Tentative Course Offerings for the Whole Year 2008-09

Quarter One -- schedule is set
First Hour -- CLASS (Community, Leadership, Action, & Solutions in School)
Second Hour -- Introduction to Film Analysis
Third Hour -- Prep / Free Hour
Fourth Hour -- The Reader's Workshop (Katy)
Fifth Hour -- Introduction to Film Analysis
Sixth Hour -- The Creative Female (Katy)

Q2
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Images: Media and Gender (Katy)
Third Hour -- Advanced Film Analysis
Fourth Hour -- PREP
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Sixth Hour -- Short Fiction (Katy)

The following quarter plans are tentative!

Q3
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Third Hour -- Vampire Image
Fourth Hour -- Prep
Fifth Hour -- Cinema By the Decade
Sixth Hour -- Mind, Body, and Soul

Q4
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Finding Self: Space and Place in YA Literature
Third Hour -- The Dissident Press & Zines
Fourth Hour -- Prep
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Sixth Hour -- The Walking Naturalist /MBS ?

Books to be used:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
American Born Chinese ??
Animal Farm
The Arrival
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Caucasia
Dracula
Frankenstein ?
Growing Up Female (selections)
The Hobbit
Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
A Sand County Almanac
Voices of a People's History (Zinn) ?
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
(also -- choices on "Finding Self" YA Literature list)


Stay tuned for updates in this entry.