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ENGL 1010: English Composition-Student Version (2018-19 Archive): Index of Readings

2018-2019 Archive Copy of ENG 1010: English Composition-Student Version

Freshman Common Reading

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780307455925
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
Available free as part of Freshman Common Reading. Follow the link to read first chapter only, password protected

Personal Narratives

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi “Real Food,” The New Yorker, September 3, 2007
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/real-food
Anzaldua, Gloria, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
(WoR): Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).
Case, Sue-Ellen. “Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970s”
Douglass, Frederick, “Learning to Read and Write”
From Narrative of the Life of a Slave
El-Ghobashy, Mona, “Quandaries of Representation”
Henriquez, Cristina “Lunch” The New Yorker, Sept. 3, 2007,
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/lunch-6
Hurston, Zora Neale, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me”
Lake-Thom, Robert G., “An Indian Father’s Plea”

Marshall, Paule, From the Poets in the Kitchen

Mairs, Nancy, “On Being a Cripple”
Rodriguez, Richard, “The Achievement of Desire”
Personal Reflections on Learning "Basics"." College English 40, no. 3 (1978)- 239-54.
Soto, Gary “Looking for Work”
Shteyngart, Gary, “Map Quest”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/18/map-quest:
Tan, Amy, "Mother Tongue"
Vuong, Ocean, “A Letter to My Mother That She will Never Read”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/a-letter-to-my-mother-that-she-will-never-read
Whitehead, Colson, “City Limits”
Wiesel, Eli, "Eight Short Simple Words"-Excerpt from Night
Lahiri, Jhumpa, "Rice." The New Yorker Noc. 23, 2009
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/23/rice-2

Short Analysis

Carson, Rachel, "The Obligation to Endure"
From The Silent Spring

Eighner, Lars “On Dumpster Diving”
New England Journal of Public Policy Volume 8 Issue 1 Special Issue on Homelessness: New England and Beyond

Eltahawy, Mona, "Twitterholics Anonymous"
MONA'S MUSINGS: TWITTERHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Jerusalem Post JANUARY 24, 2011
Furgurson, Ernest B. “The End of History”
The American Scholar (magazine, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015.

Gatto, John Taylor, “Against School: How public education cripples our kids, and why”

Gay, Roxane, “Peculiar Benefits”
The Rumpus, May 16th, 2012
Gay, Roxanne, “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence”
The Rumpus, March 10th, 2011
Jefferson, Thomas, “The Declaration of Independence”
Kincaid, Jamaica “The Ugly Tourist”
King, Jr., Martin Luther, "I have a Dream"
Korten, Tristan “In Florida, Officials Ban Term ‘Climate Change
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Miami Herald, March 08, 2015 04:00 AM. Updated March 11, 2015 11:52 PM

Lukianoff, Greg & Haidt, Jonathan, from The Coddling of the American Mind

Marche, Stephen, “We Are Not All Created Equal: The Truth About the American Class System”
Esquire, Dec. 13, 2011

McKibben, Bill, “Curbing Nature’s Paparazzi”

McWhorter, John, “Thick of Tongue: Future of Language: So what exactly is this “black sound” I am insisting exists?"
Guernica Magazine, 3/15/2016
Meltzer, Marisa, “The Last Feminist Taboo”
Elle magazine, Dec. 19, 2013. Title on Elle Magazine: "Does Wanting to Be Thin Make You a Slave to the Man?"
Morris, Errol, “Liar, Liar Pants on Fire”
NY Times JULY 10, 2007 2:14 PM
Munoz, Manuel, "Leave Your Name at the Border
Aug. 1, 2007, NYTImes Opinion

Schwartz, Barry. "The Tyranny of Choice."
Scientific American 290, no. 4 (2004): 70-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26047678
Slater, Lauren, “The Trouble with Self-Esteem” (PDF)
The New York Times Magazine. (Feb. 3, 2002): Lifestyle: p. 44.

Slater, Lauren, The Trouble With Self-Esteem (link)
Version of article from Literature Resource Center with audio playback. The New York Times Magazine. (Feb. 3, 2002): Lifestyle: p. 44.
Solnit, Rebecca, “Men Explain Things to Me”
Solomon, Akiba “Thugs, Students, Rioters, Fans: Media’s Subtle Racism in Unrest Coverage”

Sontag, Susan, “Regarding the Pain of Others”

Staples, Brent, "Confederate Memorials as Instruments of Racial Terror"

Staples, Brent, “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space”

Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
NYTimes, Sept. 26, 2015

Analysis, Long

Anyon, Jean, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”
The Journal of Education 162, no. 1 (1980): 67-92. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42741976.
Appiah, Anthony, “The Case for Contamination”
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, Tue Greenfort, and Katie Holten. "The Case for Contamination." RSA Journal 153, no. 5522 (2006): 38-45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41379681.
Baldwin, James, “Notes of a Native Son”

Carr, Nicholas, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains”
Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008
Chaudhry, Lakshmi, “Mirror, Mirror on the Web”
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations”
Atlantic Monthly, June 2014

Cole, Teju, “Black Bodies: Rereading James Baldwin’s Stranger in the Village”
The New Yorker August 19, 2014.

Crawford, Matthew, “The Case for Working with Your Hands”
NYTimes, MAY 21, 2009.

Danticat, Edwige, “Another Country”
From: Danticat, Edwidge. 2011. Create dangerously the immigrant artist at work. New York, NY: Vintage Books. In Brooklyn College, Stacks (PS 3554 .A5815 Z463 2011) Regular Loan

King, Jr., Martin Luther, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Sandel, Michael, “The Case Against Perfectionism”
Michaels, Walter Benn, “The Trouble with Diversity”
Saunders, George, "The Braindead Megaphone"
Saunders, George. 2007. The braindead megaphone: essays. New York: Riverhead Books.

Wallace, David Foster, “Consider the Lobster”

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English language".
From: Orwell, George. 1968. Politics and the English language. In The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angos, vol. 4, ed. 1, 127-40. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Javanovitch.
Dolnick, Edward, "Deafness as culture".
The Atlantic Sept 1993 v272 n3 p37(12)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Chapter One
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Instructor-Contributed Resources

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"Recalculating the Climate Math" by Bill McKibben

Elegy for a Country's Seasons by Zadie Smith

Musiings About Orwell's Politics and the English Language--50 Years Later
A reconsideration of Orwell's Essay