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| Session | Language Topic | Cultural Topic |
Reading |
Music and Video |
Lecture Materials |
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| 1 | Introduction |
Introduction |
Lecture Syllabus |
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| 2 | APK Leson 1: Greetings, Personal Pronouns, Commands |
CONQUEST, COLONIZATION AND SLAVERY |
Mintz, The Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area, pp. 17-31 | Lecture Creole Syntax |
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| 3 | Leson 1, cont. |
Mintz, The Caribbean as a Social-Cultural Area, pp.
32-42 |
Music: SIDA by Ti
Manno and Gemini All Stars |
Lecture |
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| 4 | APK Leson 2: Greetings, Short Forms of Pronouns, Commands | PEASANT RESISTANCE |
Mintz, From Plantations to Peasantries, pp. 1-15,
20-22 |
Film: Haitian Song | Lecture |
| 5 | PEASANT ECONOMIC AND MORAL STRATEGIES |
Carnegie, Strategic Flexibility in the West Indies |
Lecture | ||
| 6 | Leson 2, cont. | FRENCH SUBJECTS, CREOLE OTHERS | Mufwene, What We Mean When We Say 'Creole' |
Lecture Key Terms |
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| 7 | APK Leson 3: Classroom Objects, Articles, Noun Plurals | Valdman, The Linguistic Situation of Haiti |
Lecture | ||
| 8 | Leson 3, cont. | Laforest, Homelands in The Butterfly’s Way | Lecture |
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| 9 | APK Leson 4: People and Places, Progressive Marker | Chamoiseau, School Days: preface, pp. vii-ix, "Longing"
pp. 9-51 |
Lecture |
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| 10 | APK Leson 4, cont. | Chamoiseau, School Days, pp. 51-93 |
Lecture | ||
| 11 | APK Leson 5, Describing Activities, Possessive, Clothing | Chamoiseau, School Days, pp. 94-end | Lecture |
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| 12 | APK Leson 5, cont. | Discussion of Film |
Film: La Rue Cases
Negrés |
Lecture |
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| 13 | APK Leson 6: What’s Happening?, Possessives, Counting | “DEVELOPMENT” AND THE EXODUS OF PEOPLE | Richman, Migration and Voodoo: Chapter 2 "Migration,
Remittances and Development" |
Music: Kannté, by Ti Manno and the Gemini All Stars Music: Yele by Wyclef Jean |
Lecture Lyrics: Yele** |
| 14 | APK Leson 6, cont. | Richman, Migration and Voodoo, Chapter 2 "Migration, Remittances and Development" | Film: Life and
Debt |
Lecture |
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| 15 | APK Leson 7: family, Demonstrative Determiner |
Richman, A Lavalas at Home/A Lavalas for Home | Music: Ayiti Demen |
Lecture |
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| 16 | MIDTERM EXAM: Part 1, Creole Language |
Midterm Review and
Grammar Practice |
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| 17 | MIDTERM EXAM: Part 2, Haitian Culture | ||||
| 18 | APK Leson 8: The Face, Negative Forms | MIGRANTS AND SPIRITS AT HOME AND ABROAD | Brown, Mama Lola , pp. 1-20, 344-356 | Music: Jaspora
by Wyclef Jean |
Lecture Lyrics: Jaspora** |
| 19 | APK Leson 8, cont. |
Brown, Mama Lola, pp. 21-34, 79-92, 141-154 | Music:
Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou, Elizabeth
McAlister, Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings |
Lecture Table of Lwa |
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| 20 | APK Leson 9: Chores, Timeless Verb Form | Brown, Mama Lola, pp. 203-240 | Lecture Table of Illness |
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| 21 | APK Lesson 9, cont. | Brown, Mama Lola, pp. 241-170 |
Film: Legacy of the
Spirits |
Lecture |
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| 22 | APK Leson 10: Telling Time, Definite Determiner | Brown, Mama Lola, pp. 271-311 | Lecture | ||
| 23 | APK Leson 10, cont. | Brown, Mama Lola, pp. 312-344, 364-381 |
Lecture | ||
| 24 | APK Leson 11: Doing Laundry, Spatial Prepositions, Questions | Review and Discussion | |||
| 25 | APK Leson 11, cont. | Review and Discussion |
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| 26 | Final Review |
Final Exam
Review |
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| 27 | FINAL EXAM: Part 1, Creole Language |
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| 28 | FINAL EXAM: Part 2, Haitian Culture |
** - Song lyrics found online do not necessarily follow correct grammar, spelling, or orthography of Haitian Creole.
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