TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Letter to the Reader
The Reading-Writing ProcessOn Reading and ThinkingReading: The Activity and Art of Reading, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van DorenOn Writing and RevisionReading: Everybody is Talented, Original, and Has Something Important to Say, Brenda UelandReading: A Way of Writing, William StaffordReading: How to Write a Critical Analysis, John TrimbleReading: Shitty First Drafts, Ann LamottReading: Simplicity, William ZinsserOn Visual TextsReading: The Vocabulary of Comics, Scott McCloudOn Audio TextsAudio Track 0.1: Anne LamottAudio Track 0.2: Louise ErdrichFor Writing
Chapter 1 - On Gender Differences: Separating the Boys from the GirlsIntroductionNonfictionReading: Strong Girls, from Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary PipherReading: Inside the World of Boys, from Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, William PollackReading: Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls, Katha PollittReading: The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff-SomersFictionReading: A and P, John UpdikeReading: Boys and Girls, Alice MunroReading: Girl, Jamaica KincaidReading: Boys, Rick MoodyPoetryReading: Barbie Doll, Marge PiercyReading: Wishes for Sons, Lucille CliftonGraphic FictionReading: Gum of Mystery, Lynda BarryVisual TextsVisual: Quinceañera, Janet JarmanVisual: Hannah, 13 years old, Lauren GreenfieldVisual: Shacktown Child, Dorothea LangeVisual: Boy and Girl at Debutante Ball, Catherine KarnowAudio TextsAudio Track 1.1: Carol GilliganAudio Track 1.2: Paul KivelAudio Track 1.3: William PollackAudio Track 1.4: Joe MarshallAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 2 - Ideas about Family: Parents and ChildrenIntroductionNonfictionReading: Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years, from Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Father, Richard RodriguezReading: Notes of a Native Son, James BaldwinReading: Mother of the Year, Paul TherouxReading: Shooting Dad, Sarah VowellFictionReading: Mother, Grace PaleyReading: My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories, Russell BanksReading: Everyday Use, Alice WalkerReading: River of Names, Dorothy AllisonPoetryReading: A Chinese Banquet, Kitty TsuiReading: Nikki-Rosa, Nikki GiovanniGraphic FictionReading: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris WareVisual TextsVisual: For Dragonboat Festival, Komi ChenVisual: Mother and Child, Edward CurtisVisual: Family Eating Dinner in Kitchen, William GottliebAudio TextsAudio Track 2.1: Richard RodriguezAudio Track 2.2: Paul TherouxAudio Track 2.3: Grace PaleyAudio Track 2.4: Alice WalkerAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 3 - Ideas about Education: Stories from SchoolIntroductionNonfictionReading: Claiming an Education, Adrienne RichReading: New Spelling of My Name, from Zami, Audre LordeReading: Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil PostmanReading: The Graduation, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya AngelouFictionReading: The Lesson, Toni Cade BambaraReading: The School, Donald BarthelmeReading: Saint Marie, from Love Medicine, Louise ErdrichReading: Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperment, Willa CatherPoetryReading: We Real Cool, Gwendolyn BrooksReading: The History Teacher, Billy CollinsGraphic FictionReading: Remembrance of Things Past: Combray, Marcel Proust, illustrated by Stephane HeuetVisual TextsVisual: Marshals escort girls from school, New Orleans, 1960Visual: In the Schoolroom, Theophile Emmanuel DuvergerVisual: Schoolhouse and pupils, 1913, E.S. ShippAudio TextsAudio Track 3.1: Panel discussion on interdisciplinary studies with Leonard Shlain, Herman Haluza, Jamie Molaro, and Geoffrey GreenAudio Track 3.2: Adrienne RichAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 4 - Ideas about Love and HateIntroductionNonfictionReading: Compassion and Love, from Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Jane GoodallReading: All About Love, bell hooksReading: What’s So Bad About Hate? Andrew SullivanReading: Hateful Things, from The Pillow Book, Sei ShonagonFictionReading: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond CarverReading: Amor Divino, Julia AlvarezReading: The Lottery, Shirley JacksonReading: The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan PoePoetryReading: Love Poem, Audre LordeReading: Hate Poem, Julie SheehanGraphic FictionReading: Ghost World, Daniel ClowesVisual TextsVisual: The Lovers, Rene MagritteVisual: Love, Kawabata RyushiVisual: Cain and Abel, Jacopo TintorettoAudio TextsAudio Track 4.1: Sue GerhardtAudio Track 4.2: Dr. Thomas LewisAudio Track 4.3: Mark PotokAudio Track 4.4: bell hooksAudio Track 4.5: Jane GoodallAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 5 - Ideas about WarIntroductionNonfictionReading: The Art of War, Sun TzuReading: The War Prayer, Mark TwainReading: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (excerpt), Philip GourevitchReading: Handouts, from The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq, John CrawfordFictionReading: The Things They Carried, Tim O’BrienReading: Civil Peace, Chinua AchebeReading: Two Words, Isabelle AllendeReading: War, Luigi PirandelloPoetryReading: The Colonel, Carolyn ForchéReading: Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred OwenGraphic FictionReading: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, Joe SaccoVisual TextsVisual: We Can Do It!, J. Howard MillerVisual: Napoleon Bonaparte in the Grand Mosque