Reading List

 

Week 1

“The Making of a Writer: Listening in the Dark” Eurdora Welty

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/22/specials/welty-writer.html

“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”

Chapter from 50 Essays A Portable Anthology (in library)

 

Week 2

“Learning to Read” Frederick Douglas, Chapters 6 & 7

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm#link2HCH0006

 “A Homemade Education” Malcolm X

Chapter from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (in library)

 

Week 3

Dweck TedTalk

https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve?language=en

Duckworth TedTalk

https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance?language=en

John Wooden TedTalk

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_wooden_on_the_difference_between_winning_and_success?language=en

 

Week 4

“Teaching Kids 'Grit' Is All the Rage. Here's What's Wrong with It.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/117615/problem-grit-kipp-and-character-based-education

 

“Carol Dweck Revisits the Growth Mindset”

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html

 

Week 5

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin

Chapter from Going to Meet the Man (in library)

“The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich

Chapter from Love Medicine (in library)

 

Week 6

“Year’s End” by Jhumpa Lahiri

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/years-end

“Midnight in Dostoevesky” by Don DeLillo

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/30/midnight-in-dostoevsky

 

Week 8

“The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/the-humiliating-practice-of-sex-testing-female-athletes.html?_r=0

“Is it Fair for Caster Semenya to Compete Against Women at the Rio Olympics?”

http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/08/11/caster-semenya-2016-rio-olympics-track-and-field

 

Week 9

“The Sensitive Question of Intersex Athletes”

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/16/490236620/south-african-star-raises-sensitive-questions-about-intersex-athletes

“Hyperandrogenism and Women vs Women vs Men in Sport: A Q&A with Joanna Harper”

http://sportsscientists.com/2016/05/hyperandrogenism-women-vs-women-vs-men-sport-qa-joanna-harper/

 

Week 10

"As California Water Use Rises, Some Ask: Were Limits Eased Too Soon?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/us/as-drought-california-water-use-rises-some-ask-were-limits-eased-too-soon.html?_r=0