CSUN English 113-A: Fall 2011 Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

• Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Shadow. New York: Tor, 1999. aka ES

• Silverman, Hughes, and Weinbroer. Rules of Thumb. 8th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2010. aka ROT

• New Voices

• A college level dictionary.

This class does not have an anthology of readings. Rather we will read, discuss, and write about articles chosen specifically for this class, this semester. All materials (texts may include poems, magazine articles or other material) are available to students currently enrolled in 113-A through Oviatt Library course reserves. To access, go to Course Reserve Services. You will be asked for the instructor's name, your student ID and PIN. You will also need the course password which I will give you in class. You should print out readings as needed. If you do not want to print from the electronic database, you may go to the fourth floor of Oviatt library and request the hard copy in order to make your own copy.

Refer to the class schedule for due dates.

• Progression One: Literacy Narrative
  • William Least Heat Moon. "West Texas."

  • Gail Godwin. "The Watcher at the Gates."

  • David Sedaris. "Me Talk Pretty One Day."

• Progression Two: Rhetorical Analysis - Seeing and Hearing Texts

  Tentative readings - this list is TBA and will change as class progresses.

  • "The King's Speech."

  • Shaheen. "The Media's Image of Arabs."

  • Heilke, Maureen and Brendan. "Gulf of Tonkin: Photo Essay"
    Please choose one article from the following as your own choice article.
    • Saukko. "How to Poison Earth."

    • Baca. "So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americas."

    • Gates. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man"

    • Vonnegut. "A Final Word on Censorship from Kurt Vonnegut."

    • O'Brien. "The Things They Carried." The first chapter from the book..

• Progression Three: Textual Analysis: Ender's Shadow

Substitutions and changes will be announced in class as well as on the web. Readings from New Voices will be decided in class and posted to the web.

Last Revised Aug 11