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Session	Lecture Materials	Language Topic	Cultural Topic	Reading	Music and Video
1	Lecture 1 Syllabus	Introduction	Introduction
2	Lecture 2 Creole Syntax	Greetings, Personal Pronouns, Commands	Conquest, Colonization and Slavery	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 1 The Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area, pp. 17-31
3	Lecture 3 Lyrics: SIDA**	Greetings, Personal Pronouns, Commands, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 1 The Caribbean as a Social-Cultural Area, pp. 32-42	Music: SIDA by Ti Manno and Gemini All Stars
4	Lecture 4	Greetings, Short Forms of Pronouns, Commands	Peasant Resistance	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 2 From Plantations to Peasantries, pp. 1-15, 20-22	Film: Haitian Song (preview)
5	Lecture 5		Peasant Economic and Moral Strategies	Strategic Flexibility in the West Indies
6	Lecture 6 Key Terms	Greetings, Short Forms of Pronouns, Commands	French Subjects, Creole Others	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 2 "Creole Exceptionalism and the (Mis)Education of the Creole Speaker"
7	Lecture 7	Classroom Objects, Articles, Noun Plurals		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 3 The Linguistic Situation of Haiti
8	Lecture 8	Classroom Objects, Articles, Noun Plurals, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 3 Homelands in The Butterfly’s Way
9	Lecture 9	People and Places, Progressive Marker		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 4 School Days: pp. vii-ix, pp. 9-51
10	Lecture 10	People and Places, Progressive Marker, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 4 School Days, pp. 51-93
11	Lecture 11	Describing Activities, Possessive, Clothing		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 5 School Days, pp. 94-end
12	Lecture 12	Describing Activities, Possessive, Clothing, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 5	Film: La Rue Cases Negrés
13	Lecture 13 Lyrics: Yele**	What’s Happening?, Possessives, Counting	"Development" and the Exodus of People	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 6 Migration and Voodoo: Chapter 2	Music: Kannté, by Ti Manno and the Gemini All Stars Music: Yele by Wyclef Jean
14	Lecture 14	What’s Happening?, Possessives, Counting, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 6 Migration and Voodoo: Chapter 2	Film: Life and Debt
15	Lecture 15 Midterm Review and Grammar Practice	Family, Demonstrative Determiner		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 7 A Lavalas at Home/A Lavalas for Home	Music: Ayiti Demen
16	Midterm Exam: Part 1, Creole Language
17	Midterm Exam: Part 2, Haitian Culture
18	Lecture 18 Lyrics: Jaspora**	The Face, Negative Forms	Migrants and Spirits at Home and Abroad	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 8 Mama Lola , pp. 1-20, 344-356	Music: Jaspora by Wyclef Jean
19	Lecture 19 Table of Lwa	The Face, Negative Forms, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 8 Mama Lola, pp. 21-34, 79-92, 141-154	Music: Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou, Elizabeth McAlister, Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
20	Lecture 20 Table of Illness	Chores, Timeless Verb Form		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 9 Mama Lola, pp. 203-240
21	Lecture 21	Chores, Timeless Verb Form, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Lesson 9 Mama Lola, pp. 241-170	Film: Legacy of the Spirits (preview)
22	Lecture 22	Telling Time, Definite Determiner		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 10 Mama Lola, pp. 271-311
23	Lecture 23	Telling Time, Definite Determiner, cont.		Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 10 Mama Lola, pp. 312-344, 364-381
24		Doing Laundry, Spatial Prepositions, Questions	Review and Discussion	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 11
25		Doing Laundry, Spatial Prepositions, Questions, cont.	Review and Discussion	Ann Pale Kreyòl Leson 11
26	Final Exam Review
27	Final Exam: Part 1, Creole Language
28	Final Exam: Part 2, Haitian Culture

** Song lyrics found online do not necessarily follow correct grammar, spelling, or orthography of Haitian Creole.

Cite/attribute Resource. Richman, K. (2008, January 30). Lectures. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/romance-languages-and-literatures/creole-language-and-culture/lectures-1.

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