Links+to+Readings

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson: http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/jackson_lottery.pdf "The Allegory of the Cave" by Plato: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~matlmc/Allegory_cave.pdf "Learning to Read and Write" by Frederick Douglass: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/07.html "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X: http://www.hartlandhighschool.us/teachers/czapski/documents/LearningtoreadbyMalcolmX.pdf "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie http://whisperdownthewritealley.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/sherman-alexies-the-joys-of-reading-writing-superman-me/ "Letter From Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf "Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson (rough draft): http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.pdf "Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson (final draft): http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.pdf "The Obligation to Endure" by Rachel Carson, from //Silent Spring:// http://spot.colorado.edu/~wehr/309R9.TXT "What's Eating America" by Michael Pollan: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/presence-jul06.html "The Ends of the World as We Know Them" by Jared Diamond: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01diamond.html "Our Vanishing Night" by Verlyn Klinkenborg http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin http://lacslibrary.pbworks.com/w/page/14166713/Notes%20on%20a%20Native%20Son "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hone Kingston ===[|//No Name Woman// – by Maxine //Hong Kingston//]=== "Where I Lived, and and What I Lived For" by Henry David Thoreau http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden02.html "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White http://www.moonstar.com/~acpjr/Blackboard/Common/Essays/OnceLake.html "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" by Judith Ortiz Cofer http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/hdh9/e-reserves/Cofer_-_The_myth_of_the_Latin_women_PDF.pdf "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/calabj/282/how%20to%20tame%20wild%20tongue.pdf "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/prose/modestproposal.htm#full "On Morality" by Joan Didion http://www.onehouse.com/artwrite.htm "The ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson ===[|//Stephanie Ericsson// – //The Ways We Lie//]=== "Serving in Florida" by Barbara Ehrenreich ===[|//Barbara Ehrenreich//, “//Serving in Florida//”]=== "On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/archive-courses/fall07/engl102/e-texts/eighner-dumpster.htm "Shooting Dad" by Sarah Vowell (Podcast: Audio MP3) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/81/guns?act=1 "A Plague of Tics" by David Sedaris (Podcast: Audio MP3) Act 3 of //This American Life// (but you can listen to the rest if you want!) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/52/edge-of-sanity