at Cairo, Henri LevyVisual: Children fleeing napalm, Trang Bang, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972; Nick UtAudio TextsAudio Track 5.1: Srebrenicia Anniversary: Ambassador Swanee Hunt, General William Nash, General John W. Vessy, and Mike ShusterAudio Track 5.2: Rwandan Genocide: Corinne Dufka and Louise MushikiwaboAudio Track 5.3: Iraq War: Michael GordonAudio Track 5.4: Chilean History: Isabel AllendeAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 6 - Ideas about Crime and PunishmentIntroductionNonfictionReading: Illegalities and Delinquency, from Discipline and Punish, Michel FoucaultReading: A Hanging, George OrwellReading: Prison Cruelty, Frank TannenbaumReading: My Life is My Sundance, Leonard PeltierFictionReading: House of the Dead, Fyodor DostoevskyReading: Outside Work Detail, Scott WolvenReading: Enemies, Jimmy Santiago BacaReading: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel PuigPoetryReading: The Report, Dick AllenReading: Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital of the Criminal Insane, Etheridge KnightGraphic FictionReading: The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Rick GearyVisual TextsVisual: Prisoners Exercising, Vincent van GoghVisual: Prisoners, David SiquerosVisual: Prisoner Behind Bars, Tom GrillAudio TextsAudio Track 6.1: Panel discussion on clemency and the death penalty: Arthur Serat, Michael Rushford, Wayne Owens, and Mike Perell.Additional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 7 - Ideas about the Environment: Human vs. Nature vs. HumanIntroductionNonfictionReading: Nature, Ralph Waldo EmersonReading: A Letter to Thoreau, from The Future of Life, Edward O. WilsonReading: Silent Spring, Rachel CarsonReading: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie DillardFictionReading: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest HemingwayReading: Lessons from the Wolverine, from Fieldnotes, Barry LopezReading: A White Heron, Sarah Orne JewettReading: My Year of Meats, Ruth OzeckiPoetryReading: The World is Too Much with Us, William WordsworthReading: November Cotton Flower, Jean TomerGraphic FictionReading: Moby Dick, Will EisnerVisual TextsVisual: Melting Clock and Globe, Marina SabaVisual: The Polar Sea, Caspar David FriedrichVisual: Mermaid Waiting in Dry Lake, Tomek ObinskiAudio TextsAudio Track 7.1: Wangari MaathaiAudio Track 7.2: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Leon PanettaAudio Track 7.3: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Brian BairdAudio Track 7.4: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with John E. McCosterAudio Track 7.5: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Kate WingAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 8 - Ideas about Art and Poetry A New New WaveIntroductionNonfictionReading: Can Poetry Matter?, Dana GioiaReading: Introduction to Break Blow Burn, Camille PagliaReading: ‘Stakes is High,’ Jeff ChangReading: loops of perception, Paul D MillerFictionReading: Seventeen Syllables, Hisaye YamamotoReading: epilogue: women like us, from Krik? Krak!, Edwidge DanticatReading: A New Wave Format, Bobbie Ann MasonReading: Envy: or, Yiddish in America, Cynthia OzickPoetryReading: Beware Do Not Read This Poem, Ishmael ReedReading: Poetry, Marianne MooreGraphic FictionReading: Cages, Dave McKeanVisual TextsVisual: Luna Cadillac, Jean Michel BasquiatVisual: Death is Buried, the Flower is Pulled Up, Love is Lost; Joan MiroVisual: Untitled, Francesco ClementeAudio TextsAudio Track 8.1: Paul D. MillerAudio Track 8.2: Jeff ChangAudio Track 8.3: W.S. MerwinAudio Track 8.4: Adrienne RichAudio Track 8.5: Panel discussion on Pablo Neruda: Robert Bly, John Felsteiner, Mark Eisner, and Elan StevensAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 9 - Ideas and the MindIntroductionNonfictionReading: The Enchanted Loom, from An Alchemy of Mind, Diane AckermanReading: Mind: A Brief Introduction, John SearleReading: Neural Networks, from On Intelligence, Jeff HawkinsReading: Blink, Malcolm GladwellFictionReading: Invisible Man, Ralph EllisonReading: A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Ernest HemingwayReading: Herzog, Saul BellowReading: Night-Sea Journey, John BarthPoetryReading: The Brain is Wider than the Sky, Emily DickinsonReading: Among Schoolchildren, W. B. YeatsGraphic FictionReading: Izzy the Cockroach and the Meaning of Life, from A Life Force, Will EisnerVisual TextsVisual: The Thinker, Auguste RodinVisual: The Inventor’s Head, Willam MasonVisual: Morning Light, Hugh ShurleyAudio TextsAudio Track 9.1: Malcolm GladwellAudio Track 9.2: John SearleAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Chapter 10 - Ideas about the Future: Utopia and DystopiaIntroductionNonfictionReading: On Time Travel, Nova interview with Carl SaganReading: The Future Doesn’t Need Us, Bill JoyReading: Forecasting the Future, from What is Coming, H.G. WellsReading: Future Shock, Alvin TofflerFictionReading: Utopia, Sir Thomas MoreReading: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. LeGuinReading: Oryx and Crake, Margaret AtwoodReading: Little Brother, Walter MosleyPoetryReading: Re-adjustment, C.S. LewisReading: The Future, Rainer Maria RilkeGraphic FictionLone Wolf 2100: The Language of Chaos, Mike KennedyVisual TextsVisual: In Chair Overlooking Wormhole, Tom MunneckeVisual: Dystopia, Thomas RöpkeVisual: Boy with Robert the RobotAudio TextsAudio Track 10.1: Discussion of the history of utopian thought with Edward RothsteinAdditional Audio ResourcesConnectionsFor WritingVideo Suggestions
Sound Ideas
