Renaissances Summer 2020 Schedule
Please complete each day’s work prior to midnight on the day it is listed.Week 1
W 6/17
Synchronous: Intro to the course
Read: syllabus, announcements
Submit: survey
Th 6/18
Watch:
The Little Mermaid
“Bet You on Land” (4 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le4hQDrIcsw
“Is Beauty and the Beast about Stockholm Syndrome?” (17 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syYCO0QVkZo
Read:
“Ranking the Disney Renaissance from Worst to Best” http://time.com/3590521/disney-renaissance/
WOVENText Chapter 2 (“Critical Concepts of Communication” pp 37-49)
WOVENText Chapter 1 (optional)
F 6/19
Submit Week 1’s post to Discussion
Week 2
M 6/22
Watch:
“What Made the Disney Renaissance Era so Special?” (10 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yrkIOguj1Q
Pocahontas (1.5 hours)
Read:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Colonialism” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/ (sections 1-6)
Submit:
Little Mermaid reflection in Discussion
T 6/23
Watch:
“The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare” (13 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJpYLV7bYA
Listen:
Emma Smith on the Tempest introductory podcast (48 mins) https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tempest-1
Read:
The Tempest, Act I
Submit:
Watch Party Writeup for Pocahontas
W 6/24
Watch:
“Pocahontas Was a Mistake” (33 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARX0-AylFI
Mini-lecture 1
Read:
WOVENText Chapter 7 (pp 146-156)
The Tempest Act II
Th 6/25
Watch:
“Frozen 2 and the Deep Chill of Colonialism” (11 minutes + time to read comments)
Read:
The Tempest Acts III-IV
Submit:
Group Discussion Description
F 6/26
Submit discussion post
Week 3
M 6/29
Watch:
The Lion King
Read:
The Tempest, Act V
“A Modern Perspective” by Barbara Mowat, pages 185-200 of critical edition
“Embedding Google Slideshows in Canvas ePortfolios” https://wcpassessment.lmc.gatech.edu/2020/03/30/embedding-google-slideshows-in-canvas-eportfolios/
Submit:
PechaKucha Presentation
Artifact 1 Portfolio Page
T 6/30
Watch:
“The Lion King, or The History of King Simba I” (22 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judjEmaTJAs&feature=youtu.be
Listen:
Emma Smith on Hamlet podcast (46 minutes) http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/hamlet
Read:
WOVENText chapter 14 (genres, pp 276-287)
Hayot, “A Materialist Theory of Writing”
Submit:
Lion King Watch Party Writeup
W 7/1
Watch:
Mini-lecture 2
Read:
Renaissance Self-Fashioning Introduction and Epilogue at http://sixteenthcentury.pbworks.com/f/Greenblatt.pdf
WOVENText Chapter 21 “Exploring Topics and Creating a Research Proposal”
Hamlet Act I
Th 7/2
School break
Week 4
M 7/6
Watch:
Beauty and the Beast (1.5 hours)
Read:
Hamlet Act II
“Beauty and the Beast” http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beauty.html
“Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle-Suzanne_de_Villeneuve
Submit:
Group Discussion Description
Discussion post (individual)
Analysis Paper Prompt
T 7/7
Watch:
“That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUx9DnQUkA (36 minutes)
Read:
Hamlet, Act III
A fairytale of your choice from https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
Submit:
Watch Party Writeup
W 7/8
Read:
Hamlet, Act IV
Hayot, “The Uneven U”
Watch:
Mini-lecture 3
Th 7/9
Read:
Hamlet, Act V
Submit:
Peer review form
Group Discussion Description
F 7/10
Submit discussion question response
Week 5
M 7/13
Watch:
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1.5 hours)
Read: “Hamlet: A Modern Perspective” by Michael Neill (in the end of your critical edition)Submit:
Analysis Paper
Artifact 2 Page
T 7/14
Watch:
“The Case for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIIWy3TZ1eI.
Read:
“The Light Princess” http://www.sfu.ca/sfublogs-archive/courses/spring2012/engl387/uploads/2012/01/THE-LIGHT-PRINCESS2-1.pdf
“Disney: Delights and Doubts” https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1011&context=cba_facpubs
Submit:
Watch Party Writeup
W 7/15
Read/Watch:
WCP Assessment website: “Canvas How-To Videos” and “Sample Portfolio”
Mini Lecture 4
Th 7/16
Read:
Two partners’ reflective essay drafts
Submit:
Group discussion description
Peer review forms
F 7/17
Submit discussion question
Week 6
M 7/20
Watch:
Disney Renaissance film of your choice
Submit:
Reflection essay draft
T 7/21
Attend synchronous class
Submit:
Final Project and Artifact 3 Page
7/29
Submit final portfolio