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Samples for Essay #2

http://www.arthurashe.org/blog/zora-neale-hurston-a-female-perspective-on-voice-and-identity-in-black-folk-and-literary-culture

https://www.racc.edu/sites/default/files/imported/StudentLife/Clubs/Legacy/vol_1/Biographical.html https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-144153081.html

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Secondary Sources for Essay #2

JUNOT DIAZ (“How to Date a Browngirl”)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/junot-diaz-a-truly-all-american-writer-789382.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105193110

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/05/04/junot-diaz-talks-dominican-identity-immigration-and-complicated-american

http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/paula-ml-moya-decolonial-love-interview-junot-d%C3%ADaz

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/In+and+out+of+the+mainstream%3A+Dominican-American+identity+in+Junot...-a0279463211

DAGBERTO  GILB (“Shout”)

http://www.zyzzyva.org/2011/12/07/both-outside-and-inside-the-literary-world-qa-with-dagoberto-gilb/

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/arts-culture/books/article/Author-Dagoberto-Gilb-I-will-still-do-the-job-2239865.php

https://newwest.net/topic/article/an_interview_with_dagoberto_gilb/C39/L39/

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/this-week-in-fiction-dagoberto-gilb

SHERMAN ALEXIE (“The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”)

https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-2000/about-sherman-alexie-profile

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba2000-06-01.htm

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sherman-alexie

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/20/533653471/sherman-alexie-says-hes-been-indian-du-jour-for-a-very-long-day

TIM O’BRIEN (“The Things They Carried”)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125128156

https://www.writermag.com/2015/11/10/tim-obrien/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/my-lai-interview-author-tim-obrien/

https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-1995-96/about-tim-obrien-profile

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE (“The Headstrong Historian”)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/17/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-extract-we-should-all-be-feminists

https://newrepublic.com/article/69022/things-come-together

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists/discussion

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/

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Syllabus

Below you will find our outline for the rest of the semester and links to readings. Note: because of time constraints I have removed the remaining in-class essays from the syllabus.

Going forward please share all essays due with me as google documents OR email me your essays as Word documents on the date due.  I do not need paper drafts. 

October 27

Discussion - “Shout” by Dagoberto Gilb p. 357

“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” by Junot Diaz p. 402

ESSAY #1 - FINAL DRAFT DUE 

Compare and/or contrast Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" with Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" or Hurston’s “Sweat." Discuss the common message or theme that you believe the authors are trying to convey.

Use  this SAMPLE MLA FORMATTED PAPER as a model

ESSAY #2 Assigned

November 3

“The Headstrong Historian”  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (online)

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien p. 322

November 10

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez p. 263

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson p. 216

ESSAY #2 DUE

ESSAY #3 Assigned

November 17

Introduction to Poetry

Langston Hughes 

“Theme for English B” p. 524

The Negro Speaks of Rivers p. 526

The Weary Blues p. 526

Harlem  p. 528

I too Sing America (online)

December 1

Meet in computer lab 

ESSAY #3 Due

December 8

Computer Lab Session

December 15

Computer Lab Session

FINAL PAPER DUE