Workshopping An Idea, An Image, A Concept

Today, in the computer lab, we'll be focusing our energy on workshopping some fundamental concepts that you are exploring in either:
1. your mid-term
2. your mid-term, which may be evolving into something more complex
3. something entirely new...

What you need:
Something you've already written (can be from mid-term, a class presentation, a blog you've written on).
A couple of copies to share with a couple of people.

Modes:
Praise, Question, Polish, Extend...
(I'll explain)

FILM: "MAQUILAPOLIS"

For next week you will be viewing the acclaimed documentary, "Maquilapolis."

The film facilitators will provide you with viewing response forms. Please fill them out give to the facilitator at end of class. If you need more time to complete them, turn them in to my faculty box in Women's Studies before October 27.

Here is a link to a synopsis on "MAQUILAPOLIS":
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/maquilapolis/about.html

REQUIRED READINGS UNTIL I RETURN!

REQUIRED READING:
All the "Women and Change" selections through 10/27 requirement.
All the "Dissident Women" selections through 10/22 requirement.
"Strong Women Stories" to Chapter 3

The rest is optional.

CLASS CANCELED TOMORROW, WED 10/14/08

ABSTRACT--REVISED ASSIGNMENT

THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS DID NOT UNDERSTAND THIS ASSIGNMENT, AND I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PREDICTING THAT 300 LEVEL STUDENTS ALREADY KNEW HOW TO WRITE AN ABSTRACT. GIVEN THE FACT THAT THIS PREDICTION DID NOT BEAR EXPECTED RESULTS, I AM RE-ASSIGNING THE ABSTRACT ASSIGNMENT. THIS EXERCISE SHOULD NOT TAKE YOU MORE THAN ONE HOUR TO COMPLETE. HOWEVER, PLEASE PREPARE YOURSELF AHEAD OF TIME, BY READING THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA AND GUIDELINES.

ABSTRACT: MID-TERM, NATIVE WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES
1. HEADER, LEFT HAND CORNER OF PAGE
NAME, I.D., CLASS TITLE, INSTRUCTOR'S NAME

2. TITLE OF TOPIC PROPOSAL (CENTERED)

3. PARAGRAPH:, (1ST-2ND SENTENCES) TOPIC FOCUS, THESIS STATEMENT, QUESTIONS OF CONCERN (FRAMING QUESTIONS)

4. PARAGRAPH: (3RD-4TH SENTENCES) THEORIES TO BE USED AS SUPPORTING STRUCTURES (TO BE DRAWN DIRECTLY FROM ASSIGNED READINGS, FILMS).

5. PARAGRAPH: (FINAL SENTENCE) ILLUMINATE THE READER WITH A MINIMUM OF 3 TEXTS (FROM THE READING LIST) WHICH YOU WILL USE TO BUILD YOUR PRESENTATION.

DUE: FRIDAY, 5P.M., IN MY EMAIL BOX.

--M.TAMEZ
email: nativewomen7tcs@gmail.com

A Few Examples: Links to Native & Indigenous Women -- Canada, U.S., Mexico

ELOISA GARCIA TAMEZ

EMMA TENAYUCA

DIGNA OCHOA

SADIE NEOKOK

Sadie Neokok

"Dr., Lawyer, Indian Chief"

Digna Ochoa

Navajo Women Mine Workers

Elouise Brown, E. Gilmore & Desert Rock

Emma Tenayuca

Indigenous Women's Network

Silvia de Jesus Maya

Mansion Mazahua, A.C. (the Mazahua House Group)

Marianne Lykke Thomsen

Greenland Home Rule (Arctic Council)

Xochitl Galvez

Office of Indigenous Affairs, Mexico

Eloisa G. Tamez

Texas-Mexico Border Wall Crisis

"American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s

American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
by Donna Hightower Langston