CSUN English 114-A: Fall 2019 Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

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

• Bullock, Goggin and Weinberg. Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook. 4E ed. Boston: Norton, 2016. aka NFG

• A college level dictionary.

Refer to the class schedule on Canvas for due dates.

• Progression One: Literacy Narrative
  • Gail Godwin. "The Watcher at the Gates." (HO)

  • William Least Heat Moon. "West Texas." (HO)

  • Students' choice of literacy narrative from NFG

  • Anne Lamott. "Shitty First Drafts." (HO)

• Progression Two: Rhetorical Analysis - Seeing and Hearing Texts

  Tentative list may change as class progresses.

  • "The King's Speech."

  • Bosch. "First Eat All The Lawyers" (NFG)

  • Students' choice of print advertisement

  • Saukko. "How to Poison Earth." HO

  • Music Video or commercial

• Progression Three: Textual Analysis: Ender's Shadow

Substitutions and changes will be announced in class as well as on the web.

Last Revised Aug 2019