Readings and Handouts

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English Course Tips and Models/Frameworks

• Course Tip #1 – How to Achieve Your Goals in English Class
• Course Tip #2 – Daily Dozen – Fake-It-Until-You-Make-It
• Course Tip #3 – Read-to-Remember Strategies
• Overview of English Course Models and Frameworks

English Readings

Stories:

• Alexie, Sherman. “One Good Man.” The Toughest Indian in the World. New York Grove Press, 2000.
• Gordon, Arthur. “The Sea Devil.”
• Hurston, Zora Neale. “Sweat.” The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 999-1011.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Gilded Six-Bits.” The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 1011-1019.
• Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1929.
• Hughes, Langston. “Thank You M’am.” CommonLit, www.commonlit.org/en/texts/thank-you-m-am.
• Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
• Rowell, Rainbow. “Midnights.” My True Love Gave to Me : Twelve Holiday Stories. Edited by Stephanie Perkins, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, pp. 1-22.
• Stork, Fransico X. “Captain, My Captain.” Unbroken : 13 Stories Staring Disabled Teens. Edited by Marieke Nijkamp, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018, pp. 156-176.

Essays/Chapters/Articles:

• Bruner, Jerome. “The Narrative Construction of Reality.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1–21.
• Wightman, Andy. “To Spoil the Kirk of Christ of Her Patrimony.” The Poor Had No Lawyers : Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It), Edinburgh , Birlin Limited, 2013, pp. 23–30.