Week 2:

“Stop Coddling the Super-Rich” by Warren E. Buffett

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

“My Response to Buffett and Obama” by Harvey Golub

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903639404576516724218259688.html

“With Profanity in Public, Context Delivery Matter” by Kathleen Parker

http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/KATHLEEN-PARKER-COLUMN-With-profanity-in-public-2134096.php

9/8:

“Addressing the Justice Gap”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/opinion/addressing-the-justice-gap.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22addressing%20the%20Justice%20Gap%22&st=cse

“There Is No Plan B for Water” by David Crossley

http://blog.chron.com/thelist/2011/08/there-is-no-plan-b-for-water/

WEEK 3

“Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal” by Thomas B. Stoddard

http://faculty.mdc.edu/dmcguirk/ENC2106/stoddard.htm

“Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron” by Lisa Schiffren

http://faculty.mdc.edu/dmcguirk/ENC2106/schiffren.htm

“’I Am a Man’” by Thomas L. Friedman

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15friedman.html

“Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet” by Stanley Fish

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/anonymity-and-the-dark-side-of-the-internet/?scp=2&sq=%22Free%20Speech%20and%20the%20Internet%22&st=Search

WEEK 4:

“Our Legacy”

http://houstonhistory.com/legacy/index.htm

“History of Houston Ballet”

http://www.houstonballet.org/Inside_Houston_Ballet/History/

“History of The Orange Show Monument”

http://www.orangeshow.org/orange-show-history/

“A Soccer History of Houston”

WEEK 5:

“History of the Houston Art Car Parade”

http://www.orangeshow.org/art-car-history/

“City Hall History”

http://www.houstontx.gov/abouthouston/cityhallhistory.html

“’If You Ever Go to Houston’:  Roots Music and Local History” by Roger Wood

http://annualmeeting.oah.org/future_past/2011_houston/about/wood.html

“In Houston, Art Is Where the Home Is” by Michael Kimmelman

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/arts/design/17kimm.html

http://ussoccerplayers.typepad.com/ussoccerplayers/a-soccer-history-of-houst.html

WEEK 8:

“Promise” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/promise-97/

“Is My Team Ploughing” by A. E. Housman

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/is-my-team-ploughing/

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree/

“Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-2/

WEEK 9:

10/25: Literary analysis: poetry, continued.  Read poems:

“Tell All the Truth” and “I Felt A Funeral in My Brain” (2 separate poems) by Emily Dickinson

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-felt-a-funeral-in-my-brain-280/

“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-heard-the-learned-astronomer/

“Dream Boogie” by Langston Hughes

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-boogie/

“Taxi” by Amy Lowell

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-taxi/

“So You Want to Be a Writer?” by Charles Bukowski

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16549

WEEK 10:

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/

“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/CasAmo.shtml

WEEK 11:

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

http://www.gummyprint.com/blog/archives/hills-like-white-elephants-complete-story/

WEEK 12:

“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/shortstories/UBooks/Neck.shtml