent years of a high-school student that re-enacted the test:

Shirley Temple Dancing with Bojangles

Referenced on p. 19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkoT-I5cyVs&feature=related

Revision Workshop

There 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 Accounts

We will be doing this in-class.

Log into a computer using:

CWRL
GUEST

1. Open a browser and go to http://intranet.cwrl.utexas.edu.
You should see a link to the 12th day password change at the top of the main body of the page.

2. Click on the link for the actual password change,
and click okay (twice) for the encrypted cert setup.

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 Checklist

1. 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 Virginity

Winifred Holtby writes in Women (1934):

Spinsters

One 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:

The Lonely Spinster

New Accounts and Blogs

Welcome to Reading Women Writers.

Creating an Account
You will need to make an account on this website. To do so just
1. click on the "create account" link below the login box. Please use your correct first and last name as the name on the account, and use an email that you check regularly.
2.I will have to approve your account and then you will receive an email with a long/crazy password.
3.Using your username as the login, cut and paste the password to log in
4 Edit your user account to change your password.

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