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1. Writing, Reading, and Speaking: Words that Make Us Human
]David Hanover, The Work of Writing [photograph]
Stephen King, Write or Die
]John Kennedy, The Purpose of Poetry
Eudora Welty, Listening
LINKED READINGS: Our Mothers’ Voices
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
]Amy Borkowsky, Amy’s Answering Machine
]Marjorie Agos’n, Always Living in Spanish
Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me
LINKED READINGS: Why Read?
Gloria Naylor, The Love of Books
Richard Wright, Fighting Words
Anne Fadiman, Marrying Libraries
LINKED READINGS: Understanding Text and Context
]Scott McCloud, Reading the Comics [graphic essay]
]Deborah Franklin, ‘Informed Consent’-What Information? What Consent?
Georgina Kleege, Up Close, In Touch
Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook
Contexts for On Keeping a Notebook
Why I Write; Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism, Last Words, Interview (1999); Wendy Bishop, Revision is a Recursive Process; Katherine Anne Porter, You Do Not Create a Style. You Work. . .
]Garrison Keillor, The Anthem: If Famous Poets Had Written ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’
]Dennis Baron, The New Technologies of the Word
]Roz Chast, The IMs of Romeo and Juliet [cartoon]
Brief Takes on Writing: How to Do It
Roger Rosenblatt, Never Correct Anybody’s English; James Thurber, Telling Stories; Rita Mae Brown, Kissing Off Ma Bell; Ernest Hemingway, Write Every Morning; Peter Elbow, Freewriting; Anne Lamott, Getting Started; Donald M. Murray, Creating a Design; Jane Kenyon, Have Good Sentences in Your Ears
2. Identity with Attitude: Who We Are and How We Got that Way
]Franz Boas and George Hunt, An ‘Authentic’ Indian [photograph]
]John Henley, The Graduates [photograph]
Eric Liu, Notes of a Native Speaker
LINKED READINGS: Race and Identity
James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village
W.E.B. Du Bois, The ‘Veil’ of Self-Consciousness
Esmerelda Santiago, J’bara
Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country
]Art Spiegelman, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) [graphic essay]
]Sherman Alexie, What Sacagawea Means to Me
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Contexts for The Way to Rainy Mountain
Rainy Mountain [photograph]; East of My Grandmother’s House; I Invented History; Disturbing the Spirits; The Native Voice; The Whole Journey; Three Voices; Paula Gunn Allen, Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970; Portrait of N. Scott Momaday [photograph]
]Gloria Anzaldœa, from Beyond Traditional Notions of Identity
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington
]Paul Starobin, Misfit America
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Yes, Ma’am
Brief Takes on Creativity: Interviews
Alice Walker, Eudora Welty: An Interview; Kenneth A. Brown, Steve Wozniak: Inventing the PC; ] Dave Roberts, An Interview with Accidental Movie Star Al Gore; ] Frances Mayes on Writing Under the Tuscan Sun; ] Calvin Trillan: Writing about Family
]3. Relationships and Life Choices: Where We Live and What We Live For
LINKED READINGS: Thoreau’s Choices
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived and What I Lived For
Henry David Thoreau, from Civil Disobedience
E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
Contexts for Once More to the Lake
E. B. White at Belgrade Lake [photograph]; Brian Doyle, from Joyas Voladoras; Chang-Rae Lee, from Coming Home Again; Scott Russell Sanders, The Inheritance of Tools
LINKED READINGS: Lost Parents
Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence
]Anna Quindlen, Anniversary
]David Sedaris, Old Faithful
]LINKED READINGS: Families, Together and Apart
Stephanie Coontz, Blaming the Family for Economic Decline
]Kate Zernike, Why Are There So Many Single Americans?
