English 1A
Cooked
Shrill by Lindy West or Between World and Me
Fast Food Nation
Rules for Writers
Essay 1:
Cooked and Arthur Brooks essay
Essay 2: Race
One. Caging of America: Is mass incarceration the New Jim Crow?
Two and Three. Coates and Thirteenth: Is racism a relic of the past or an ongoing humanitarian crisis?
Four. Reparations debate.
Five. Confederate flag.
Jamelle Bouie’s essay “White Americans Have to Make a Choice,” on Confederacy and “I Used to Lead Tours at a Plantation”
Dickerson’s “The Great White Way,” Coates’ essay on reparations and kleptocracy and Get Out
Addressing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Jamelle Bouie’s “White Americans Have to Make a Choice,” Aisha Harris’ “Spring Time for the Confederacy,”, Margaret Biser’s “I Used to Lead Tours at a Plantation,” John Oliver’s Confederacy commentary, Coates’ “Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?”, and the film Get Out, support, refute, or complicate the argument that racism is not a faint echo of the past but is an ongoing assault on black people evidenced by a continued enabling of Confederate sympathizers and “The New Jim Crow.”
Compare “The Case for Reparations” with Netflix documentary The Thirteenth
“What This Cruel War Was Over” Coates
“Why There Are No Nazi Statues in Germany”
“How Other Countries Have Dealt with Monuments”
“Should Confederate Flags be Banned in the US?”
Essay 3: Education
One. Living in the Shadow Race and Class
Two. Against School
Three. Standardized Testing, John Oliver video
Four. From Degrading to Grading Alfie Kohn
Five. Nikole Hannah Jones
Essay 4: Or Unintended Consequences in Jon Ronson’s book about Shame
Or Tribalism, Cal Newport, Food Stamps
One and Two. Cal Newport Parts 1 and 2
Three. People Like Us
Four. Prudence Or Cruelty, “Messy Relationship Between Food Stamps and Health”
Five. I Used to be a Human Being, Nosedive, Flight from Conversation, NFL debate with Steve Almond; “What Facebook Did to American Democracy”; “What Facebook and Google Can Learn from the First Major News Hoax”
Essay 5: Fast Food Nation
English 1C
Essay 1 How to Think and “Unfollow”
Essay 2 Bunk by Kevin Young
Essay 3
One. UBI
Two. Vaccines
Three. Against Democracy
Four. Genetic Modification and film Gattaca. See “Case Against Human Gene Editing”; Pro and Con
More pros and cons from Business Insider
"Building Baby from the Genes Up"
Essay 4
One. “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dombeck’s Emptiness
Two. Why It Pays to be a Jerk and “Emptiness”; The Bet, Omelas, child labor, The Other Women, Greenleaf
Three. Coddling of the American Mind
Four. Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Five. Immigrant Debate; wages, and Vice Video: Sweet Home Alabama
Essay 5: Man’s Search for Meaning
Rules for Writers
English 1A
One. Cooked
Two. Shrill
Three. Fast-Food Nation
Five. Diana Hacker: Rules for Writers
Essays Online
- Great White Way and Get Out
- Steve Almond NFL
- Alfie Kohn Grading
- Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class
- People Like Us
- Flight from Conversation
- Excerpt from So Good They Can’t Ignore You
- Empathy debate
- Vaccines
- UBI
- Why It Pays to be a Jerk
- I Used to be a Human Being
- Case Against Democracy
- Nikole-Hannah Jones
Cooked
Sum of Small Things
Bored and Brilliant
Weapons of Math Destruction
Broadcast Hysteria
I Was Told to Come Alone
Fast Food Nation
Raven Rock
Killers of the Flower Moon
Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
English 1C
One. How to Think
Two. Republic: Divided Democracy
Three. The Righteous Mind
Four. Man’s Search for Meaning
Four. Diana Hacker: Rules for Writers
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