PART ONE: ANALYSIS, WRITING, AND RESEARCH1 Critical Reading 2 Invention and Drafting 3 Using Sources PART TWO: READINGS4 Reading, Speaking, Writing: How Does Language Make Us Human? Eudora Welty, Listening"Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn’t hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me."Amy Tan, Mother Tongue"Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with."Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective"I ask you . . . to approach language from the Pueblo perspective, one that embraces the whole of creation and the whole of time." Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me"I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night. . . . I was trying to save my life."Richard Wright, From Fighting Words"I had once tried to write . . . but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now [as I began to read Mencken] it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing." *George Saunders, Thank You Esther Forbes"What Mr. Just did not write—what he would have written, had he been taking full responsibility for his own prose—is: ‘To more easily kill the Jews, leave the lights on.’ But writing this would have forced him to admit what he was up to."Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one. . . ."Peter Elbow, Freewriting"The idea is simply to write [regularly] for ten minutes . . . don’t stop for anything. Go quickly without rushing. Never stop to look back, to cross something out. . . . Just put down something . . . whatever is in your mind." Stephen King, Write or Die"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out."Elie Wiesel, Why I Write"For the survivor, writing is not a profession, but an occupation, a duty. Camus calls it ‘an honor.’ . . . Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. . . . [I write] to help the dead vanquish death." *e-Pages Christopher Hitchens, Unspoken Truths 5 Identity and Culture: Who Am I, and Why Does It Matter? *Jhumpa Lahiri, My Two Lives"While I am American by virtue of the fact that I was raised in this country, I am Indian thanks to the efforts of two individuals. I feel Indian not because of the time I've spent in India or because of my genetic composition but rather because of my parents' steadfast presence in my life."Eric Liu, Notes of a Native Speaker"The typical Asian I imagined, and the atypical Asian I imagined myself to be, were identical in this sense: neither was as much a creature of free will as a human being ought to be."Sherman Alexie, What Sacagawea Means to Me"The Lewis and Clark Expedition was exactly the kind of multicultural, trigenerational, bigendered, animal-friendly, government-supported, partly French-Canadian project that should rightly be celebrated by liberals and castigated by conservatives."N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain"Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood."Tony Judt, Toni"A Protestant who does not believe in the Scriptures, a Catholic who abjures the authority of the Pope in Rome, or a Muslim for whom Muhammad is not the Prophet: these are incoherent categories. But a Jew who rejects the authority of the rabbis is still Jewish (even if only by the rabbis’ own matrilineal definition): who is to tell him otherwise?"James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village"This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again."*Tamara Winfrey Harris, No Disrespect: Black Women and the Burden of Respectability"Who is most to blame for the images of black women we see?"Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?"I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! Ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen them most all sold off to slavery. . . . Ain’t I a woman?"Gloria Anzaldúa, from Beyond Traditional Notions of Identity"Today we need to move beyond separate and easy identifications, creating bridges that cross race and other classifications among different groups via intergenerational dialogue."*e-Pages Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country"I felt inferior to people in town because we grew our food and made our clothes, while they bought whatever they needed. Although we were self-sufficient and resourceful and held clear title to our land, we lived in a state of psychological poverty."6 Relationships and Life Choices: How Should We Be with Ourselves, Others, and the World? Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladores"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end–not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart." *Jonathan Franzen, Liking Is for Cowards: Go for What Hurts"Suddenly there’s a real choice to be made, not a fake consumer choice between a BlackBerry and an iPhone, but a question: Do I love this person? And, for the other person, does this person love me?"Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of the One-Breasted Woman"I belong to a Clan of One-Breasted Women. My mother, my grandmothers, and six aunts have all had mastectomies. Seven are dead. The two who survive have just completed rounds of chemotherapy and radiation."E.B. White, Once More to the Lake"I begin to sustain the illusion that [my stepson] was I; and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father. . . . I seemed to be living a dual existence."Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."*Malcolm Gladwell, Drinking Games"When confronted with the rowdy youth in the bar, we are happy to raise his drinking age, to tax his beer, to punish him if he drives under the influence, and to push him into treatment if his habit becomes an addiction. But we are reluctant to provide him with a positive and constructive example of how to drink."*Michael Pollan, Food Movement Rising*Dana Goodyear, Raw Deal *Lisa Miller, Divided We Eat*e-Pages Meera Nair, My Inheritance7 Education and the American Character: What Do We Teach? What Do we Learn? And Why Does This Matter? David Sedaris, What I Learned and What I Said at Princeton"This chapel . . . I remember when it was just a clearing, cordoned off with sharp sticks. Prayer was compulsory back then, and you couldn’t just fake it by moving your lips. . . . I’m dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ."*Tim Kreider, In Praise of Not Knowing "I hope kids are still finding some way, despite Google and Wikipedia, of not knowing things. Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill."Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society"What do I do if one of my kids starts choking? I go running to the phone . . . I can’t look up the hospital phone number."Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood"I was a bilingual child, but of a certain kind: ‘socially disadvantaged,’ the son of working-class parents, both Mexican immigrants."*Maya Schenwar, Learning Curve: Radical "Unschooling" Moms are Changing the Stay-at-Home Landscape"Considering progressive parents’ efforts to break with capitalism—spending less, living alternatively, working cooperatively—it makes sense that many homeschoolers don’t want their kids going anywhere near the mainstream school system."*John Taylor Gatto, Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why"Now, you needn't have studied marketing to know that there are two groups of people who can always be convinced to consume more than they need to: addicts and children. School has done a pretty good job of turning our children into addicts, but it has done a spectacular job of turning our children into children."Plato, The Allegory of the Cave"In the world of knowledge, the last thing to be perceived and only with great difficulty is the essential Form of Goodness. . . . Without having had a vision of this Form no one can act with wisdom, either in his own life or in matters of state."Howard Gardner, Who Owns Intelligence?"All human beings possess at least eight intelligences: linguistic and logical-mathematical . . . , musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal."Linda Simon, The Naked Source "What students really need to learn, more than ‘history,’ is a sense of the historical method of inquiry . . . they need to practice, themselves, confronting sources, making judgments, and defending conclusions."*Peg Tyre, Writing Revolution"In a profoundly hopeful irony, New Dorp’s reemergence as a viable institution has hinged not on a radical new innovation but on an old idea done better. The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced." e-Pages need somerthing not online (all of the above are online)8 *Gender*Andrea Cornwall, Boys and Men Must Be Included in the Conversation on Equality "Rather than put ‘girls and women’ in one corner – as deserving subjects who can be put to work for development – and leave "boys and men" to be picked up only when they turn bad, we need a fresh approach."*Eduardo Porter, The New Mating Market*Barbara Ehrenreich, Bonfire of the Disney Princesses"Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them."*Hanna Rosin, A Boy’s Life: about transgendered children (pair with McClosky; really long, will need to be excerpted; quote below is from 4th paragraph)"’Brandon, God made you a boy for a special reason,’" she told him before they said prayers one night when he was 5, the first part of a speech she’d prepared. But he cut her off: "’God made a mistake,’" he said."Deirdre N. McCloskey, Yes Ma’am"It’s hard to pass. . . . You’ll be surprised at how many gender clues there are and how easy it is to get them wrong."Natalie Angier, Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin"It needn't be argued that men and women are exactly the same, or that humans are meta-evolutionary beings, removed from nature and slaves to culture, to reject the perpetually regurgitated model of the coy female and the ardent male."Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens"How was the creativity of the black woman kept alive, year after year and century after century, when for most of the years Black people have been in America, it was a punishable crime for a Black person to read and write."Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women"I did my best to kill ["The Angel in the House"]. Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing." *Ann-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All: women can’t be high-powered professionals and take care of their kids (this was really controversial and we could get some mileage off that, but it’s really long; it would need to be excerpted)*e-Pages Colleen Kinder, Blot Out Technology —Be Careful What We Wish For: What Are the Consequences of Life in a Connected World?Pick Up (5 men, 2 women, 1 non-white—the pickup is too technologically focused. we might need to drop or move some)Ray Kurzweil, Frontiers"The means of creativity have now been democratized. . . . Individuals now have the [technological] tools to break new ground in every field." *Maria Konnikova, Do You Think Like Sherlock Holmes? What the Detective Can Teach Us About Observation, Attention, and Happiness"The confluence of seeing and observing is central to the concept of mindfulness, a mental alertness that takes in the present moment to the fullest, that is able to concentrate on its immediate landscape and free itself of any distractions."Sherry Turkle, How Computers Change the Way We Think "There can be no simple way of cataloging whether any particular change is good or bad. That is contested terrain. At every step we have to ask . . . whether current technology is leading us in directions that serve our human purposes." Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?"What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation . . . . Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."*Adam Gopnik, The Information: How the Internet Gets Inside Us"If ideas of democracy and freedom emerged at the end of the printing-press era, it wasn’t by some technological logic but because of parallel inventions, like the ideas of limited government and religious tolerance, very hard won from history."*James Gleick, How Google Dominates Us "It’s for your own good—that is Google’s cherished belief. If we want the best possible search results, and if we want advertisements suited to our needs and desires, we must let them into our souls."*Neil Postman, The Judgment of Thamus "Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that."William Deresiewicz, from Faux Friendship"Commercial society did not eliminate the self-interested aspects of making friends and influencing people, it just changed the way we went about it."Amitai Etzioni with Radhika Bhat, Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet"Is the Internet age really destroying second chances, making us less forgiving and hindering the possibility for rehabilitation and even redemption?" e-Pages Daniel J. Solove, The End of Privacy? " . . . The broad reach of electronic networking will probably necessitate changes in common law. The threats to privacy are formidable, and people are starting to realize how strongly they regard privacy as a basic right." 10 Ethics: What Principles Do—and Should—We Live By? Jeffrey Wattles, The Golden Rule – One or Many, Gold or Glitter?"The golden rule, happily, has more than a single sense. It is not a static, one-dimensional proposition with a single meaning to be accepted or rejected . . . but is a symbol of a process of grown on emotional, intellectual, and spiritual levels."*Michael Sandel, What Isn’t for Sale? "A debate about the moral limits of markets would enable us to decide, as a society, where markets serve the public good and where they do not belong. Thinking through the appropriate place of markets requires that we reason together, in public, about the right way to value the social goods we prize."*Christine Overall, Think Before You Breed"Perhaps people fail to see childbearing as an ethical choice because they think of it as the expression of an instinct or biological drive, like sexual attraction or ‘falling in love,’ that is not amenable to ethical evaluation. But whatever our biological inclinations may be, many human beings do take control over their fertility…."Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty"I’m saying that you shouldn’t buy that new car, take that cruise, redecorate the house or get that pricey new suit. After all, a $1,000 suit could save five children’s lives."Eight Clergymen’s Statement"We appeal to both our white and Negro citizenry to observe the principles of law and order and common sense."Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in realty expressing the very highest respect for the law."United Nations, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant"When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys." *David Eagleman, The Brain on Trial"Discoveries in neuroscience suggest a new way forward for law and order—one that will lead to a more cost-effective, humane, and flexible system than the one we have today. When modern brain science is laid out clearly, it is difficult to justify how our legal system can continue to function without taking what we’ve learned into account."*Stanley Fish, Condemnation Without Absolutes"But if by relativism one means the practice of putting yourself in your adversary's shoes, not in order to wear them as your own but in order to have some understanding (far short of approval) of why someone else might want to wear them, then relativism will not and should not end, because it is simply another name for serious thought."e-Page Linda Barry, Hate [graphic essay]The substitute teacher "was the first person to explain the difference between the kind of hate that has destructive intent and the kind that’s a response to something destructive."