]David Brooks, The Elusive Alter
]Judith Wallerstein, The Legacy of Divorce
Walker Evans, Ford River Rouge Plant, Michigan, 1947 [photograph]
Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida
]LINKED READINGS: Coming to an Understanding
Malcolm Gladwell, The Physical Genius
]Perri Klass, The One-in-a-Thousand Illness You Can’t Afford to Miss
]Nancy Andreasen, The Creative Mind
]Evan Eisenberg, Dialogue Boxes You Should Have Read More Carefully [graphic essay]
Brief Takes on Travel: Reports from Other Places
Kyoko Mori, Date Stamp; Paul Theroux, Every Trip is Unique; Mark Twain, Learning the River; Annie Proulx, Travel is . . . an Unnerving Experience; Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Truck: Hitchiking through Hell; Mary Morris, My First night Alone in Mexico
4. Education and The American Character: Issues of Economics, Politics, and Culture
Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
Shirley Brice Heath, Literate Traditions
LINKED READINGS: Native American Perspectives
Leslie Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
]Zitkala Sa, from The School Days of an Indian Girl
Stephanie Maze, Literacy in Progress [photograph]
Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
Contexts for Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
Rodriguez at Eighteen [photograph]; Interview Excerpt Slouching towards Los Angeles; Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude; Rodrigues as a Mask [photograph]; Jose Antonio Villarreal, Pocho; Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy; Paul Zweig, The Child of Two Cultures Interview (1999)
Natalie Behring, The Entrance Exam [photograph]
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
]LINKED READINGS: Measuring Intelligence
Howard Gardner, Who Owns Intelligence?
]Sara Ivry, Entrance Exams, Deconstructed
]American Institutes for Research, American College Grads-Barely Literate, and Beyond
Brief Takes on the Upright Life: Good Advice
Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Moral Perfection; ] Ben Stein, Birds and Bees? No, Let’s Talk About Dollars and Cents; ] Theodore Roosevelt, What College Graduates Owe America; ] Jackie Spinner, The Only Thing You Should Be Advocating Is the Truth; Jacob Neusner, The Speech the Graduates Didn’t Hear; ] David Sedaris, What I Learned/And What I Said at Princeton; ] Anonymous, How Many Virginia University Students Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
5. History: What Really Happened? How Do We Know, and Decide What It Means?
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother [photograph]
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
Contexts for In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes; Amiri Baraka, The Myth of Negro Literature; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action; Looking to the Side, and Back; My Grandmother Takes in Washing [poster]; Interview (1983); Toni Morrison, The Pain of Being Black
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Contexts for Shooting an Elephant
Blair in 1923 [photograph]; Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden; John Kaye, History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8; Alok Rai, Orwell and the Politics of Despair; Stephen Spender (1950); Christopher Sykes (1950); Edmund Wilson (1951); Robert Pearce, Orwell Now
Linda Simon, The Naked Source
Will Counts, Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957 [photograph]
]LINKED READINGS: Difficult Images
]Susan Sontag, Looking at the Unbearable
]Francisco Goya, from The Disasters of War [paintings]
H. Bruce Franklin, From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of American Wars
Brief Takes on War and Peace: Diaries and Memoirs
Walt Whitman, A Night Battle; Mary Chesnut, Slavery a Curse to Any Land; Art Spiegelman, from Maus [graphic essay]; Anne Frank, We Live in a Paradise Compared to the Jews Who Aren’t in Hiding
6. Society and Politics: Human Rights, Social Class
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
Contexts for No Name Woman
Interview (1982); Maxine Hong Kingston [photograph]; Sara Blackburn, Review of The Woman Warrior Interview (1998); Interview (1982); Frank Chin, Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and Fake; Imagined Life; Paula Rabinowitz, Eccentric Memories: A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
]Lynda Barry, Hate [graphic essay]
Harriet Jacobs, The Slaves’ New Year’s Day
Frederick Douglass, Resurrection
]Kenji Yoshino, The Pressure to Cover
]Bob Daemmrich, Nobody Knows I’m Gay [photograph]
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Wole Soyinka, Every Dictator’s Nightmare
]Richard A. Posner, Security versus Civil Liberties
]Elaine Scarry, Acts of Resistance
Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, 1987 [photograph]
Brief Takes from Insiders: Codes, Conversations, Conventions
Richard Rodriguez, Family Values; Cathy Davidson, Laughing in English; Henry Louis Gates Jr., Signifying; Beth Kephart, Playing for Keeps; Robert Coles, Two Languages, One Soul
7. Science and Technology: Discovery, Invention, and Controversy
Ellen Goodman, Cure or Quest for Perfection?
