ENGL 698 "Capstone: Hamilton"

Spring 2018 ~ T, 7:05 p.m.

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Hamilton (1xbet best casino website ) (2015)
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, Hamilton: The Revolution, Being the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical, with a True Account of its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-Hop, The Power of Stories, and the New America (2016) (Hatchette)
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (2004) (Penguin)
Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone, 1776: A Musical Play (1969) (Penguin)
In the Heights (1xbet best casino website ) (2008)
Graff and Birkenstein, “They Say/I Say”: The Moves that Matter in 1xbet best casino website Writing, 3rd Edition (Norton)
1xbet best casino website Pack (available online via Canvas)
DVD/1xbet best casino website : 1776 (Dir. Peter Hunt, 1972); Gypsy (Starring Imelda Staunton, 2015); West Side Story (Dir. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1961); selected video documentaries and clips.

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1xbet best casino website Objectives: ENGL 698 "Capstone" is a writing- and 1xbet best casino website -intensive course which provides a culminating experience for the English major. Towards that larger goal, the course objectives parallel the program outcomes for English as follows:

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1xbet best casino website Message Board: To offer another venue for discussion, we'll be using an online message board in K-State Online. Each week, each student is required to post at least one paragraph-length comment about the materials we’re reading and discussing in class. I will read these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of 1xbet best casino website comments, their ability to foster discussion among 1xbet best casino website classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to 1xbet best casino website classmates' comments in class and on the board. I’ll provide some weekly question prompts as I follow these conversations, and I may also participate, but I see the message board primarily as a way for you to raise issues we haven’t addressed – or addressed fully or to 1xbet best casino website satisfaction – during our regular class meetings. The work contributed to the message board can become source material for more formal writing assignments.

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Papers and 1xbet best casino website Papers: All students 1xbet best casino website write two formal papers: Paper #1 (4 pages in length) which offers a literary analysis of Hamilton, and 1xbet best casino website #2 which analyzes Hamilton through the lens of historical or contemporary research 1xbet best casino website a person, place, or cultural reference mentioned in the muscial and is designed to help others understand and appreciate Hamilton.

You will have a choice of three topics for Paper #1, and you will have a choice of many topics for Paper #2; I will distribute detailed assignment sheets for each paper. Both papers should follow the general rules of composition and be typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and either 11- or 12-point typeface. Title pages and cover sheets are unnecessary. Pages should be numbered, stapled together, and spell-checked. Papers are due by the date and time on the syllabus; late papers will be penalized one grade (i.e.: A to B) for each day late. (Note: The University's Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not 1xbet best casino website own. Otherwise, you have plagiarized. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course.)

You will also write four response papers (2 pages in length) in response to our readings or viewings. Response papers are designed to prepare you for class discussion and to explore ideas you could develop further in 1xbet best casino website longer papers. In 1xbet best casino website response paper, you should not repeat previous class discussions or provide a mere summary of our assigned texts. Instead, 1xbet best casino website response should begin to analyze the text or texts assigned for that class session, responding to the assigned prompt or selecting an issue or theme or question you feel to be significant. I recommend that you select a word, phrase, or short quotation to initiate 1xbet best casino website response. (See the sample response distributed on the first day of class as an example.)

Everyone 1xbet best casino website write a response paper for our first reading assignment from Chernow’s biography (Alexander Hamilton 1-309), for 1776, and for our 1xbet best casino website of Hamilton on stage; for the fourth response paper, 1xbet best casino website may choose from the remaining assigned texts on the syllabus. Response papers are due at the start of class on the day we begin our discussion of the texts. Responses will be graded on a 1-5 scale: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=F. I do not accept late response papers.

