Course Readings
Introductory Weeks
Hellman, Caroline, “In Defense of the Classroom” The Daily News. 14 May 2020.
“(Un) LEARNING My Name” by Mohamed Hassan on YouTube https://www.mohamed-hamad.com/mohamed-hassan-unlearning-my-name-spoken-word/
Malcolm X, “Prison Studies: or Saved”
Malcolm X Chapter 11 “Saved” beginning paragraphs
Malcolm X, Laurence Fishbourne and Theater of Your Mind (NYT interview with Fishbourne)
Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu Steal Some Grand Slam Spotlight (NYT)
Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write”
Memories of Grandmother Sylvia and Legacy of Slavery — 2 min listen — beautiful story of reading and freedom(NPR)
Morrison, Toni, “The Reader as Artist” (Oprah.com, 2006)
Bunn, Mike. “How to Read Like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, 2011. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces2/bunn–how-to-read.pdf
Theme for English B, Langston Hughes
Unit 1- Education Narrative
Esmeralda Santiago, “When I was Puerto RIcan” (page 101 The Place Where We Dwell) CH03[1]
Colin Powell, “My American Journey” (page 90 The Place Where We Dwell) CH03[1]
Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”
Interview with Narrator Nancy Wu
Lyiscott, Jamila. “3 Ways to Speak English.” 10 Nov 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn_mqVD_7XQ&feature=youtu.be
Olivarez, José. “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing.” Medium, 12 Sept 2018. https://gen.medium.com/young-chicago-authors-maybe-i-could-save-myself-by-writing-poetry-latinx-teen-79752108d0b5
Olivarez, José. “Mexican American Disambiguation.” Citizen Illegal. Haymarket Books, 2018.
Olivarez Brooklyn Poets interview
Watch Oliveraz video 1 and video 2
Obama, Chapter Four (This is just Chapter Four, 10 pages.)
Dreams From My Father (Obama). ( PDFDrive ) (This is the WHOLE BOOK.)
Memories of Grandmother Sylvia and Legacy of Slavery — reading and freedom(NPR)
Unit 2 – Reflective Annotated Bibliography
Baldwin, James. “A Talk to Teachers” by James Baldwin, 1963. https://www.spps.org/cms/lib010/MN01910242/Centricity/Domain/125/baldwin_atalktoteachers_1_2.pdf
Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings about Writing, Volume 1, 2010. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/dirk–navigating-genres.pdf
Graff, Gerald & Cathy Birkenstein, “Chapter 3: As He Himself Puts It – The Art of Quoting” in They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, volume 3, 2014. https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/915212/files/28555152/download?verifier=HJ6SFj8jLsPCvE2TH17gz2aT5deBXImp3ItoFnpD&wrap=1
Lewis, John, CCNY 2019 Commencement Speech
Lewis, John, “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” The New York Times. 30 July 2020.
Peck, Raoul, I Am Not Your Negro (Baldwin documentary)
Perdomo, Willie Perdomo, “Where I’m From.” Where A Nickel Costs a Dime. Norton, 1996.
Unit 3 – Genre Determination
Correal, Annie, “Love and Black Lives on a Brooklyn Street” The New York Times. 27 January 2017.
Murray, Donald. “The Maker’s Eye.” Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers. Ed. By Paul Escholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005. https://robertnazar.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/themakerseye.pdf
Stedman, Kyle. “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” Writing Spaces: Readings about Writing, volume 2, 2011. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/stedman–annoying-ways.pdf
Addtional —
Reading resources on Mike Bunn’s How to RLW also rhetorical analysis
Colin Powell, “My American Journey” (page 90 The Place Where We Dwell) CH03[1]
Esmeralda Santiago, “When I was Puerto RIcan” (page 101 The Place Where We Dwell) CH03[1]
Reading resources on poet Jose Oliveraz http://sinkingcitylitmag.com/citizen-illegal/ and https://therumpus.net/2018/07/citizen-illegal-by-jose-olivarez/
Reading resources on Amy Tan http://dawnatownsend.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/58936287/Mother%20Tongue.pdf
Reading on Growth Mindset https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/
Stop Enabling Ginsberg artlcle (1)
Obama, the Best-Selling Author on Reading, Writing, and Radical Empathy (NYT)
