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 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” “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”
“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?" |