Final Course Calendar
CALENDar of readings and assignments
Please note that all readings from The Norton Reader will be supplemented by additional readings from the McGraw-Hill Handbook and the Comp Reader—these will be announced in class or provided as a separate handout.
Week 3: 9/17 – 9/20
READINGS:
Walker, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” 55
Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” 12
Mairs, “On Being a Cripple” 46
Week 4: 9/24-9/27 The Personal Narrative (cont’d):
READINGS:
Angelou, “Graduation” 15
Franklin, “Working at Wendy’s” 25
Ríos, “Green Cards” 40
Week 5: 10/1- 10/4 critical analysis:
READINGS:
Quindlen, “Between the Sexes, A Great Divide” 174
Rich, “Taking Women Students Seriously” 386
Brooks, “The Gender Gap at School” 333
Week 6: 10/8-10/11 critical analysis (cont’d):
Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” 226
Week 7: 10/15-10/18 Critical Analysis (Cont’d):
Strebeigh, “The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China” 276
Friedman, “America’s Real Dream Team” 327
Week 8: 10/22-10/25
Rollin, “Motherhood: Who Needs It?” 286
Kubler-Ross, “On the Fear of Death” 219
Week 9: 10/29-11/1
Kingston, “Tongue-Tied” 401
Rodriguez, “Aria” 405
Week 10: 11/5-11/8
McWhorter, “The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English” 429
Baron, “Who Owns Global English?” 435
Week 11: 11/12-11/15
Arendt, “Deportations from Western Europe” 736
Manguel, “The Library as Survival” 741
Week 12: 11/19-11/21
Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant” 784
Thiong’o, “Decolonizing the Mind” 997
Week 13: 11/26-11/29
Nabokov, “Good Readers and Good Writers” 973
Copland, “How We Listen” 1039
Week 14: 12/3-12/6
Woolf, “In Search of a Room of One’s Own” 1005
Week 15: 12/10-12/13
12/10 and 12/12 Final Exam Essay
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