Course Readings
ENG 1101CO Readings and Videos
Introductory Weeks
Hellman, Caroline, âIn Defense of the Classroomâ The Daily News. 14 May 2020.
â(Un) LEARNING My Nameâ 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 â 2 min listen — beautiful story of reading and freedom(NPR)
Morrison, Toni, âThe Reader as Artistâ (Oprah.com, 2006)
Bunn, Mike. âHow to Read Like a Writer.â Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, 2011.  https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces2/bunnâhow-to-read.pdf
Unit 1- Education Narrative
Esmeralda Santiago, âWhen I was Puerto RIcanâ (page 101Â The Place Where We Dwell)Â Â CH03[1]
Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”
Interview with Narrator Nancy Wu
Lyiscott, Jamila. â3 Ways to Speak English.â 10 Nov 2009.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn_mqVD_7XQ&feature=youtu.be
Olivarez, JosĂ©. âMaybe I Could Save Myself by Writing.â Medium, 12 Sept 2018. https://gen.medium.com/young-chicago-authors-maybe-i-could-save-myself-by-writing-poetry-latinx-teen-79752108d0b5
Olivarez, JosĂ©. âMexican American Disambiguation.â Citizen Illegal. Haymarket Books, 2018.
Olivarez Brooklyn Poets interviewÂ
Watch Oliveraz video 1 and video 2Â
Obama, Chapter Four  (This is just Chapter Four, 10 pages.)
Dreams From My Father (Obama). ( PDFDrive ) Â (This is the WHOLE BOOK.)
Memories of Grandmother Sylvia and Legacy of Slavery — reading and freedom(NPR)
Unit 2 â Reflective Annotated Bibliography
Baldwin, James. âA Talk to Teachersâ by James Baldwin, 1963. https://www.spps.org/cms/lib010/MN01910242/Centricity/Domain/125/baldwin_atalktoteachers_1_2.pdf
Dirk, Kerry. âNavigating Genres.â Writing Spaces: Readings about Writing, Volume 1, 2010. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/dirkânavigating-genres.pdf
Graff, Gerald & Cathy Birkenstein, âChapter 3: As He Himself Puts It â The Art of Quotingâ 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, âTogether, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nationâ The New York Times. 30 July 2020.
Peck, Raoul, I Am Not Your Negro (Baldwin documentary)
Perdomo, Willie Perdomo, âWhere Iâm From.â Where A Nickel Costs a Dime. Norton, 1996.
Unit 3 â Genre Determination
Correal, Annie, âLove and Black Lives on a Brooklyn Streetâ The New York Times. 27 January 2017.
Murray, Donald. âThe Makerâs Eye.â Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers. Ed. By Paul Escholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martinâs, 2005. https://robertnazar.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/themakerseye.pdf
Stedman, Kyle. âAnnoying Ways People Use Sourcesâ Writing Spaces: Readings about Writing, volume 2, 2011. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/stedmanâannoying-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)Â CH03[1]
Esmeralda Santiago, “When I was Puerto RIcan” (page 101 The Place Where We Dwell) Â 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)