Tentative Reading List & Schedule
The True Story – Boundaries of Language
Week/Readings
- “Mother Tongue” (Tan), “Superman and Me” (Alexie), “Living Like Weasels” (Dillard)
- “Pale Blue Dot” (Sagan) http://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/72440/5/Sagan_-_Pale_Blue_Dot__A_Vision_of_the_Human_Future_in_Space.html
- “Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell)
- “A Just Cause ≠ A Just War” (Zinn)
- “A Plea For Caution From Russia” (Putin), “War and Baked Beans” (Olmstead)
- “Pro Archia Poeta” (Cicero)
“Areopagitica” (Milton)- — —
- “Saving the Cows, Starving the Children” (Faleiro) Read for Thursday, October 20th
- Sample Researched Arguments,
- Mass Transit in Detroit: Synthesis
- The Speeches: “Mountaintop” (MLK), “Inaugural” (JFK)
- Same topic, different voices (3),
- “The Veldt” (Bradbury)
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Tentative Schedule
Th Sept. 15: Researched Personal Essay Draft Due
T Sept. 20: Researched Personal Essay Final Draft Due
Th Oct. 6: Summary and Commentary Due
T Oct 25th. : Argument Synthesis Draft Due (Workshop)
Th Oct. 27: Argument Synthesis Final Draft Due
T Nov. 8: Film Review and Response Due
Th Dec. 1: Researched Argument Draft Due
T Dec. 6: Researched Argument Final Draft Due
Summary and Commentary suggested magazines:
American Enterprise
American Scholar
Atlantic
Commentary
Foreign Affairs
Harper’s
Mother Jones
Ms.
Nation
National Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New York Times Magazine
New York Review of Books
New Yorker
Scientific American
Technology Review
Tikkun