Final Course Calendar

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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