UPDATED: October 29, 2017
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Week 1 (August 27 to September 2)
TUESDAY (8/28): Visual Aspects of HEARING
- Shirley Green Band
- iPod Shuffle Commercial
- Kieth Wann
THURSDAY (8/31): Theatre through Deaf Eyes
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- READ: “Arts of the Contact Zone” (Mary Louise Pratt) *
- “Working in the Theatre“
- Through Deaf Eyes
- Lecture Materials (Provided in Class)
- ESL, ASL-SL
- Translation
- Adaptation
- Kieth Wann
- ESL, ASL-SL
*REQUIRED READINGS PAGE (This is password protected!)
Week 2 (September 3 to September 9):
Poetry & Performance
LABOR DAY (No Classes): September 4, 2017
TUESDAY (9/5)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (9/7) ⇒ Music by Hannah!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- CJ Jones
- Flying Words Project (Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner)
- Lecture Focus:
- NO CLASS TODAY (Sorry!)
Week 3 (September 10 to September 16):
Poetry, Drama, Literature, Storytelling, and Performance
TUESDAY (9/12)
- DUE: Topic Proposal I
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (9/14) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Hannah!
- Prepare/Review for Class Discussion
- CJ Jones
- Flying Words Project (Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner)
- Lecture Focus: Image & Sound
- Deaf Way II Opening Ceremony
- Poetry, Drama, Storytelling, and Performance (Oralacy vs. Literacy)
- Discussion: Image & Sound
- C. J. Jones
- The Flying Words Project
Week 4 (September 17 to September 23):
Children of a Lesser God
TUESDAY (9/19)
- DUE: Three Journal Entries (Weeks 1-3)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (9/21) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Brooklyn!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- READ: “Chapter 6: Deaf American Theatre” (Cynthia L. Peters)*
- READ: Children of a Lesser God*
- WATCH: Children of a Lesser God
- Lecture Focus: Image & Sound
- The Play Is the THING
- Origins of Deaf Theatre
- Children of a Lesser God
- The Hearing World Becomes Aware of the Deaf World (More)
- Discussion: Image & Sound
- Children of a Lesser God
*REQUIRED READINGS PAGE (This is password protected!)
Week 5 (September 24 to September 30):
National Theatre of the Deaf
TUESDAY (9/26)
- DUE: Revised Topic Proposal
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (9/28) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Brooklyn!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- READ: National Theatre of the Deaf History
- READ: Pictures in the Air: The Story of the National Theatre of the Deaf (Stephen C. Baldwin)
- WATCH: My Third Eye
- Lecture Focus
- Gallaudet University
- National Theatre of the Deaf
- CBS Sunday Morning: National Theatre of the Deaf
- Deaf West
- Cleveland Sign Stage
- New York Theatre of the Deaf
- Others
- Community vs. Professional Theatre
Week 6 (October 1 to October 7):
ASL Shakespeare
MANDATORY CONFERENCES THIS WEEK
TUESDAY (10/3)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (10/5) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Tyler!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- READ: Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
- WATCH: ASL Shakespeare Project‘s Twelfth Night sample scenes
- READ: “Shakespeare in the Fourth Dimension: Twelfth Night” (Peter Novak)*
- READ: “Away from Invisibility, Toward Invincibility” (Willy Conley)*
- Lecture Focus: Twelfth Night, Interpreters and Shakespeare, Visual Shakespeare Symposium at Gallaudet (2017), Ohio Shakespeare (2002)
- OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- Titus (New York Deaf Theatre)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gallaudet University)
- Crom Sanders: Sonnet #18 and Sonnet #19
- Crom Sanders: Sonnet #130
- AND THEN THERE’S THESE:
*REQUIRED READINGS PAGE (This is password protected!)
Week 7 (October 8 to October 14):
ASL Shakespeare (Continued)
TUESDAY (10/10)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (10/12) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Fish!
- READ: Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
- READ: “Shakespeare in the Fourth Dimension: Twelfth Night” (Peter Novak)*
- READ: “Away from Invisibility, Toward Invincibility” (Willy Conley)*
- OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- Titus (New York Deaf Theatre)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gallaudet University)
- Crom Sanders: Sonnet #18 and Sonnet #19
- Crom Sanders: Sonnet #130
- AND THEN THERE’S THESE:
*REQUIRED READINGS PAGE (This is password protected!)
Week 8 (October 15 to October 21):
Queer Crip Theatre
TUESDAY (10/17)
- DUE: Three Journal Entries (Weeks 4-6)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (10/21) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Richard!
- READ: Mean Little Deaf Queer (Terry Galloway)
- You Are My Sunshine—A Kind of Love Story
- Terry Galloway, You Are My Sunshine (TEDx-FSU)
Week 9 (October 22 to October 28):
TUESDAY (10/24)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
- DUE October 24: Annotated Bibliography
THURSDAY (10/26) ⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Isotope!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- WATCH: “On Being a Deaf Playwright”
- READ: Biography
- WATCH: RAYMOND’S GOSSIPING … again? (Yes, again.)
- READ: Six Women in Search of a Perfect Play*
- READ: Whispers of a Savage Sort*
*REQUIRED READINGS PAGE (This is password protected!)
Week 10 (October 29 to November 4):
Raymond Luczak
TUESDAY (10/31)
THURSDAY (11/2)⇒ Pre-class Music Provided by Isotope!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- WATCH: “On Being a Deaf Playwright”
- READ: Biography
- WATCH: RAYMOND’S GOSSIPING … again? (Yes, again.)
- READ: “Dear Mr. Penn”*
- READ: Whispers of a Savage Sort*
*REQUIRED READINGS PAGE (This is password protected!)
Week 11 (November 5 to November 11): Willy Conley
TUESDAY (11/7)
THURSDAY (11/9)⇒ Pre-class Golden Silence Provided by Christopher!
- Prepare for Class Discussion
- READ: “In Search of the Perfect Sign-Language Script: Insights into the Diverse Writing Styles of Deaf Playwrights” (Willy Conley) *
- READ: Falling on Hearing Eyes: A Touring Museum of Sign/anguish for People with Communication Disorders (Willy Conley) (OR WATCH IT)
- READ: The water falls. (Willy Conley)
Week 12 (November 12 to November 18): Tribes
TUESDAY (11/14)
- DUE November 14: Outline/Notes/Rough Draft)
- Participate in Online Discussion, Research Work, Journal Work
THURSDAY (11/16)
- READ: Tribes
Week 13 (November 19 to November 25):
THANKSGIVING RECESS (No Classes): November 22-26, 2017
TUESDAY (11/21)
- DUE: Three Journal Entries (Weeks 7-12)
THURSDAY (11/23)
- NO CLASS THIS WEEK
Week 14 (November 26 to December 2):
English Poetry for Performance
MANDATORY CONFERENCES THIS WEEK
TUESDAY (11/28)
- DUE: First Completed Draft
- DUE: Both Interview Reports
THURSDAY (11/30)
- MANDATORY CONFERENCES THIS DAY
Week 15 (December 3 to December 9):
Presentations!
TUESDAY (12/5)
THURSDAY (12/7)
- PRESENTATIONS DAY! Hurray! ♥ ♥ ♥
Week 16: December 10 to December 16: FINAL EXAMS WEEK
TUESDAY (12/12)
- DUE: Three Journal Entries (Weeks 13-15)
- DUE: Final Draft