For Wed: Read Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave (pp. 1-156)

For Fri: Read Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave (rest of work); Prepare Essay 1, due at class time Friday.

Biography of a Runaway Slave (pt 2)

For Mon:  Read all Marti's Simple Verses

and Martí's "Our America"

For Wed: Read following stories from A Traveler’s Literary Companion:

--"Don Cayetano, the Unreliable," p. 165
--"The Dark Night of Ramón Yendía", p. 61

And web selections:
Preliminary information about “History Will Absolve Me"
Castro: “History Will Absolve Me”

For Fri:  View Hijuelos Mambo Kings in TMC

For Mon: Begin reading Lost Steps

For Wed: Read Carpentier's Lost Steps  pp. 1- ... [first half]

For Fri: Read Carpentier's Lost Steps (rest of work) ; Prepare Essay 2, due at class time Friday

For Mon: Prepare for Exam

For Wed: Read Selected Texts by Castro and Che Guevara (in order as presented)

For Fri: Read following stories from A Traveler’s Literary Companion: 

--"Havanasis"  p. 1
--"Paradiso" p. 15
--"In the Cold of the Malecon" p. 24
--"Life on the Rooftops" p. 28
--"My Aunto Leocadia..."p. 35
--"Internal Dialogue..." p. 51
--"My Heroic Birth" p. 56
--"Máscaras" p. 96
--"Thine is the Kingdom" p. 106
--"The Messenger" p. 117

For Mon: Read Senel Paz' "Strawberry and Chocolate" pp. --  in Anthology  (pp3-15) and View Strawberry and Chocolate in TMC or at showings in Casa Hispánica, times to be announced.

For Wed: Read all García's Dreaming in Cuban

For Fri: Prepare Essay 3, due for Friday, place in mail box Tucker

For Mon: Read remaining stories from A Traveler’s Literary Companion: 

--"The Girl Typist..." p. 133
--"Zapata" p. 137
--"Her Mother's House" p. 142
--"Not the Truth, Not a Lie" p. 176
--"Old Rosa", p. 183
--"The Lazarus Rumba", p. 191
--"The Prophet", p. 205
--"We Came All the Way from Cuba....?", p. 209

For Wed: Read all Hernandez' The Cuban Mile

For Fri: View Tabío's The Waiting List

For Sat or  Mon: Prepare for Exam