Multi-Media Project: You will choose one of four possible multi-media projects to complete during the semester. 1xbet best casino website multi-media project can be submitted on any class day but must be turned in no later than Tuesday April 24. Additional information will be distributed the second week of class, but here are brief descriptions:
Professional Development: During the semester, you will complete three tasks (e.g., participate in a career development workshop/activity, conduct an information interview, and complete a task selected in consultation with me) to help you translate 1xbet best casino website work in English to professional contexts and explore professional options.
Project Presentations: Our last evening of class, 1xbet best casino website will share the results of Paper #2 in person with others in a poster-style format. Papers that receive high marks (B or higher) will also become entries for an online resource for all to read.


1xbet best casino website and video resources: Along with some required viewing (see the "DVD/online" items listed under "Required Texts") and required online reading, I will refer 1xbet best casino website to resources available online or on video to complement our readings and discussions. Links within the online "Schedule of Classes" will take 1xbet best casino website to related online resources. I will add and update these resources as the semester progresses; if 1xbet best casino website locate a site or page which 1xbet best casino website find valuable, please let me know, and I'll consider adding it to the existing links.
Email: I highly recommend email as a way of touching base with me about 1xbet best casino website work for the class -- a kind of virtual office hours. You can send me queries about reading or writing assignments, 1xbet best casino website thesis statement for an essay, or anything else that could be handled with a quick exchange of messages. I check my email throughout the day, but please remember that I am not perpetually online.

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1xbet best casino website : If 1xbet best casino website have any condition such as a physical or learning disability that will make it difficult for 1xbet best casino website to carry out the work as I have outlined it or which will require academic accommodations, please notify me in the first two days of the course. Any student with a disability who needs a classroom accommodation, access to technology, assistance during an emergency evacuation, or other assistance in this course should contact the Student Access Center (formerly Disability Support Services) and/or me. The SAC serves students with a wide range of disabilities including, but not limited to, physical disabilities, sensory impairments, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, depression, and anxiety.

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Grading:
The shorter paper (Paper #1) will count for 10%, the longer paper (Paper #2) will count for 20%, and 1xbet best casino website presentation of Paper #2 (for others, in person and online) and its revision will count for 10%. Response papers will count for 20% of 1xbet best casino website final grade; the multi-media project will count for 10% of 1xbet best casino website final grade. Class participation (20%) and 1xbet best casino website work on professional development (10%) complete the requirements.



Schedule of 1xbet best casino website (Subject to change.)

1xbet best casino website : All assigned reading 1xbet best casino website be completed by the date listed.
[CP] = 1xbet best casino website Pack, via K-State Online. [H] = Hamilton: The Revolution. [W] = web.

1xbet best casino website Impressions and Motivating Desires
January 16 Hamilton (1xbet best casino website ) (2015); Lin-Manuel Miranda, libretto for Hamilton [H]; video capture of Acts 1 and 2 of Hamilton [W]
Biography, Historiography, and Adapation
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Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (1-309); Hutcheon, 1xbet best casino website A Theory of Adaptation (ix-xii, 1-32, 120-28) [CP]
Response 1xbet best casino website #1 Due (2 pages) on Chernow
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Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (310-738); "Introduction" (10-11), Chapter I (14-15), Chapter III (32-33), Chapter VII (58-59), Chapter XIII (107-109), Chapter XIX (164-7), Chapter XXX (263-265), Chapter XXXI (270-71) [H]
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Introduction of assignments for 1xbet best casino website #1 and 1xbet best casino website #2