]Bill McKibben, Designer Genes
Henry Groskinsky, Replaceable You [photograph]
Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution as Fact and Theory
Contexts for Evolution as Fact and Theory
Knight Takes Bishop?; Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics; Nonoverlapping Magisteria; Phillip E. Johnson, The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism; Interview (1998); James Gleick, Stephen Jay Gould, Breaking Tradition with Darwin; Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, Punctuated Equilibrium at the Third Stage
Charles Darwin, Understanding Natural Selection
Edward O. Wilson, Microbes 3, Humans 2
]Stanley Fish, Academic Cross-Dressing: How Intelligent Design Gets its Arguments from the Left
Natalie Angier, Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
]LINKED READINGS: Bad Science
]Norimitsu Onishi, In a Country That Craved Respect, Stem Cell Scientist Rode a Wave of Korean Pride
]Robert L. Park, The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
]David Dobbs, Trial and Error
Brief Takes on Technology: Writing Humor
James Thurber, The Wild-Eyed Edison’s Dangerous Experiments; Erma Bombeck, Technology’s Coming . . . Technology’s Coming; Bailey White, Flying Saucer; Fran Leibowitz, The Sound of Music: Enough Already; Umberto Eco, Ideal Operating Instructions
8. Ethics: Principles and Actions
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Contexts for Letter from Birmingham Jail
Brooks Hays, A Southern Moderate Speaks; Eight Clergymen’s Statement; King and Abernathy Under Arrest [photograph]; King and Abernathy [photograph]; T. Olin Binkley, Southern Baptist Seminaries; Will Herberg, A Religious ‘Right’ to Violate the Law?; Boycotts Will Be Used; Martin Luther King, Jr. Defines ‘Black Power’
Leonard Freed, Martin Luther King Jr. after Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Baltimore, 1963 [photograph]
John Donne, Meditation 17 (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Jeffrey Wattles, The Golden Rule-One or Many, Gold or Glitter?
Anna Quindlen, Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha
Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
George Will, Life and Death at Princeton
Wendy Simonds, Talking with Strangers: A Researcher’s Tale
]Kelly Ritter, The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition
]G. Anthony Gorry, Steal This MP3 File: What Is Theft?
]Michael J. Bugeja, Facing the Facebook
]Frank Gannon, Pre-Approved for Platinum
Brief Takes on Ethical Codes: Prescriptions for the Good Life
Confucius, from The Analects; The Ten Commandments Fundamentals of Islam; Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
]9. The Twenty-First-Century World: Issues of Ecology, War and Peace, Spirituality
Annie Dillard, Heaven and Earth in Jest
Contexts for Heaven and Earth in Jest
Henry David Thoreau, from Journal; From the Koran, Al-Mu; Menoon (The Believers) 23. Verses 112-116; Blaise Pascal, from Pensees; Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco; Wendell Berry, A Secular Pilgrimage
Keith Carter, Fireflies [photograph]
Linda Hogan, Hearing Voices
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
]Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
LINKED READINGS: Geography and Ecology
Barry Lopez, The American Geographies
Sandra Postel, Troubled Waters
]Kim Warp, Rising Sea Levels — An Alternative Theory [cartoon]
William E. Rees, Life in the Lap of Luxury as Ecosystems Collapse
Margaret Mead, Warfare Is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity
]Jim MacMillan, Family and Soldiers in Iraq [photograph]
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
]Pope John XXIII, Disarmament
]LINKED READINGS: Nobel Peace Prize Speeches
]Rigoberta Menchœ, Five Hundred Years of Mayan Oppression
]The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Inner Peace and Human Rights
]Karen Armstrong, Does God Have a Future?
]Paul Bloom, Is God an Accident?
]David Owen, Your Three Wishes: F.A.Q.
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