Musical Theater: Conventions and Reinventions

February 6 Broadway: The American Musical: Episode 1 "Give My Regards to Broadway (1893-1927)" and Episode 5 "Tradition (1957-1975)" [W]. Optional: Episode 6 "Putting 1xbet best casino website Together (1980-2004)" [W].
Selected 1xbet best casino website on the musical form [CP]
Chapter II (20-22), Chapter V (46-7), Chapter X (88-90), Chapter XII (102-3),Chapter XX (172-5), Chapter XXI (180-5), Chapter XXIV (214-17) [H]
13 Styne, Sondheim, and Laurents, Gypsy (1959) [CP] and in performance with Imelda Staunton (2015), available via Amazon Video
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Selection of paper topic for Paper #2 from list provided (bring 3-4 topics to 1xbet best casino website )
20 Edwards and Stone, 1776: A Musical Play (1969) and in performance, directed by Peter Hunt (1972), available via Amazon Video
Response 1xbet best casino website #2 Due (2 pages) on 1776
27 West Side Story (1957, 1961), available via Amazon Video, and In the Heights (2008) soundtrack, available via iTunes, Spotify, and more.
In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams [W: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6]
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March F 2 1xbet best casino website #1 Due (4 pages) M.L.A. documentation format.
6 Hamilton's music and orchestration
Selected 1xbet best casino website on hip-hop and rap by Neal, Chang, Bradley, and Bartlett [CP]; selected recordings 1xbet best casino website artists including DMX, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Mobb Deep, The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Big Pun, Jay Z, Pharrell, Ja Rule, and Kendrick Lamar.
Review "My Shot," "The Story of Tonight," "Ten Duel Commandments," "What'd I Miss?," "Cabinet Battle #1," and "Cabinet Battle #2" in performance and with Miranda1xbet best casino website annotations; Chapter V (46-7), Chapter VI (52-55), Chapter VIII (68-9), Chapter IX (78-9), Chapter XI (94-5), Chapter XII (196-8), Chapter XXV (222-3) [H]
13 Hamilton&1xbet best casino website ;s set design, lighting, costuming, and choreography
Selected readings and videos 1xbet best casino website the stage production [CP].
Review "Alexander Hamilton," "My Shot," "Satisfied," "Yorktown," "Dear Theodosia," "Room Where 1xbet best casino website Happens," "Hurricane," and "Burn" in performance and with Miranda's annotations; Chapter IV (38-41), Chapter XIV (112-17), Chapter XVI (132-36), Chapter XXVI (225-28) [H]
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Response 1xbet best casino website #3 Due (2 pages) on staging Hamilton
20 Spring Break

"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells 1xbet best casino website Story": Responses to Hamilton
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Selected readings 1xbet best casino website Hamilton's representation of history: Schuessler, 1xbet best casino website the NYT; Kelly, Freeman, Schocket, Carp, and Isenberg, 1xbet best casino website the Journal of the 1xbet best casino website Republic [CP]
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Writing Workshop I for Paper #2: Complete initial research for the person, place, or cultural reference for Paper #2; bring to 1xbet best casino website , in hard-copy, draft thesis claim and “Works Cited.”
April 3 Selected readings 1xbet best casino website Hamilton's representations of gender, race, and ethnicity [CP]; Chapter XXIII (205-8), Chapter XXV (222-3), "The Slavery Debate" (212) [H]; deleted songs [W]
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Selected readings 1xbet best casino website Hamilton's impact on education and young audiences [CP]; Chapter XVIII (156-60) [H]
Writing Workshop II for Paper #2: Prepare draft of Paper #2 and “Works Cited,” and bring two hard-copies to 1xbet best casino website .
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Selected readings 1xbet best casino website Hamilton's impact on Broadway and musical theater; Chapter XVII (148-50), Chapter XXVII (240-44) [H]
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1xbet best casino website #2 due (5 pages) to my mailbox in ECS 119 in hard-copy and to my email inbox as a Word attachment by 5:00pm.
24 Selected readings 1xbet best casino website Hamilton's impact on politics, popular culture, and fandom [CP]; Chapter XXIX (256-7); Epilogue (384-5) [H]
Hamilton1xbet best casino website America [W]
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Project presentations
8 Revision of 1xbet best casino website #2 due (5 pages) to my mailbox in ECS 119 in hard-copy and to my email inbox as a Word attachment by 8:00 p.m. Professional development tasks due by to my mailbox in ECS 119 in hard-copy by 8:00 p.m.

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